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Quote:Thankfully, Hathway was relatively unscathed—just some scrapes and bruises—after his time spent outdoors. That’s when he told his family about the bear. Like something out of a fairy tale, the creature looked after the boy until he was found. “He said he hung out with a bear for two days,” his aunt, Breanna Hathaway wrote in a (now private) Facebook post. “God sent him a friend to keep him safe. God is a good God. Miracles do happen.”

Though this story might sound far-fetched, there are other accounts in which bears took care of kids stranded in the wilderness. In 1888, the New York Times reported on a 2-year-old girl who was found in a valley and claimed a bear had kept her warm. In 1955, another 2-year-old named Ida Mae Curtis spent two days in the Kootenai National Forest in Montana and was “comforted by a bear” while there.

Learn more about Hathaway's story in the video below...