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Speaker 1: Welcome to Missing Persons case files. A place where they're gone?

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Are not the forgotten? What's happening in the forest of

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North America? How are so many people disappearing only to

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have the remains found much later, or, in many cases

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not at all. Are the predators to blame, giant hair

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covered beasts or even more terrifying us as humans? Maybe

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it's both, Maybe it's neither. These are just a few

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of the questions we'll look to uncover here on the

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Missing Persons case Files.

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Speaker 2: Keith Parkins, a two year old boy from Rare, Oregon,

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went missing in the afternoon hours on April tenth of

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nineteen fifty two. The family was visiting the grandparents as

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the new calf had been born, and Keith and his

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brothers wanted to see it. They were at the barn

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his brothers, Michael was five and Terry was six. They

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were all playing and looking at the calf when their

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mom came out and caught him for lunch. His two

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brothers ran ahead of him, and their mom noticed that

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Keith wasn't with them. They went back to look and

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Keith was nowhere to be found, and the brothers said

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that he went out the barn door and around the

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long side of the barn. So they went and looked

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around there, but he wasn't anywhere. So then the search

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began looking for little Keith Parkins. One hundred and fifty

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people all lined up with distance between them, but still

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to where they could hear each other speak. That evening.

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Now you gotta think when the mom called the boys

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in for lunch it was noon, so that evening, about

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three miles from the barn, they found a few of

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his footprints in with some other cows before they disappeared.

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The search continued throughout the night. Now listen to this,

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this is crazy. There are so many things about this

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case that will make you scratch your head because you

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have to keep in mind the topography in the nineteen fifties.

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This area is going to be completely different today as

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it was in the fifties. It's not going to be

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the same at all. So the searchers crossed at least

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one icy creek. They had to go through barbuar fences

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and like two mountain ranges. Okay, how can a two

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year old go over in icy creek through barguar fences

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and like two mountain ranges? And this point, it would

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have been dark. Even with the full moon, there wouldn't

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have been enough light for this little boy to see.

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They found him nineteen hours later, around seven in the morning,

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and it stated that he went nine miles as the

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crow flots, well nine miles as the crowth lites is

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a straight line. You're not going to go in a

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straight line from the barn that he left from to

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where he was found, and all actuality, it is twelve

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miles from his grandsparents' house. So when he was located,

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he was face down. He had his coat and his

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hat laying beside him. So it was another searcher who

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had found him and called the dad over, and the

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dad came running and snatched him up, as any parent would,

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thankful to see them, but he really thought that he

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had passed away by this time because his body was stiff,

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he was cold, he had his eyes closed.

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Speaker 3: But then he.

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Speaker 2: Found out that little Keith Parkins, at two years old,

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had made this massive journey and he was still alive,

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so he rushed him back. The state police officer met

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them with a private plane. They took him to the

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hospital and after being there for a few hours, he

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did regain consciousness and the only injury that this little

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boy had. I mean, this could have been this could

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have ended tragically because it's subfreezing temperatures at this point.

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April tenth is right around Easter, so it's still cold.

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There's still snow on the ground where they were. It

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could have ended tragically. But the only injuries that this

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little boy sustained were scratches on his face. His clothes

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were torn and ripped, no doubt from the barbar fences

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that he had to climb through. This is a resilient

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little boy. So when they asked him what happened, his

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only the only thing he could say was or remember

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was that a cat scratched him. He didn't remember anything

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that happened. And in doing the research in this case,

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I'd actually run across a podcast, well, there were several

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podcasts that had done this case, but this this one

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in particular, had said that an interview was done with

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him when he was in his sixties, and I wish

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I could find it. He had his clothes that he

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had on that day and it was a light jacket

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with a hat that had the little ear muffs that

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were attached to the hat that just came over your ears,

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and that's really the only thing he had on to

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keep him warm. I mean, it wasn't anything substantial to

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keep him alive in subfreezing temperatures. But he couldn't remember

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even to the time that they did that interview what happened.

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He had no recollection of any of it. So when

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you look at all the pieces of this case, he

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goes missing in the afternoon, he has treked this long way,

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then it's nighttime and it gets colder and colder. I

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mean no doubt he could have, you know, started suffering

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symptoms of exposure. You know, when you're hypothermic, you start

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to take off your clothes because you feel like you're

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too hot. Was that the case. I'm not one hundred

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percent sure. I'm not too naive to jump on the

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big foot bandwagon at this point in the case, because

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when I was looking over it, there's different things that

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could have happened. We can't automatically assume that a bigfoot

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had taken him off. For many reasons. There were no

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footprints outside of his found three miles from the barn,

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but after that it was nothing. There were no footprints.

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There were no animal tracks either, so I looked into

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a couple of the theories, thinking it was one of

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the deputies who had said that a bird had to

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have carried him. Comical, Yes, it's comical, but is it plausible?

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It absolutely is. So I started looking into birds that

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would be in that area of rit Or, Oregon in

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the nineteen fifties. There were several, but only one made

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sense and out of course, or says the bad eagle.

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But still, I mean picking a child up and carrying

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them for that length would be pretty hard on the

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bird that I would think. Now, in the nineteen fifties,

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the population of bod eagles were incredibly low. So in

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the eighteen hundreds there were an estimated four hundred thousand, okay,

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but by the nineteen fifties there were less than five

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hundred pairs of eagles, So seeing one would be on

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the rare side. Plus they have you know, they're dealing

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with habitat loss, they're dealing with you know, encroachment, chemicals.

