Fate

You know those stories about how you cannot cheat death when your number is called? It's not just a movie with a macabre twist to some people in Maine.

Mother-of-one Melissa Moyer, 38, from Sunbury, Pennsylvania, was visiting long-time friend Amy Stiner, 37, who was five months pregnant, in Machias, Maine when the two women went hiking at Roque Bluff State Park but got lost in the midst of a heavy downpour.

Moyer called for help as it was getting dark and the friends were no doubt relieved when nearby landowner and member of Sunrise Search & Rescue, Wayne Hansom, found them and dropped them at Stiner's 2001 blue Dodge minivan.

But as they left the parking area at around 9 p.m., Stiner took a right turn instead of the left turn that would have taken them back to town, and accidentally drove through the heavy fog down a boat ramp and into the ocean. The pair and their dog drowned in the submerged vehicle.

  Metro News