The Bizarre Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar
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exactly what I thought
i feel like thats ez for Buzzfeed but your welcome
i have a question... how much time do you spend on writing the scripts?
BuzzFeed Unsolved Network any chance he could've wandered off from the group and got lost or possibly eaten
"You're my son"
"Actually I'm no-"
"Here's a pony and a bike"
"Hey mom"
xD
Wtf
*b r i b e r y*
Hey that’s the plot of MCU spider-man (may he and his father rest in peace now)
You're my son"
"Actually I'm no-"
"Here's a pony and a bike"
"Hey mom"
This is so sad, what gets me is the fact that no matter who the boy was, there was still another boy missing and no one seemed to really care.
Shorti J I know!!! That what I kept thinking about! Yes they found one boy (idk if it's Bruce or bobby but at least they found him) but what about the other boy???
@@sirenuls yeah its sad how ever you turn too look at it..while also being so fortunate for the boy who was found, no matter who it would have been, they all diserved to be found
Because he was a rich brat ... Nobody care about a child whose mother has relations with two men ... Shame !!
@@MassalaStar How do you know he's a rich brat, to be exact?
@@augustrosepriv892. they gave him a pony, a bike, a ride through town on a flower covered firetruck, they had lawyers and money for them. Its a somewhat reasonable conclusion
“are you bobby”
“well that depends, what’s in it for me”
A bike and a pony!
Aksh Oza hell yea I am!!
ThatArtsyWeeb •
you might get to meet a cowboy
U know how easy it would be if they asked the boy when his birthday is
ThatArtsyWeeb •
sure thing! just so you know, even when you openly tell me you’re not bobby i’ll still insist that you are
My worst fear is to disappear and then suddenly see that I got replaced by someone else that looks a lot like me,and everyone seems to love them more than they ever loved me
honestly if that happened to me i don’t even think i’d confess who i am
That would be great for me they already think ima mistake
The bear from toy story three be like
Strange, that’s not a fear I have at all. I guess I see where you are coming from though, but nobody would ever love your counterpart more than the og you
new fear: *unlocked*
This is the saddest unsolved mystery. The Andersons missed the life of there son and the Dunbar’s never got to see there real son again.
Tragic.
C. Haze
calm down, im sorry if spelling can be triggering at times but this isn’t the local spelling b, atleast acknowledge their actual comment
sad words from guy fieri
This is the saddest unsolved mystery. The Anderson's missed the life of there son and the dunbars never got to see there real son again. Tragic
That grammar is tragic.
Well in fact the Dunbar’s died with thinking that the boy was in fact their son. The only ones who knew the truth were the future generations afterward. But yes it is a tragedy that the Andersons never received closure.
Real Bobby was just forgotten about as soon as they found a replacement. No closure for his death or disappearance. That's so sad.
We will never know what happened to the real Bobby
Of course, they didnt know that what they had wasnt the real Bobby. Given that, was there any reason to keep searching if the child you thought to have lost is already there? Though of course, it isnt true...
For his death or disaspparance. That's so sad.
😢
Damn it Bobby!
What's so creepy about this case is that they never found anything on the real Bobby Dunbar. It's like he simply vaporized into air.
Or he vaporized into some homeless guy's slacks
I think it was an alligator. They can pop right out of the water and SHWOOMP small kids right down to the bottom to drown them. As close to vaporizing as you can get.
@@glocrowhurst yes but you typically find the body when it's an alligator. Alligators rarely actually consume humans. They take them down to drown them, yes. However, humans really dont taste that good so in the overwhelming majority of cases the alligator releases the prey, thats when the'll find the body later on. I really don't think it was an alligator
remember the boy said he remembered another boy. a boy who died falling off the wagon and was buried along the track. i think that was bobby. i think he was trying to escape and died.
What if he did
I feel extremely bad for Julia Anderson, can you imagine losing a child and then called names for claiming who she knew was her son. That's so sad.
Tbh i would wanna be bobby dunbar too if my mom had given me to a guy who would continuously whip me for 15 months
she didn't know it was her son - she couldn't pick him out of 5 boys
Maybe report to police when your 'son' goes missing for 15 months
@@singularityraptor4022 do you really think the police cared? Maybe she didn't even have a way of getting to the nearest police station to report it, she was poor.
