He lived alone in the wild with wolves for 12 years; Spain’s famous ‘wolf boy’ Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja dies at 80

Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja, the Spanish man whose extraordinary childhood among wolves made him famous around the world, has died at the age of 80. Rodríguez died on 15 August 2026 in Rante, a small hamlet in north-western Spain where he had lived since 2001.