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Man who lived for 82 years without ever knowing what a woman looked like

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Published 12:23 26 Feb 2023 GMT

Man who lived for 82 years without ever knowing what a woman looked like

Mihailo Tolotos never left his monastery on Mount Athos

Anish Vij

Anish Vij

For what is a man without a woman? Well, one man could give you a pretty accurate answer.

Mihailo Tolotos lived a full life up to the age of 82 and never laid his eyes on a single woman.

How, you may ask? Well you're about to find out.

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Tolotos was said to have been born in 1856 and sadly never got to see his mother who died shortly after birth.

The young boy became on orphan and was raised by Orthodox Monks at a monastery on Mount Athos in Greece.

Living under strict rules, which have been in place for hundreds of years, Tolotos was brought up in a unique environment.

One rule was that no women were ever allowed at the monastery.

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One man - who lived a full life up to the age of 82 - never laid his eyes on a single woman.
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But surely he could have had a wander around the streets to get a glimpse at the opposite sex?

Nope - and that's because he never left Mount Athos.

The closest he got to a woman was learning about them from friends and books.

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Tolotos' extreme outlook was apparently rewarded after his death as he was given a special burial.

The monks who remained at Mount Athos believed that he was the only man in the world to have died without knowing what a woman looked like.

His death was recognised in a newspaper article which noted that women weren't the only sight Tolotos had been deprived of throughout his life.

"Neither had he beheld an automobile, a movie or an airplane," the article reads.

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Similarly, another man went 41 years not knowing that women existed.

It is the incredible story of Ho Van Lang - who died aged 52 - who has been living with his father Ho Van Thanh in a small Vietnamese village, eight years after the pair were ‘rescued’ from their isolated life.

Lang, his brother Tri and their dad fled civilisation during the Vietnam War in 1972, after a US bomb killed his wife and two of their children.

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His father had a ‘profound phobia of returning as he did not believe that the Vietnam War was over’. He died in 2017.

Lang, his brother Tri and their dad fled civilisation during the Vietnam War in 1972.
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As captured by Docastaway, Lang lived the vast majority of his life deep in the Vietnam jungle, in the Tay Tra district of Quang Ngai province.

He was adept at hunting for prey by any means necessary, eating and living entirely off the wilderness, whether it’s fruit, honey, monkey, snake, lizard, frog or another creature. For example, his favourite part of a rat was supposedly the head.

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When asked if he knew what a female was, he said his father had never explained them to him, but he had since seen them in the village.

Even when they lived in the jungle, they only ever saw five people. On each occasion, they ran away and hid from them.

Featured Image Credit: Everybody Wikipedia/Peter Eastland/Alamy Stock Photo

Topics: Life

Anish Vij
Anish Vij

Anish has an MA in Multimedia Journalism and is passionate about delivering sarcastic/mildly amusing content. After studying business at undergrad, Anish realised that he’d much prefer getting paid to rant about a topic, rather than to find a solution to it. Apart from that, he loves the ‘Four F’s’, as he calls it - family, friends, football and food. Email: [email protected]

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