Lost Children of the Alleghenies

Two boys disappeared without a trace from their parents and their homeplace. It seems nobody had seen the face of either boy,such a sad case. In April of eighteen fifty six these little boys were in the sticks while supper their mama did fix. She first thought they were up to tricks. Over and over she called each name. Figured that they were playing a game. She told her husband Samuel the same when home from his hunting trip he came. They were nowhere to be found. Neighbors came from all around. Their shouts made such an eerie sound. They even searched with a bloodhound. For ten long days the search went on. But these two little boys were gone. Then on the parents it started to dawn that they were an unwilling pawn. In a horrid guessing game of a kind some of the people were of a mind they'd killed their boys in a fury blind. But they were never thus inclined. During this speculation it seems their neighbor Jacob was having dreams. Nightmares people construed as schemes of the little boys lying dead by streams. Deep in the Pennsylvania wood they searched this same area good. Found the dead boys near where they stood and knew that they'd done all they could. Now you might not believe it's so that they would find the children though it's proven they'd searched both high and low. Was it the dreams?We'll never know. This has been been considered folklore (although based on fact) near my hometown in Pennsylvania