Dan and John Find Bradley Trevor’s Body in Iowa is the discovery that turns Abra Stone’s psychic knowledge into physical evidence: at an abandoned industrial site near Freeman, Dan Torrance and John Dalton locate Bradley Trevor, a child murdered by the True Knot and buried with his baseball glove. The grave confirms the scale of the group’s violence, but the glove also opens a new line of connection and gives Dan a personal reason to pursue Bradley’s killers.

The Search and Its Setting

Abra’s earlier vision had given Dan a set of recognizable details: a factory, a water tower, a shed, and a No Trespassing sign. When Dan and John reach the location, the place matches her account. The deserted works are a series of soot-gray concrete blocks beneath rusty corrugated roofing. One smokestack remains standing; two others have fallen. Broken windows, graffiti, a potholed service road, and a parking lot overgrown with stray corn mark the site’s abandonment. The water tower bears the words FREEMAN, IOWA, while the shed with its damaged roof supplies another point of confirmation.

The match changes the journey from a search guided by an uncertain vision into an investigation at a specific place. After leaving Adair, the men have encountered no other traffic. They turn off the rental car’s lights as they approach the closed gate, trying to keep the site dark. John tests the gate, first pushing and then pulling, but it does not open. Dan’s penlight reveals a broken padlock and heavy twists of wire. These details make the entrance a physical obstacle, but also confirm that the place is not an ordinary, accessible destination. The men have come to investigate a child’s death at a location concealed from routine view.

Finding the Grave

Dan and John are aware of what Abra’s account implies: a boy was tortured and murdered, and his body was buried on the property. As they move through the site, Abra continues to guide Dan psychically. Her directions narrow the search, and the moment she identifies the precise spot reaches across the distance between them: Dan experiences the scene through her fear and tears, while Abra remains in bed, clutching her stuffed rabbit and shaking. The discovery is therefore shared in an unusual way. Dan and John perform the physical search, but Abra’s perception directs them to the body and makes the emotional cost of the search present to Dan.

The excavation takes about twenty minutes. Dan digs for the first ten, then hands the spade to John, who finds Bradley. John turns away and speaks through his hand, while Dan continues carefully, using a penlight to see into the grave. They uncover Bradley’s clothing and hands; his fingers are clasped around something. Dan tries to separate them gently, and one finger breaks. The scene establishes the condition of the burial without changing its central fact: Bradley was left underground with an object he had held close.

That object is his baseball glove. Its pocket is still full of insects, but the glove itself has been lovingly oiled. The contrast between the care visible in the glove and the grave in which it was placed gives the discovery its sharpest material meaning: a familiar possession has been carried into a burial that should never have happened. Dan is overcome and vomits onto the dirt removed from the grave, careful not to soil Bradley’s remains. John is audibly sobbing. The body is evidence of a crime, but the responses of both men make clear that the find is not merely investigative. They are confronting the fate of a child whose family may still be waiting for him.

The Glove as Evidence and Connection

After examining the grave, Dan and John rebury Bradley and cover the spot with broken asphalt, concerned that animals might reach the remains. In the car, they discuss what to do next. John points out that Bradley has parents and grandparents, and probably siblings, who may still be wondering what happened. Neither man treats an anonymous report as a simple solution: they fear that a call made immediately after a stranger bought a spade in Adair could draw attention to them. Dan estimates that the body may have to remain undiscovered for a month; John considers that it might be two, allowing Bradley’s family more time before receiving news that will end their hope that he ran away.

Before leaving, Dan beats dirt from the glove against the car door and puts it on, placing his fingers where Bradley’s had been. The gesture turns the object from a recovered clue into a temporary point of contact. Dan closes his eyes and receives a brief impression that the child identifies someone called Barry as one of the good people. The information does not explain everything, but it gives Dan a lead: he believes the name refers to Barry the Chunk, a member of the True Knot whom Abra has identified. The glove also carries a more concrete clue. Its pocket is marked THOME 25, written in a child’s careful printing. Dan recognizes this as a reference to baseball player Jim Thome and the number twenty-five, concluding that Bradley had named the glove after his favorite major-league player.

Consequences and Significance

The discovery changes Dan’s understanding of the danger from an abstract threat to a crime with a location, a victim, and evidence left behind. He had already believed Abra’s account; finding Bradley confirms that belief and strengthens his resolve to act against the True Knot. The baseball glove makes that resolve personal. Dan’s vow to pursue the group follows directly from seeing what was done to Bradley and recognizing that the child’s only apparent offense was possessing a quality the True Knot wanted to consume.

The event also links the search to Dan’s own history of containing the dead. As he considers what a person can live with, he thinks of Mrs. Massey, now stored away in the back of his mind, and says nothing about the haunting that has ended. That private comparison does not diminish Bradley’s fate; it places Dan’s response within a continuing struggle to carry unbearable knowledge without being undone by it. The grave, the glove, and the delay before informing Bradley’s family leave him with both a practical responsibility and a moral burden: he must protect the living investigation while acknowledging the child and the family still waiting for answers.