{"id":22463,"date":"2024-10-07T00:12:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T00:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=22463"},"modified":"2024-10-07T00:12:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T00:12:34","slug":"the-girl-who-disappeared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=22463","title":{"rendered":"The Girl Who Disappeared."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Girl Who Disappeared, A brave search leads to rescuing a girl who disappeared on the slopes.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"521\" height=\"848\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-244.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-244.png 521w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-244-184x300.png 184w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after Christmas, when I was eleven, my family and I were near Snoqualmie Pass, about fifty miles east of Seattle. We were enjoying a day of sledding when I noticed a girl with a shiny new red circular saucer, far more advanced than my old black inner tube. As I made my way down the slope, I watched in awe as she sped down the mountain. But as the slope flattened, she kept going until she suddenly vanished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-245.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-245.png 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-245-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-245-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-245-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Panicked, I turned in every direction, searching for her, but she was nowhere to be seen. While everyone around me got up and trudged back up the hill, I was determined to find her. Despite my insistence, no one believed me. I ventured off the beaten path, sinking into the heavy, wet snow, and followed the faint tracks of the red saucer. After a grueling trek, I discovered a dark hole where the tracks ended and heard the girl\u2019s cries from below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-246.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-246.png 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-246-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-246-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-246-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Without time to go back up to my parents, I found an adult and explained the situation. He quickly rallied others, and soon a rope was lowered down to the creek fourteen feet below the snowpack. The girl was rescued, cold and wet but unharmed, and reunited with her father. Reflecting on the event, I wondered why it was so hard to get anyone to believe me and what might have happened if I had been the one with the new saucer that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=22458\" title=\"\">also read&#8230;&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Girl Who Disappeared, A brave search leads to rescuing a girl who disappeared on the slopes. 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