Her ordeal made national headlines, and the search was the largest manhunt in United States history at the time.
Shortly thereafter, a woman driving on a back road was blocked by a pile of logs, whereupon a man fired a shot, breaking her baby's nursing bottle.
On April 16, 1965 (Good Friday), Ned Price surprised a trespasser on his property, was shot, and lost a leg.
Hollenbaugh instead took Peggy Ann to a cave that he had dug into an area in the Tuscarora Mountains, known as Gobbler's Knob [4] and acquired a couple of cans of food, which he shared with her.
That evening, after being unable to escape the search area by going under a bridge near Fort Littleton, Hollenbaugh came to a hunting lodge in Burnt Cabins with a car parked outside.
A massive manhunt of over 1,000 federal, state and local law officers, National Guardsmen, and civilian volunteers (the largest manhunt conducted in United States history up to that time[1]) scoured the hills surrounding Shade Gap for any sign of Peggy Ann and her abductor.
"[5] Peggy Ann Bradnick told her story to the Saturday Evening Post, which published it in their July 16, 1966, edition.
[7] On Sunday, October 16, 2011, a marker was erected at the cemetery in Shade Gap, Pennsylvania, to honor slain FBI Agent Terry Ray Anderson.
She was a featured speaker at the Fulton County Historical Society Spring Banquet on April 16, 2016, the 50th anniversary year of the kidnapping.
[9] On Tuesday, May 10, 2016, she appeared at a ceremony in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Terry Ray Anderson.
It joins Robert Cox's "Deadly Pursuit" and Ken Peiffer's limited edition "Trail of Terror" (published by the Antietam Historical Society, Waynesboro, Pennsylvania) in documenting the Mountain Man incident, although it contains substantial differences.
An NBC movie of the week, Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann, was produced about the kidnapping and first shown on May 6, 1991.
John Madara, David White, and Jimmy Wisner wrote a song called "Eight Days at Sha-de Gap" in 1967, sung by Russ Edwards and recorded on the Decca label.