Eerie video captures the moment a bus full of singing girls fell nearly silent as they were confronted with the devastation of the Texas floods.
The girls were being evacuated from Camp Mystic, which was wiped out by torrential rain on July 4 — killing 27 campers and counselors.
The video shows the girls singing Christian hymns in unison, trying to stay calm as their bus navigated the dangerous drive to safety.
But their voices suddenly fade, replaced by gasps and quiet cries of ‘oh my god, oh my god’ as the true scale of the destruction came into view.
The footage shows the bus moving through floodwaters, past downed trees, submerged streets, wrecked homes, and cars tossed together like toys.
‘The girls are singing to try and calm everyone,’ said Camp Mystic nurse Devon Paige, who filmed the footage.
‘This is footage from my evacuation and everything I saw. I wish you could see before shots to show how truly devastating it is.’
The video moved thousands on TikTok, with many users comparing the scene to a real-life horror movie.
‘I’m not a ‘religious’ person but I’m extremely moved by these young ladies faith and strength,’ read one comment.
‘Seems like a intro to a scary movie,’ read another.
Operators of Camp Mystic, a century-old, all-girl summer camp in the Texas Hill Country, said they lost 27 campers and counselors, confirming their worst fears after a wall of water slammed into cabins built along the edge of the Guadalupe River.
‘We have been in communication with local and state authorities who are tirelessly deploying extensive resources to search for our missing girls,’ the camp said in a statement.
Authorities later said that 10 girls and a counselor from the camp remain missing.
The death count in Texas had risen to 94 as of Monday afternoon.
The raging flash floods — among the nation’s worst in decades — slammed into riverside camps and homes before daybreak Friday, pulling sleeping people out of their cabins, tents and trailers and dragging them for miles past floating tree trunks and automobiles. Some survivors were found clinging to trees.
Piles of twisted trees sprinkled with mattresses, refrigerators, coolers and canoes now litter the riverbanks. Search-and-rescue teams used heavy equipment near Kerrville to remove large branches while volunteers covered in mud sorted through chunks of debris, piece by piece.
In the Hill Country area, home to Camp Mystic and several other summer camps, searchers have found the bodies of 75 people, including 27 children, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said.
Fourteen other deaths were reported in Travis, Burnet, Kendall, Tom Green and Williamson counties, according to local officials.
Governor Greg Abbott said Sunday that 41 people were unaccounted for across the state and more could be missing.
Authorities vowed that one of the next steps will be investigating whether enough warnings were issued and why some camps did not evacuate or move to higher ground in areas long vulnerable to flooding.
