Cave Mountain a disappearance and a reckoning in the Ozarks

In 2001, a six-year-old girl disappeared on Cave Mountain in the Arkansas Ozarks, prompting one of the largest search-and-rescue efforts in the state's history. After she was found, her account of encountering an "imaginary friend" in the woods raised unsettling questions. More than two decades earl...

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Main Author: Hale, Benjamin (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2026]
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Sunday, April 29, 2001 -- Hale Holler -- Cave Mountain -- Dug Hollow -- The Buffalo National River wilderness -- The third step to joyful living -- The tribulation -- The child is not alive -- Anathema -- Nothing to forgive -- F.O.U. -- You have almost persuaded me -- Trust and obey -- Christ of the Ozarks -- Acknowledgments. 
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