Taylor “Ghost” Morrison wasn’t supposed to be on that lonely Colorado back road. His GPS had died, and at 64 years old, he was just trying to find the highway on his Harley. But that wrong turn changed everything.
Six days after the world had stopped searching for 8-year-old Tina David, Ghost spotted something no helicopter, no search team, and no FBI agent had seen: tiny handprints on a dusty rock face, leading down a ravine.
Forty feet below, Tina was still alive—curled against the body of her mother, who had died shielding her after their car went off the road.
Ghost’s climb down was brutal. Arthritis, age, and grief from losing his own son years earlier weighed on him—but those handprints pulled him forward. Carrying Tina back up nearly broke him, but he refused to stop. “Your mommy was right,” he told her as they reached the road. “An angel was coming.”
From that moment, Ghost and Tina’s lives were forever tied together. He rode her to safety, wrapped in his leather jacket, and the rescue became national news: The biker who found the missing girl when everyone else gave up.
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