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ElSquibbonator t1_jcbhfez wrote

Reply to My little girl got lost on a field trip to a National Park. The child the rangers returned to me was not my daughter. by RooMorgue

OK, so I've heard stories like this one before, and I think I might be onto something with a particular hypothesis.

You know cuckoos, right? They're brood parasites, which means that the female doesn't care for her own eggs. She finds another bird's nest, dumps her egg into it, and when the egg hatches, it gets raised by the owner of the nest. A lot of birds don't even recognize a baby cuckoo as something different, so they'll just keep feeding it.

What I think is going on in these stories is that there's a species, perhaps very closely related to us, that's a brood parasite of humans. They use us to raise their offspring, the same way cuckoos use other birds.

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deadheadjinx t1_jcbe1h8 wrote

Reply to comment by gregklumb in My little girl got lost on a field trip to a National Park. The child the rangers returned to me was not my daughter. by RooMorgue

Yes please! And good luck! I wonder if your best bet might actually be to befriend the stranger-child. It must know where it came from and some of what's going on down there. If you earn its trust...idk maybe it will want to help. It obviously doesn't want to be there and is scared.

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