Case file · Anomaly hotspot
Christopher Ramirez, Grimes County
A three-year-old followed a neighbour's dog into the Texas woods on 6 October 2021 and was found alive four days later, about five miles from home.
2021 CE · 30.29, -95.85 · status: explained
The account
Christopher Ramirez vanished while his mother unloaded groceries. The FBI, Texas EquuSearch, volunteers, dogs and drones searched for days. On 9 October a landowner found him near FM 1486 and Highway 249, tired, hungry and dehydrated but healthy. Cases like this, a small child found alive far away, feature in Missing 411 as puzzles; lost-person data show that toddlers can travel several miles and survive several days in mild weather.
The sceptical view
Distance and survival are within the range recorded for young children in lost-person research.
Connections in the atlas
- Casey Hathaway and the 'friendly bear'
- Robert Koester, 'Lost Person Behavior'
- 'Missing 411' and Yosemite