Man Spent His Entire Life Without Ever Seeing a Woman

By maks in Interesting On 5th November 2024
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A man who was adopted and brought up by Orthodox Monks in Greece managed to live almost his entire life without ever seeing a woman.

Try to imagine spending your whole life without ever seeing or interacting with the opposite gender.

While this might sound like an impossible or even grim scenario to some, for Mihailio Totolos, it was his reality, and he sadly did not know any different.

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Totolos, originally from Halkidiki, Greece, only knew of women from what his peers talked about and what he read in books.

It is believed that although he was born in 1856, he never knew his mother.

His mother passed away shortly after giving birth to him, leaving him without any immediate family from the very beginning.

Mihailo Tolotos was adopted by monks after being orphaned at a young age Reddit
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After his mother's death, Totolos was taken in by a group of Orthodox Monks in Greece and brought to a monastery on Mount Athos.

During his years living in the monastery, he was required to follow the strict set of rules enforced there.

One of the most important of these rules was that women were not allowed on the monastery grounds under any circumstances.

Reportedly, this rule had been in effect for centuries, and although Tolotos was free to travel beyond the monastery if he wished, it is said that he never did.

This meant that he went through his entire life without actually seeing a woman face-to-face.

Instead, his understanding came only from books and the stories he heard from others.

Monks claimed the deceased man was the only person who had never seen a woman Reddit

He could only imagine what half of the world's population looked like, sounded like, and how they moved or acted – which is an astonishing thought.

Seemingly uninterested in what might have been outside the monastery walls, Tolotos continued his life in the same way until 1938, when he passed away at the age of 82.

After his death, the monks who had shared their lives with him on Mount Athos arranged a special funeral in his honor.

They believed that he was the only man in the world who had died without ever knowing what a woman looked like.

News of Tolotos' death was later featured in a newspaper article, which pointed out that not only had he never seen a woman, but he had also gone through 82 years without experiencing many other things that were common in the world.

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The article mentioned that he had never ridden in a car, watched a movie in a theater, or seen an airplane.

Today, in an age of rapid digital change and modern technology, it is unlikely that the world will ever see another person like Mihailio Tolotos again.

What an incredible and strange thought.