Big Thompson Flood Reported Survivor Darrell Johnson as Dead

On July 31, 1976, Big Thompson Canyon near Denver saw a massive rainstorm that left the area in a way that no one could have expected. The millennial flood supposedly killed 144 residents, including Darrell Johnson. It has been 32 years since the Big Thompson flood and an unexpected situation occurred. Darrell Johnson had been reported missing or deceased under the 144 names of people that had died. But when a Big Thompson resident decided to track him down after the coroner's record showed nothing on him, Darrell Johnson was located in Oklahoma, as reported by CBS 4.

As creepy as it may sound, this is not the first time that something like this has happened and unfortunately I fear that it may not be the last. When something like this happens it leaves a lot of families praying that they too will find their loved ones and gives them a sense of false hope. False hope is when you are wishing for something that can't possibly be true, for instance; if there was another family of the Big Thompson Canyon that had a family member missing, then they might keep searching for them no matter what the police and coroner said.

The Big Thompson Flood wasn't the only time that anything like this occurred, there was also recently a case of mistaken identity in 2006 that left one family at a funeral of a child that wasn't even theirs. Whitney Cerek and Laura Van Ryn had a case of mistaken identity after one girl was mistaken as the other. The mix-up of identity is a little different than the one that the Big Thompson Flood had caused. One of the girls in this case really did die but the family had been mourning over a child that wasn't even theirs.

If you look at it closely you can kind of see how these cases are similar to one another since the Big Thompson Flood said that someone was dead when they really weren't.

I did find it rather funny to think that Darrell Johnson moved from Big Thompson Canyon after the Big Thompson flood because of the flood to Oklahoma which is a place known for its massive tornados. It is kind of like stepping out of a fire just to walk on hot coals.