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More than two weeks after he slipped from his Gettysburg barn and captured the attention of not just the nation but the famous actor himself, Kevin Bacon the pig, has returned home.
The 200-pound Juliana pig escaped his pen a day after he was rehomed and brought to Chelsea Rumbaugh’s farm. He wandered the countryside for 17 days, staying just out of reach of Rumbaugh and her family but interacting with them almost daily, according to the Facebook group “Bring Kevin Bacon Home.”
But on Tuesday, Kevin pulled off a Halloween trick for the ages when he decided his time on the lam was over.
Rumbaugh went outside around noon, she wrote, and spotted Kevin in his pen. He had wandered into it on his own, she said.
“I dropped what I was holding and sprinted to the pen, stepped in, and shut the door behind me,” Rumbaugh wrote. “He had his angry feelings for about 60-90 seconds, then it was over.”
Kevin’s saga started Oct. 14 when he uprooted one of the posts in his pen and took off into the woods, Rumbaugh told the Evening Sun.
Fifteen minutes after busting out of the barn, he was spotted at a nearby campground. Later that day, five people closed in on him while he munched on some strategically placed food. Rumbaugh’s 16-year-old son got so close he could touch Kevin, they wrote on Facebook, but to no avail. Kevin took off again.
“He really just wanted to get out and explore,” Rumbaugh said in an interview with PennLive. “He is really testing his limits.”
What followed was quite the elaborate game of hide and seek. Rumbaugh tried numerous ways to locate and lure Kevin home — from traps to drones to Benadryl-laced sticky buns. Kevin would visit home almost daily, Rumbaugh wrote, but stayed just out of arm’s reach.
The Facebook page dedicated to Rumbaugh’s search for Kevin amassed more than 2,100 followers. It even reached the actor Kevin Bacon, who weighed in on his Threads account last weekend by posting, “Bring Kevin Bacon home!”
Following his return, Rumbaugh told the Evening Sun her first priority is Kevin’s health. She also reinforced his pen with concrete to keep him from tunneling out again, reports said.
“It feels so good to have him back, and it feels even better that we did it so slowly and by making him comfortable first and trying to build that trust with him,” Rumbaugh told CBS 21. “I’m just so relieved we did it that way.”
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