The Boy in the Box

Expanded Perspectives

History, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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On this episode of Expanded Perspectives the guys start the show off talking about a girl recalls a very scary encounter her and a friend had when they were younger. While walking to a local convenience store at around 2:00am on the east side of Gallup, New Mexico on a reservation, something or someone strange began following them. If that wasn't scary enough, this strange person was running on all fours like a dog. Then, the Greenville News published a strange story on November 10, 1958 about a strange winged creature that spooked a driver named Charlie Wetzel. According to the paper, Wetzel, 24, a resident of nearby Bloomington, reported soberly that he was driving on a street near Riverside when a frightening creature jumped in front of his car. "It had a round, scarecrowish head," he said, "like something out of Halloween."It wasn't human. It had a longer arm than anything I'd ever seen. When it saw me in the car it reached all the way back to the windshield and began clawing at me."It didn't have any ears. The face was all round. The eyes were shining like something fluorescent and it had a protuberant mouth. It was scaley, like leaves."

After the break, Kyle gets into the troubling story simply known as "The Boy in the Box". Known also as “America’s Unknown Child”, the Boy in the Box murder has gone unsolved since the discovery of his body on 25 February 1957. A young muskrat hunter set out to check his traps, set near a park just north of Philadelphia. As he moved through the brush, he found a small cardboard box, lying discarded on the ground. Inside was the body of a boy, naked, but wrapped in a plaid blanket. Fearing that the police would confiscate his traps if he alerted them to the box, the young hunter ignored it, and resumed hunting. Several days later, a college student driving down the road noticed a bunny, running alongside the highway. The student knew there were traps in the area, and stopped to make sure the animal was safe. As he sifted through the underbrush searching for traps, he came across the box. Though he too feared interaction with the police, the student reported the body to them. Given that the boy was young, between three and seven years old, police were hopeful that he would be quickly identified. However, once they saw the body, their hopes were dashed. While people would surely be looking for a missing boy who was healthy, well cared for, and clearly loved, it was unlikely that they would be looking for a scrawny, dirty, malnourished one. Unfortunately, the boy in the box was just that. His hair was matted and seemed to have been recently cut as clumps of it still clung to his body. His body was severely malnourished and covered with surgical scars, most notably on his ankle, groin, and chin. Despite the fact that he looked abandoned, police fingerprinted him, hoping to find a match. Sadly, no one did.

Who was this boy? How did he die? Who were his parents? All of this and more on this episode of Expanded Perspectives!

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0:00.0	uurje2
1:30.0	I'm doing excellent. Yes, this is my alter ego who is in studio today.
1:42.0	It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. It's what I was telling you before we turned this thing on.
2:06.0	I swung by evil Kyle Filsen's house. I call him evil Kyle Filsen simply because he has to keep the boys in line for school.
2:16.0	He's dead. He's got to lay down the law of look where you boys have got to go to bed at this time and at this time.
2:22.0	They don't like that. Dad is not nice. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
2:26.0	Summer's over. You're staying up to one thirty two a.m. party tonight. No, not going to happen.
2:31.0	I got to get back to the rhythm of things, which I'm kind of happy about because I've been working from home this last 12 months and this summer was the first real summer where I was they were home the whole summer and it's hard to get work done when the kids are home because they're constantly pop it in my office where I'm working like I can just and it could be about anything like seeing what I'm doing to asking me a question to ask me can I make something for them to eat?
2:55.0	I mean just you just think of it. It happens. Yeah, and you get a rhythm when you're working and it's I mean I don't mind. I don't kick him out, but it is it's hard to get it.
3:03.0	Just a little side tracks and they started school and there's no one at the house all day. The first day felt really weird. I'm like, that's really quiet. No one's coming here to disturb me once.
3:10.0	So maybe you're going to gravitate away from evil Kyle Filsen in a week or two, but right now folks I have evil Kyle Filsen. That's right in the studio.
3:18.0	I was telling him I swung by his house the other day and got involved in a Miyamoto Musashi sword fight to almost the death in the front yard.
3:27.0	The two boys were going at it. It's nothing. It's nothing new. It's just you don't want to be I've even talked about being attacked myself when they were younger.
3:35.0	You don't want to get caught in the middle of a wooden sword fight. So you have to watch and they don't even care what's going on when those two are focused on working against each other.
3:43.0	Everything else goes out the window. They are like sharks are like two bull elephants button heads out there. They are going at it. So I was like, let me slip by fellows. Just let me slip by.
3:53.0	Just like any sibling. I mean, they know exactly which buttons to push on their on their brother, especially when they're identical twins.
3:59.0	Yeah. Because I mean, they literally do. They they they mess. And you hear me getting on to them all the time. Yeah. Just quit messing with each other. I mean, literally you guys are 11 now. Stop fighting.
4:09.0	Is it ever stop? You know, and I look back when they're 25. I was a say when I was a kid. I think I did the same crap when I was with my brother. Yeah.
4:17.0	I think it's just the thing. And my wife tells me that her and her sister and brothers were the same. Yeah. I think it's something you just go through where Luke he's kind of.
4:25.0	He's young enough. He just turned six. So he's kind of young enough to where there's a big difference in the in the age. Right. So like Luke wants to come hang on the room. They don't want them in there. He's cramping their style. Yeah. They want to listen to him. He's unlike. But look, you can't just kick him out.
4:38.0	Of everything he wants to be involved. I mean, this is an open door policy. And this is better get used to it. Yeah. I knew a guy that his kids. They was always having problems with interrupting each other in their room stuff.
4:49.0	So he just went and got a hammer and pulled the pins out of the doors. And there was on this. You couldn't shut your door because there was no door. It's the best way to handle that.
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