The mystery of the "forest boy" is solved. He is Robin van Helsum, a 20-year-old Dutchman reported missing last September. Confronted, "he then confirmed his real personal details and admitted that the previous story — that he had lived for years in the woods — had been invented." [AP]

  • franko

    i hate it when things that seem too crazy to be true turn out to actually be that way. way to keep life mundane, mr. van helsum.

    • SomeGuyNamedMark

       He should’ve said he was raised by squirrels (no apes there sadly) and nibbled on an acorn while talking to the press.

  • CSBD

    Can I say… “called it” (more or less).

    It smelled like a movie plot that goes directly to netflix

    (Though I did like the Movie Hanna… it was entertaining)

  • http://profiles.google.com/stephen.schenck Stephen Schenck

    No link to the AP story?

    • http://ae4rv.com/ royaltrux

       Still waiting on it…guess I could could Google….

  • Emily Conoyer

    This sounded exactly like the beginning of the movie “Alabama Moon”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=27801087 Nicole Dunham

    Well, that was easy. On the Telegraph, they mention that the German gvt was spending 5,000 pounds a month on him. How on earth were they spending so much?!

    • Antinous / Moderator

      That was money spent on the search. They’re going to bill him for it.