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357: These 4 Young Kid's Plane Crashed In The Amazon & Were Alone For 40 Days

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.822.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Intro 0:00
Magdalena's Early Life 4:22
Meeting Andres 6:33
The Accident that Changed Everything 7:45
Manuel Flees... Something 9:06
Getting on the Plane 10:08
The Crash 12:38
The Search Begins 14:11
The Baby Bottle 21:11
Finding the Plane 23:01
Lesly's Incredible Resourcefulness 25:41
Increasing Efforts 31:01
Psychedelic Searching  39:29
How Did They Do This?! 42:49
Where Are They Now? 49:28
Final Thoughts & Outro 54:25

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0:00.0

Hey, what is up, everybody?

0:17.8

And welcome back to Mile Hair podcast, episode 356. 356 and today you guys we're going to be

0:23.9

talking about another survival story we have been enjoying these so much I think they are so good

0:29.3

for our brains doing so much true crime for a living sometimes it can get you know a little dark

0:35.3

in there and I think it's good for the audience, too. I know you guys,

0:38.6

I always see comments from people saying they love survival stories. And it's good for your brains as

0:43.5

well, because I'm sure this is not the only true crime show that you consume. And so it's good to

0:48.3

hear some stories of resilience and survival. And boy, do we have that for you today. And we're

0:53.8

talking about children who survived.

0:57.3

Survives the most inhospitable environment on the planet, perhaps, in one of the deadliest environments.

1:05.0

Certainly. The Amazonian jungle. Oh, just brutal out there, man. Four kids survived out there for 40 days in the

1:14.8

Colombian Amazon. After crashing in a plane, this story is just, it really puts things into

1:23.1

perspective for yourself, because if these kids can survive out in these types of conditions,

1:29.1

you really have nothing to complain about in your life.

1:32.2

That's what these stories always do for me.

1:35.1

It just are a reminder.

1:36.1

It does.

1:36.8

It's like, oh, it's a little hot in my room.

1:40.2

No, it's not.

1:41.7

It's not hot.

1:42.4

It's not that bad.

2:03.1

It's just, there's no reason to complain. Yeah, the bugs. Yeah, the bugs. Yeah. Bugs. I'm guilty of that. I'll freak out if I see a big spider in my house. These kids were out there with like poisonous snakes and bugs and spiders and oh my God. Yeah, it's an unbelievable story. there's a amazing amazing documentary that was made on on uh their story as well uh the children of the jungle i believe is

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