After
almost a year, the young man who had become famous as Germany’s “Forest Boy,”
claiming to have lived in a tent in the woods for 5 years, has admitted that he made the whole thing up. Police had been unable to see the forest
through the trees.
The
20-year-old from the Netherlands will now be known as “The Lying Dutchman.”
Berlin
Police had been suspicious of the young man’s story, but they had no ways of
making him talk.
Dutch
authorities are now wondering what happened to his sister, who was last seen in
the forest on her way to a house made of gingerbread.
