Walking Dead Wiki   Did Hershel Know Sophia was in the Barn?
PeteMac WD November 28, 2011 User blog:PeteMac WD  It seems too
simple to say that Otis picked up Sophia and put her in the
barn, then got shot by Shane before he could tell anyone . For
this to be true, Sophia has to be bitten almost immediately
after Rick leaves her. She then has to wander near Otis to be
found, and then captured and put in the barn. Based on the
tracks Daryl followed, she was heading back to the road, then
changed direction. Maybe she ran from a walker, got bit and
escaped with her neck bitten. Maybe it was the Walker that Rick
and Daryl autopysied?? She runs to the abandoned house and
sleeps in the cupboard. The next day she is sick and confused,
she tries to cross the river, gets stuck, drops her doll and
turns into a walker. Then Otis finds her early in the morning,
pulls her free drops her in the barn and then gets back on the
hunt in time to bag Carl.  I guess it could have happened
something like that, but I kind of got th