8. No One Knows Who The Boy in the Box Really Is
In 1957, the body of a small boy with blonde hair and blue eyes was found inside a box in a vacant lot in Philadelphia. The boy was between 5 and 7 years old, and he was stuffed inside a box used for a baby bassinet. He was naked, his hair had been recently cut, and he had several markings on his body, including several blows to the head. Images of his face circulated throughout the country in an attempt to find his true identity, and people with missing children from 10 different states came to visit the body, but no one ever came forward to claim him.
This case is so open-ended, there are several theories about his death, and potential leads. Some people believe that the child died from a tragic accident, and the parents disposed of their son’s body so they would not get in trouble.
Another theory comes from a woman who claimed that the boy was adopted by an abusive foster mother who paid his biological parents to purchase him, and that she abused and killed her adopted son while she was giving him a bath. She disposed of him in the box from the bassinet she purchased for one of the other foster kids. While this sounds like the most convincing theory, there is not enough evidence to prove this, and there are several ideas floating out there as to what actually occurred.