CLASSIC: Feral Children and the True Story Behind The Jungle Book
Ridiculous History
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4.3 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Now, let's be honest. Rudyard Kipling was a cartoonishly problematic guy. Yet his work made a permanent impression on global literature -- and, to a surprising degree, he based a lot of his writing on real-world events. In today's Classic episode, Ben and Noel ask: What inspired Rudyard Kipling to write The Jungle Book? Join the guys as they explore the real-life, tragic stories of feral children abandoned by their human parents, adopted by animals and raised in the wild.
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| 0:00.0 | Folks, we've talked about Rudyard Kipling before in the past old Ricky Tiki-Tippy, |
| 0:06.3 | the author of one of our favorite poems, if also in a... |
| 0:09.8 | Boots, boots, boots, moving up and down again. |
| 0:13.7 | Yeah, sorry, I've been very 28 days later trailer-coded. |
| 0:17.8 | Oh, I love it. |
| 0:18.9 | Also, Richard Kipling, just to be clear, not a great dude as a person. |
| 0:24.9 | Yeah. Yeah. But he did write a bunch of stuff. One of the best young adult spy novels out there, Kim. In this classic episode, we also talk about his inspiration to write a little something called |
| 0:38.7 | The Jungle Book. |
| 0:40.4 | Yeah, you may have heard of it. |
| 0:41.8 | It turns out that the story of Maugli was in fact inspired by some very sad tales of feral |
| 0:48.4 | children who were abandoned by their human parents and actually, for all intents and purposes, raised by wolves, or at the very |
| 0:57.0 | least, raised in the wild. |
| 0:59.5 | Let's jump right in. |
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