She had trouble identifying him. He didn’t react well to her. Weird circumstances .
“Are you Bobby Dunbar?”
*yesn’t*
*yopen't*
yo
*No but yes.*
Nopesolutely
Yes, but actually no
I don’t think the Dunbars kidnapped the child out of malice. They were probably grieving so much that they wanted him to be Bobby and ended up truly believing it.
That is possible also it might be the boy in the box
That makes it that much sadder honestly.
choccymilkshake I know 😢
Finlay Dalby not possible, the box incident was during the fifties
who knows back in 1910-1919 no- one in a hospital thought off this yet
lets have fun or resoloved this mess lets use all do a DNA blood test and waite a few months to see what comes up next
if i was getting whipped in the street i would say i was Bobby Dunbar too
true. the boy, whoever he was, was already being hurt and abused by the guy he was already with. it makes sense for him to do anything - even lie - to get away.
LMAO
S 😭😭😭😭🤣
@@ghostunix731 what..?
@@ghostunix731 I think you took it too literally..? Am I taking it too literally? Inception? Hmm?
Bobby said: “I know who I am, and you know who you are. And nothing else makes a difference.” What if he meant that he knew he wasn’t really a Dunbar, but it doesn’t make a difference. He was being whipped and he got the opportunity to join a loving family with a pony, brother and bike, he could finally escape and be happy, and nothing else makes a difference.
I mean the boy definitely had a better life once he got away from his kidnapper, Walters.
100% what happened. this case in my eyes is open and shut. its extremely clear the boy had a horrible life... his mother was a bad parent... the dunbars were going INSANE over losing their boy and HAD to believe a lie in order to have any sense of sanity. this story is incredibly messed up. no parent would EVER misidentify their own child. i dont care how much time has passed.... a mother who really loved their child would never not be able to telll. people have manuerisms too not just an appearance. i dont really care about the other woman she seemed ike an unfit mother if she couldnt identify her own child... glad the boy ended up finding a loving family... even tho the dunbars are literally frickin insane.
@@finallight1061 you don't what trauma and grief do to you. If you have lost a loved one and were presented with a person that could pass off as them, you would take the change and call them the person you lost and shut down any doubt since the reality world become too much to handle.
@@Nimish204 yes thats what happened. ive already said that like 5 times here. and no not EVERYONE would do that only people who literally are insane.. not saying its their fault they are insane but thats what it is.
@@Nimish204 I beg to differ.I have lost a son. I've lived a life of pure hell for 11 years . I would give ANYTHING to have my son back.But not that way. That scenario would make his death a hundred times worse. I could never pretend to love another child,and call him my son,knowing full well that he wasn't. That boy should have been returned to his family. This is one horrible story.Can you imagine losing your precious son, fin ding out he is,in fact,alive,but you are not allowed to have him? I understand there may have been issues with Julia Anderson,but none of us will ever know what truly happened. She may have been a great Mom,just poor.
The Anderson family lives in my small town. I know a lot of them.They seem like fine people.This is a tragedy, plain and simple. I think we all know the truth.
How can two boys UNRELATED look SO MUCH ALIKE that their own mother can’t identify them
Most people have a handful of people that look like them. It isn't unbelievable in a nationwide search across large country they might find one of these. The mole would likely be included in this, and I doubt scars on the feet were uncommon going off of the fact that these boys were both barefoot in public places.
tbh lots of 4 year-old look alike there face hasn't started developing yet (idk if that's the right word but you get what i mean)
White people lmao, thats how😂
Ombr3G0re I’ve known kids who have looked like twins but aren’t related. It’s crazy. But, they act so differently that the parents can tell them apart
Everybody has a twin
"Are you bobby dunbar?"
*well yes, but actually no*
Good guess, but actually no.
The Council of duos 😂😂😂
are you heavy : yes but no
Damn it bobby
wrestlingthewolves that boy ain't right I tell you what......
those alligators was just enjoying their day.
*and then some people cut them open.*
cryingguk ikr
hahahaha
yeah, idk I should laugh or mad about it
Exactly
Alligators don't chew their food, they just swallow it whole, like whatever pieces they get of it they just swallow it. They thought that if they found like a hand or something they would have known what happened. Though it isn't really right to just gut an alligator like that anyway.
