Cave Mountain : a disappearance and a reckoning in the Ozarks / Benjamin Hale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hale, Benjamin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hale, Benjamin--Family.

Hale, Benjamin.

Missing children--Arkansas--Case studies.

Missing children.

Missing persons--Investigation--Arkansas--Case studies.

Missing persons.

Ozark Mountains.

Kidnapping--Arkansas--Case studies.

Kidnapping.

Cults--Arkansas--History.

Cults.

Search and rescue operations--Arkansas.

Search and rescue operations.

Worship--History--Arkansas.

Worship.

Genre:

True crime stories.

Creative nonfiction.

Physical Description:

287 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2026]

Summary:

In 2001, a six-year-old girl disappeared on Cave Mountain in the Arkansas Ozarks, prompting one of the largest search-and-rescue efforts in the state's history. After she was found, her account of encountering an "imaginary friend" in the woods raised unsettling questions. More than two decades earlier, another young girl vanished in the same wilderness under circumstances involving a religious group, allegations of manipulation, violence, and apocalyptic beliefs. Blending investigative reporting with elements of memoir and regional history, Cave Mountain examines the connections between the two cases while exploring themes of faith and skepticism, memory, survival, and the cultural landscape of northern Arkansas.

Contents:

Sunday, April 29, 2001

Hale Holler

Cave Mountain

Dug Hollow

The Buffalo National River wilderness

The third step to joyful living

The tribulation

The child is not alive

Anathema

Nothing to forgive

F.O.U.

You have almost persuaded me

Trust and obey

Christ of the Ozarks

Acknowledgments.

ISBN:

9780063398122

0063398125

OCLC:

1500567069