Woman found naked in wilderness recounts how she survived for three weeks lost in the woods
Lisa Theris went missing on July 18 and her family feared the worst. But last Saturday a woman driving down a country road outside of Union Springs, Alabama, spotted a naked woman and called the police.
"I
just passed a road and there's a lady that, she came out of the woods
naked and she's been sick. She's been in the woods for three weeks," the
caller told 911 dispatchers.
When
police found Lisa, they thought she had lost about 40 pounds and noted
she had suffered deep cuts, bug bites, poison ivy stings, and sunburn.
Lisa said she survived by feeding on berries, mushrooms and drinking puddles of water.
"If it rained I'd have to like
squeeze the water out of my hair and drink it," Theris, a former
waitress and radiology student, said.
She continued: "It was all
about finding the road or finding a person. I couldn't even hear any
cars the whole time I was out there until the end."
She also revealed that
she found a large walking stick in the forest that helped her make it
out of the wilderness. How she ended up in the wilderness in the first
place is still unclear. Officials said she was with two men she had
recently met before she went missing.
When asked if she thought she was drugged, She answered: "It would make sense - but I'm not sure."
"I think I heard that may be so," her father, William Theris, added.
Around
the time Lisa went missing, she was supposed to appear in court on a
misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge. That case was dropped last
Thursday when the court presumed she had died. Police told ABC News they
believe Theris survived in the woods, but say there's a lot more to her
story.
Check out what she used to look like before the ordeal.
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