The Boy Who Came Back Wrong

Be. Scared

Be. Busta and Studio71

Fiction, Science Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When he was just six years old, he vanished from his grandmother’s farm without a trace. For two terrifying days, police searched the countryside with dogs, neighbors joined the hunt, and his family feared the worst—until hunters found him 12 miles away in the middle of the forest. But when he returned, nothing made sense. Decades later, after a life spent searching for answers, he still wonders if he was ever truly the boy who disappeared—or if someone else came back in his place. In this episode, we explore one of the most unsettling missing-child stories you’ll ever hear: a mystery of memory, identity, and the haunting question… what if the child who returned wasn’t the same one who left? Follow Be. Busta on Insta: @Be.Busta To listen to the podcast on YouTube: http://bit.ly/BeScaredYT Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: http://bit.ly/BeScaredPod If you want to support the show, and get all the episodes ad-free go to: https://bescared.supercast.com/ If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be amazing! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/BeScaredPod. If you would like to submit a story for the chance to have it narrated on this channel, please send your story to the following email: Bish.Busta@gmail.com Music: All music was taken from Myuuji's channel and Incompetech by Kevin Mcleod which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/myuuji http://incompetech.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Gide, mates, it's B-Buster here.
0:02.5	And before the episode begins, I would just like to let you know that Be Scared,
0:06.4	which is produced along with Studio 71,
0:08.8	feature scary stories from around the globe on a weekly basis
0:11.6	that aim to fuel your nightmares with a smile.
0:14.5	And if you enjoy the podcast, it would be great if you could hit that subscribe button
0:18.1	and drop a review.
0:19.8	Thanks for listening, guys.
0:21.4	And without further ado, let's begin.
0:34.7	So I was six years old when I went missing for a couple of days.
0:39.6	This happened during summer at my grandmother's farm, somewhere about an hour or so from the city.
0:45.3	I can barely remember what actually happened, but the adults told me later what I said and did,
0:51.6	which is honestly the creepiest part, I think.
0:55.1	Back then, I slept in a big room with four other kids, my brother and three cousins.
1:01.0	My grandmother, uncle and aunt slept in the house too, and everything was normally pretty
1:06.1	chaotic there, but nothing like what happened that day.
1:14.1	So, it was Sunday morning, My grandmother and uncle got up early to feed the animals and get ready for church. Around 7 a.m. when they came
1:19.5	to wake up all the kids, I just wasn't in my bed. My shoes were gone, and the shirt and the shorts
1:26.2	that I wore were missing too.
1:28.5	The adults called the police and my parents after looking for a bit, who lived about 700 miles away.
1:35.3	They searched with the dogs, neighbors joined in, but there was nothing, no tracks and no signs at all.
1:43.5	Two days later, though, some hunters found me in a forest
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