1 00:00:04,845 --> 00:00:06,263 - You know how kids are. 2 00:00:07,013 --> 00:00:09,641 We just figured Amelia had wandered off. 3 00:00:10,642 --> 00:00:13,103 Lucky for us, the whole town got involved. 4 00:00:13,186 --> 00:00:14,062 [indistinct chatter] 5 00:00:14,145 --> 00:00:15,898 - Stay back! 6 00:00:16,231 --> 00:00:17,858 [grunts] 7 00:00:17,983 --> 00:00:21,027 - SHERIFF STALLINGS: A terror had taken over Susan. 8 00:00:21,111 --> 00:00:25,532 She wanted to tear through the entire town looking for her child. 9 00:00:27,325 --> 00:00:28,326 [man groans] 10 00:00:28,452 --> 00:00:29,453 - MAN: Grab her! 11 00:00:30,036 --> 00:00:31,914 [indistinct chatter] 12 00:00:32,038 --> 00:00:34,875 - SHERIFF STALLINGS: Lord knows the things we'll do for our children. 13 00:00:35,208 --> 00:00:36,293 [panting] 14 00:00:36,376 --> 00:00:37,795 - MAN: Open the door! 15 00:00:37,962 --> 00:00:39,421 Open it! 16 00:00:40,965 --> 00:00:42,591 [music playing] 17 00:00:43,049 --> 00:00:45,343 - MALE VOICE ON TAPE: Welcome to Francis, Kansas... 18 00:00:45,970 --> 00:00:49,055 [voice continues on tape] 19 00:00:49,264 --> 00:00:52,058 [people speaking indistinctly] 20 00:00:52,309 --> 00:00:53,936 - MAN: Get away from there! - Give her back! 21 00:00:55,646 --> 00:00:58,816 Give her back! Give her back! 22 00:00:59,065 --> 00:01:01,318 [crowd screaming] 23 00:01:02,319 --> 00:01:03,528 Amelia! 24 00:01:05,113 --> 00:01:08,158 [Susan grunting] 25 00:01:13,580 --> 00:01:15,749 [screaming] 26 00:01:16,667 --> 00:01:18,961 - MALE VOICE ON TAPE: ...from then on, we all got involved, 27 00:01:19,045 --> 00:01:22,840 and together, we have made them all into what you see today. 28 00:01:23,007 --> 00:01:24,925 [grunts] 29 00:01:26,343 --> 00:01:29,889 [screaming] 30 00:01:37,354 --> 00:01:40,106 - Amelia, mommy's coming! 31 00:01:45,071 --> 00:01:47,280 [straining] 32 00:01:54,580 --> 00:01:56,749 Amelia! Amelia! [panting] 33 00:01:57,083 --> 00:01:59,710 Oh, Amelia! Oh, wake up. 34 00:01:59,877 --> 00:02:02,922 Wake up, honey. Please wake up. Please wake up. 35 00:02:27,988 --> 00:02:30,282 No! No! No. 36 00:02:30,449 --> 00:02:34,078 OK, come on. I got you, honey. Let's go. 37 00:02:34,787 --> 00:02:37,081 All right. We gotta go. We gotta go. - [Amelia groans] 38 00:02:37,456 --> 00:02:38,624 - OK... Ah! 39 00:02:41,209 --> 00:02:42,753 [grunts] 40 00:02:43,462 --> 00:02:44,922 No! No! 41 00:02:48,134 --> 00:02:50,761 [grunting] 42 00:02:55,891 --> 00:02:57,893 [Susan continues to grunt] 43 00:03:03,023 --> 00:03:06,318 I'm sorry, honey. So sorry. 44 00:03:07,987 --> 00:03:09,404 [sobbing] 45 00:03:09,488 --> 00:03:10,990 - Mom? - Huh? 46 00:03:11,865 --> 00:03:13,659 - Oh. Oh, Amelia. 47 00:03:15,243 --> 00:03:18,080 Oh, honey. - You found me? 48 00:03:19,081 --> 00:03:22,751 - Yes. Yes, sweetheart, I did. 49 00:03:27,923 --> 00:03:30,300 [creaking] 50 00:03:37,808 --> 00:03:39,434 - WOMAN: So did you find Amelia? 51 00:03:39,893 --> 00:03:42,104 - SHERIFF STALLINGS: Well, that's the funny part. 52 00:03:42,188 --> 00:03:45,691 Amelia actually hadn't gone anywhere. 53 00:03:46,192 --> 00:03:48,819 We turned the whole town upside-down 54 00:03:48,902 --> 00:03:53,740 and Susan ended up finding her exactly where she had been left-- 55 00:03:53,907 --> 00:03:56,326 America's largest ball of twine. 56 00:03:57,410 --> 00:03:59,038 It brings people together. 57 00:03:59,245 --> 00:04:00,914 - Was that scary? 58 00:04:02,208 --> 00:04:04,459 Oh, I'm so sorry, my dear. 59 00:04:05,460 --> 00:04:06,920 Feel still lonely. 60 00:04:08,463 --> 00:04:10,007 - More will come... 61 00:04:11,717 --> 00:04:13,219 they always do. 62 00:04:14,803 --> 00:04:16,680 - SHERIFF STALLINGS It was a heart-warming reunion. 63 00:04:17,263 --> 00:04:19,558 Imagine, after that awfulness, 64 00:04:19,641 --> 00:04:22,895 the relief we all felt when everything was put right. 65 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:24,855 - WOMAN: And then what? 66 00:04:25,231 --> 00:04:26,314 - SHERIFF STALLINGS I'm not sure. 67 00:04:26,398 --> 00:04:30,360 Last I saw, they were happily driving off to their next destination. 68 00:04:30,652 --> 00:04:34,489 - WOMAN: So, how do you explain the dozens of missing-people cases in this area? 69 00:04:34,573 --> 00:04:39,119 - [scoffs] I can assure you, we are the safest little town in Kansas. 70 00:04:39,578 --> 00:04:44,290 We are all God-fearing family folk just looking to get by. 71 00:04:45,042 --> 00:04:46,668 - WOMAN: If you're family folk, 72 00:04:47,169 --> 00:04:49,462 then why are there no children in this town? 73 00:04:53,550 --> 00:04:55,010 - We've been talking... 74 00:04:56,011 --> 00:05:01,183 all this time and I am realizing that you have not seen the ball of twine. 75 00:05:02,517 --> 00:05:03,435 Come. 76 00:05:04,103 --> 00:05:06,021 I'm gonna give you a personal tour.