Dennis Bare had been waiting to catch a ferry to Nantucket.
KINGFIELD – A Kingfield man who had been reported missing called home just hours after police had put him into the national missing persons database. Dennis Bare said he had been waiting since Monday to catch a ferry.
His wife, Pamela, who had been waiting with bated breath by the phone, was relieved, to say the least.
Bare, a 41-year-old general contractor, left town in his blue 1994 Dodge Dakota pickup at around 1 p.m. on Monday, heading to catch an 8:30 p.m. ferry in Hyannis, Mass., said his wife of one and a half years.
Dennis was going south to do a building job on Nantucket for a month.
He was supposed to call home Monday night when he got to the island, but never did.
Nor did he show up for work at 8 a.m. Tuesday.
Pamela called the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday when she heard that Dennis hadn’t shown up for work, something very unlike him.
That day, Cpl. Nathan Bean urged all police departments in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire to be on the lookout for Dennis and his truck.
On Wednesday, his status was upgraded and placed into the national missing persons database and the media was alerted as to the disappearance, Bean explained Wednesday afternoon.
At home in Kingfield throughout the last two days, Pamela was waiting by the phone, and spending her time “praying really hard” and calling everyone she knew who may have had a clue where Dennis went.
“I can’t imagine why he hasn’t called me by now,” she said Wednesday afternoon. “I just don’t know. He should have called me before now, unless he is hurt or in trouble. I miss him and I am pretty much beside myself,” she said, choking up. “I am pretty freaked out.”
Five hours later, Pamela said she was freaked out again. At around 6 p.m., the phone rang and she heard her husband’s voice.
Apparently, Pamela explained Wednesday night, Dennis had been waiting for two days to catch the ferry, which has been booked solid. He had been sleeping in his truck, and waiting.
He even tried to call several times using a pay phone, but couldn’t get through, she said.
Finally, at 3 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, he caught the two-hour ferry to Nantucket.
When he arrived on the island, he was shocked to hear from the man he was scheduled to work for that police were looking for him.
“You’d have to know him,” Pamela said with a laugh. “Must be a man thing.”
He called home immediately.
“What a relief. He is safe and found and he is OK,” Pamela said. “I am much better now. I’ll try to get some sleep, finally. I haven’t had anything to eat or gotten any sleep since Monday. I am just so glad.”
Bean confirmed late Wednesday night that the search had been called off.
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