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Nine Days in a Ditch: How One Scratched HELP Changed Everything

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Nine Days in a Ditch: How One Scratched HELP Changed Everything

The first sight was six-inch letters carved into frost: HELP DAY 9 - scratched from inside a truck window with a flat-head screwdriver after nine days alone in a ditch. How did a routine timber check turn into a nine-day survival ordeal where a meter reader found a man who had been marking time and tallying days from inside his own cab?

In this episode, we tell what unfolded from March 1 to March 14, 2019: who Paul Owens was, how his truck kept a record of his confinement, and the small improvisations that kept him alive until Ryan Gallagher discovered him. What choices did Paul make to survive, and what concrete clues did the truck and the scene leave behind?

Person: Paul Owens
Date: March 1-14, 2019
Location: Sill Road, near Callum Range, Prentiss County
Finder: Ryan Gallagher
Occupation: Finish carpenter

- The letters on the driver's-side window were six inches tall, carved with a flat-head screwdriver into frost to read "HELP DAY 9."
- Paul Owens was forty-four years old and lived in Dellard, a town of about six thousand people in Prentiss County.
- He left Dellard at 7:30 AM on March 1 and was found on March 14, meaning he spent nine days in the truck.
- Rescue workers found nine vertical scratch marks carved into the interior door panel arranged as three groups of three.
- His truck contained a 30-gallon fuel tank, two bundles of cedar shingles, a 5-gallon bucket of deck screws, a half-empty box of granola bars, a jug of methanol-based windshield washer fluid, and an emergency foil blanket.

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