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When the world went into lockdown during the Covid panic of 2020, Vanessa Forero was in Colombia, visiting the mountain village of Minca in the north-east of the country. Back home, she composes music for the advertising industry and had just put in an offer on a flat in Brighton but, she explains via video call from South America, “because this is a very sacred mountain and the indigenous people at the top are very protected, there’s only one road into the village, and they closed it”.
Marina Chapman set up a new life and started a family after moving to England - but claims as a child she was abducted and raised by capuchins in the Colombian jungle