The thing is while this case is really interesting, and both family's were doing right by their "son" however its more creepy to think that "Bobby Dunbar" was never even found, he really did just disappear into thin air.
The most plausible explanation is, he was eaten by an Alligator. That just makes the most sense to me outside of some grand scheme of a kidnapping.
@@Rozes_xi9 I’m back after 5 months. 270 likes jeez. Yeah totally agree with this theory. Seems plausible and to be honest. The sad reality probably lies little Bobby Dunbar died the day he was “missing”.
@@Rozes_xi9 wouldn't they have found some evidence? His clothes or his hat?
@@Nimish204 no, most likely they would not be able to find the one alligator in a swamp full of alligators
as for the clothes and hat, it isn't like an alligator takes the time to strip humans before eating them
@@Rozes_xi9 alligators don't eat humans and if they do they certainly won't eat the whole human body. There's very few cases of alligators eating humans
“If your whipping a boy you better know who’s boy that is”😂
And then the "Don't. Whip children."
Cherise Viljoen yeah that too
Read this comment and look at his profile pic 😂😂
1000 like!
@@reese5437 Sometimes... some kids need it
Bobby finds his way home and sees his mom with a new boy, who looks just like him. He thinks he’s been betrayed. He walks away and thinks to himself if his parents could move on he could too, never to be found.
Isn't that what happened to purple teddy bear in toy story 3?
@@razzledazzle05 lotso?
@@gl00myharvester woddy
@@razzledazzle05 yep the sadest toy story scene ever 😭
@@razzledazzle05 Also what happened in bolt
Imagine having to "take back" your brother and having that little feeling that he's a complete stranger
I know right. I’m sure the entire family low key knew it wasn’t him but went along with it anyways.
@@nootnewt3 yeah same
omg the making of a horror movie
I can't imagine that... Also, it's funny that this comment comes from "Skeletor's Dong" lmao
@@tomie1308 It’s the reverse of that horror movie with the grandparents
Recently using dna technology it was proved that bobby wasnt infact a dunbar and was infact julia andersons child, thus william was exonerated
Wow. Thanks for posting the final results.
Poor Julia... 😰😭
well that's good to know, or bad to know? idk but i guess its, something? informative, i think that's the best word for this situation lol
@@professorbaxtercarelessdre1075 It's still bad cause even if they thought that Bruce was Bobby then that have dropped the case and never looked it up until recently
@@synth3662 right, its a very sad case and situation all around
Notice how they went straight to looking for a body, not a person.
paris stott that makes it look like a homicide
Actually, that's not suspicious. We're talking about the 1910s here, kids died faster that mayflies.
@@Анкуца but if he stayed away from large bodies of water (which admittedly is hard for someone walking through a a swamp) then its more than likely someone kidnapped him / he litterally walked to a nearby town and things went from there etc, I would actually see that as something to use
__이동민l r u okay
To be fair, it was the bayou in 1912, I wouldn’t waste time looking for someone alive either
"it's one of the weirdest cases I've ever read" Ryan says for the 3500th time this season
Tea
We can hear. We have ears.
well, he probably reads a lot of weird cases off screen and chooses the weirdest.
He hasn't been wrong yet, these cases are bizarre
i dont know man this one is pretty weird
“So we’re gonna blow up the lake to see where he is”
“What if he’s underneath the dynamite and explodes?”
“SHUT UP CARL THIS IS AN EFFICIENT METHOD”
Lol
Fuckinh Carl...it’s obvious a flawless technique
So we're gonna blow up the lake to see where he is
I like this comment but dont want to mess up the like count.
Hazel Actually, while looking up the answer as to why they did that, I found out that people actually used to shoot cannons to make the bodies float to the top of the lake. They tried to rupture the corpse’s lungs or something?? Idk, but of course it didn’t work.
I feel so bad for Julia, not only did the uncle take away her child for full 15 months, when she finally got to see him, he was taken away again. ON top of that, she had no support and was bashed on terribly :( hope she is resting in peace now
Just read that later she got married and had more children, converted to some church and worked as nurse there, but always remembered the boy that was kidnapped from her. There's a book with this story by a journalist and "Bobby's" granddaughter, I just bought it but couldn't find an audible version, so who knows when I'm going to actually read it, it's in the queue of interesting stuff to read someday 😆
A 'mother' who is fine with her 'son' gone for 15 months with an abuser. Then she doesn't deserve any peace.
