Like a Scene from a Movie
The entire ordeal could easily be taken from a movie. The sad reality of it, though, is that this actually happened. And with these men as living survivors, we get a rare look into what happened on that fateful day. A little after an hour of making their way through a creek, they found themselves staring at a small light in the distance. A small house on a dairy farm was the first sign of life that they came across.
Source: tennesseeconcerts.com
The farm belonged to a 22-year-old dairy farmer by the name of Johnny Mote. He was outside, bailing hay in the twilight as he heard the crash in the distance. Mote later said how he thought it was “a car skidding in the gravel.” And when he saw helicopter searchlights, he started to think it was a jailbreak instead.