True Story: On a cold morning in the year 1800, the citizens of the southern France awoke to a strange vision: a hairy boy, naked, captured while digging up vegetables from a garden, the boy did not--could not--speak. The next day, Victor, now famed as the "wild boy of Aveyron," came under the care of a sympathetic young doctor who concluded that Victor was in fact an abandoned deaf-mute, intelligent but forlorn, who had somehow been able to survive on his own. The story of the wild boy is influential in the development of several theories of language learning and human evolution.
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