Apr 15

The Forest Of Disappearing Children

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Just beyond the San Gabriel Valley lies the Angeles National Forest. A place of beauty and recreation for most Angelenos, the forest also holds its own dark secrets.
Eleven-year-old Brenda Howell, from North Carolina, was visiting her sister for the summer and had found a new friend in neighbor, thirteen-year-old Donald Baker. On August 5, 1956 the two children set off on their bikes to play in the forest before church services at 8:30 that morning. They were never seen again.

Despite the efforts of the Navy, the police department and hundreds of volunteers combing the area around the San Gabriel Reservoir below the Morris Dam, the only sign of them was Brenda’s bicycle and Donald’s jacket hidden in some brush. There was no sign of them until over two months later, in late October, when Donald’s bike appeared on the bike rack at Glendora Elementary School. One of the students admitted to finding it in the forest the day of the children’s disappearance.
They were not to be the last to vanish.

The following Spring of 1957, the Bowman family went for a hike along one of the trails near Devil’s Gate Reservoir. Eldon Bowman and his brother-in-law Gordon Wicks brought along their children, all five ranging in age from four to eight. The eldest, Tommy, ran a bit ahead at one point wanting to be the first to reach a clearing ahead. He rounded a corner, going out of the men’s eyesight. Moments later they too rounded the corner, but Tommy was not there. Not immediately concerned and assuming they would see Tommy in the clearing just ahead, the men collected all the children together and when Tommy was not among them the search began. It had only been a few minutes.
Within two hours, the area was swarming with law enforcement personnel who were rapidly joined by over four hundred volunteers. Helicopters were dispatched along with a mounted patrol and search and rescue canine unit. They searched for a week, to no avail.

Three years later, on the morning of July 13th, 1960, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kremen dropped off their six-year-old son, Bruce at the Y.M.C.A summer camp. The group of children was escorted to the forest for a hike by the camp leader. While on the hike, the camp leader saw that Bruce began to fatigue early-on and kept trailing behind. Since they had not gone far and were still within sight of their camp, the leader instructed Bruce to return to camp and rest. They retraced their steps along the well-marked trail back to the camp and when they came within a few yard of it, Bruce was sent on ahead while the leader remained on the trail, watching until Bruce was almost there. The leader turned and went back up the trail to continue on with the other children.

If Bruce made it safely into the camp, no one will ever know. Once again, the forest was swarming with search parties looking for a missing child. Again, there were no clues and no remains. He has never been found.
In the years following, the area became known as The Forest Of Disappearing Children.

 

Credit:http://creepyla.com/2011/09/22/the-forest-of-disappearing-children/

8 Responses to “The Forest Of Disappearing Children”

  1. rick b

    I FEEL SO BAD FOR THE LOSS OF THESE CHILDREN.JUST A THOUGHT,ARE THESE THINGS UNDER GROUND.LOOK AT THE DAYS OF VIETNAM, JUST THINKING YOU NEVER KNOW.!!!!!!

  2. r v

    This is my new neck of the woods. I live a few miles from Devil’s Gate and have hiked there quite a bit. The reservoir has had an addition since the time of these events – NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. There are at least two distinct BF reports from this area. As for the Glendora area, it’s right next to San Dimas (“DUDES!”), which apparently is one of the biosphere project areas that have been discussed on this site in conjunction with references to the Sam Houston National Forest region. The Angeles National Forest comprises one of Paulides’ “clusters”. If you follow the mountain chain due east you shortly reach the Fontana area, the site of the “Speedway Monster”. Lytle Creek is up in the mountains north of Fontana, and my brother and I did some prospecting, hiking/camping up the canyon there. At three in the morning we were awoken by a scream that was louder than the raging river we were camped by. We were just east of Mt. Baldy (I just mis-typed it as ‘Mt. Balsy’!) A week later there were UFO reports from our exact location that consisted of “balls of light shooting ‘beams’ down into the forest” as if searching for something. Spooky. This entire area seems to be teaming with accounts of the “vortex” variety. There’s definitely a theme to many of the events reported. I don’t know if it has anything to do with the alleged accounts of Jack Parson and Aleister Crowly supposedly “holding rituals” to open their own portal up the valley behind Devil’s Gate. It’s fascinating to be cognizant of all of this when one is exploring the area. Makes it more fun!

  3. r v

    Oh, and Rick B, sorry I hadn’t seen your post. I feel that the subterranean aspect of this entire phenomenon is at the core of ALL the disconnects BF research has generated within itself. I think it’s the missing piece of the puzzle, and accounts for the majority of unanswered, seemingly counter-intuitive reports that we have. If a sasquatch can move a boulder that we can’t, they would be able to cover up any cave openings. This would render any entrance to their underground lair (with “liquid-hot mag-ma”) invisible in plain sight. Other good cover for cave openings would be briar patches. Both of these variables (boulders, thickets/briar patches) seem to pop up in a majority of missing persons accounts.

  4. ben h

    I THINK ITS TOTALLY DISGRACEFUL THAT THE GOVERNMENT TOTALLY KNOW ABOUT ALL THIS YET REFUSE TO TELL OR DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. ONE WONDERS HOW THEY JUSTIFY IT TO THEMSELVES AND HOW THEY CAN SLEEP KNOWING THAT THEY COULD AT LEAST GIVE THESE FAMILIES AN ENDING BY TELLING THEM THE TRUTH. I’M AFRAID TO SAY I THINK THEY WERE PROBABLY EATEN, I JUST HOPE THEY WERE DEAD FIRST AS THE ALTERNATIVE IS HORRIFYING. BUT ALTERNATIVELY I DO THINK THERE COULD BE A UFO CONNECTION. YES AS WES SAID SOME OF THEM ARE APE BUT MAYBE ONE OF THE DIVERGENT SPECIES MIGHT BE CLOSER TO US THAN ADMITTED.

  5. tom b

    I have long thought that living in caves and being a nighttime creature would explain why they are so hard to find. And it only makes sense that they would seek natural shelter. There are reports of them in caves, such as the well documented case of the russian army killing a manlike creature in a cave.

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