The Mystery of Bobby Dunbar

American Hauntings Podcast

Cody Beck and Troy Taylor

True Crime, Religion & Spirituality, Tv & Film, Spirituality, Film Reviews, History

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

On August 23, 1912, a four-year-old boy named Bobby Dunbar vanished while on a fishing trip to Swayze Lake in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. When Mrs. Lessie Dunbar realized that her son was gone, she contacted the police, who began a massive search for the boy.

Eight months passed before the family’s hopes for Bobby’s return were finally realized —– or at least that’s how it seemed. But no part of this story would turn out to be simple. The boy who returned home was NOT Bobby Dunbar.

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0:00.0	Hey, American hauntings fans, it's Troy.
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0:32.1	your life, and you know you want that.
0:35.6	But now on with the show.
0:47.1	It was March 1928 in Los Angeles, and a telephone operator named Christine Collins was facing
0:53.6	every parent's worst nightmare.
0:56.4	Her 10-year-old son Walter had vanished.
0:59.9	No matter what the police said at first, Christine knew he hadn't run away.
1:03.9	She was sure he'd been kidnapped, especially since a neighbor claims she'd seen Walter
1:07.4	in an automobile, crying, and asking to be let go.
1:11.2	The police were linen and started a search, but after coming through abandoned homes,
1:15.0	alleys, lakes, and ponds, the case went cold.
1:19.6	Christine was devastated, but refused to give up hope.
1:23.4	In five months after Walter disappeared, Christine received the news that her son had been
1:28.6	found alive into Calb, Illinois.
1:31.7	The boy was put on a train and sent to Los Angeles and the reunion of mother and son was celebrated
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