Weeks After Girl Vanishes Dad Finds Bag In Yard

<p>Weeks after girl vanishes dad finds bag in yard&period; They had a huge tree at the end of the garden that rose high out of the ground but they had no idea that their neighbors took note of the tree&period; They looked everywhere for their daughter every day until weeks had passed&period; Then one day&comma; a trash bag arrived in their yard&period; Peter Hoin appreciated the life he lived&period; He had a wonderful life and a happy daughter&comma; and both his health and work life couldn&rsquo&semi;t have been better&period; But just as all things have to come to an end at some point&comma; his seemingly perfect life would take a turn for the worse&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Their new house also seemed perfect except for one tree&period; There was a huge tree at the end of the yard that blocked out all their sun&period; Peter and his wife didn&rsquo&semi;t care for it very much&period; A lot of people might have liked it&comma; but not them&period; But once he cut the tree down&comma; he would soon regret it&period; Peter&rsquo&semi;s daughter asked him to leave the stump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She loved nature and didn&rsquo&semi;t want the entire tree cut down&period; But others felt the same way&period; It was just like any other Saturday morning until Peter and his wife found out their daughter was missing&period; They entered the young girl&rsquo&semi;s room in the morning to find it empty&period; Hysteria and panic swallowed the loving parents whole&period; It was the beginning of the most terrifying journey of their lives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Peter and his family had only just moved into the neighborhood so they didn&rsquo&semi;t know many people&period; They assumed their daughter couldn&rsquo&semi;t have made any friends so soon&period; They had to call 9-1-1 to report their daughter missing&period; It had been a few days and she wasn&rsquo&semi;t anywhere to be seen&period; But then a strange thing happened&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They heard a strange noise one night&comma; but they brushed it off as just the rustle of the leaves in the wind&period; But they noticed that their food started disappearing&period; They thought that maybe a pest problem was going on&period; It was already hard enough&semi; it couldn&rsquo&semi;t have happened at a worse time&period; They knew that they had to set up mousetraps to deal with a problem while they tried to deal with a much greater problem at hand&period; They needed to try and find their daughter&period; Even after the cops gave up searching&comma; they knew it would be hard&period; What they had to do next would cost them a lot of their own money&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>All her favorite dolls were missing&period; Peter and his wife could have sworn that they were still there only two days ago&period; They looked frantically all over her room searching for the dolls they knew they&rsquo&semi;d seen&period; They looked at each other hopelessly confused&period; The dolls were gone&period; Was it the mice&quest; Were they stealing her toys&quest; Peter grabbed another mousetrap and set up three in a room&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Then something even stranger came into view&period; Just as Peter was placing the traps around her room&comma; he noticed something odd in the distance from her window&period; Her window pointed out towards the end of their garden which was covered in trees&period; A plastic bag was poking out from between the shrubs&period; It was in the area that he&rsquo&semi;d cut down the huge tree&period; Curious&comma; Peter dropped what he was doing and walked out to investigate&period; What he&rsquo&semi;d find would leave him trembling&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He wondered if the blank trash bag had somehow blown free from the pile around the corner&period; But when he got close&comma; he realized that wasn&rsquo&semi;t the case at all&period; The black plastic bag was sitting on top of a big tree stump&period; It sat perfectly still and wrapped all the way around it&period; Someone had definitely put this here&period; Without another thought&comma; he reached out his hand and grabbed it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Peter lifted the bag to find a tiny roof with wooden shingles atop the tree stump&period; Then he looked closer and realized something incredible&period; The big tree stump had been completely remodeled&period; It had a wooden door and windows&period; It even had a small garden with flowers and decorations carved into the walls&period; But what was more shocking was what lay inside&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Peter lifted open the tiny door and fell back in shock as the view of his missing girl came into focus&period; She sat in the tiny house playing with her dolls that went missing two days ago&period; Peter looked around and saw mini chair&comma; rug&comma; table&comma; and lamp&period; The miniature house was entirely kitted out&period; He grabbed his little girl and gave her a huge hug as tears fell down his cheek&period; It&rsquo&semi;d have been two weeks since he last saw her&period; What happened&quest; Just as Peter sat her down&comma; a woman appeared from behind the bushes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>« Ah&comma; you&rsquo&semi;re here&period; We meet at last&period; I&rsquo&semi;m sure your daughter&rsquo&semi;s told you all about me&comma; » the woman said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Confused&comma; Peter looked at his daughter&comma; then back to her&period; « No&comma; what&rsquo&semi;s going on here&quest; » he demanded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The woman was surprised to hear Peter&rsquo&semi;s brash reaction&period; She explained that she was a neighbor and that she and his daughter had been undertaking this project to turn their tree stump into a little gnome home&period; The plastic bag was to keep the new roof dry&period; She explained to him that his daughter said she asked you and her mom&comma; and you both said it was fine&period; We&rsquo&semi;ve been out here building this thing for two weeks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>« But how did she not know she was reported missing&quest; » Peter asked&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She had no idea the girl they were talking about was his daughter&period; In fact&comma; as far as she knew&comma; she wasn&rsquo&semi;t missing at all&period; She thought she was still going home after they played together and she was to Peter&rsquo&semi;s shop&period; Peter later found out that his daughter used a cat flap in the door to come in and out of the house to eat and sleep&comma; moving around as quiet as a mouse&period; She wanted to live in the new tiny home and didn&rsquo&semi;t tell her parents anything&period; No wonder there were strange noises and new food and toys going missing every day&period; It wasn&rsquo&semi;t a mouse&semi; it was his daughter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Peter expressed his thanks to the woman and told his little girl never to do that again&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;