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🗓️ 8 February 2022
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0:00.0 | In the outskirts of northwest Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, there is a tragic mystery |
0:07.0 | that still has not been solved. |
0:10.0 | Right there, in Ivy Hill Cemetery, as you're stepping inside, you cannot miss the grave. |
0:18.0 | It is usually lined with small toys and stuffed animals from the visitors to this |
0:22.9 | resting area. And the reason is because to them, this grave is special. It is sacred. In it lies the |
0:33.8 | victim, a four-to-six-year old boy, whose identity still remains a mystery. |
0:40.4 | The strange circumstances in which he was found and the fact that nobody has figured out his |
0:45.6 | name or where he came from have given him, ironically, a name. |
0:53.0 | This is the story of the boy in the box. |
0:58.8 | My name is Edwin. |
1:00.9 | And here is the dark. |
1:04.8 | It was February 25th, 1957, when a cardboard box was spotted by a boy who was checking his traps in a potter's field. |
1:16.6 | Knowing well that the police would take them away, he didn't tell them about it. |
1:22.6 | But then, just a few days later, a college student went into the area and found a body inside |
1:30.8 | a box. |
1:34.0 | Both of them had been reluctant to tell the police what they had found. |
1:37.9 | But after the college student heard about the disappearance of a four-year-old girl from |
1:42.1 | New Jersey, he decided to speak up. |
1:46.0 | It was another tragic story where Mary Jane Barker disappeared and her dead body was later discovered by her playmate in the closets of an empty house near her house, a little over a week later. |
1:57.0 | So he thought that this may have been her, so he reluctantly decided to report what he had seen. |
2:05.6 | But it was a boy. |
2:07.6 | His body, naked, cleaned up and had just gotten a haircut and had his nails trimmed. |
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