Claim: A little girl was found in a cabin disguised as a log pile after being missing for seven months.
A viral video supposedly recounting the harrowing story of a little girl named "Alice," who was missing for seven months before authorities found her in an odd-looking log pile, has been circulating on social media since June 2021. One version posted to the Unknown Facts Facebook page racked up more than 2 million views:
This video does not recount a true story. This is a work of fiction that is illustrated with a series of unrelated photos.
The story appears to have originated on the website Creepy-World.com in an article that was published in April 2021. A few months later, a video with the same title "Girl Vanishes, 7 Months Later Hiker Tells Cops To Look Closer At Log Pile" was shared to the Creepy World YouTube page.
Youtube video One indication that this video is a work of fiction is that it is unnecessarily light on detail. For example, the law enforcement agency in this story is simply identified as "local police." The story doesn't provide any specifics about where or when this happened, nor does it link to any news reports about this girl's alleged disappearance.
The big giveaway that this video is a work of fiction, however, is that the included photos come from a variety of unrelated sources, none of which have anything to do with a girl who was found in a log pile.
The photograph of this girl's missing bike, for example, comes from an April 2021 news story about a damaged bicycle that was found on the side of the road in Lagrange, Indiana; and the photo of "Riverside," the fictional town where this fabricated story is centered, actually shows a picture of Perrysburg, Ohio. The picture of "searching hikers" comes from a 2017 story about a missing person in the Great Smoky Mountains. The image of a reporter speaking about a "missing 11-year-old girl" is also real, but it's completely unrelated to the above-displayed video. That comes from a 2017 news segment about 11-year-old Jenna Irmler, who went missing after she reportedly ran away from home. Irmler later returned home, and she was not found in a log pile.
The big reveal in this fictional story is that the girl was found inside of a small cabin that had been disguised as a log pile. The pictures in this article feature two different "log pile" cabins, but neither of them were the location where a missing girl was found.
The first set of photographs actually show a wood chapel in Germany that was designed by John Pawson, an architect. Pawson described this building on the architecture website Archdaily.com in 2019:
Video The other set shows a log cabin designed by architect Piet Hein Eek for Dutch musician Hans Liberg. That unique house, which is located in the Netherlands, can be glimpsed in the video below:
Video In short, this viral video cobbles together a series of unrelated images that were taken in a wide variety of locations over the span of multiple years in order to create a fictional narrative about a missing girl who was found in a log pile.
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