Wild Boys Doc Updates: Where Kyle & Roen Horn Are Now
Wild Boys – Where Are They Now? (Updates + What the Doc Says)
Last updated: February 22, 2026
Paramount+’s Wild Boys: Strangers in Town takes a story that feels like modern folklore— two “brothers” emerging from the British Columbia woods, no IDs, no paperwork, and a backstory nobody could prove— and pulls it apart piece by piece. If you finished the doc and immediately opened Google to type “Wild Boys where are they now,” you’re not alone.
Below is a clear, spoiler-light(ish) breakdown of what happened, what the documentary emphasizes, and the most credible updates on Kyle Horn and Roen Horn today.
Quick recap: what the “Wild Boys” claimed
The docuseries centers on two young men who appeared in and around Vernon, British Columbia, saying they were brothers named Will and Tom Green. They claimed they’d been raised completely off the grid in the forests—no school records, no doctors, no birth certificates, and basically no trace that could be checked by authorities or journalists.
Locals tried to help. Media interest snowballed. And then the story cracked: “Will” and “Tom” were actually Roen Horn and Kyle Horn, brothers from Roseville, California.
Timeline: from the woods to the reveal
- Summer 2003: Two young men are found living rough near Vernon/Coldstream, B.C. The community begins helping them with food, shelter, and support.
- 2003 into 2004: Their “no paperwork” problem becomes a trap. Without ID, they can’t easily work or build a conventional life—yet the more attention they get, the harder it is to back out of the story.
- Early 2004: Concern spikes about the younger brother’s health. Multiple accounts describe him as severely underweight and in need of medical attention.
- April 2004: Reporting and broadcasting help connect the dots; the brothers are identified as Kyle and Roen Horn, and their family is contacted.
One detail that really matters for understanding the fallout: by the time the truth surfaced, they weren’t just a curiosity. People in Vernon had invested real money, time, and emotional energy into helping them.
Watch: Wild Boys: Strangers in Town (official trailer)
What the doc says (and what it focuses on)
Wild Boys: Strangers in Town isn’t just a “gotcha” story about a hoax. It spends a lot of time on the conditions that made the hoax possible—and the costs of keeping it alive once it started.
1) The “small town mystery” engine
The doc leans into how quickly a community can turn uncertainty into narrative: once the brothers are labeled “Wild Boys,” every detail becomes a clue. The lack of documents isn’t treated as a dead end—it becomes the hook.
2) Health, control, and the pressure cooker
The younger brother’s health is a major throughline. Coverage around the case (and discussion of the doc) often uses the term orthorexia, and describes him as dangerously underweight while living the “bush” story.
3) The reveal: why contradictions mattered more than “proof”
A key idea repeated in coverage of the story: the brothers’ accounts didn’t fail because someone found the one perfect “smoking gun” document. Their story failed because it couldn’t stay internally consistent under normal, human pressure—different interviews, different audiences, different stakes.
4) The family context (and the uncomfortable gray areas)
One of the doc’s most debated choices is how much time it spends on the Horn family’s worldview—especially conspiracy-flavored beliefs and alternative health ideas that appear in interviews about their upbringing. This framing doesn’t excuse what happened, but it pushes viewers to ask a harder question: if a story is a lie, can the pain underneath it still be real?
Reddit: “Wait… how did they keep this going?”
Reddit thread: “Does anyone know anywhere where I can see the interviews with the two boys…?”
A lot of discussion online started years earlier with the investigative podcast version of this story (Chameleon: Wild Boys), and those older threads are now getting re-shared because the Paramount+ doc brought new viewers in.
Reddit thread: “Chameleon: Wild Boys”
Where are Kyle & Roen now? (credible updates)
Public “where are they now” reporting tends to agree on the broad shape of what happened after the brothers returned to the U.S.: they didn’t become conventional public figures, but they also didn’t disappear. Their adult lives (and internet footprints) became part of the story.
Roen Horn (“Will Green”) — what’s been reported
- He has been reported to have spent time in Hawaii working on a fruit farm after returning from Canada.
- Multiple reports describe him as deeply involved in life-extension / “immortality” circles, including publishing lots of content online about living forever.
- Reporting has linked him to work around transhumanism politics, including a campaign focused on radical life extension.
Kyle Horn (“Tom Green”) — what’s been reported
- Reporting suggests he’s kept a lower profile than Roen overall, but has been connected to supplement-related work.
- Coverage around the doc also revisits how Kyle’s role wasn’t just “older brother along for the ride”—he often functioned as the spokesperson and the person negotiating with adults, police, and media.
One takeaway worth holding onto: the doc (and follow-up reporting) treats “Where are they now?” less like a neat epilogue and more like evidence that the original story didn’t end in Canada—it just changed formats.
X (Twitter) reactions and updates
Tweets by Paramount+What Reddit Theories Say About This
The most common Reddit-level theories tend to cluster into a few buckets:
- “It was a pure scam.” Some viewers interpret everything through the lens of grift: attention, free housing, help from locals, and a narrative that could be monetized.
- “It started as survival, then became a trap.” Others argue the lie was a short-term shield (for privacy, safety, or avoiding systems they feared), and then escalated because the town and the media rewarded the story.
- “The real story is about control.” Especially in discussions of eating/health, people read the “off-grid” persona as a kind of identity armor—an attempt to regain control when life felt unmanageable.
The doc doesn’t hand you one definitive answer. Instead, it shows how several things can be true at once: deception, vulnerability, manipulation, and genuine suffering can overlap.
Why people believed them (the psychology + the media mechanics)
The “Wild Boys” story travels because it hits a rare combo of emotional buttons: mystery (no documents), innocence (they seem socially out-of-place), danger (the wilderness), and moral urgency (a town wanting to help).
Once that machine starts, every new development keeps the story alive—supporters double down because they’ve invested; skeptics double down because the inconsistencies look like clues; and the brothers are stuck playing characters that the audience is now co-writing.