GMA News Online (Philippines) offers an item titled “Why did this man choose to live inside a cave for 30 years?” Byline: “Seventy-three-year-old Mang Emigdio has lived inside a mountain cave in Bohol for 30 years.”
The hermit was provoked to solitude when a typhoon destroyed his home, and he left wife and children to live in a cave.He does not seem to lack for amenities. Many have tried to intervene and help Mang Emigdio because of his advanced age and remoteness, and one group has offered to build him a more accessible hut, which offer he has accepted.