SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- A 17-year-old girl who survived eight days after her car crashed and tumbled 200 feet down a ravine may have been saved by her own dehydration, which prevented the expansion of a blood clot in her brain, doctors said.

Hatch's parents organized a volunteer search Saturday, and that night Sha Nohr, the mother of Hatch's friend, said she had dreams of a wooded area and heard the message, "Keep going, keep going." - CNN.com

The girl was found in a copse of trees over 100' down a ravine off the road.

Wow.

I heard about that too. Very eerie

Big deal. A concerned searcher for a motorist missing in a heavily wooded area of the Evergreen State dreams of a "wooded area." Are we to take this is as solid evidence of a paranormal phenomenon? Gimme a break. This is non-news.

It is reminiscent of how law enforcement squanders taxpayer money on so-called psychic detectives, and of techniques known as cold reading (though it sounds like the dreamer in this case was sincere). The Seattle Times and CNN should be condemned for peddling tabloid sensationalism.

That dehydration ironically worked to the victim's advantage in preventing serious brain injury is lucky indeed, and perhaps worthy of note.