A boy who was lost in the woods says a bear kept him company. No one can prove that it didn't happen.
We may never know what Casey Hathaway was doing during the three days he was missing.
He was found, cold but alive, in a mess of vines and thorns in Craven County, North Carolina.
But the three-year-old has volunteered one noteworthy detail about those days in the woods: a bear kept him company.
“He made a comment about having a friend while he was in the woods - his friend was a bear,” Maj. David McFadyen with the Craven County Sheriff's Office said. “In the emergency room he started talking about what happened in the woods and he said he had a friend that was a bear with him while he was in the woods.”
McFadyen said there are bears in the woods of Craven County, but there's no evidence to prove one was with Casey. All that matters, McFadyen said is that something was there to comfort him during the three days.
“We are very pleased he had that type of comfort. There were very brutal conditions out there. The first night it dropped to 20 degrees, the second night we had two inches of rain,” he said.
The boy will undergo a forensic psychological test this week, McFadyen said, but for now the authorities are giving Casey time to recover and settle in with his family.
“He has not been interviewed yet about what happened, he's a little boy,” McFadyen said. “Until we do the forensic test we won't have a definite idea yet.”
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