“A Very Rare Case”: Missing Finnish Man Re-Appears After 13 Years.

The man was found in the same place he went missing.

Keuruu, Finland. The rural municipality where a man went missing for thirteen years. Image Source.

A 65-year-old Finnish man who went missing in 2008 has been found — in the same place he went missing.

The man’s name has not been released by the Finnish press so I’ll call him ‘V’ here.

V, who is a white Finnish male born in 1955, disappeared from the rural municipality of Keuruu, Central Finland in 2008, aged 52.

V was living in Keuruu at the time he disappeared.

Keuruu municipality is 270km (168 miles) north of the Finnish capital, Helsinki, and is home (in 2021) to just 9,500 people.

V was last seen sometime in the spring of 2008 in the village of Kolho, in the neighbouring municipality of Mänttä-Vilppula, 18km (11 miles) southwest of the town of Keuruu.

He was not reported missing until 2014, eight years later. Relatives went to the police after having not heard from him in many years.

V’s case is similar to that of still-missing Finnish man Vesa Matti Frantsila who was gone for fifteen years before anyone noticed.