Fortunately, most missing persons cases end happily. The missing person is found again after some time. Good thing, too. In recent years, social media has also often played a role in reuniting missing children with their parents. Through Facebook and internet articles, mothers find children who have often been kidnapped by their father, or children who do not even know that they have been kidnapped find their presumed dead mother via the internet. Sometimes missing people have a bizarre story to tell. Here are some of them.
Missing in the jungle for thirty-eight years
Indian Chhaidy disappeared in the jungle of India together with her nephew Beirakhu thirty-eight years ago. The nephew was found after five days, but four-year-old Chhaidy remained missing. Her father always continued to search for her and partly because of stories about a jungle girl who was seen by people who ventured deep into the jungle, he continued to believe in his search. After thirty-eight years, the father was able to hold his daughter in his arms again. He found her in a village in Myanmar, where a family had taken care of her. Chhaidy is now middle-aged and has likely spent decades in the jungle without human contact. She has difficulty speaking and is learning new words every day. When the family in Myanmar found her, they only knew the words bananas open.
Woman searches for herself
During a tourist tour in August 2012 through the volcanic canyon Eldgjá in Iceland, an Asian woman goes missing. The bus driver waits an hour for her return, but she does not appear. The police are alerted and more than fifty people search for three hours on foot and in vehicles for the missing woman, who is described as being of Asian descent, 160 cm tall, between twenty and thirty years old and darkly dressed. The search is canceled after three hours because the woman realizes that she is looking for herself. The mistake was made because the bus driver made a mistake in counting the passengers. The woman in question had not come along to view the gorge, but had changed and freshened up during the stop. Her traveling companions no longer recognized her. The missing woman did not recognize herself in the personal description and searched for herself.
Missing at sea for fifty days
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Three teenage boys (Samuel Perez (15 years old), Filo Filo (15 years old) and Edward Nasau (14 years old)) took to the sea in their speedboat near the Tokelau Islands in October 2010 and have not been heard from since. The parents had already given up hope. Thirteen hundred kilometers further northeast of the Fiji Islands, a tuna fisherman sees a boat floating at sea fifty days later. This contains the three missing teenagers, very emaciated and badly burned. They are taken to hospital, but appear to be otherwise in reasonably good health. The teens had water on board and had eaten a seagull that landed on their boat to stay alive. Furthermore, it had rained a lot and this rainwater was collected for drinking. By now it had not rained for two days and the boys had resorted to drinking seawater. Fortunately, they were rescued just in time.
Twenty-year-old man reads about his kidnapping in an old newspaper
When twenty-year-old Stephen Micheal Palacios reads the sad story of a mother talking about the kidnapping of her son in an old newspaper, he slowly realizes that he is that son. During a fierce custody battle, the father kidnapped his then three-year-old son Stephen. Stephen realizes that this discovery will have serious consequences for his father, who has always been good to him, but he can no longer keep his mother in the dark and decides to visit her. Seventeen years later they meet again, thanks to an old newspaper.
Missing child found after thirteen years
Five-year-old Julian Hernandez was kidnapped by his father Bobby Hernandez in 2002. Thirteen years later, a school counselor discovered that his Social Security number did not match his name. Julian teamed up with the school counselor to find out why his Social Security number didn’t seem to be correct, and they discovered his missing person on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s website. Julian was reunited with his mother and his father was arrested.