Eagle carrying child..

It was the afternoon of June 5, 1932 and something bizarre was about to happen to 4-year-old Svanhild Hansen.

She was playing happily on her parents' farm in Leka, Norway, and her parents had only taken their eyes off her for ten minutes when she suddenly went missing.

A huge eagle had grabbed her and carried her for more than a mile before dropping her. Her parents started a panicked search effort which eventually included over 200 people from the local area. At first all they found were discarded items of the girl's clothing - one of her shoes and her handkerchief.

A man named Jentoft Svendsen ended up being in the right place at the right time and watched the eagle drop Svanhild onto a ledge on a mountain. She was fast asleep when he reached her and was unharmed apart from a few small scratches. She was awakened and carried back down from the mountain.
Svanhild was taken to a doctor to be checked on who also weighed her and found that she was approximately 19kg. Ornithologists have disputed this number, seeing as it is supposed to be impossible for a sea eagle to carry this much weight. Some sources have since claimed that the 19kg was inaccurate and that Svanhild was likely just 10-12kg when she was taken - but this is of course still way over the 2-3kg that an adult sea eagle is supposed to be able to carry. Despite this, a zoologist by the name of Hartvig Huitfeldt-Kaas spent a month studying the story before declaring it to be completely reliable.
Although Svanhild had initially told the story about the eagle, her memory of the event seemed to fade over time to the point that she would eventually claim that she had no memory of what had happened to her at all by the time she was 30 years old. Svanhild Hansen died on November 12th of 2010 at the age of 81.

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