Cindy and Mike search

June 3, 2006 - Cindy wrote the following, for the record:  Mike and Cindy head out for another search, but this time they plan to search in the area that the Ouija Board told them to look! They parked the truck and decided to enter the same area that Helen and Cindy saw the sparrow two days before.

Lathered up with fly oil and dressed from head to toe with protective gear, they saw three searchers headed toward them waving their arms to motion them to come towards them [and out of the woods].   Mike and Cindy automatically thought - what did they find? The men told them that they didn't need to go in the woods and that they were satisfied with what they had found.Cindy said that they still wanted to go in - the more they found, the better. The searchers said "No - nothing else can help us".

Mike asked, "what did you find?"   All three men hesitated to answer, "We want to know", Cindy said.  "A skull", they replied.   "Oh my god!  How will we tell Mum and Dad" Mike said. The searchers said there was enough [bone] there to get dental records. Mike seemed relieved.

The searchers asked if Mike and Cindy wanted to tell their parents or if they wanted someone else to do it. Mike and Cindy agreed that they would go home and get Art and go tell Jim and Helen. First they went to the wharf and told Art. He had an awful look of shock on his face.  Then they went to the house to tell Jim and Helen, but Jim had just left to go up to start searching. They told Helen and she seemed shocked, but relieved. Art and Mike then headed up to find Jim.