Hello everyone and welcome back to Scary Interesting.

In this video, we're going to go over three more creepy cases of people disappearing and each

of them is progressively more sinister than the last.

In particular, in the final story, you probably won't know what to make of it until a final

piece of evidence is found at the end, at which point your whole view of the story may change. As always, viewer discretion

is advised.

In the year 1850, out of every 1,000 babies born in the US, nearly 400 passed away before

they reached one year of age.

To put that in perspective, the rate in 2020 was just seven deaths per thousand.

And this didn't mean the pain of losing a child was any less back then.

Parents would feel the loss every time, maybe even more acutely, because the pain that

we're hardwired to feel when we lose a kid was made worse by the fear that you might never

raise a family. Thankfully, the rate declined steeply after 1850 as public health improved,

and by 1933, when Snowdrop Bile Hertz gave birth to her youngest son, Alfred, it had dropped

to roughly 58 deaths per

thousand. But even still, this fear that a child could be lost in its first year was still in

living memory, and so the habit of having many children continued well into the 20th century.

The Bile Hearts were one of those families. By 1933, Snowdrop and her husband William

had three sons and eight daughters that we know of and possibly more.

Thankfully by then, medicine had come a long way, so they all survived their first year.

At the same time, that doesn't mean that there weren't other forces at work that could take a child from them.

And just before Independence Day of 1938, the family of 13 would become 12.

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