Around campfires of hikers…
during quiet nights in the mountains…
there were whispers about their mysterious disappearance.
Some said they might have been attacked by animals.
Others believed they got lost and fell into a ravine.
And some believed something darker had happened.
But there was no evidence.
Until one cold morning last year…
a hunter was walking through a remote part of the forest.
He was used to the silence of the mountains.
But that day…
he noticed something strange.
A small lake with green water.
Very still.
Very clear.
But in the middle of it…
there was a dark hole beneath the water.
As if the lake was hiding something.
As he moved closer to the edge…
he noticed something beneath the water that shouldn’t have been there.
A shape.
A form…
that didn’t seem natural.
And that was when the mystery of the mother and child who vanished six years ago began to come back to life.
PART 2
The hunter approached the edge of the small lake.
The surroundings were silent.
Only the sound of wind rustling through the leaves could be heard.
As he stared more closely at the water, he began to notice the strange shape beneath it.
At first, it looked like just a rock.
But when the water shifted…
he suddenly saw the shape of a backpack.
He felt a wave of unease.
Slowly, he knelt beside the lake and tried to look deeper into the water.
That was when he saw something even more disturbing.
There was a piece of fabric caught on a branch beneath the water.
And its color…
was almost the same as the color of the backpack the young mother had carried in the photo that once spread through the news six years ago.
