{"id":702707,"date":"2026-06-14T01:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/702707\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T01:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:34:16","slug":"woman-missing-for-3-days-found-alive-stuck-on-back-in-mud-puddle-like-quicksand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/702707\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Missing For 3 Days Found Alive Stuck On Back In Mud Puddle &#8216;Like Quicksand&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Minnesota woman was found alive three days after she was reported missing, stuck on her back in a puddle of mud.<\/p>\n<p>Kathryn Woessner, 68, was discovered by two ATV riders who spotted the woman\u2019s van, then saw her lying on the ground next to it. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll you could see was just the round part of her face, like her mouth, her lips. You couldn\u2019t even see her ears. It was all submerged,\u201d Adam Sandbeck, one of the men who found her, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/local\/two-men-describe-woman-trapped-in-mud-by-remote-minnesota-trail-for-three-days\/89-dfe556c5-03d0-4b78-bad1-dac218d1f932\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"told local news station KARE 11\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a2d9e1ae4b0942fb77906b9\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/local\/two-men-describe-woman-trapped-in-mud-by-remote-minnesota-trail-for-three-days\/89-dfe556c5-03d0-4b78-bad1-dac218d1f932\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told local news station KARE 11<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sandbeck and his friend, Mike Gravalin, routinely ride their ATVs on trails east of Park Rapids, Minnesota. But on June 6, they just happened to try out a different route, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.echopress.com\/news\/west-fargo\/west-fargo-men-credited-with-rescue-of-stranded-woman\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"told the Alexandria Echo Press\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a2d9e1ae4b0942fb77906b9\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.echopress.com\/news\/west-fargo\/west-fargo-men-credited-with-rescue-of-stranded-woman\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told the Alexandria Echo Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe changed everything, for some reason. It had to be God. It had to be, plain and simple,\u201d Sandbeck told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>When the men first got to the scene, they feared they had come across a dead body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen she whispered, \u2018Help me,\u2019 and it scared the crap out of me,\u201d Sandbeck told KARE 11.<\/p>\n<p>He said the woman told them she had fallen into the puddle and that it was \u201clike quicksand, and she couldn\u2019t get out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woessner was transported to a hospital after the ordeal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1293275976309460&amp;set=a.237217035248698\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"the Douglas County Sheriff\u2019s Office wrote\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a2d9e1ae4b0942fb77906b9\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1293275976309460&amp;set=a.237217035248698\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Douglas County Sheriff\u2019s Office wrote<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/impact\/topic\/facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Minnesota woman was found alive three days after she was reported missing, stuck on her back in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,14739,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-702707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-missing-persons","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}