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

[Rikissa]

I was today years old when I learnt some roads double as airstrips.

Road runways are found in many countries, in Australia they can be used as emergency runways for the Flying Doctors, in many European countries road runways have been built as auxiliary runways for nearby airbases in case of war. I guess it's the same in the US.

 

[HoneyBunOne]

I'm thinking some horrible accident within all the "stuff" on the property. There's just so many possibilities within the area around the home. The fact there was no smell is still confusing to me, but other cases like Daniel O'Keeffe show that smell is not always an obvious giveaway. I think the consensus at the time of Daniel's disappearance was mental health concerns.

 

[Ellery84]

Police helicopter flight timing – initial search for Gus Lamont

I’ve gone back through the ADS-B flight data for POL53 (SA Police helicopter, VH-8D3) from the night of Saturday, 27 September 2025.

Converting the UTC timestamps to Adelaide time (ACST, UTC +9:30):

• Departed Adelaide: around 11:30 PM, Saturday 27 Sept
• Arrived near the Oak Park / Yunta area: approximately 12:15 AM, Sunday 28 Sept

This was the initial aerial search deployment for Gus. When you map that out, it really shows how much critical time had already passed before the first formal police response could even begin.

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Thank you for your commitment to the case.

 

[Springs4]

12K views · 155 reactions | Dozens of Defence Force personnel near Yunta have packed up and left as police pull the pin on their latest search for Gus Lamont. It has been almost three weeks since the little boy vanished seemingly without a trace. L

Dozens of Defence Force personnel near Yunta have packed up and left as police pull the pin on their latest search for Gus Lamont. It has been almost three weeks since the little boy vanished...

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For those questioning the state of the roads out there, this might give a glimpse into what they are like

 

[OddOneOut]

How big are those piles of dirt? Could one of those piles have collapsed or slid covering him up and suffocating him? I've heard of kids suffocating in sand on the beach and of farm workers suffocating in corn silos.

 

[HoneyBunOne]

How big are those piles of dirt? Could one of those piles have collapsed or slid covering him up and suffocating him? I've heard of kids suffocating in sand on the beach and of farm workers suffocating in corn silos.

Big enough in my opinion. They may be rock hard, but at least one looks like it could be soft and loose, just from aerial shots we've seen.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

For those questioning the state of the roads out there, this might give a glimpse into what they are like

And look there are the sheep, running away.

 

[drsleuth]

12K views · 155 reactions | Dozens of Defence Force personnel near Yunta have packed up and left as police pull the pin on their latest search for Gus Lamont. It has been almost three weeks since the little boy vanished seemingly without a trace. L

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For those questioning the state of the roads out there, this might give a glimpse into what they are like

And here is at least one of the gates

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[MelmothTheLost]

With the latest ground search of what I take to be areas identified from earlier drone/LiDAR searches having been called off, I would be tempted now to carry out a further thorough search of the station house and its buildings and other immediate surroundings. Not because I believe Gus is there but because some commentators aren't going to move on from there until it is done (again).

 

[Dotta]

With the latest ground search of what I take to be areas identified from earlier drone/LiDAR searches having been called off, I would be tempted now to carry out a further thorough search of the station house and its buildings and other immediate surroundings. Not because I believe Gus is there but because some commentators aren't going to move on from there until it is done (again).

IMO!!!

This area of the "station house and other Immediate surroundings"
should be searched thoroughly.
And I mean, REALLY thoroughly.

I think the boy is there,
trapped somewhere in this yard or even the house itself

Provided, of course,
there was no foul play or accident cover up and the child hidden elsewhere far away.

In the second THEORY,
I'm afraid Gus will never be found.

Of course, these are only my speculations.

I obviously have no idea what really took place,
except the fact
that a 4-year-old child vanished without trace in a place called home

Some say most accidents happen at home.

JMO

 

[Hexe]

the grandma may simply have not heard or remembered hearing a vehicle.

In a place that isolated any unexpected car arriving is something that would be remembered and checked upon.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

They didn't actually call the search off.
They completed it the next day, with the previous day cut shorter when it got too hot.

But that days search started from sunrise so they got a fair amount of searching in.

Well done on their efforts.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

In a place that isolated any unexpected car arriving is something that would be remembered and checked upon.

An electric vehicle wouldn't be heard as they are effectively silent. However, given the current range of electric vehicles and the distances in rural Australia, I doubt they would be very popular in those regions. Electric vehicles would produce a dust cloud like any other vehicle though.

 

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[Dotta]

"In the lead up to Gus Lamont's disappearance,
the heartbroken father of the missing four-year-old had been painstakingly renovating a house in a nearby town,
preparing it for his young family to move into
before the little boy vanished.

Joshua Lamont,
who lives about 200km from Yunta in the small South Australian town of Jamestown,
had spent years fixing up a modest two-bedroom cottage
so his partner Jess and their two boys could finally live together under one roof.

Friends say
the devoted dad was counting down the months until Gus began school,
eager to create a stable home life
after years of living between two properties.

The neighbour said,
he had recently was looking at schools for Gus nearby."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1979098635104088204

 

[ChatteringBirds]

We have only seen children’s bikes at Josh’s house, very evidently at the front door and some at the back door. Haven’t seen toys at the Oak Park property. IMO

Many children around the world have few to no formal toys. They make their own toys from things they find in the environment, create their own games.

I still think he just wandered and got lost, and he was just missed in the searches. They do their best when searching, but it happens.

ETA: I wonder about the dam. Those have to be extremely difficult to search.

 

[sunspun]

"In the lead up to Gus Lamont's disappearance,
the heartbroken father of the missing four-year-old had been painstakingly renovating a house in a nearby town,
preparing it for his young family to move into
before the little boy vanished.

Joshua Lamont,
who lives about 200km from Yunta in the small South Australian town of Jamestown,
had spent years fixing up a modest two-bedroom cottage
so his partner Jess and their two boys could finally live together under one roof.

Friends say
the devoted dad was counting down the months until Gus began school,
eager to create a stable home life
after years of living between two properties.

The neighbour said,
he had recently was looking at schools for Gus nearby."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1979098635104088204

Sad. Have you ever heard any mention of Joshua's parents? I'm wondering if they live near where Josh has his house, or if they've been a part of Gus's life at all.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

I personally have never been convinced he wandered far if at all. It would have been pitch black soon after he went and likely scared and the house would of been like a lighthouse.

Not necessarily. Most of the scrub is low enough for an adult to be able to see over it easily and to see a building with lights lit from hundreds of yards away. Gus, being much shorter, would probably have lost sight of the station house at the same distance.

 

[MelmothTheLost]

Many children around the world have few to no formal toys. They make their own toys from things they find in the environment, create their own games.

Damn, that's sad if true. A child who has to play alone so much of the time needs more toys, not fewer.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Many children can get a world of enjoyment out of toys that were not "store bought"

We grew up with not many toys but my favourite was my "paper people" I cut out of an IBM big catalogue that next doors left when they moved.
I had endless fun hours pairing off and marrying the IBM employees while my toys that I received no longer interested me.

Oh and my silkworms and reading books and walking around exploring the beach and nature.