Write a story that ends with i could hardly believe that this could happen to me about 300 to 350 words
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In July 1976, 26 kids ages 5-14 were on their yellow bus, heading home from their second-to-last day of summer school in Chowchilla, California. The mood was festive until an apparently broken-down van blocked the road, and masked men with guns burst through the front door of the bus. The children and their driver were soon herded into a pair of vans and driven around for 11 hours in stifling heat, eventually stopping at a rock quarry near Livermore—some 100 miles north of Chowchilla.
The ordeal only got stranger and scarier from there. In a 2015 look back at the case, CNN spoke to a number of the kidnapping victims, including Lynda Carrejo Labendeira, who was in fourth grade at the time.
The kidnappers asked each child his or her name, age, address and phone number. They also took a piece of clothing or a belonging from each student.
But the gunmen never explained why they were abducting the children.
“I only recall them ever telling us to shut up and be quiet,” Carrejo Labendeira said.
With only some construction lights illuminating the dark quarry, the kidnappers ordered the children and bus driver into what looked like a massive grave — a moving van hidden underground.
“It was buried into the earth. It was like a tomb,” Carrejo Labendeira said. “It was like a coffin. It was like a giant coffin for all of us.”
Each hostage had to descend a ladder into the back of the hidden vehicle, which had been transformed into a crude holding pen for the group. There was minimal food, and no ventilation. After 16 hours, the only adult present, driver Edward Ray, and some of the older kids came up with a plan, stacking mattresses as high as they’d go, shoving through a metal plate on the roof of the van, and digging their way to freedom.
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After the children fled, the moving van that had been their prison was extracted from the quarry by police. Image: AP Photo/Jim Palmer
The kidnappers, who snoozed through the escape, weren’t hard to track down; one of them was the son of the man who owned the quarry. All three men hailed from wealthy families, so their motive for the crime—a $5 million ransom that they never got to demand, since the Chowchilla police were taking so many calls from the frantic parents of the schoolchildren—remains somewhat baffling. (Their attorney explained it as, “They’re greedy.”)
Two of the kidnappers have since been paroled; the third, who’s had a tumultuous time behind bars, is next eligible in 2018. Survivor Jennifer Brown Hyde was just nine years old in 1976; last year, she told CNN that the experience still haunts her.
“It’s not normal for someone who’s almost 50 years old to be afraid of the dark,” Brown Hyde said.
Until recently, she had to sleep with a nightlight on. And she still has chronic nightmares.
“The types of nightmares I have, I was prepared to die,” she said. “I actually had nightmares where somebody killed me ... I saw myself at my own funeral.”
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