The Mystery Of Nicholas Barclay And His Imposter, Frédéric Bourdin

Nicholas Barclay was a 13-year-old boy from Texas who went missing in 1994 after a basketball game with his friends at the neighborhood park. Frederic Bourdin was a 23-year-old man from France who had grown up in a home without love or affection and had taken to a life crime to keep himself afloat.

Though the two were from vastly different worlds, their lives would soon become dangerously intertwined and result in a mystery that has lasted almost 25 years.

Nicholas Barclay Disappears

When Nicholas Barclay first went missing, his family didn’t immediately raise the alarm. Nicholas was a troubled kid and had a court hearing scheduled for the day after his disappearance that would determine if he would be sent to a home for juvenile delinquents.

His family simply assumed he had run away to avoid the consequences of the hearing.

Soon, however, it became clear that he was missing. He had only been carrying $5 and as far as anyone knew hadn’t packed any clothing. If he had been planning to run away, his family theorized, he would likely have taken personal items with him. As it was, he had left everything behind.

Police opened a missing person investigation but there were virtually no leads on where Nicholas could have gone. As he had only $5 to his name, the likelihood of him having secured a ticket on public transportation was low as was the possibility of him finding room and board somewhere. It seemed the only explanation was that he’d hitchhiked out of town and if he had, there was even less hope of finding him.

Then, three months later, police received a phone call from Jason Barclay, Nicholas’ uncle. He claimed that he’d seen Nicholas trying to break into their garage, but when police arrived, Jason told them he’d fled. It was the only lead in the case so far though it eventually panned out to a dead end.

Three years later, just as the Barclay family was beginning to lose hope, they received a miraculous phone call. Nicholas Barclay had been found, lost and scared in the middle of a Spanish village.

Immediately, he was flown back to the United States and reunited with his family.

Nicholas Barclay Returns, Or Does He?

The family welcomed him back at once with open arms and an open home. They had kept his room just as he’d left it, and had been anxiously awaiting his return. They missed him so much that they didn’t notice the glaring inconsistencies between the son who had gone missing and the one who had been returned to them.

The Nicholas Barclay who went missing in 1994 was a blond-haired blue-eyed boy of 13 with a violent temper and an unruly attitude problem. The Nicholas Barclay who was found in Spain in 1997 was a dark-haired brown-eyed boy of 16 who was eerily calm and made those around him uneasy. Despite the fact that he neither looked nor acted like their son, the Barclay family insisted, without a doubt, that the boy was their son Nicholas Barclay.

The harrowing story of the Barclays’ pain and its subsequent Hollywood happy ending made national headlines. A missing boy reunited with his family after years of abuse drew news crews and reporters to the Barclays’ home day in and day out.

It also drew investigators who were determined to find out what had happened to Nicholas Barclay during the three years he was missing.

According to Nicholas, he had been kidnapped on his way home from the park where he had been playing basketball with his friends.

Then, he’d been put on a plane and taken to Europe, where his kidnappers had forced him into a child sex trafficking ring. Eventually, he said, he had escaped and made it to safety where he was discovered by local law enforcement. As for his appearance, he said that the kidnappers had changed his eye color and dyed his hair to conceal his identity.

After hearing the account of Nicholas Barclay’s ordeal, private investigator Charlie Parker became suspicious. The hair and eyes claims were suspicious, as it was unlikely that the kidnappers went to such lengths as to alter his eye color, or could have even been able to.

He was also put off by the difference in personality.

Though such a traumatic circumstance would possibly result in a more subdued demeanor and the victim withdrawing into themselves, Parker felt that it was something more than that. He didn’t seem withdrawn, he simply seemed more mature – older, even, than his reported 16 years.

To Parker’s surprise, he was correct. Nicholas Barclay was not, in fact, 16, as he claimed to be, but 23. Furthermore, he wasn’t even Nicholas Barclay, but a Frenchman named Frederic Bourdin.

Comments

WHO IS THE WORST PERSON TO EVER LIVE ON THIS PLANET?

