Originally posted by Shadow-79:

In around 2000: there was a American girl who ended up missing (she was around 9 years old at the time). It was said that she packed up her belongings in a backpack and left home in the middle of the night by herself despite that it was raining and windy outside. The question remains: how would she be able to survive on her own as a minor? (If she is presumed alive today)

I don't know what specific case you talk about.

But it is highly unrealistic that she would all by herself, have survived 25 years, entirely in the wilderness.

It is more likely that she pretty quickly started to live with people, was kidnapped or did not survive the harsh environment.

Even if she would have been a fully trained survival expert at this age, perhaps by native indians, extremely skilled survivalists, at the age of 9, you will eventually catch some diseases, that would normally require modern medical intervention.

Let alone the fact that IF you live this long in wilderness, you WILL leave tracks, they would have found her or found at least some evidence she is still alive.
Chances are, she never even made it to the woods.

Now when we consider that she never went for nature in the first place but roamed urban areas...the chances are even less slim, due to stranger danger.

If a person disappear more than a month, it's almost certain that they're dead.
Other slim possibility is that she got kidnapped and sold to live as someone else.

Originally posted by Goldias:

If a person disappear more than a month, it's almost certain that they're dead.

Based on what?

Could a person survive alone, yes but it is almost a certainty they would require help. I doubt most people would survive an entire winter in the wilderness, let alone a 9 year old.

Originally posted by Tröjan:

Originally posted by Goldias:

If a person disappear more than a month, it's almost certain that they're dead.

Based on what?

I think what he meant to say is if you’re gone for that long you’re declared dead. You may not be actually dead but you’re dead “on paper”.

Originally posted by Xero_Daxter:

Originally posted by Tröjan:

Based on what?

I think what he meant to say is if you’re gone for that long you’re declared dead. You may not be actually dead but you’re dead “on paper”.

In America if you're missing for 7 years you are declared legally dead.

Originally posted by ↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect:

Originally posted by Xero_Daxter:

I think what he meant to say is if you’re gone for that long you’re declared dead. You may not be actually dead but you’re dead “on paper”.

In America if you're missing for 7 years you are declared legally dead.

Rest my case.

She might be dead or locked up in a basement in som dude house

Originally posted by Yungplague:

She might be dead or locked up in a basement in som dude house

For 25 years? Not saying it’s not possible but dang!!

Originally posted by Tröjan:

Originally posted by Goldias:

If a person disappear more than a month, it's almost certain that they're dead.

Based on what?

In this day and age with plenty of camera and a lot of ways to track an individual, a person simply vanish without a trace is highly unlikely. Not to mention a 9 years old wouldn't even know to hide.

So if she's disappear more than a month without a single trace, it's near certainty that she's not walking outside. Either as a corpse, getting kidnapped by people who knows how to avoid detection, or live under another identity.

I have a feeling you may be taking about the Asha Degree case. No arrests made but evidence leads to an abduction. It you think about it, a young person wouldn't leave in the rain however an abduction culprit may use to rain to distort both sounds and evidence.

Dead

Despite cameras being everywhere these days, people still go missing every year-
It reminds me of that story from China about the chained woman.
I wish no harm on her and I hope she's alive and holding on, wherever she may be.

Can’t imagine if I was trapped for 25 years in a basement. Me personally I’ll be scheming for a way to get out.

Originally posted by Xero_Daxter:

Can’t imagine if I was trapped for 25 years in a basement. Me personally I’ll be scheming for a way to get out.

At least, she's found and reunited back with her family. It can happen way worse