

Medford's suspicions of Camponotus vicinus are validated by her reaction, but he will not reveal his theory prematurely.Īt the Ellinson campsite, Pat encounters a giant, eight-foot-long foraging ant. The elder Medford exposes the Ellinson girl to formic acid fumes, which releases her from her catatonic state she screams in panic and yells "Them!". Pat Medford, to assist with the investigation. Harold Medford ( Edmund Gwenn) and his daughter, Dr. After a strange impression is found in the sand near the Ellisons' trailer, the Department of Agriculture sends myrmecologists Dr. The FBI sends Special Agent Robert Graham to New Mexico to investigate because one of the missing persons is an FBI Agent. More puzzling is the coroner's report on Johnson's brutal death, which includes a huge amount of formic acid being found in his body. Peterson's captain later points out that both Johnson and Blackburn had fired their weapons at their attacker. Gun shots are fired, the sound becomes faster and louder, and Blackburn goes missing. Blackburn later goes outside to investigate a strange, pulsating sound. After a quick look-around, Peterson leaves Blackburn behind to secure the crime scene. She sits upright in the stretcher, but no one else notices her reaction, and she lies back down when the noise stops.Īt a general store owned by "Gramps" Johnson, Peterson and Blackburn find him dead and a wall of the store partially torn out.

Now in an ambulance, the child briefly reacts to a pulsating high-pitched sound coming from the desert. It is later discovered that the trailer was owned by an FBI Special Agent named Ellinson, on vacation with his wife, son, and daughter the other members of the girl's family remain missing. They take her to a nearby vacation trailer, located by a spotter aircraft, where they find evidence that the little girl had been there when it was attacked and nearly destroyed. Ben Peterson and Trooper Ed Blackburn discover a little girl wandering the desert, near Alamogordo, in shock and in a catatonic state.