I vote for Danny Immens. I’ll describe his story, and let you decide. The boy on the left was one of his victims. Thursday, June 24, 1999. For you and me, this was a Thursday like most others. But for 12-year-old Steve Vissers, it would be his very last. And it would end in agony. (If that is the word.) Together with his younger brother, he was riding his bicycle in the park when the man hit him. His mother had forbidden them to ride beyond the bridge, but the boys had decided to go just a little further — what could go wrong, right ? And then the man had hit his bike with his scooter. Nobody was hurt, but the man insisted to drive Steve to a doctor, just in case. Steve refused — twenty years later, his brother Sven would say that it was immediately obvious that something was wrong with the man — and suddenly there was a knife, the man forced Steve on his scooter, and drove away. Steve turned his head, and waved to his brother. And then they were gone. It was the very last time that Sv...

THE LITTLE JEWISH GIRL WHO SURVIVE THE HOLOCAUST IN 1933

The Jewish girl who Survival the holocaust Anny-Yolande Horowitz was a Jewish girl born on June 2, 1933 in Strasbourg, France. She and her family were interned in the Lalande camp near Tours and then transferred to Drancy before being deported on September 11, 1942 on Convoy 31 to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Unfortunately, Anny, her mother Frieda and her sister Paulette did not survive the Holocaust. holocaust survival This photo is from "French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial" by Serge Klarsfeld. It's a huge doorstop of a book containing whatever photos and information that remain of the 11,000 French-Jewish children who were murdered by Nazis like Klaus Barbie (who Klarsfeld helped put on trial). The number of beautiful, innocent faces in this book is overwhelming. The book cost me $85 but I didn't care - I needed to remember those faces." All that is known of Anny is what is on her identification card, that she was Jewish, had blonde hair, blue eyes, ...

The Painful Death Of Sergeant John D. Kelly of Venango Township. And His Medal Of Honor For Action WWII.

The Painful Death Of Sergeant John D. Kelly of Venango Township. And His Medal Of Honor For Action WWII. U.S. Army Technical Sergeant John D. Kelly of Venango Township, Pennsylvania, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on June 25, 1944, near Fort du Roule, France. Kelly joined the Army in June 1942, and by June 25th, 1944, was serving as a Corporal in Company E, 314th Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division. On that day, at Fort du Roule, Cherbourg, France, Kelly repeatedly exposed himself to hostile fire to destroy an enemy emplacement and capture its occupants. He was killed in action five months after being promoted to technical sergeant. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on this day. Kelly is buried at the Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial in Epinal, France.

Rest In Peace To RNZAF Flight Sergeant Reg Wellington Who Passed Away On 3rd November 2022

Rest in Peace to RNZAF Flight Sergeant Reg Wellington who passed away on 3rd November 2022 Reg joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force when he turned 18 in 1943. He learned to fly on Tiger Moths and Harvards before upgrading to the P-40 and then doing a conversion course on the Corsair at Ardmore. In 1944 Reg was sent to 22 squadron and deployed to the Pacific on the 19th December. On his first tour, over Kavieng at top of New Ireland, Reg and his squadron did 2 strikes a day, bombing and strafing the Japanese from their base in Emirau. They would drop bombs on the Japanese and then strafe up the enemies vegetable gardens. While in 22 squadron, Reg’s aircraft was F4U-1 Corsair NZ5339 coded '39' and in the photos above, that is actually Reg in the cockpit of No 39. He told me that he remembered dropping that 1000lbs ‘Daisy cutter’ bomb on that day. He also told me in regards to his Corsair that he “never a put scratch on her” Reg described flying the Corsair as - “Wonderful! Pu...

GINA THE TALENTED CYCLIST RESCUE HUNDRED ITALIANS DURING WWII

Gina Rescue mission in world war 2 While he was widely admired for his athletic achievements, few knew about cyclist and two-time Tour de France winner Gino Bartali's rescue efforts during World War II. Germany occupied Italy, its former Axis partner, in 1943. Afterward, Gino used his fame and athleticism to smuggle messages in the handlebars and seat of his bicycle for underground rescue networks. He couriered counterfeit paperwork to Jews in hiding, enabling them to escape deportation to Auschwitz. Gino cycled from Florence throughout much of occupied Italy, sometimes even riding as far as Rome, proudly wearing his Italian racing jersey decorated with his name. Hi hundreds of Italian Jews, then went on to win the Tour de France in 1948, ten years after his first win. Gino did not speak about what he did during the war, sharing just a few details with his son. It was only after Gino's death in 2000 that his rescue efforts became known. In 2013, Yad Vashem ...

