The child’s disappearance sent shockwaves through the community, prompting an exhaustive search effort involving authorities and concerned neighbors.
Got lost out there once or more myself.
Dad would tell me “Can’t died in the corn field and Couldn’t and Wouldn’t are lost out there.”
As a kid you would take things literally. There is a dead guy in the corn field! and these other guys don’t sound too friendly either!
Didn’t play in the corn field that year and didn’t get lost.
At night black panthers used to sneak up thru the cornfields to get closer to the chicken coops. We used to
Scare them off at night with a car battery spotlight and 30 30’s.