Woman makes 'miracle' discovery in debris 7 months after surviving Hurricane Helene with boyfriend

Nearly a twelvemonth aft a deadly landslide destroyed her upland location rental during Hurricane Helene, Kylie Landolfi of North Carolina made a astonishing discovery.

The 22-year-old recovered her mislaid iPhone buried successful rubble adjacent the ruins of her location successful Bat Cave.

She had been surviving determination with her boyfriend, Andrew, 23, erstwhile the tempest triggered a landslide successful Sept. 2024.

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The couple's location was pushed disconnected its foundation, forcing them to fly with their 3 pets, quality bureau SWNS reported.

They escaped conscionable moments earlier catastrophe struck again.

Nearly a twelvemonth aft a deadly landslide destroyed her North Carolina rental location during Hurricane Helene, a pistillate made a miraculous find of a precious idiosyncratic item. (SWNS)

The crushed gave mode a 2nd time, sending much debris crashing down the mountainside.

"We escaped the rubble conscionable seconds earlier a 2nd landslide hit," said Landolfi.

She added, "With nary shoes, phones oregon supplies, we were exposed and deed by ungraded and debris."  

The couple survived with minimal injuries, per SWNS.

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"We cared for an injured neighbour with a punctured lung and helped rescue a household of 4 trapped adjacent the descent zone," said Landolfi, "including a parent with a shattered ankle and a child with a breached leg."

"We escaped the rubble conscionable seconds earlier a 2nd landslide hit."

Landolfi and her fellow sheltered successful a adjacent location for 27 hours earlier firefighters arrived.

They spent that clip helping to attraction for earnestly injured neighbors, SWNS noted. The mates said they relied connected instinct and teamwork to enactment safe.

Kylie Landolfi and her fellow Andrew survived a landslide astatine their rented upland location successful Bat Cave, North Carolina, successful Sept. 2024, triggered by Hurricane Helene. It pushed their location disconnected its instauration and down the mountain.  (SWNS)

Landolfi said she'd returned to the tract respective times but had been incapable to retrieve immoderate belongings.

In April 2025, Bat Cave Disaster Relief helped her entree the country for different search.

That’s erstwhile she made a chaotic discovery.

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"While digging done rubble, I recovered my iPhone dusty but seemingly intact," she said.

"We had mislaid astir each photograph of our ferrets and the location we loved and astir each representation of our ferrets that did not escape," she said. 

Landolfi, 22, recovered her mislaid iPhone buried successful rubble adjacent the ruins of her location successful North Carolina galore months aft Hurricane Helene.  (SWNS)

"The phone’s find felt similar a occurrence … I could not judge it."

The telephone appeared intact, said SWNS, adjacent though it had been buried for 7 months, surviving landslides and harsh outdoor conditions.

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"It adjacent took maine a 2nd to recognize however brainsick it was to beryllium holding my telephone that survived 2 landslides and 7 months outside," she said.

While digging done rubble, a pistillate successful North Carolina recovered the iPhone she'd mislaid (not pictured) months earlier during Hurricane Helene.  (iStock)

"We ne'er imagined we would find either telephone and had grieved the nonaccomplishment of the contents already."

"The phone’s find felt similar a miracle."

Many of the couple’s astir cherished memories, they said, were stored lone connected that device.

"For those wondering, no, we had not updated our iCloud storage," she said, arsenic SWNS reported.

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"We had a hard thrust that everything was on, but erstwhile your full location is destroyed, having a hard thrust successful the aforesaid spot arsenic your phones does not help."