MOST BIZARRE STORY: Missing boy, 12-year-old Charlie Bothuell found alive in parents’ basement, father finds out on live TV.....Was This a Miracle?

DETROIT — An 11-day search for a missing Michigan boy came to a bizarre conclusion Wednesday when he was discovered alive and well, hidden in the basement of his father’s home in Detroit.Finding 12-year-old Charlie Bothuell resolves the key issue in the missing-child case, but the circumstances of his discovery leaves numerous other questions hanging. “I’ve never seen anything quite like this,” Detroit Police Chief James Craig told CNN affiliate WXYZ. “We found him barricaded in the basement, behind boxes and a large five-gallon drum. There’s no way he could have erected this makeshift area of concealment.”Father told on live TVAdding to the drama, Charlie’s father, Charles Bothuell IV, heard the revelation that the child had been found during a live TV interview with HLN’s Nancy Grace.When Grace told him the news, Bothuell became visibly upset, looking dazed and bewildered, breathing hard and clutching at his chest. When he recovered enough to speak, he said he had no idea how his son could have turned up in his house.“I checked my basement,” Bothuell said. “The FBI checked my basement. The police checked my basement. My wife checked my basement. I’ve been down there several times. We’ve all been checking.” more