
“America’s Unknown Child” Mystery Finally Solved 65 Years Later
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!
On a chilly February morning in 1957, a man checking his muskrat traps in Philadelphia came across a cardboard box with the naked body of a young boy inside. The child was wrapped in a plaid blanket and exhibited signs of severe malnutrition and trauma. The boy’s hair was also “crudely cut close to the scalp.”