Ancient astronaut theorists say yes!

In this economy?

slipped into a pocket dimension.

She clearly fell into the Backrooms.

Pretty reasonable considering the news

Sounds reasonable.

Did anyone actually confirm there ever was a toddler other than her saying it on the phone? The story revolves around her and never talks about the supposed kid. It's very possible she wanted to get away for a bit and wanted it to be like a movie. A very "let's see who cares about me" thing. Also could have been a mental disorder manifesting and she imagined the child. Then after wandering into traffic the stress of being on a highway triggered her mental state worse and she ran off.

Mid to late 20s is also when some people can finally develop their mental illness and breakdown even when they didn't have mental health concerns before then.

We call that one the 'half-measure'

Disappearing for multiple days is not a symptom of panic or anxiety issues. It’s psychosis.

People with anxiety issues sometimes think they’re going psychotic. People who are actually psychotic do not.

No more TV for you. You are done! Now, go to your room.

SIL once insisted that I not toggle my headlights to warn people about a deer on the road because it indicates I'm in a gang and want to shoot some other gang. I was driving a 2003 Subaru outback.

why a bird feather?

And bipolar disorder. No matter how much I looked at that video I did not see another car or another person. Other people claimed that it was there. Clearly it was not. At least she's safe, and whatever the problem is she will now get help. Clearly she is very loved.

I kind of thought the kidnapping thing seemed far fetched. The theory I kept seeing put forward was that a ne'er-do-well stuck a toddler on the side of the road in the dark hoping that someone would spot the child, realize it was a kid and not a raccoon or something, decide to stop, and wander off the road to investigate leaving themselves vulnerable to a kidnapping attempt.

That's like, Law and Order: SVU/Batman villain levels of convoluted. In this scenario, the kidnapper has no control over who stops and who doesn't. If they don't care much about the type of person they kidnap, why not pick up a drunk person walking home from a bar? Why not snag someone on a remote hiking trail? Why use a child to lure someone to the side of the road somewhere they'll be on camera?

I'm not saying another person wasn't involved, because I wasn't there and I don't know. But the toddler-bait-kidnapping thing smells just as fishy as the "human traffickers are putting zip ties on car handles to mark targets" thing that got passed around a while ago.

I think it's because a lot of people can't entertain the idea that there can be more than one explanation for an event and if we lack full evidence, we can accept that both are plausible.

People do get kidnapped. People do have mental health episodes. Either one was plausible. But some people were betting all that is sacred on one or the other being The Truth and fought tooth and nail against people who felt otherwise when the only truth was her whereabouts were unknown and the manner of her disappearance was weird as Hell.

> I suggested this 2 days ago and got roasted for it.

We still dont know what happened. So your reddit redemption arc will have to wait.

Perhaps she hallucinated the toddler during a psychotic episode? That's a start to explaining it

Wife and I had a long time friend that out of the blue accused us of being spies for the CIA. Told us that our marriage was just a ruse to stay deep undercover and that all along we were spying on him, stealing his thoughts and code designs to be used by the government to do malicious things to him and the world.

Dude snapped right in front of all our mutual friends. And ran off. Missed a few days of work then showed up at work wearing ONLY a hospital gown and tried to sit down and work. They had to let him just to avoid any issues till medics and police showed up.

Didn't hear from or about him for a few years then suddenly dude reaches out and apparently "found god" (and meds) and was now super religious and a totally different person than I had ever known as far as personality goes.

Wild shit man!

My mother in law told me the police are tracking her phone. She knows because every time she uses her phone while she's driving, she gets pulled over.

Heck, my grandma had a psychotic break after getting a urinary tract infection in inpatient rehab after breaking her hip.

She thought every car that went by was Jon Benet’s killer (it was a news story around the time she lost her mind.) She believed any food given her was contaminated, but if you ate some and offered to share “your food” she’d take it. She accused everyone of being shapeshifters. She said her physical therapist was a “lesbian liar.” We still don’t know how that came to be because he was a straight cis man.

She’d look random strangers dead in the eye and say “I know you!” She’d reel them in and then when they asked how she knew them, she’d tell them they were a shapeshifter or Jon Benet’s killer.

She knew she’d lost it, because she’d sit and say “I must be craaaaaazy, craaazy as a June Bug!”

The doctors were so annoying because they just kept telling us that she had dementia and was never coming back.

Nah, she came back a lived with a clear mind till her mid-nineties. She couldn’t remember anything about her psychotic times, which is good for her, because she accused people of all sorts of stuff and would have been mortified to know the extent of it.

My mom used to pick me up from school in 5th grade to save me from the devil, at the time I was just happy to get the day off but now I know how messed up it was

Something I've learned is that if people think an area is easy to find someone in then they wont look very hard.

Hell, theres youtube channels of people "stealth camping". Which is camping where youre not supposed to and seeing if you get caught. I watched a guy do it in the woods right next to a police station parking lot close enough he could hear their conversations and get away with it. And its not like he just slept on the floor with no gear either

Point is if she wanted to hide, even if the woods were fairly sparse, she probably coulve.

I can’t stop this feeling, deep inside of me

Alleged toddler

Yeah I have no idea where this is heading I am so baffled by this story

Mental health break

The traffic cam footage that was released doesn't show any sign of a child on the side of the road, or any other cars reacting as if they saw it. It was a busy stretch of interstate, and while there were no streetlights, the shoulder is lit up every time a car passes.

From the point where she pulled off the road into the shoulder and put her hazards on, to the point where she finally stopped, is a fairly long walk.

There is a cut before the police arrived, but If it was only 2 minutes from the moment she stopped talking to the moment the police arrived, she would barely have had time to get back to the point where the child presumably was seen.

It also doesn't show any other vehicle stopping, and you can't see her get out of the car.

It's not a great quality video and you can't say for sure that it excludes any possibilities because it isn't continuous.

But why didn't any of the other drivers see the child? Why did she drive so far along the shoulder?

It's just a wierd scenario and doesn't seem to add up. It seems like maybe there wasn't any child and she was seeing things. The police haven't made any statements about still looking for the child.

Whatever happened, I'm glad she's safe. And personally, I hope there wasn't a toddler wandering on the interstate or being used as bait to kidnap someone, because if there were that poor child is still out there.

Hoover PD has announced they are giving her some time to rest, decompress, etc., before they gather further information for release. If this was a situation that involved a kidnapper, they would have been all over it, developing as much detail as possible to release to the public for a BOLO.

This girl, at best, experienced a mental health break and spur of the moment made decisions leading to her being MIA for two days. At worst, she has been going through *something* and her mental state prompted her to develop some plan to disappear.

I have bad OCD also. Citalopram 60mg works great for me. May I ask what you take?