Betty McCullough was ten when she vanished from a temporary camp near Silver Creek Falls, Oregon, on the morning of June 21, 1941. Born with severe hearing and speech impairments, Betty woke before her sisters, dressed in a man’s shirt and a pair of her sister’s shoes that were too large, took a bucket, and walked toward a nearby water pump to fetch water. She never returned. The bucket and shoes disappeared with her.

Family members, neighbors, Forest Servicemen and State Police conducted an extensive search through the berry fields and nearby woods but found no trace. Betty’s parents and law enforcement at the time suspected she might have been picked up by a passing motorist; the area had other unexplained disappearances in earlier decades. Betty also suffered frequent, sudden illnesses and doctors had given her a poor long‑term prognosis, which added urgency to the search. The case remains unsolved and is no longer actively investigated.

Did anyone who remembers Silver Creek Falls in 1941 or the migrant camps near it have information about Betty or that morning?