Gonzalo Azumendi/Getty Images Hamelin, Germany, still looks as though it belongs ... The Grimm Brothers and Browning may have shaped the legend into art, but the story, it turns out, is likely ...

On June 26, 1284 in Hamelin, Germany some one hundred and thirty young people went missing. Worldview resident historian John Schmidt brings us the real life mystery behind the tale of the Pied Piper.