Bigfoot Saves Lost Toddler

A three-year-old North Carolina boy who went missing several days told his family that he “hung out with a bear for two days.”

Casey Lynn Hathaway, 3, disappeared on January 22, 2019 from his grandmother’s backyard while playing with other children, the Craven County Sheriff’s Office said.

The FBI, state investigators, and the U.S. Marine Corps from nearby bases at Camp Lejeune and Cherry Point joined the effort to find the boy. On January 25, Hathaway was found. He was located by professional search and rescue teams, the FBI said. “Casey is healthy, smiling and talking,” Breanna Hathaway wrote. “He said he hung out with a bear for two days. God sent him a friend to keep him safe. God is a good God. Miracles do happen.”

Craven County Sheriff Chip Hughes told reporters on Thursday that authorities were able to find the boy after hearing someone call out for their mother. They then found the boy stuck in “a tangle of vines and thorns” about a half mile from the place where he disappeared. The boy was discovered “wet, cold and scratched up” but he could talk.

Hundreds of volunteers joined law enforcement agencies to search “treacherous” terrain that is flooded and dotted with sinkholes, the sheriff’s office said on Facebook. “Even the trained searchers are having trouble navigating safely,” said the post. Helicopters and drones were used in the search but could not find the boy.

It was not immediately clear where Casey was during those two days and what enabled him to stay safe. Cryptozoologists around the country are speculating that it was actually a bigfoot and not a bear that took care of the child. (The Charlotte Observer, 25 Jan 2019)