Mr. Ballin

And then the next day, Jean didn't come back.

And the next day, and the next day, he just didn't come back.

And so finally, after repeatedly searching his property and asking all over town if anybody had seen Jean,

Mr. Glick finally came to the conclusion that Jean must have fled because of this, the Sioux attack, and then likely gone back to France to be with his mother, something he knew he wanted to do anyways.

Maybe this was his excuse.

57 years later, on a morning in July of 1919,

Mr. Gleek sat on his porch looking out over his farm.

The same farm that Jean had been a farmhand for 57 years earlier.

Mr. Gleek was old now, and so he could no longer actually physically work on the farm himself.

So instead, he had to hire entire crews to do various jobs.

And in fact, right now he had a whole bunch of workers out in the woods clearing away some dead brush for him.

And so as Mr. Gleek is just kind of surveying his property, he notices a worker come running out of the tree line and starts waving at Mr. Gleek really frantically, like he had something really important to say.

And then as the man got closer, Mr. Gleek could see that this worker looked terrified.

And before Mr. Gleek could ask what had happened, the worker, whose face was, you know, white as a ghost,

said Mr. Gleek needed to come and see something.

And so Mr. Gleek, who was very intrigued at this point, managed to haul himself up and he slowly hobbled off into the woods with this worker.

And as he got to where the rest of the crew was inside the forest, he saw that they were all mostly gathered around this very large, recently downed oak tree.

And the whole group was very quiet and tense.

And they were all just staring at a section of this tree that had split open.

When Mr. Gleek joined the group and looked at this particular section of the trunk of this tree, this hollow part,