Mom Claims Mystery Man Said “Hola” Before Knocking Her Out & Stealing Baby - BUT No One Saw A Baby

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The story was simple. Perhaps, a little too simple. Rebecca says she pulled into the parking lot of the sports store with her 7 month old son, Emmanuel. She went to get him from the back but a creepy man walked up to her, said “hola,” knocked her out, and stole her son. A tragic situation. But what if it never even happened? There are so many questions that don’t make sense if her story is true - Rebecca claims she didn’t see the man at all before he knocked her out. She says he came up from behind her. But how did she get punched in the middle of her face where she now has a black eye if he came up behind her? Also if her black eye is from the kidnapper punching her in the face - why are there reports that family members saw her with a black eye weeks before the abduction? How come she keeps using past tense when referring to her son? And why did she making missing child flyers in an effort to find her son but disconnect her phone so that no tips/sightings would actually go through? But most intriguing - how come nobody saw her with a baby that day? The day she claims her baby was abducted? Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com

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0:00.0	Bad-being, bad-a-boo.
0:02.9	Humans learn how to detect stress in other humans.
0:06.3	Obviously, you have people who don't seem to be able to read a human's emotions well or at all,
0:11.6	but humans typically, people guesstimate.
0:14.3	There's maybe like a 60 to 80% accuracy rate in which one human can detect stress in another human without hearing the very
0:23.9	verbal cues of, I am so stressed out right now.
0:27.5	Which, I don't know how great that is.
0:29.9	Sometimes I feel like there are people who can't read the cues at all, but that's just a lot of room for error.
0:35.1	However, dogs are able to detect stress levels for humans with a 93.75%
0:42.2	success rate. Stress and anxiety are the two emotions that dogs show the highest accuracy in detecting,
0:49.1	as well as fear, which actually is kind of sad because dogs have something called emotional contagion,
0:54.1	which means when they smell a human's emotions, they can start catching these emotions.
0:59.1	Really?
0:59.7	Yeah, they can start feeling them.
1:01.3	I mean, their ability to smell is exponentially better than a human, obviously.
1:05.1	For example, a human, you get a cup of coffee.
1:08.1	You put a teaspoon of sugar in there.
1:10.5	You can smell it. A dog, you get a cup of coffee, you put a teaspoon of sugar in there, you can smell it.
1:11.8	A dog, you get two Olympic-sized swimming pools.
1:17.0	Put a teaspoon of sugar in there.
1:18.8	They can smell it.
1:20.8	If you were to have 752 apples in a giant pile, which I feel like would be as big as the state of Alaska, and you've
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