@@singularityraptor4022 How do you know she was fine? She was probably just really poor and nobody to support her to actually do something about it
@@singularityraptor4022 it seems pretty clear that she was not okay with Bruce being taken for 15 months at all. From how she describes it, Walters said he was going to take Bruce to visit some relatives for a week and then went completely off the grid. Walters' insidious behavior shouldn't be held to Julia, and the Dunbars shouldn't be let off so easily for claiming a child that wasn't theirs to claim.
@@ooffordays566 Why let your son go off with a strange man who beat him in public and likely abused him in other ways? And to not go search for him or anything? Apparently she also worked for Walters' family so I don't see how a mother who really was worried couldn't find some way to get in contact or locate him. Idk, she seems like she was unfit to be a parent either because she didn't care, or honestly was so gullible and unaware she allowed her child to go off with a strange man alone. I just feel bad for bobby who never got justice. At least Bruce went on to live a cushy life with parents that were able to care for him.
For postmortem: the real question is, how much did these two boys look alike to be ‘mistaken’ as one another?
Dawn Adekat apparently, enough for the differences to be chalked up to the boys being a year older
Yeah I would love to see some side by side photos. It’s easy to mistake babies because they all kinda look like similar lumps but by 4 years old kids do look like little humans. These kids must be twins.
www.google.com/search?q=bobby+dunbar&client=ms-android-metropcs-us&source=android-browser&prmd=inv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjfqIe1mIjdAhXtUt8KHeoEBj4Q_AUICSgB&biw=360&bih=512&dpr=2#imgrc=-2jWNOr9wAsGqM:
This is apparently them, maybe or maybe not.
Damn they do look pretty similar but I feel like a mother would know the difference
If feel like the hysteria and power of suggestion and wanting him to be Bobby so badly probably clouded their judgment
Imagine the horror of the real bobby dunbar finally managing to come home to his parents only to find out they replaced him with another boy. No wonder he didn't come back.
Yooo , imagine if he did come back as an adult and found out and turned away and left
F
thats sad...
its like on that simpsons episode where bart is taken by burns and homer gets them a new bart... moleman
I thought I had commented this and forgot! Lol. It's a great profile picture 'innit?
“Your not my mom”
“I got free WiFi”
“Ok mom”
LOL
*You're
Aahana Chakraborty Thank you! Can’t stand that.
Free wifi? Signal prob sucks....how many devices can you use at a time? Can I stream w/o buffering?
Aahana Chakraborty grammar nazi
I think the fact that they just magically lost Bobby in a group out of nowhere is REALLY sus
Kids have a tendency to wander off. I've done it before
@@TheOnlyHollywood1 I'm surprised no one points out the lack of care of that friend of the Dunbars that went out near the lake with the children. One 4 year old wanders off and he doesn't notice? Not like it was an 8 year old boy who could've ran fast in some direction, at 4 year old you're pretty slow.
But maybe there were simply too many children to look after, in this case maybe another adult could've tagged along just to make sure everything was ok and every children was looked after?
Either way the Dunbars and their friends have been neglectful AND they stole a children.
@@HommeAuCigare Yes that is true
I truly believe an alligator probably grabbed him
@@HommeAuCigare That's probably why he was able to wonder off so easily. Had it been an older child who sprinted off, they would've heard him but since the boy probably slowly wondered off no one noticed. It's not unbelievable that a toddler could just waddle away.
You also have to remember that this was a very different time. A four year old today is not like a four year old back then. People didn't baby kids, even toddlers, as much as they do today. I've heard stories about kids as young as three just allowed to walk to stores and leave the house unattended. They probably weren't watching him as much as you would watch a four year old today.
if i had the nickname “heavy” i would disappear too
that person that clalls him heavy must be rude
I am Heavy Weapons Guy.
