Mystery English-speaking boy emerges from forest

Bogus story from the kid, my humble opinion. There should be other bits and pieces to the story that the kid would tell, and cops would quickly piece this together. The kid is likely some British kid on a hoax episode.

Sounds like the movie 'Hanna'!

Something just does not ring true in this story. I might have believed it if his name was either Romulus or Remus.

parhaps we should all be reading Waldo's Pond

I think you mean Walden. The only reason why I know is I live 5 minutes from there.

Unfeasible. I'm afraid the young man has something to hide...

"walking for two weeks before reaching Berlin"

How stupid is this story

2 weeks?.. and then convieniently into a youth centre?

yeah right

Really strange story,

I (google maps) the surounding area of berlin there´s no place to walk due north for 2 weeks with-out seeing a dozen towns.

Will the local keep track of this story?

@auniqueunicorn:

Surely if his father told him to walk north he'd be due south of Berlin to arrive there.

But I agree, he'd have gone through towns and over roads - and why cross a road to walk through woods when there's a burgersteig? Something doesn't add up.

Why don't they bring in a native English speaker to determine what his accent is? I guess they may have done this already and are not releasing information..

@ auniquecorn:

"I (google maps) the surounding area of berlin there´s no place to walk due north for 2 weeks with-out seeing a dozen towns."

I agree... unless you make a point of specifically avoiding any rural civilization and ignoring anybody who comes your way while you are heading for Berlin, that's almost physically impossible.

Now there are areas in the state of Brandenburg which surrounds Berlin that are very scarcely populated, but again, this being Germany, there's nowhere you can walk even five miles without at least running into some rudimentary civilization.

Either this is really one of those stories that you just couldn't make up, a story that's actually true no matter how unbelievable it sounds... or the boy is having a laugh and he is putting them all on. Or maybe he killed his father in the woods somewhere and he thinks he can get away with it by coming up with a cock and bull story like this.

I, like many others, don't believe it.

According to other reports his father died about 2 weeks ago and he was walking for only 2 days. This is much more plausible since he was found on the 5th. Other reports also say that he has told them his full name and the circumstances surrounding his mothers death - information which the authorities are not releasing.

The only way I can see this story being believable is if his father killed his mother and fled to Germany with his son, fearing that the murder might be discovered. The son might then have been sworn to secrecy for the last 5 years to prevent their true identities being known. It's a bit far fetched, but it fits the story - the alternative, more likely explanation, is that it's a hoax.

i think this is a fake story,what did he eat and drink for them two week he walk in the wood?

w.f.w.

Next thing he'll be saying the wolves raised him.

There is an older movie called "The Earthling" starring William Holden & I think Ricky Schroeder. This has very similar elements. The fact that his memory is missing on crucial details makes me a little reluctant to believe the story.

So weird, Can't believe a 17 year old man don't remember where he comes from. And it's pretty strange that he still remember he's date of birth but no longer aware in where he comes from. Does he traumatize? Poor man!

Here's a nice site that covers about this: [url=http://www.newsytype.com/11482-mystery-boy-in-berlin/]English speaking mystery boy appears in Berlin.

No more news in the press about forest boy. Strange, isn't it?

- Police interpreters are not be able to find out the local subtleties of any Anglo dialect. Has forest boy been ever scrutinized by native English language *linguists* with an academic background and professional experience, dear police experts?

- Permanently living outdoors for some years leaves certain traces on a body of a human; smokey smell, leanness, scratches, minor wounds, blisters, scars. How did he groom, wash, brush his teeth, dress wounds, shave or clean and cut his nails within the 5 years? With exactly what did he wipe his behind after defecating in the woods all this time? Have these physical traces been found and evaluated, dear physicians?

- "Doreen" sounds more like the name of a female former GDR citizen. "Ryan" and "Ray" sounds more like an American family but he has no American accent.

- As for eventually being a male white American, chances are fairly high he is circumcised. Is he or isn't he, dear physicians?

- What did he live on in these years? If he lived off the woods, has he ever demonstrated how he hunted animals, killed and prepared them? Hunting or trapping with which instruments? Did he ever demonstrate which plants to harvest and which ones to avoid, especially in the winter, dear police experts?

- How did he cope with winter in the woods of czechia or the ore mountains? Did he ever demonstrate how to light a fire with which materials in the snow in order not to freeze to death, dear police experts?

- Try to light a fire in the German forests anywhere, and you will have a forester turning you in with the police within a very short time. Even if there is no visible smoke or shine of flames, it can be smelled for miles around. There is no Great Wilderness anywhere in Germany nor Czechia. Which traces have the local foresters found in the areas in question, dear police experts?

- Living outdoors for five years will show wear on the clothes and tools you have with you. Even if you can carry 30 kilos of baggage in your backpack, you will not have the space for 10 sets of clothes on you. How did the forest boy wash and repair his (maximum) 3 sets of clothes, dear police experts?

I do not believe a single word of what forest boy said.

Hoax of the year.