Army Corp of Engineers will be brought in to stop Mount Baldy from eating everything in its path

Joseph S. Pete

MICHIGAN CITY — Mount Baldy infamously ate a boy who was then dug up by dozens of beachgoers in a frantic rescue some called a miracle.

The towering 4,500-year-old sand dune has consumed a picnic area, more than a third of the parking lot to Mount Baldy Beach and trees that have rotted and formed sinkholes, like the one that swallowed an unsuspecting 6-year-old Illinois boy in 2013.

The dune has moved a quarter mile inland over the past century.

Unlike many other dunes in the Indiana Dunes dating back thousands of years, the 125-foot-tall Mount Baldy is covered with vegetation that holds it in place. But as its name implies, it's bald, so the winds whipping off Lake Michigan constantly push it inland.

The Indiana Dunes National Park has fretted for years about the inwar