This little resident of Adelaide, Australia, named Herbert Henry Dicker, died at the age of two on June 2, 1885 and was buried in Hope Valley Cemetery. However, for the past 8 years, every month someone has come to his modest grave and left teddy bears, cars and other toys near it.
The phenomenon becomes even more unusual if you know that the relatives of this baby have not lived in Australia for over a hundred years.
The caretakers of the cemetery have never been able to see the mysterious visitor to the child's grave, although according to rumors they were waiting for him on purpose.
Also interested in this case was David Brooks from the local history society. He interviewed many people living nearby, but no one knew anything about who came to the child's grave and why he left toys there.
There is also little information about the boy himself. It is not known even from what illness he died and under what circumstances. It is only indicated that he died after being ill for only two days.
Maybe there is some very sad family secret hidden here, or maybe someone from the local suddenly became imbued with feelings and decided to take care of the grave. But why, then, is all this done in such secrecy?
Herbert was one of ten children of James Dicker and Mary Ann Bowie. Five years after Herbert's death, the entire family left Adelaide for Tasmania.
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Curiously, none of their remaining nine children of the spouses died and all survived to old age. For the end of the 19th century, when even in developed countries 5-6 children out of 10 survived at best, this is a great rarity.