Three-year-old Casey Hathaway recovers in hospital...tells stunned parents he hung out with a BEAR..

www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | Published: 20:05 EST, 25 January 2019 | Updated: 07:28 EST, 26 January 2019 | By Marlene Lenthang and Emily Crane For Dailymail.com

[taxcontrol]

Name the bear Baloo

[Michigander222]

A bear with more sense than some people!

[originalbuckeye]

I’m so sorry, but this story is just too fishy to be believed.

[NEMDF]

The child is 3, and was likely suffering (at least borderline) hypothermia. Maybe a bear really was with him. Maybe he just dreamt or imagined it. The great news is that he was found, and will be fine.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Wild bears may or may not be friendly to people, depending on the bear’s disposition. Once I was in a remote area near a ranch, and a bear cub emerged from the trees followed closely by the mother bear. To my horror, the baby bear ran straight to me. Unfortunately, I was unarmed. Skipping to the end of the story, I survived without a scratch, simply because the mama bear spared me, and apparently wasn’t hungry.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

[JBW1949]

OK...So tell us what really happened....

[mountn man]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbE53XUtVw0

[yoe]

Chuckling....magical phenomena happen when you least expect it.....big grin.

[Pietro]

what really happened....

The Life of Pi

[gaijin]

Why do people go and believe this..?

Cuz more and more people are unfamliar with kids.

Ya know what? News flash:

Kids MAKE UP STORIES, totally unmaliciously.

They just DO that.

We’re going extinct while each woman in Mali has something like 9 kids.

We’d better stop being stupid and GET BUSY.

[rey]

BJ and the Bear?

[Sacajaweau]

I agree...it's fishy.

Have the kid draw a picture of the bear.

I think he was kidnapped and the kidnapper got spooked when he heard voices of rescuers.

[wally_bert]

At he didn’t have to pay property tax.

[piasa]

Maybe he crawled in with a hibernating bear in a hollow under a tree. It’d be too sleepy to pay him much attention... and when female bears, sows, hibernate is when they give birth so one may in its sleepy stupor feel nothing is amiss if something snuggled up with them.

Could also have been a stray dog.

[yarddog]

My Daughter had a pony named “My Pretty Pony” when she was around 4. She also had two imaginary friends named Keggy and Genny.

[Spacetrucker]

That was an unusual movie.

[srmorton]

It is absolutely true! It happened less than 50 miles from where I live in Jacksonville, North Carolina. The whole state is rejoicing that he is okay, since the day he disappeared and the day after were bitterly cold and the day that he was found started out with torrential downpours. That he came through with only a few scratches is a miracle! Many of us here in Eastern North Carolina believe that the prayers that were offered up around the clock until he was found had a lot to do with the outcome!

[JBW1949]

Not according to law enforcement...They said the condition the child and his clothes were in indicated he’d been in the woods the whole time...They said there was absolutely on evidence of a crime...