Yes, you read that right.... skeletals remains of a missing child were found over a century later. I stumbled across this article and though it's a couple of years old it's still interesting... though chilling.

  The story of what happened to 5 year old Jessica Brown is sad, but how she was found is creepy.  And what's even creepier is the strange signs mother nature gave every fall trying to tell everyone where the missing little girl was...

http://voices.yahoo.com/remains-missing-child-found-after-nearly-150-years-4248283.html