Berlin (CNN) -- The story of the so-called ForestBoy -- a riddle that has perplexed people in Germany and elsewhere for months -- is a lie, police in Germany said Friday.
On a starry night 55 years ago, deep in a remote forest of northern India, a 4-year-old boy nicknamed "sher baccha" (Hindi for "tiger cub") rode safely in the arms of his father, who carried him into the moist air.
Investigators have been unable to find the father's body as the boy was unable to name or show the place he buried his father in the forest underneath some stones, officials said.
The narrator becomes a young boy (alternately played by Noah Radcliffe and Jack Broderick) who wanders into a nearby forest to escape a family argument and gets swept up in the fast-unfolding plot, in which Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who brought down the beanstalk) run collectively afoul of a witch, a wolf and a giant.