"The Mysterious Disappearance of a Young Man for 25 Years"

The city did not sleep last night after its residents heard that the young man who had disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the late 1990s, when he was on the threshold of twenty, had been found. At the time, a search was conducted everywhere, and everyone thought he had been assassinated or killed. Even his mother died from grief over him.

The well-mannered boy, with good appearance, according to close sources, had disappeared from the city where he had traveled from his hometown. After years of being forgotten, his case returned to the town’s headlines. News spread among residents that a person close to his kidnapper had published on social media that the missing young man was alive and in good health, living in his hometown, and had never left for another municipality or state. He no longer went out in the street but lived close to his family’s house because the person who had hidden him was on the brink of sixty years of age, an unmarried man who lived alone and worked as an employee.

When this news spread, his family began to search for him and recalled some clues from his disappearance years ago. The victim had a dog that always accompanied him and remained attached to the house where he had been held, as it could smell its owner. Suddenly, the dog also disappeared.

The search began with his relatives storming the kidnapper’s house in the middle of the city, where they found the victim in a house full of hay and extracted him. Security forces intervened, arresting the kidnapper. At the same time, the victim was taken for medical and security procedures, and the investigation into the case of the missing boy who was found as a young man was initiated. The residents and relatives were shocked to learn that the person they had been searching for in distant places had actually been in the heart of the city all along, not far from his family’s home.

Overwhelming Joy for the Family

If the residents did not sleep all night, gathered outside the security headquarters to see the person who had been absent for a quarter of a century and the perpetrator who had seemed like a normal, cheerful individual, the victim’s family was under the impact of a very happy surprise. The sick father was bedridden, and the siblings had not expected to find their son after all this time. The victim himself called it a divine miracle that had come true. In fact, his late mother had sometimes pointed to the house where her son had been, only 60 meters from her own home.

As neighbors and relatives confirmed, the common denominator was the victim’s dog, which indicated his presence by being attached to the door the victim had gone through. However, the perpetrator noticed the dog and poisoned it. The dog was later found dead in front of the kidnapper’s house. Furthermore, the victim had visited the perpetrator’s house, as the perpetrator lived alone, and he had occasionally interacted with other young men who sought solace by spending time with him, engaging in late-night conversations.

Some sources even revealed that the perpetrator was familiar with witchcraft, and the victim had a certain "vase in his left hand" with a straight line along the palm, suggesting it had been used in rituals to bring in money. This was later confirmed when the victim's relatives went to search the perpetrator’s house, which had been posted about on social media by a relative of the kidnapper. They managed to enter the house and, despite searching in all the rooms, did not find him until one of them asked about a pile of straw. The perpetrator claimed it was for his sheep, but when they searched it, they were shocked to find the victim underneath. At that moment, the criminal tried to escape, but he was surrounded by people and arrested. The victim was taken to the security headquarters, then to the hospital for examination, and later to the capital for further procedures, including psychological evaluation.

The Kidnapped Man’s First Statements

The victim stated that he had been following the news from behind a window, unable to leave a certain area of the residence, as if he was monitored and bound there. He had followed all the local and national events, even the pandemic and its victims, suggesting that he might have been subjected to witchcraft. However, once he crossed the perimeter of the house, he started talking, walking, and greeting everyone he knew, interacting freely. As for his father, he could not express himself, and the rest of the family was torn between disbelief and amazement, as if their son had returned from the dead.