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As far as mysterious disappearance tales go, this one is brief but highly intriguing -- two farmboys find a treasure map stuck to a tree with a knife, excitedly report their discovery to disinterested parents who give them the cold shoulder, and then disappear forever, with the only clue to their fate being a bizarre photograph of them with a skeleton slipped under the door of the family home a year later: A chilling story. Nicely done. As far as the claim that this tale is a true story, though, it has several giveaways that tag it as fiction: What is the backstory behind this unusual image, then? We don't know exactly when and where it was taken, or whom it pictures, but well before it was the subject of a Creepy stuff I made up tale it was posted online with a much more sensible explanation of depicting a boy having fun while accompanying his archaeologist father to work sites during summer vacations from school:
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