Documentation from public records shows that there was a mysterious man in St. Hallo around the same time the boys disappeared. The man's name  still remains unknown.

        At the time of this man's arrival, the town of St. Hallo was being taken over by rats. The rats were eating the town's crops dry, infesting the livestock with disease, and polluting the town's drinking supply.

       The people of the town tried to get rid of the rats themselves, but were unsuccessful. They tried to chase them out of town by flooding the streets but it didn't work. They also tried poisoning the rats, but the rats were too smart to eat the poison.   

       The unknown man, who was passing through town on November 5, 1884, offered to help St. Hallo with their rat problem. The town's local records show that Charles Oliver, St. Hallo's mayor, met with a short strange man with black hair who asked if he could help.

      The mayor of the town agreed to allow the strange man to try to help since the people of the town had been unsuccessful. Records show that the man pulled a flute from under his sleeve and began to play it.

      When the rats heard the sound of the flute, they all came out of hiding and followed the strange man to the river where the man drowned them.

      The unknown man demanded a place to stay for the night and a reward for killing the rats. Records show that Mayor Oliver refused to grant his request. When the unknown man's request was refused,  he went  mad.

     The day after the unknown man was refused his request, he planned for revenge while the elders were at church. The unknown man played a different flute and this time all the boys, ages fourteen and under, gathered around him.

     Samantha Collins was the only eye-witness to actually see the mysterious man leading the boys up Mount Kopfelberg. Collins brought the news of it to the town and Mayor Oliver.

      Records show that the town went in search of the missing people. All one hundred and thirty of them were never found, and the mysterious piper was never seen again.

    Author's Note: I decided for my third story to rewrite The Pied Piper. The original story is very short. It is a story about how all the young boys of a town were killed. In my story I added detail, and I gave the characters names. I also added images as usual to add effects for my story. When I was telling this particular story I kept saying local records because this event happened in 1884,  although the original story was set in the middle ages. When writing a newspaper article, I wanted to be able to show readers how I knew certain things and where I got my information from. This story is similar to the other two stories but also different. This story does not have a ghost in it but it does have an eerie disappearance of 130 young boys.