Don’t Go Into the Woods
My six-year-old brother and three-year-old sister were playing hide and seek in my grandparents’ backyard. Well, there are woods behind their house. Our sister, being a defiant toddler, ran into the woods and my brother ran in after her. That’s when things went wrong.
They were in the woods for hours because she ran in so deep and they both got turned around. Our brother found a hunting post, climbed up it into the tree, and found a way out. They then knocked on doors until someone answered.
A woman gave them a ride back because our brother was able to point out landmarks to get back to our grandmother’s house. They got back while my mother was on the phone with an officer, and they were discussing a helicopter to find them. We were this close to a search party. EveryDisaster