FernAce who wouldn’t wanna be associated with best guy?
i would become heavy weapons guy
*Hides in heaviness
There was a fact not taken into consideration here. Julia Anderson hadn't seen her son in 15 months they said, making him what? 3 years old give or take? That could explain why he showed zero reaction to either woman, to add with the being brainwashed and abused. He could have been easily swayed to believe something that wasn't true. The age in which he went missing and the length of time he was gone could be why Julia wasn't able to positively identify him right away as well. Little kids grow up and change very quickly in that toddler stage to young child.
Allison Gruhn they are saying that he would have been 3 when his uncle took him.
But Bobby had the mole on his neck and the burn on the foot
I'm pretty sure a mother's knows her child. Either by smell or feelings. So maybe Anderson truly knew it was her son but yeah.. What can you do in such times when you're poor
Hollow Sniper B i have a mole on my neck and scar on my toe. so many kids have similar marks and scars. it’s very east
One time my sister left for three months to a relative to learn Spanish and i didn't recognize her i was around 5ish. So a 3 year old nor recognize his mother is realizable.
'Hey our anchestors were shitheads' can be applied for a lot of history
@Abhi Prakash OH I by no means meant that we're perfect today. I like to think that we are better but not even close to perfect
@Kitty Girl we also don't colonize entire countries imposing martial law and steal land killing the people on it lol
Our grandchildren will say the same, on and on itll go
Our ancestors were much more moral than our generation even with the racism. We have degenerated into far worse than racists.
@@straighttothep01nt55 no, not really
It is interesting how Bobby’s friend (Paul) was never questioned, interviewed or mentioned during this process. He quickly disappeared from the scenes. Very suspicious. The trip to the woods may had been more sinister than we thought
That... actually makes sense.
It would be very suspicious if there weren’t other children, and Bobby’s friend was carrying one child on his back if I remember correctly, so he couldn’t possibly do something to Bobby with children being around him, someone of them would notice. It is really really suspicious that he was never again mentioned in the story after the disapearence. Why wasn’t he there when they “found” Bobby?
@@petinluka That... actually makes sense. Thank you.
@@petinluka I don't trust Paul because it's always the family friend in these kinds of situations.
@@codafett yeah but one thing you should remember is that kids don’t lie in these kinda of situations, they would tell the truth under pressure eventually, but they said the same story as Paul
"I don't know this lady, I've never met this lady, oh, she's gonna give me a pony?, yep she's my mom".
"That Punctuation Though."
Cerlebrity tea Spillers 😂
Cofee, tae with some suga and kookies seems legit
Not gonna lie, at that age, I might have done the same. It's a pony!
you know i think bobbys mom should get her iron levels check lmao
She faints too much
@@areadinggirl lmao
@@areadinggirl dig er up!
That or her blood sugar
Logically speaking, the reason he might be reacting poorly to the two women is because the abusive man punished him into that.
That's what i was thinking too! Abuse can be used to brainwash people 😕
Justin Barrett or cause he hasn’t seen his actual mom in a year and well he didn’t even know the Dunbar one
Shut up liberal
Wrong
@@Fsalari28 You disgusting sexist.
"Quick, there's a boy missing in the Bayou" "OK, hang on and I'll bring my bombs..."
he was four at the time tho. If a child falls into a body of water and idk if he knew how to swim if he couldnt they can only assume the worst right?
Bombs were used to make bodies float up. I dont know how it works but I just know it's used for that
@@jayswagjango2945 it probably dislodged anything that might be pinning bodies down.
"i dont know this lady, i've never met this lady"
"this lady's gonna give me a pony? thats my mom"
i wheezed
I’m actually in tears. I could only imagine what Julia felt when her (possible) son was taken away from her and all the talks surrounding her back then.
She wasnt fit to be a mother but how the town treated her was still wrong and disgusting. She tried her best.
@@gamerforchrist9711 She seemed like she had a hell pit of a life
I read an article that bobby dunbars granddaughter did a DNA swab comparing his DNA with his brothers(Alonzo) and they didn’t match, meaning it was probably Bruce Anderson this whole time
@@jadedegenaar8221 i just read an article of them confirming the child was bruce anderson.
Cry baby
Did people just forget what their kids looked like back then?!
