Kevin Bacon — The Pig, Not The Actor — Missing After PA Barn Escape

GETTYSBURG, PA — A pig named Kevin Bacon went footloose last weekend when he escaped his barn, leading his owners and hundreds of amateur sleuths to comb the Central Pennsylvania countryside in search of him.

Chelsea Rumbaugh and her family said Kevin, a 200-pound porker who's gray and covered in multiple dark spots, squeezed out of his barn Saturday, a day after he was rehomed and brought back to their Gettysburg farm.

Despite his size, Kevin has been more than a bit elusive since he went on the lam.

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 instead took off into the woods.

“He really just wanted to get out and explore,” Rumbaugh said in an interview with PennLive. “He is really testing his limits.”

Meanwhile, his family is documenting the search through a Facebook group called "Bring Kevin Bacon Home" and asking neighbors with tongue-in-cheek sincerity to keep their eyes peeled.

"Kevin did not come home for his evening buffet of my flowers," Kevin's family wrote on Facebook. "My yard is basically a pig's dream for a good meal but I have a feeling Kevin Bacon is a strong independent pig that is playing harder to get than a pair of Taylor Swift tickets."

Four days after his escape, Kevin hasn't come home but he's sticking close to it thanks to the corn, flowers and other food left out by his family to lure him in.

"He has come back to our barn twice now, he knows where home is," his family wrote on Facebook. "We have been out searching for nearly twelve hours and are now setting up a lure into our barn. I’ll be staying in my hammock right outside to shut the door, I’ve got the making for a good campfire and plenty of lights to help him find his way back.

While Kevin could always become a "free-roaming pig," his family said it's not safe.

"Unfortunately they might not know the difference between a wild pig and Kevin," Rumbaugh told Fox 43. "We don't want him to end up on someone's dinner table."

If anyone spots Kevin, they should call his family at 443-605-5463.