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 | U.S. Geological Map of the Black Hills Forest: true North
is toward the top of the map. The expert who prepared this report for Buck Buchanan requested anonymity: the hand-drawn map referred to has since been lost.
It's pretty easy to map the locations in the footage to a standard U.S. Geologic Map. I've included a copy of the one that's the most relevant: for the most part, the kids are wandering around in the upper left-hand quadrant of the map. If you look at the hand-drawn "zoomed-in" version I've provided, you can see how the kids got so lost, so quickly. The old trails in there loop around on each other, and the terrain around the hills I've marked "A" and "B" is identical. That's also why they kept going in circles, too. But there's something strange about the last few minutes of the film-- where the two kids go to the house. Take a look at that part of the footage yourself. You can see they're going up a fairly steep hill. Close to a 45 degree angle, up at least two hundred feet, altogether. Problem is, there is no hill like that in the Black Hills area. Nothing with a deviation from ground level of that significance, anyway. I suppose they could have hiked out of that part of the forest, that we could be seeing them in a different area of the woods. From what you told me, we don't know how much time elapsed between different segments of the footage. It's always possible that the Federal maps of the area are wrong, too. Setting aside those last five minutes or so, the kids are clearly in the Black Hills. It's hard to believe that none of the search parties were able to find any trace of them. |
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