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Tourist lost in the Amazon rainforest for nine days says he was saved by MONKEYS who brought food and led him to shelter
The 25-year-old said the animals dropped pieces of fruit onto the ground from the branches above
A tourist who got lost in the Amazon rainforest for nine days has claimed that a group of monkeys helped him survive by bringing him food and leading him to shelter and water.
Maykool Coroseo Acuña, 25, from Chile, who disappeared in the Bolivian Amazon while on holiday, said the animals dropped pieces of fruit onto the ground from the branches above.
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Maykool had been camping in Madidi National Park near the Tuichi River with the tour company Max Adventures, before he wandered off and lost his way.
According to a report by , the young man had been seen acting strangely a couple of hours before his disappearance.
Park rangers spent several days looking for the man, with no success.
Spiritual shamans were also invited to the camp to take part in rituals that would help to end the man’s madness, because it was thought that a mischievous sprite called Duende had driven him mad for offending Pachamama, also known as Mother Earth.
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Six days after he disappeared, one of the rangers found one of Maykool’s muddy socks lying on the ground, which the Shamans said they used to make contact with his soul.
On the ninth day, the man was discovered when rangers heard him screaming from the riverbank, less than a mile from camp.
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According to Maykool, who was badly bitten and stung after his time in the wilderness, he managed to stay alive by following monkeys.
He claimed that the primates dropped fruit for him to eat, as well as leading him to water and shelter every day.
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He also revealed that on the final night before he was found, he prayed to God to help him out of the situation.
He told the magazine: “I started running, I was wearing sandals and I said 'no, they would slow me down.'
"I threw away the sandals, then the cell phone and my flashlight.
“And after running so much, I stopped under a tree and I started thinking. What had I done, what was I doing? And when I wanted to get back it wasn’t possible.”
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