Annie Elise

However, after just 48 hours of getting the news that the search was ending, they received more news that nobody was expecting.

Now, at this point, it had been one whole week since Nathan and Linda went missing.

And that's when a Chinese freighter called the Orient Lucky was on its way to Boston, and someone from the crew spotted something out in the distance in the ocean, something distinctly bright orange just floating out there in the distance.

And as you can imagine, they are trained for these kinds of things, and they immediately knew that whatever they were seeing could be somebody who was in need of help.

So they got closer and closer, and they saw that sure enough, it was a small life raft and someone was inside of it.

And I'll be honest, the rescue was something like out of a thriller movie.

It was a young man in this lifeboat, and he was waving his hands in the air, seemingly begging for help.

Once they got close enough, they threw out a life ring.

He caught it, and they started bringing him over, bringing him on board, getting whoever this guy was and whatever his story was to safety to figure out what's going on here.

But of course, we know...

what the people on board of the Orient Lucky didn't know.

This was 22-year-old Nathan Carman, the missing guy that searchers had been looking for for basically every waking hour since he and his mom went missing.

And at first, when the investigators and really even the public learned about Nathan being found, there was this like utter shock and happiness that at least one of them had actually been found, especially after a full week.

Things never are looking that optimistic after a week lost at sea.

That's unheard of.

I mean, talk about good luck or maybe even some kind of higher power being on your side, but certainly a miracle.

Now, right away in the back of investigators' minds was what Linda's sister Valerie had said, that Nathan would show back up, that Linda wouldn't, and that it would all have been orchestrated by Nathan.

I mean, it's pretty eerie that she was right on the money about how this situation would end up.

She called it, you know, hook, line, and sinker, which I guess is kind of a either really good metaphor or bad metaphor considering we're talking about a boat.

I don't know.