Oblong Books Presents Author Benjamin Hale: "Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks"

Oblong Books presents Benjamin Hale, author of "Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks," in conversation with Ryan Chapman.

"Cave Mountain" is a compelling true crime story about two young girls who went missing in the same Arkansas woods 23 years apart and the strange circumstances connecting them.

This story begins in 2001 on top of Cave Mountain in the Arkansas Ozarks. A 6-year-old girl named Haley — Benjamin Hale’s cousin — got lost on a mountain trail, prompting what was at the time the largest search and rescue mission in the state’s history. Her disappearance — and her account, after she was found, of the “imaginary friend” she met in the woods — would eventually become connected to another story that took place in the same wilderness more than 23 earlier: a dark and bizarre story of a cult, brainwashing, murder, and the apocalyptic visions of a teenage prophet.

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