Mary Snipe's Disappearance

In 1967 police were called to investigate the missing child report of Edward and Mary Snipe’s son, William. After a long day of work Mary came home anticipating to ask her son about his day at school, but she came home to find an empty home. She became frantic just thinking about the boy being lost in the woods because he was a skittish child. Mary called her husband’s work to inform him of their missing son, but was informed he had already left for the day so she anxiously waited upon his arrival home. Three hours have passed and she has not seen or heard from her husband nor son. Around midnight that night Edward came home covered in mud. Mary informed him of how their son was missing, and his first instinct was to contact the

The investigators questioned the parents of their whereabouts that day and what time they had realized the boy was missing. After hours of searching the Snipe family’s home and land they could not find any clues leading to William’s disappearance. The police warned the surrounding area of William Snipe’s disappearance and had a foot search with dogs in hopes of finding the boy. All of their efforts of finding the boy failed. Mary was determined to find her son and would not rest until she did. One day her husband was out of town on a fishing trip so she had to tend to the family’s pig pin, and they had a big, mean pig named Sooie. She found the pig lying in its filth, but she noticed something strange, it looked like bones in the mud. She was not very alarmed by it considering the rural area, she thought it could have been just an animal. Her husband came home the following day and she informed him of what she had found and he became livid. Edward threatened Mary’s life if she was to tell anyone what she had found and she did not understand why. The next day while her husband was at work she went out to the pig pins and realized the bones were not an animal, they were a humans. Frantically she called the police and they came to investigate the scene. Her husband was taken into custody that evening, and was

One night around midnight we went to the road and it is said if one parks their vehicle in front of the gate, rolls down one window, and yells “Soooooieee, Sooooiee” that the pig will come. We did everything they said and nothing happened so I thought it was all just a lie, until I went the second time. I was with a different group of people and they said, “I heard you have to yell Sooie as you walk up to the gate or nothing will happen.” Of course we were bored and wanted to see something happen so three of us got out of the truck, walked to the gate, and yelled “Soooieee!” No one believes us, but the six of us that were there that night saw something. It looked almost like a pig with very distinct human demeanors. I had never ran so fast in my life until that day, and many think we are lying or just crazy, but I truly believe what we saw was real. The next day I woke up and asked my friend if I had dreamed all of it or if it really had happened. To many the entire legend of Old Snipes Road is nothing more than a story that has been added to and twisted over the years, but I see it differently. The whole experience that night on Old Snipes Road was stranger than fiction. I can not force someone to believe our experience on Old Snipes, but if anyone saw what my friends and I saw they would believe. The legend may or not be completely true,but I feel almost