It was a cold snowy day when 8 yr old Cherrie A. Mahan
got off her school bus on Corn Planter Road in rural Winfield Twp after a long day at school and vanished into thin air never to be seen again despite a massive manhunt by the entire community for her.
There has been no trace or contact its like she was just sucked into a vortex
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19850223&id=jKccAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GGIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4863,3874822
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19851204&id=Fd4cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CGMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6405,4582685
The only possible clue to her disappearance a van with a skiing scene on it kids report was in the area
Unfortunately there was a van like this driving around a woman owned which had nothing to do with the case which caused even more confusion
One weird twist to this whole case is the name of the road she disappeared on
Cornplanter Road .
It might mean a farmer planting corn which there is plenty of in Butler County .
But there is also a legend and curse that goes with this name the name of a great Seneca Indian Chief Corn Planter whose grave was disturbed when the Allegheny was flooded to make the Kinsua Dam and is said to have put a curse upon the land.
http://www.examiner.com/article/kinzua-dam-a-paranormal-hotbed
The Allegheny River passes right thru Butler County .
Coincidence?
got off her school bus on Corn Planter Road in rural Winfield Twp after a long day at school and vanished into thin air never to be seen again despite a massive manhunt by the entire community for her.
There has been no trace or contact its like she was just sucked into a vortex
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19850223&id=jKccAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GGIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4863,3874822
The only possible clue to her disappearance a van with a skiing scene on it kids report was in the area
Unfortunately there was a van like this driving around a woman owned which had nothing to do with the case which caused even more confusion
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Still a very rural area of butler county despite development |
Cornplanter Road .
It might mean a farmer planting corn which there is plenty of in Butler County .
But there is also a legend and curse that goes with this name the name of a great Seneca Indian Chief Corn Planter whose grave was disturbed when the Allegheny was flooded to make the Kinsua Dam and is said to have put a curse upon the land.
http://www.examiner.com/article/kinzua-dam-a-paranormal-hotbed
The Allegheny River passes right thru Butler County .
Coincidence?