The remains of a Spanish man have been found in his house more than 20 years after he was last seen.
Nobody in the Spanish village of Canizal had seen Vicente Benito for two decades, although the 520 residents thought that he had moved to Portugal, or work as a shepherd in another part of the world.
The discovery was only made after one of Benito's nephews broke into his house to see what happened to his uncle, according to the local newspaper.
Police found that the only coins and banknotes in his house were pesetas, suggesting he died well before the introduction of the euro a decade ago.
"We think he was last seen at least 15 years ago, but no one is sure," the mayor, Miguel Angel Herrero, said, according to the Guardian.
"He had stopped talking to his siblings and went to work as a shepherd. He was always off somewhere, so it didn't occur to people that he might still be in the village." - The Telegraph
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