THE BLIND GIRL WHO WITHNESS ATOMIC BOMB IN 1945

The girl who got blind by atomic bomb picture of a blind Japanese girl who lost her sight due to witnessing the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The blast killed 66,000 people. Despite the atomic bombs forcing a Japanese surrender, the USA has been heavily criticized over the years for the amount of damage they caused. They also mostly k’illed civilians, who most likely had nothing to do with the war. It was also a stance against communist aggression by the USSR in Manchuria. However, if the bombs were not dropped, an invasion of Japan would have prolonged the war, and at least 2,000,000 US troops would have d’ied, according to calculations, as well as millions of the Japanese, allied fighters, and other sources of soldiers. It is easily one of the most divisive topics of World War II if the bombs should have been dropped or not. This has been only 1 out of 2 nuclear attacks in history.

The native U.S Marines sent to guard the "island of Guadalcanal in 1948"

The native U.S Marines sent to guard the "island of Guadalcanal in 1948" Native scouts leading U.S. Marines of the 1st had established a to hold on the island of Guadalcanal, a trio of natives appeared at the mouth of the Tenaru River. One of the individuals spoke English, and he offered their services to the Leathernecks as scouts. A tall, muscular man, he explained he had retired from the native constabulary as a sergeant major but had fled from his home when the Japanese had invaded his beloved Solomon Islands. my Realizing his value, a group of Marines quickly whisked him to the CP to be briefed. He shook the hand of division intelligence officer Lt. Col. Edmund J. Buckley and introduced himself: “I am Sergeant Major Jacob Vouza.” Native scouts were a tremendous asset to the Marines during the Guadalcanal campaign. These select men had been recruited and trained by the British for law enforcement purposes. Together with men like Captain Martin Clemens, a coas...

The Evil Twin Experiment Carried Out In History

Evil experiment carried out in history In the early to mid 1940s, during World War II and the Holocaust, the Nazi’s experimented on thousands of men, women and children. Their major target populations included Romani, Sinti, ethnic Poles, Soviet POWs, disabled Germans, and Jews from across Europe. At Auschwitz and other camps, under the direction of Eduard Wirths, selected inmates were subjected to various hazardous experiments that were designed to help German military personnel in combat situations, develop new weapons, aid in the recovery of military personnel who had been injured, and to advance the Nazi racial ideology. Experiments on twins Experiments on twin children in concentration camps were created to show the similarities and differences in the genetics of twins, as well as to see if the human body can be unnaturally manipulated. The central leader of the experiments was Josef Mengele, who from 1943 to 1944 performed experiments on nearly 1,500 sets of imprisoned twins...

Why Anna Maria Von Stockhausen’s corpse, strapped to keep her coming back from the dead.

Why Anna Maria Von Stockhausen’s corpse, strapped to keep her coming back from the dead. This is the corpse of Anna Maria von Stockhausen. After death she was strapped down to keep her in her grave. According to folklore, Stockhausen was a witch who resurrected herself 5 times. She was accused of being a witch during the Middle ages and Black Plague. This folklore about Anna was that she was killed about 6 times. She was first hanged and later clawed herself out of the grave. The town people captured her in a nearby town and quickly drowned her in a lake, by tying her to a plank. The townspeople said they checked her several times after dragging her lifeless body out of the water. View more graphics content below View more below:

WILL THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE END IF PUTIN DIE?

Will the war between Russia and Ukraine end if Putin die? It would certainly give Russia an excuse to stop the war. But it might also open the door to hardliners like Ramzan Kadyrov and Yevgeny Prigozhin who believe that Putin has been too soft of Ukraine and should be more forceful. Of course they would have the same problems as Putin. One must have soldiers and equipment to fight. It is far easier to coach from the sidelines than to be the actual one in charge. Will Putin die soon But Putin dying would be a face saving measure for Russia to stop the war. It was Putin’s idea. He pushed the war. Now that he is dead, there is no reason to push the war any further. Putin would be vilified in order for Russia to save face. ... see more below

Search This Blog