Long-Lost Family: Man Abandoned in 1960 Reunites with Girl Who Discovered Him

This is the emotional second time a man left on a stranger’s doorstep on a cold Christmas night in 1960 has been reunited with the older girl who found him.

Harvey Shackel, now 63, was discovered as a young child in a cardboard box covered in brown paper outside the home in Hayes, Middlesex, where Mr and Mrs Wood lived.

It looks like Harvey is trying to discover his organic relationship tonight on Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace. Finally, Harvey gets a chance to thank Lady Vera Wood, who “saved his life” after finding him on her doorstep and pulling him in from the cold.

The duo have been reunited, with Vera, now 88, explaining how she tried to support Harvey as a child and even looked for him after he was taken away by the police and later adopted by another household.

‘I always wonder where they found me. You really saved my life. If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t be here now,” an emotional Harvey tells Vera.

Vera remembers the second time she found Harvey as a young child and said, “I pulled out this piece of paper and there you are at the bottom of this cardboard box, and under the brown piece of paper was a thick blue lady’s jacket. standing down there.

‘No hat, no mittens, nothing on your feet. I picked up the box and brought you in, called the police and within minutes the police arrived.

“So I really was there all night,” Harvey muses before Vera confirms, “you were there all night.”

“I’d love to try to keep you, but it wasn’t possible,” the older girl admits, before adding, “I’ve been looking for you, wondering where you are, who are you?” How did you develop?’

Harvey was quick to reassure Vera that he was ‘very lucky’ and noted that he had been taken in by a ‘lovely family’.

He says: “This family loved me so much, they decided to adopt me, so I’ve been with one family all this time.”

She offers him a photograph taken at the time and says, “If anything happens to me now, I can go to my grave happy because I saw you.”

Vera and her husband apparently had nothing to do with the matter, but expressed curiosity about adopting Harvey in response to investigations by the Daily Herald and The Mirror.

Harvey was taken to Hillingdon Hospital earlier than he was fostered, then adopted by the Shackell household.

He had a great adoption and is married with two stepsons but no blood relations. Over the years, he’s thought about his biological household, but it wasn’t until recently that he started moving when he launched an attraction in a national newspaper.

Without incident, Harvey returns to the one hyperlink he knows of, the place he was discovered. “If I hadn’t been taken, I would have frozen to death,” he says. But Vera does not live with this struggle.

Miraculously, the Long Lost Family team discovered that Harvey wasn’t the one watching; Vera appeared on ITV’s Surprise Surprise in 1988 to plead for information about the whereabouts of a child who had been left on her doorstep.

Meanwhile, the search team uses DNA to discover that Harvey has two older full siblings.

Both his biological dad and mom are dead and one sister is unrecognized, however Harvey’s sister Cherry could be very happy to be discovered.

Cherry and Harvey meet for the first time. Cherry is able to inform Harvey that his newbie mom had no say in leaving him and thought he was taken to a safe place.

The siblings are surprised by their physical resemblance and the comfort they find in meeting each other.

Shockingly, it is usually revealed that Cherry and Harvey’s father had multiple relationships with completely different girls and fathered 19 children.

Some went to foster homes before they were adopted. Harvey calls several of his half-siblings in the video and celebrates getting back together regardless of their breakup.

Harvey seems to have the big household in the long run that he may have only been hoping for.