One boy described it in an undated letter to his mother.

They moseyed on, following the route the boy had described.

Between sobs, the boy describes what has just happened to him.

Questioned by an administrator, the boy described what the man had been doing with him.

There was, however, one event the boys described as traumatic.

On the very first page, the boy describes a tree outside his mother's bedroom window, "its green shy in the early light."

The youngest boy describes both his family and their life together through verse.

"The boy, Mark, described the artist's hair as brown but what little of it we saw on the boat was more like red."

But then, as the boy described the shapes, his father had understood that they were not spirits.

Officials said the boy described what was in his stomach and how it had gotten there.