Missing toddler survives three days in Texas wilderness

For three days, two-year-old Kevin Brown’s chubby bare feet took him through acres of rugged North Texas US pastures of grass taller than his head and around several ponds where bobcats and coyotes roam.

He probably slept and hid under thick bushes in some woods, frightened from a brief thunderstorm and the noise of rescue helicopters and searchers on foot, horseback and all-terrain vehicles.

When a helicopter pilot spotted Kevin on Sunday night, he was nearly a mile from his home in Alvarado.

Kevin was lying on his stomach at the edge of a pond as if he had been drinking, and the co-pilot jumped out, scooped him up and flew him to a hospital.

“This little fellow was gone 69 hours and 16 minutes. There’s no way he should have been alive,” said Johnson County Sheriff Bob Alford.

“I don’t know if you believe in God, but this is truly a miracle that this boy is alive.”

The toddler was treated for sunburn, dehydration, minor cuts and insect bites.