Posted on 01/28/2019 9:29:38 AM PST by Red Badger
The three-year-old boy who was miraculously found safe and sound after he went missing for two days in North Carolina says he spent time with a bear while he was lost in the woods.
Casey Lynn Hathaway was found healthy and in 'good spirits' on Thursday after he went missing from his great-grandmother's backyard on Tuesday, launching a massive search party in Craven County.
The toddler, who is recuperating in hospital, told police and his parents he spent his two days in the woods hanging out with a bear.
'Casey is healthy, smiling, and talking. He said he hung out with a bear for two days God sent him a friend to keep him safe,' Casey's aunt Breanna Hathaway posted on Facebook on Thursday evening.
Craven County Sheriff Chip Hughes said that the child also told police he was with a bear in the time he was missing.
While he allegedly spent time in the company of a bear, nearly 600 volunteers, FBI, state officials, and divers combed the woods of eastern North Carolina for signs of the missing toddler.
Casey raised national alarm was he vanished from the backyard of his great-grandmother's home in Ernul, North Carolina on Tuesday. He was playing with his sister and his cousin and the family called police when the two children returned inside the home without him.
His great-grandmother and family members searched the woods behind her home for 45 minutes before she frantically called 911.
He was found on Thursday after searchers followed the sounds of his cries and found the child stuck in thorn bushes in Craven County, just a quarter mile from where he was last seen.
Authorities found the child after someone reported hearing 'Casey crying for his mother deep in the woods' around 9.30pm, according to WSOC.
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Name the bear Baloo
A bear with more sense than some people!
I’m so sorry, but this story is just too fishy to be believed.
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.
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.
OK...So tell us what really happened....
Chuckling....magical phenomena happen when you least expect it.....big grin.
The Life of Pi
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.
BJ and the Bear?
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.
At he didn’t have to pay property tax.
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.
My Daughter had a pony named “My Pretty Pony” when she was around 4. She also had two imaginary friends named Keggy and Genny.
That was an unusual movie.
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...
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