Unsolved Mystery: 9-Year-Old Boy Vanishes in the Australian Bush

Mr. Fireside
5 min readJan 17, 2023

Patrick “Paddy” Hildebrand, a 9-year-old boy from Australia, went missing on a family bushwalking trip in Victoria’s Wilson’s Promontory National Park in 1987. Despite extensive searches by authorities and volunteers, Paddy was never found and his disappearance remains one of Australia’s most intriguing unsolved mysteries.

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