# Remember That Soul Asylum "Runaway Train" Video?  Did They Ever Find Any Of The Kids?

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**Created:** [August 24, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-soul-asylum-runaway-train-video-did-they-ever-find-any-of-the-kids/318486 "2005-08-24T20:50:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-soul-asylum-runaway-train-video-did-they-ever-find-any-of-the-kids/318486/1 "2005-08-24T20:50:58Z")

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I’d guess some of them would be pushing 35 by now so it’s a moot point, but Google didn’t immediately reveal anything about whether the embedded misssing children PSA-style shots (remember, it was the early '90s) had any practical effect.

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-soul-asylum-runaway-train-video-did-they-ever-find-any-of-the-kids/318486/2 "2005-08-24T21:25:47Z")

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I swear they found one of the teenagers. This was around the time that the video was airing in heavy rotation.

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**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-soul-asylum-runaway-train-video-did-they-ever-find-any-of-the-kids/318486/3 "2005-08-24T21:49:02Z")

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I seem to recall that one of the kids returned home on their own. The story as I remember it was that they didn’t think anyone cared enough about them to look for them after they ran away until they saw themselves featured in the video.

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-that-soul-asylum-runaway-train-video-did-they-ever-find-any-of-the-kids/318486/4 "2005-08-25T01:01:28Z")

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I think they found a few-then they rotated some of the missing photos periodically.