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January 28, 2019 16:12
Missing Toddler Found After Hanging out with Bear for 2 Days

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In a much seemed to be miracle incident, the 3-year-old boy in North Carolina finally returned after he went missing in the woods for two days.

According to media reports, the toddler was seemingly hanging out with a bear in those days for companionship while hundreds of people searched for the toddler in freezing and rainy weather.

His aunt identified as Breanna Hathaway shared the revelation on a Facebook post, which has now been deleted. 

The 3-year-old Casey Hathaway went missing on January 22 while he was playing outside his great-grandmother’s house with two other children.

According to a local news channel WITN report, the child all of a sudden wandered off into the woods. Officials were informed immediately. Hundreds of people, choppers and search dogs looked more than 1,000 acres for the toddler but could not find him. The next few days experienced freezing temperatures and heavy rain. After the unsuccessful attempt, Lisa Fraker, who joined the search party came back home on January 24.

The moment Lisa stepped outside her home to take her dogs for a walk, she heard what she thought that someone was crying. She put her dogs back in her house and ran to ask an emergency responder to come along with her and hear to the sound. “Next thing I know, [the emergency responder] was coming back and telling me that yes, he heard something too. And the next thing I know, everybody was running up there and I heard he was found,” Lisa told WITN.

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Captain Shane Grier found the 3-year-old in a thorn bush. The toddler appeared to be very well, but he was freezing. The officers immediately started warming him up.

“The more we warmed him up, it seemed the better he got,” Grier further said.

Hathaway’s aunt Breanna on a Facebook post wrote that her nephew seems to be fine and that a bear took care of him in the woods. The now-deleted Facebook post read, “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.” She even mentioned that the toddler’s best-loved cartoon is Masha and the Bear.

-Sowmya Sangam

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