A Minnesota woman who was reported missing was found alive three days later, stuck on her back in a puddle of mud.
The Discovery
Kathryn Woessner, 68, was discovered by two ATV riders who first spotted her van and then saw her lying on the ground beside it. Adam Sandbeck, one of the men who found her, told local news station KARE 11, “All you could see was just the round part of her face, like her mouth, her lips. You couldn’t even see her ears. It was all submerged.”
A Change of Route
Sandbeck and his friend Mike Gravalin regularly ride their ATVs on trails east of Park Rapids, Minnesota. However, on June 6, they decided to try a different route. “We changed everything, for some reason. It had to be God. It had to be, plain and simple,” Sandbeck told the Alexandria Echo Press.
A Frightening Moment
When the men first arrived at the scene, they feared they had come across a dead body. “Then she whispered, ‘Help me,’ and it scared the crap out of me,” Sandbeck told KARE 11. He said the woman told them she had fallen into the puddle and that it was “like quicksand, and she couldn’t get out.”
Aftermath
Woessner was transported to a hospital after the ordeal, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook.
