Found this interesting and a little spooky. This report is from North Carolina.
Jan. 27, 2019 - Boy, 3, lost in freezing forest for two days says a bear kept him safe (Video)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/boy-3-lost-freezing-forest-two-days-says-bear-kept-safe-230715952.html
A missing three-year-old boy who was found alive after enduring two days of heavy rain and freezing temperatures says it was a bear who kept him safe and warm.
Authorities from the FBI and US Marines professional search teams joined up with volunteers to search for Casey Hathaway when he vanished from outside his great-great grandmother Julie Toler’s house in North Carolina on Tuesday afternoon.
As his distressed family waited for updates, one of their neighbors out walking her dog
heard a loud cry come from the bushes.
About 40 metres into the bushes, Casey was found crying and tangled in thorn bushes.
Casey Hathaway spent two days lost in the woods in North Carolina. Image: Family Handout
He was rushed to hospital in a surprisingly good condition where he later told his family that it was a bear who had kept him safe for the past two days.
“He said he hung out with a bear for two days,” his relieved aunt Breanna Hathaway wrote in a Facebook post
“God sent him a friend to keep him safe. God is a good God. Miracles do happen.”
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GoFundMe page set up by the toddler’s grandmother at “the public’s request” reiterated the claim.
“This little one was lost in the woods for days in the freezing temperatures, rain, dark nights and wind,” the fundraising campaign reads.
“He told us that his best friend the bear was with him to keep him safe. Thanks to God’s mercy he came home to us alive and well.”
Apart from a few scrapes and bruises, the brave youngster is in good condition, doctors say. He keenly devoured some Cheetos and chicken nuggets while watching his favourite show, paw patrol.
“I’m just hoping there are no long term effects on him,” Ms Toler said.
“He’s a tough little fella.”
‘Not the first time it’s happened’
While the family admit that they’re not sure how accurate Casey’s version of events are, it is not the first time such a tale has made headlines.
In 1888, the New York Times reported a disappearance of a two-year-old girl, who claims that she had been found four kilometres away from in a deep valley where she had slept by a bear that kept her warm that night.
In 1955, Ida Mae Curtis, 2, went missing in Kootenai National Forrest in Montana.
After enduring two days of pouring rain, she was located. She explained, to the best of her ability, that
she had been cuddled and comforted by a bear during her time away.
Rescued 3-year-old endured heavy rain, freezing temperatures alone in the woods: 'He's a survivor' (Video)
Rescued 3-year-old endured heavy rain, freezing temperatures alone in the woods: 'He's a survivor'
A 3-year-old boy found alive two days he went missing was "meant to survive" as he endured heavy rains and cold temperatures by himself in the woods, the local sheriff said.
"What he survived out there -- temperatures in the 20s, low 20s, the rain, the downpour that almost put our search on a standstill," Craven County Sheriff Chip Hughes
told ABC New Bern affiliate WCTI Friday morning. "This kid, he’s strong. He was meant to survive. He’s a survivor.”
Casey Hathaway was found Thursday night after he went missing Tuesday in wooded Craven County, North Carolina.
Casey is in good condition and resting, Dr. Nicole Check of the CarolinaEast Medical Center said Friday morning.
After days of desperate searches for the little boy, crews on Thursday night responded to a report of a child crying in the woods and found Casey "about 40 to 50 yards in the woods, tangled up," Hughes said.
Linda Fraker, who happened to be walking her dogs in the area where Casey would eventually be found, said she thought she heard crying and flagged down a deputy involved in the search.
"I just heard a small cry," Fraker
told New Bern ABC affiliate WCTI. "It was really faint. I wasn't sure if it was a cry because they were searching for him and calling his name."
Casey was soaking wet but had his coat on, Hughes said, and "he wanted water -- and his mom." "He did say that he had a friend in the woods that was a bear," the sheriff added.
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