A Minnesota woman was found alive three days after she was reported missing, stuck on her back in a puddle of mud.
Kathryn Woessner, 68, was discovered by two ATV riders who spotted the woman’s van, then saw her lying on the ground next to it.
“All you could see was just the round part of her face, like her mouth, her lips. You couldn’t even see her ears. It was all submerged,” Adam Sandbeck, one of the men who found her, told local news station KARE 11.
Sandbeck and his friend, Mike Gravalin, routinely ride their ATVs on trails east of Park Rapids, Minnesota. But on June 6, they just happened to try out a different route, they told the Alexandria Echo Press.
“We changed everything, for some reason. It had to be God. It had to be, plain and simple,” Sandbeck told the newspaper.
When the men first got to the scene, they feared they had come across a dead body.
“Then she whispered, ‘Help me,’ and it scared the crap out of me,” Sandbeck told KARE 11.
He said the woman told them she had fallen into the puddle and that it was “like quicksand, and she couldn’t get out.”
Woessner was transported to a hospital after the ordeal, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook.