10-08-2007, 12:17 AM
By BROOKES MERRITT -- Sun Media
A vivid dream led a Gift Lake woman to the High Prairie bush where she says she found a family friend who'd been missing for nearly a month.
Jamie Lynn Cunningham, 29, said she studied a sweater, missing poster and treaty card of Micheal Nahachick, 45, before going to bed Wednesday, dreamed he fell off a bridge in High Prairie, and found him in that exact place the following day.
Nahachick went missing Sept. 6 after being released from the High Prairie RCMP detachment at 3 a.m.
RCMP spokesman Cpl. Wayne Oakes said Nahachick was arrested Sept. 5 and charged with breaking and entering.
Oakes said Nahachick was also inebriated but had sobered up when he was released from the police station at 3 a.m. "after being held for 12 hours, which was an appropriate amount of time for him to (get sober). Holding him for any longer would not have been appropriate."
Oakes says High Prairie Mounties found him, but Cunningham insists they didn't arrive until an ambulance was called.
Nahachick was reported missing after failing to return to his mother's home in Gift Lake, which is about 40 km northeast of High Prairie.
"His mother was worrying more and more every day. I've had vivid dreams before and thought I'd give this a shot. I asked my auntie to bring me some of his things and I dreamed about him," said Cunningham.
The next day she and a group of others travelled to the High Prairie bridge from which she'd dreamed Nahachick had fallen.
"I've never had a dream like that. Sure enough he was lying down there on his stomach, covered in bedding. He couldn't walk or speak. I'm not sure if he fell like in my dream, but he was in the same place I saw him fall down to."
Nahachick was immediately taken to hospital and treated for dehydration and frostbite to his feet.
Cunningham said he was not lucid and had a hard time speaking. She said he survived on rosehips and water.
Oakes said High Prairie officers knew Nahachick to be transient and thought he may have travelled to Edmonton to visit a brother.
Now they think he'd been staying under the bridge in secrecy all along, ever since he was discharged from police custody. Oakes said RCMP had been actively searching for Nahachick.
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A vivid dream led a Gift Lake woman to the High Prairie bush where she says she found a family friend who'd been missing for nearly a month.
Jamie Lynn Cunningham, 29, said she studied a sweater, missing poster and treaty card of Micheal Nahachick, 45, before going to bed Wednesday, dreamed he fell off a bridge in High Prairie, and found him in that exact place the following day.
Nahachick went missing Sept. 6 after being released from the High Prairie RCMP detachment at 3 a.m.
RCMP spokesman Cpl. Wayne Oakes said Nahachick was arrested Sept. 5 and charged with breaking and entering.
Oakes said Nahachick was also inebriated but had sobered up when he was released from the police station at 3 a.m. "after being held for 12 hours, which was an appropriate amount of time for him to (get sober). Holding him for any longer would not have been appropriate."
Oakes says High Prairie Mounties found him, but Cunningham insists they didn't arrive until an ambulance was called.
Nahachick was reported missing after failing to return to his mother's home in Gift Lake, which is about 40 km northeast of High Prairie.
"His mother was worrying more and more every day. I've had vivid dreams before and thought I'd give this a shot. I asked my auntie to bring me some of his things and I dreamed about him," said Cunningham.
The next day she and a group of others travelled to the High Prairie bridge from which she'd dreamed Nahachick had fallen.
"I've never had a dream like that. Sure enough he was lying down there on his stomach, covered in bedding. He couldn't walk or speak. I'm not sure if he fell like in my dream, but he was in the same place I saw him fall down to."
Nahachick was immediately taken to hospital and treated for dehydration and frostbite to his feet.
Cunningham said he was not lucid and had a hard time speaking. She said he survived on rosehips and water.
Oakes said High Prairie officers knew Nahachick to be transient and thought he may have travelled to Edmonton to visit a brother.
Now they think he'd been staying under the bridge in secrecy all along, ever since he was discharged from police custody. Oakes said RCMP had been actively searching for Nahachick.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/20...57716.html