Barbie bike

So, my friend and I are staying in Brockport, NY in a cabin pretty much in the middle of nowhere. We decide to take a walk with my dog around the property and end up walking along a creek leading to the street. The creek also branches into a small stream that runs along the side of the road.

Anyway, so we’re walking along the street and there are guardrails on either side of the road where the creek runs under it. We cross the street to see the other side of the creek and my dog doesn’t seem to want to leave that side of the road.

My dog is a German shepherd/livestock protection mix, so if she’s on edge there is usually a reason for it.

We go back to the other side of the road to walk along the stream. It was getting dark, so we decided to walk back home.

Against the guardrail, on the side of the street that we had already been to, there’s this muddy kid’s Barbie bike. The bike had to have been stuck in the creek for over a year. It was rusty, the design was peeling, it was completely abandoned.

What neither of us could understand was how the bike got there in the ten minute period we were away from that side of the road. The dog or us definitely would have heard someone pulling the bike out of the creek, not to mention that we didn’t even see the bike in the creek or along the stream when we had looked.

There is absolutely no chance that we wouldn’t have noticed the bike beforehand, and with the dog acting the way she was, it’s just freaky. Do any of you guys have any idea how this happened?? Please let me know if you have any follow up questions as well!