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There's just so many things that factor into the eagle

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population being low and why it would be considered rare

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to see one at that point in the nineteen fifties.

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So then with Keith having made mention that a cat

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scratched him. It was not indicated what kind of cat.

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of this case. But I did go ahead and look

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Speaker 4: What cats, large cats, wildcats were in Ritter organ in

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the nineteen fifties, and I came across, of course, the cougar, bobcats.

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Speaker 2: And then the lynx. Now the lynx that I found

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in that case, they weren't really they were in Oregon,

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but not in that specific area, so I canceled those

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out right away. So you have the bobcat, which is

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twice the size of a domesticated cat, but in the

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eyes of a two year old, it would just be

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a really big cat, really big house cat, is how

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned for more paranormal odyssey.

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Speaker 2: The cougar. Would a cougar really pick up a child

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and carry it? Of course, you know you have to

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factor that in. A cat will pick them up and

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carry them off Somewhere. It was theorized that maybe the

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cat had picked up the boy and was carrying it

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off to its den to eat. Trying to cut down

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on the graphic here and the searchers kept pushing the

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cat and pushing the cat and pushing the cat, and

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so he finally let the boy go, and the boy

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went on about his way, lost, dark, scared, no doubt, hungry,

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freezing cold. You do have to factor in the large

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cat here, but again it stops you because there were

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no animal tracks. It is almost like this little boy

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made it three miles from the barn where he went missing,

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and then all of a sudden he was transported to

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where he was found. Because they didn't find any other

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prints from what I found in my research, Less Stroud

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actually tried to reenact to this whole trek that Keith

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would have had to have taken. And you guys know

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less Stroud, I mean, he's the survivor man, you know,

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out in the woods all the time. He does this

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for a living. This is I mean, he teaches people this.

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So he takes the same trick that Keith would have

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had to have taken. And he struggled doing this. He said,

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look it up online, it's like a minute forty five

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seconds of him talking about this case. And he said,

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there is no way that a two year old would

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be able to do this trek alone in the snow

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at night with no light because he was doing this

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trek on just normal ground. I mean there was no

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snow and at night he had a full moon, but

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he didn't have enough light to actually be able to see.

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So I don't know, I don't know where I am

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as far as this case goes, simply because there were

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no track there were no tracks found. I don't really

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want to get on a big foot bandwagon, but in

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this case, you have to factor everything in. Everything has

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to be looked at, every you know, stone has to

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be turned over. And the fact that even to this

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day or when that interview took place, when he was

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in his sixties, and he still had no idea what happened.

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like I have a two and a half year old grandson,

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if something happened to him the day before and I

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asked him about it the day after, he would pretty much,

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you know, well not even the whole day. It was

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nineteen hours. He would be able to say, you know, Nana,

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this happened or whatever. But this little boy had no

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recollection whatsoever at all. The only thing that he said,

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is a cat scratched him? Now, like I said, the

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scratches on his face and his clothes being torn, I mean,

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I'm thinking barguar friends there. But if he did happen

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to have a run in with a cat, it could

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equate too, scratches on his face and his clothes being torn.

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But he has no recollection whatsoever, even to this day.

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Now this was seventy two years ago, so it will

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forever remain a mystery as to what really happened and

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what led him to go into the woods in the

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first place. And that's when I wrote down, you know,

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wind to go. What if he was by the barn

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his brothers had went on. You know, he's by himself

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at the barn and he hears somebody who sounds familiar

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in the woodline. Is it something as complex as something

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being in the woods in rit Oregon like a windigo

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mimicking the voice of someone familiar to him, maybe his mom.

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Maybe he got he just went out, and he got

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turned around and thought he was going the right way,

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and he had no one to guide him. There's so

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many what ifs in this case, and again without knowing

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exactly what happened to him and him not remembering what

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happened to him. I mean, it was an absolute miracle

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straight from the hand of God that this little two

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year old boy did not pass away that day from

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hypothermia and the elements of the land. And it is

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really really fascinating case for a little boy to make

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it twelve miles over frozen ponds and two mountain ranges

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and crawling through barbara of fences. I mean, that is

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a tough kid. If this is you know, truly what happened,

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and he had no one with him, he wasn't abducted,

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I really don't know where to go with it. I

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would really love to hear your opinions on this case,

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if you would like to leave them in the comments below.

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I would be fascinated to see what others opinions on

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this case are so at that we're gonna cut this

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off and absolutely leave me what it is that you

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think happened, or if you're familiar with this case and

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no more than I do about it, please please let

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me know, because I am this was really intriguing for

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me to research, and I did a lot of research

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on this case, and I just I'm at a loss

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as to what happened because of the lack of footprints.

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It really is like he just walked from that callen

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closure three miles away and went through a portal and

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ended up where he was found. I mean, I have nothing,

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so please let me know your thoughts on this. I

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would love, love love to hear them, and until the

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next one, we will talk to you later.

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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, thanks so very much for checking out this

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episode of Paranormal Odyssey. Love you guys so much all

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the continued support. I want to ask everyone please take

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just a second go brate and review the show wherever

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it is you get your podcasts. I also like to

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remind everyone about Paranormal Odyssey Live, which can be found

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every Tuesday evening eight pm over on YouTube, as well

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as every other Saturday Tiffany and I do and after

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our show at ten pm over on YouTube. Guys, please

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if you would please head over and check out our website,

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Aaronormal World Productions dot com. We'll see you next time. Guys.

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