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I don't know the area at all as far as lighting goes.....but if it is dark and she is walking alongside a road, I would think people's first thoughts are not "Is that Abby" but rather "Boy they are hard to see on a dark night!" Not sure how many people would be out at that hour on a Sunday too.....which might be why that time was chosen?
Jumping up and down and applauding! That is the same sort of thing I have been saying in many many missing person cases. It seems to be a recurring assumption anyway.. . . My problem is that I see it here and many other places: people are just positively convinced that a missing person would have been "spotted by now if they were alive." I think that Abby's case shows what an asinine assumption that is.
If Abby cannot be spotted a mere nine months later, wearing the exact same clothes, nearby to her neighborhood, well, then, I am very skeptical of assuming that a missing person is dead just because they have not been seen.
You know, something just tweak a neuron in my brain. There was another girl from New Hampshire in the 70s or 80s who disappeared under weird circumstances and there was some contact but not really and there was much weirdness. *wanders off to research*
Aha. http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/r/rahn_laureen.html
And, apparently, there was actually a cluster of 14-15 year old brunette girls who went missing around then. Most likely unrelated, but the weirdness reminded me.
I just want to clarify why I said maybe a cult. Not sure if the alien pic was a dig but I had good reason to consider it. There is a specific cult in New Hampshire that says members can only wear 100% cotton clothing. So if a newcomer wore a polyesther blend it would be confiscated. She must have had other clothes. You can't just wear the same outfit for 9 months and have it in such good condition. Not happening.
But why the same clothes? Why a hot sweater on a summer night?
ETA: If she were in a long dress and conservative button down cotton blouse it would be a dead giveaway for one of these extremist groups.
I think the alien thing was just a general comment about the weirdness of this situation, as I had a similar thought earlier. I also was reminded of several missing persons cases from the last couple of decades in New England where people just went out a door into nothingness. There are also plenty of (probably) legends of people disappearing midfield.
Lynne Schulze and Paula Jean Welden, for example, just disappeared. Poof.