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Terms apply.

Terms apply. It was late in the night when David Smith became separated from his friend Heath Bullard. They'd been running frantically in blind panic in the dark, and when they reached a creek,

Heath couldn't go any further, he couldn't swim.

And maybe David didn't notice, but David plunged headlong into the water, and their separation

for a descent into surreal horror began.

It was August 9, 1994, be some days before Heath and David would be reunited, but the space in

between would see them changed beyond all recognition from their former selves.

It had all begun when David Smith, age 25, and Heath Bullard 23, had set out on August

8, 1994, in a loaded pickup truck from their homes in Carbon County,

Pennsylvania, on a road trip. They were bound for a Native American reservation in Arizona.

David was a painter and Heath was a trainee teacher enrolled at Cutsetown University, and he was

heading for Kayenta Indian Reservation in Monument Valley to take up a student teaching role.

David was along for the ride and would fly back on the coming Friday to return to his job.

What began as an innocent drive on the highway soon turned into something so surreal and inexplicable,

it's hard to fathom to this day.

The morning call of Pennsylvania did a lot

of reporting on what happened to them. It's really one of the only newspapers that kind of picked up on

this story. The Morning Call says, a convoy of 20 to 30 cars and tractor trailers began chasing

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