A 19-year-old Colorado girl who was reported missing after sleepwalking from her home, has been found sound and safe, the Denver Channel has reported. The girl, identified as Taylor Gammel, is said to have walked 9 miles while sleepwalking, before ending up at her uncle's place in Westminster.
The sheriff's office in Jefferson County confirmed the incident, saying that the girl left her home early on Tuesday morning.
Investigators suggested that out of the 9 miles that Gammel covered, she managed to get into a bus while still dead asleep, according to NY Daily News.
"That's where the bloodhound lost the track so we think there's a distinct possibility that she got on that bus," said Mark Techmeyer, who is the spokesman for the sheriff's office.
Gammel's father was the first to notice that his daughter was missing after he woke up and realized the back door was wide open and she wasn't in her room. The family, knowing her history of sleepwalking, alerted the authorities at 6 a.m. The police combed the area and shared an alert on social media to help track her.
Once the alert was made, the authorities were able to make progress, according to the Daily Mail. First, police used a bloodhound to track her for 3 miles, before the hound lost her scent at a bus stop. However, a passerby who saw the alert called the police and said he had seen the girl at 8 a.m. near the bus stop.
Gammel was found an hour later in her uncle's house, exactly 6 miles from the bus stop. Although she was unharmed and is safe, police said they were still trying to question her in order to learn what she recollects of her journey.
