Kerry: There is a lot of sinkholes in these woods that's why a lot of guys come up here
hunting they have to watch where they are walking because you put your leg down in one
of them, you know?
I have often hunted up here on the other side.
Me: I heard there were like sinkholes that just opened up and somebody almost fell in..
Kerry: Well, that was over here by the cemetery.
Where that big cemetery is?
You know where the sidewalk is?
If you walk and if you go over there.If you walk down this way, you can see a wooden fence
there.
There was a house there.There was a family lived there.
The mother was in the kitchen she was washing dishes, she was making supper.
She can see her little boy playing out in the yard, he was like 6 or 7 years old.
Just down the yard she could see him playing.
She went into the other room for something and came back out, and she didn't see him
and it wasn't like him to leave that area.
She would always tell him, "stay where I can see you from the kitchen" and he would say
"Okay".
So she comes back out and he wasn't there.
So she went outside she was calling.
No answer.
So she walked out to the yard and she was hollering, wasn't getting an answer and she
started getting scared and she walks a little bit farther and she hears "MOMMY..MOMMY".
She says "Just keep hollering honey because I can't see you, I don't know where you are".
She walked like from here to that road down there.
There was a hole like that and he went down inside of it.
The good thing when he went down, he had his arms like this which wedged him.
Then, he was even a hundred feet down.
That's how wide the hole was and as it went down it got thinner and that's what stopped
him.
But underneath him, when they got there, they can see the smoke coming up and you can even
see the flames.
Me: Wow
Kerry: It took him 2 days to get him out of there.
Because they didn't wanna chance going right down where he would get scared and drop his
arms and then go right down into the fire.
So what they had to do, they had to drill a big hole next to it, and tunnel over underneath
him and take him up that way.
Me: That's pretty crazy.
He was alive, huh?
Kerry: Oh yeah.
He was just a little boy and they moved out.
I don't know where they moved to, they got out of this area, I know that.
There is a lot of sinkholes up here.
You have to watch where you are walking, you don't know what is there.
Like, it can look good and you walk on them and just drop.
I tell everybody "If you are gonna walk in the woods, better watch where you are walking.
Take a walking stick and poke in front of you before you walk.
At some spots you will lose your stick.