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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You know that black bears are not true hibernators...They do move around quite a bit in the winter....
Also, this area of North Carolina has many bears...There are more bears on the Carolina coast than there are in the Smoky Mtns....
I guess Yogi thought he had a BooBoo!
Could be...LOL
If there was a Newfoundland in the neighborhood, it would have protected the boy...and it could very well be mistaken for a bear.
Wasn’t it a bear?
Or a St. Bernard..................
Jetty and Genny ARE NOT IMAGINARY!!
really? A kidnapper who kept him in the woods a quarter mile away from his house for 2 days? yeah.... right
It’s bearly possible.
Happily for the kid, the bear was not into boy-skin rugs.
Well, Davy Crockett kilt him a b’ar when he was only three. This kid is in North Carolina, not Tennessee, and didn’t have a kilt to give to the bear.
Come on, now. Don’t go bringing facts into this. You know the scoffing of posted facts and idle speculation by FReepers who know EVERYTHING (without reading the article) and have ready opinions are paramount here.
Or a Japanese Akita. We had a black one once named Tojo that was around 150 pounds and he loved kids. We were told they were bred to protect families and especially kids. A lady stopped us once and asked if she could take a picture of our bear.
Yeah, I know...Silly me...8<)
His story sounds similar to The Sarah Whitcher Story. Upon being found,she told everyone that Ollie, the family dog, came to sleep with her each night. The family was puzzled as Ollie was with them the whole time. When she ran up to Ollie he growled in reaction to the bear scent on her.
That story is assumed to have been true and God is sovereign over every creature in His creation; a similar instance of divine protection is possible. I’ve been close to a bear, the smell is powerful. I assume there would have been a lingering scent on him if it were true.
Depends on climate. Here in coastal Oregon , some of the best forage begins growing right after the winter solstice.
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