Australia AUSTRALIA - 4YO AUGUST (GUS) Missing from rural family home in Outback, Yunta, South Australia, 27th Sept 2025

[MelmothTheLost]

Search continues for missing boy Gus
29 Sep 2025 6:09am

Police continue to search for missing boy Gus in the mid north of the state.

Four-year-old August (Gus) was last seen at his homestead, about 40km’s south of Yunta, at 5pm on Saturday 27 September.

Having taken a look at that area on Google maps, I think we can rule out abduction by the proverbial passing maniac. This is going to be a lost-in-the-bush-probably-accidental-death scenario or the family or other connected person dunnit.

 

[sapphire blue]

I could be wrong but Teetulpa appears to be north of Yunta.

Check out Manunda Station to the south. It's approximately 40km from Yunta, and there's what appears to be a building/property and the Old Manunda Dam 2-3km to the west of Manunda Station.

MOO.

Teetulpa was merely to give people an idea of the location. I had a look at manunda, definitely south the building doesn’t match any images of manunda.

 

[Sazza]

 

[TootsieFootsie]

MSN

9News

Crews to search into the night for boy, 4, missing from remote homestead​

Crews will continue to search into the night for a four-year-old boy who went missing on his remote homestead about 235km north-east of Adelaide over the weekend.

August, or Gus, was last seen on a property in mid-north South Australia, about 40km south of Yunta, at 5pm on Saturday.

He was reportedly playing in his grandparents sandpit at this outback homestead.

 

[sapphire blue]

I think it he isn't found, the search would be expanded.
I think that any vehicle would have likely been heard by the grandmother and or anyone else there.

It's so quiet on one of those properties that you can hear a vehicle coming for awhile before it arrives.

You’d also likely see the red dust cloud if there was a vehicle. The outback is something you have to experience to understand what it’s really like.

 

[charminglane]

Could he have climbed into a vehicle/trunk on the property?

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1972796515203608749

 

[jypsijemini]

ABC News: Sept 30

Superintendent Syrus said the search was being guided by the expertise of the property owners and neighbouring landholders, while locals had combed the area on motorbikes.

A helicopter and drones have scoured the area from the sky, while police divers have checked water tanks and the dams on the property where water was present.

Superintendent Syrus said "fortunately", many of those dams were dry and said Gus was not known to gravitate towards water.

He said initial searches also focused on workshops and sheds on the property.

 

[jypsijemini]

I know I'm probably getting WAY too ahead of myself here, but the lack of information being shared about the disappearance and the family itself make me so worried that this case may take an eerie resemblance to the disappearance of William Tyrell.

MOO.

Don't get me wrong - I know children of Gus' age have a very normal tendency to wander off, especially in environments where they're familiar or comfortable. And that in this case, due to its remote nature, it's probably just unnecessary for the public to know many details as it's highly unlikely that we could do anything to help find him.

I just hope it's as unfortunate and innocent as it seems and not something more tragic and sinister, like the WT disappearance appears (to some) to be. Again, MOO.

But in my opinion, if my child went missing, I wouldn't hesitate to consider all possibilities no matter how unlikely they seemed. I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that they'd definitely walked off into the wilderness even if that was the most rational or realistic scenario. Without knowing for certain what had happened, I wouldn't rule ANYTHING out and would be doing whatever it takes to bring my baby home.

 

[jypsijemini]

I'm surprised that I haven't seen any mention of K9s being deployed in the area to track his scent or specialised, professional trackers who could potentially lead the investigators in a likely direction... MOO.

 

[TMich6811]

MSN

9News

Crews to search into the night for boy, 4, missing from remote homestead​

Crews will continue to search into the night for a four-year-old boy who went missing on his remote homestead about 235km north-east of Adelaide over the weekend.

August, or Gus, was last seen on a property in mid-north South Australia, about 40km south of Yunta, at 5pm on Saturday.

He was reportedly playing in his grandparents sandpit at this outback homestead.

This is awful but does anyone know much about the sandpit? Is it possible it imploded

 

[Gordon_]

Terrible hope he is found safe soon.

 

[Sazza]

Gus’ full name has been shared, however I can’t find any info on family.

 

[jypsijemini]

Gus’ full name has been shared, however I can’t find any info on family.

Thank you, I hadn't seen that circulating yet. Here it is, as reported by 7 News.

7 News - YouTube

 

[LadyL]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1972796515203608749

day 3
~sigh~

 

[LadyL]

This is awful but does anyone know much about the sandpit? Is it possible it imploded

imploded? I'm not from there so I'm trying to google what an Australian sandpit is
all that's coming up is the typical sandboxes that people have in their backyards
so can someone explain what is meant by 'sandpit' there and also, what it imploding would mean?

 

[sapphire blue]

I know I'm probably getting WAY too ahead of myself here, but the lack of information being shared about the disappearance and the family itself make me so worried that this case may take an eerie resemblance to the disappearance of William Tyrell.

MOO.

Don't get me wrong - I know children of Gus' age have a very normal tendency to wander off, especially in environments where they're familiar or comfortable. And that in this case, due to its remote nature, it's probably just unnecessary for the public to know many details as it's highly unlikely that we could do anything to help find him.

I just hope it's as unfortunate and innocent as it seems and not something more tragic and sinister, like the WT disappearance appears (to some) to be. Again, MOO.

But in my opinion, if my child went missing, I wouldn't hesitate to consider all possibilities no matter how unlikely they seemed. I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that they'd definitely walked off into the wilderness even if that was the most rational or realistic scenario. Without knowing for certain what had happened, I wouldn't rule ANYTHING out and would be doing whatever it takes to bring my baby home.

I don’t believe this is anything like William Tyrell. The size of the property is approximately 60 sq kilometres, the homestead kilometres inside, it’s isolated. A vehicle would be necessary and it would be heard and the dust created would be noticed.

They are doing whatever they can to find their child.

 

[Mauig’ma]

Are there any predators out there that could snatch him without leaving evidence behind ?

 

[TMich6811]

imploded? I'm not from there so I'm trying to google what an Australian sandpit is
all that's coming up is the typical sandboxes that people have in their backyards
so can someone explain what is meant here and also, what it imploding would mean?

Sand can essentially create a sand hole that causes suffocation and collapses on its self

But I don’t know if this is a sand pit that could

 

[Lucy6226]

This is awful but does anyone know much about the sandpit? Is it possible it imploded

My first thought was that a gap had opened under the sandpit, but looking at the terrain it looks like the land would be too hard and dry for that to happen imo. I'm certainly no expert living in the very wet and cold UK though