3 Year-Old Boy Survives 3 Cold Days in Woods, Claims a Bear Stayed by Him

Why not? And his guardian angel.

CNN, Amir Vera and Samira Said: We may never know what Casey Hathaway was doing during the three days he was missing.

He was found on Thursday, cold but alive, in a mess of vines and thorns in Craven County, North Carolina.

But the 3-year-old has volunteered one noteworthy detail about those days in the woods: a bear kept him company. Report is here.