Mystery 'forest boy' appears in Berlin.

Wow, interesting, but "Ray" should have been able to provide many more details then this article tells.

In any event, he came from the south. Figure he walked 40 miles a day on average, times the two weeks he claimed to have been walking, would be = 560 miles.

He came from 560 miles due south of Berlin...

I'd say, around Nationalpark Berchtesgaden in southern Germany (German Alps) - in that area.

The article was from 2011. Here is how it ended:

He made headlines across the world as the 'Forest Boy' who duped authorities into believing he had been brought up in the woods of central Europe.

But now Robin van Helsum has finally revealed that debts to his landlord and a pregnant ex-girlfriend drove him into weaving his elaborate story.

Van Helsum wandered into a town hall in Berlin in 2011, speaking broken English and claiming he was called Ray.

He said he had been living in a forest with his father called Ryan for five years but had buried him after his sudden death two weeks previously.

Berlin social services paid for accommodation for him, his clothing and German lessons for the English-speaking Dutchman.

But he then disappeared without a trace as his lies unravelled and authorities in Berlin tried to charge him £25,000 for the cost of keeping him in a children's home.

The 21-year-old's lies were uncovered when he was identified by friends and family as German police released his photograph.

Van Helsum told Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad that he owed more than 8,000 euros in rent and he had been forced to move into a homeless hostel in Hengelo, according to The Independent.

After discovering an ex-girlfriend was pregnant, he travelled to Berlin with friends but within days his money ran out and his friends returned to Holland.

He slept on the streets before walking into the town hall with his story.

He said: 'I knew that if I didn't they would send me back to Hengelo,' The Independent reported.


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