15 kids disappeared on a school trip in 1986 — 39 years later, their bus is found buried deep in the woods In the spring of 1986, a group of 15 children and their teacher set off for what was supposed to be a simple school field trip. They never came back. The bus was never seen again. No bodies. No tire marks. Just silence. Authorities blamed a wrong turn, an accident, maybe even a sinkhole. But nothing was ever proven. For nearly four decades, Morning Lake became a place locals avoided — the t