Lost & Found: The Mysterious case of Pauline Picard

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 21 July 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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When Pauline went missing in 1922, all hope was initially lost of her return, until a month later, when she showed up 200 miles away. Her parents collected her, took her home and lived with her for several weeks before a body showed up just 800 metres from their house. The body alone was shocking enough, but quickly became doubly so as it was identified as the body of the lost & found Pauline. SOURCES: ‘Whose Child?’ (1922, May 27), The Pall Mall Gazette, London. P.8. ‘Killed & Stripped by Foxes’ (1922, May 31), The Pall Mall Gazette, London. P.4. ‘A French Mystery’ (1922, May 27), The Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Sheffield. P.9. ‘Missing Child Mystery’ (1922, May 31), The Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Sheffield. P.3. ‘Breton Childs Mysterious Death’ (1922, June 01), The Yorkshire Post & Leeds Intelligencer, Yorkshire. P.5. Le Matin, France (1922, May through June). Le Petit Parisien, France (1922, May through June). ------ For extended show notes, including maps, links and scripts, head over to darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/6f7e2pt Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:44.0	France in 1922, a young girl named Pauline was playing with their sisters by her family's farm outside of the city of Brest in Brittany, Western France.
0:58.5	That evening, when her sisters returned home, their parents were shocked to find that Pauline wasn't accompanying them and very quickly
1:05.4	it became apparent that she had disappeared. A full-scale search scoured the area for several weeks
1:12.2	but no trace of the young girl was ever found.
1:14.8	Until several weeks later, almost 200 miles away, in the city of Cherbourg, police found a child
1:21.6	lost and confused in the cobbled alleyways.
1:25.0	Her parents positively identified her as Pauline,
1:28.0	and though there were many questions as to how she had made her way to Sheerborg,
1:32.0	they were quickly overshadowed by a strange behavior.
1:35.6	Chalking it up to shock, she returned home with her parents, and all was relatively well.
1:41.5	At least, until a child's body, also identified as pulling, showed up 800
1:47.4	meters from the family's farmhouse two weeks later.
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