<b>What a Creep</b><br /><b>“The Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar” (1912)</b><br /><b>Season 29, Episode 1</b><br /><b><br /></b>Margo & Sonia love us a creepy historical crime, and what is more puzzling than the case of Bobby Dunbar? In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar vanished during a family trip to Swayze Lake, Louisiana, sparking a massive search. Eight months later, a boy resembling Bobby was found with a handyman, William Walters, who insisted the child was Bruce Anderson, the son of Julia Anderson. Despite her claims, the Dunbars took the boy and raised him as Bobby. In 2004, DNA testing confirmed he was not biologically related to the Dunbars, meaning the real Bobby Dunbar's fate remains unknown, making this one of history’s most haunting cases of mistaken identity.<br /><b><br />Sources for this episode:<br /></b><br /><ul><li><a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/what-happened-to-bobby-dunbar/genevieve-carlton" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ranker</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Bobby_Dunbar" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wikipedia </a></li><li><a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/352/transcript" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">This American Life</a> ep 352</li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYUdnsIn5OU" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">BuzzFeed Video</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btW8rCC2lxk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Morbid Podcast</a></li><li><a href="https://countryroadsmagazine.com/art-and-culture/history/the-strange-case-of-bobby-dunbar/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Country Roads Magazine</a></li><li><a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/bobby-dunbar" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">All That’s Interesting</a></li><li><a href="https://www.iflscience.com/the-disappearance-of-bobby-dunbar-and-the-boy-who-came-back-67246" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">IFL Science </a></li></ul><b>Trigger warning: Child abduction </b><br /><b><br />Be sure to follow us on social media. But don’t follow us too closely … don’t be a creep about it! </b><br /><ul><li>Subscribe to us on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-a-creep/id1460298336" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple Podcasts</a></li><li>BlueSky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/whatacreep.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://bsky.app/profile/whatacreep.bsky.social</a> </li><li>Facebook: Join the private group! </li><li>Instagram @WhatACreepPodcast</li><li>Visit our Patreon page: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/whatacreep" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.patreon.com/whatacreep</a></li><li>Email: [email protected] </li><li>We’ve got merch here! <a href="https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/#</a></li><li>Our website is <a href="http://www.whatacreeppodcast.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.whatacreeppodcast.com</a> </li><li>Our logo was created by Claudia Gomez-Rodriguez. Follow her on Instagram @ClaudInCloud</li></ul><b><br /><br /></b>