They didn't pay enough attention to gain the memory
White kids look the same lol
Maybe because nowadays we have easy access to phototaking, and with different generations and dna and the different times, many of us look different from the person next to us. Maybe in the pass, in a small town or whatever, most children look about the same. And for not seeing your son for 15 months at his age, the child would have changed a lot, face wise, height, everything, size, especially if a person did kidnap you or take care of you in a different way the mother would.
It's worth remembering the mother was under intense pressure from the rest of the family, the public, and the media at the time. She'd been suffering from intense stress since her son went missing. Psychologically it wouldn't surprise me if she clung to the idea that the new child was her son for the sake of her sanity and to make the nightmare end. Denial is a powerful force.
We do.
There is now DNA evidence confirming his son is not blood related to anyone else in the Dunbar family, this is Bruce Anderson
omg wow
yeah it really seems like that's the case
That's not the conclusion to draw from the information you provide. It proves he is not Bobby Dunbar, it does not confirm he was Bruce Anderson, tests would need to be done to ensure he wasn't a completely unrelated child.
@@Zorayah true, and i would love for them to do testing on the Anderson family,, don't know why they haven't. i think its just the fact that who else could he have been the child of? no one can prove who he was, but seeing as there's not other children whom we know it could've been, there's at least a decent chance he's Bruce
@@professorbaxtercarelessdre1075 Yeah an educated guess does point to the child being Bruce, I just wish they could test for it to get it confirmed beyond all reasonable doubt.
"are u bobby?"
"that depends, who’s asking?"
oh sure sir
chloe wang I’m Bruce Anderson I’m at your service sir
Shivani Langer Bobby’s Family : I have been, looking for you
JustADudePassingThrough :3 I’m getting nervous
@@shivanilanger9458 SIR, I heard your name in the paper
I think the Dunbars knew from the beginning that the boy wasn't their son. No mother is going to forget what her child look like in less than a year. Lessie was probably so distraught over losing her son that when she found a boy that looked so much like him, she convinced herself to embrace him as such and the father just accepted it because he knew it was the closest they'd ever get to having Bobby back. I think the quote at the end (if it's true) makes it quite obvious he knew the truth.
Onyx Cartier THATS WHAT I WAS SAYING OMG
wait which quote?
i guess shes referring to that " i know who i am and i know who you are. nothing else makes a diff"
Children can change a lot in a year when they are that age, so neither mother recognizing the child 100% is not unusual. The bias of the courts is more to blame than the women.
Anna Breon They really don’t. He wasn’t a baby, he was 4 years old and had only been gone 8 months. Nobody, especially someone who gave such a detailed description of their child is going to forget what they looked like after only 8 months. Of course the courts played a big part in it, but based on what was shown in this video there’s no way I’m buying that it was an honest mistake.
a four year old missing that long and being abused can be brain washed and easily confused and has grown some.
True. Consider Elizabeth Smart. Even when authorities found her, she lied about her identity and having been kidnapped.
April King true literally ducking me, my mom took me place, abusing me for 6 months, I used to be out going before, but for like 5 months after, I was shy, wouldn’t talk much
@@emutv4100 did i ask
@@oz7204 stop being a dickhead you scumbag!
SevenSeventy did she tell you?
I hate how they treated Julia Anderson. She really just wanted her son back.
None of this confusion would have happened if she actually cared for her son who went missing for 15 months. Not even a police report? Why would anyone believe her.
@@singularityraptor4022 Plus even if there were people doubting it, they would have seen Julia unfit to be a mum.
@@singularityraptor4022 she was poor -the police would not have cared the same way they did about Bobby.
@@swimminginhoney the government did care. The Louisiana militia was sent to search the bog. The sheriff offered $5000 more dollars to find Bobby. In today's money, that's about $1,28,000
From their point of view, she was trying to take away Bobby Dunbar who was found after 8 months of dramatic searching.
if my friend called me “heavy” i’d have some words
clem same
do we take prisoners ?
you dont get it
I kind of like it. I took it as heavy set, not overweight. He was described as stout but not fat.
clem but what if you are heavy though
Anyone wondering what happened to Julia Anderson, she ended being accepted by another town, became a devout christian woman, married off, had seven more kids and always used to refer to Bruce/bobby as her 'lost son'.
OMG thanks for that I was wondering what time
I can read wikipedia too
Thank you!! That’s good to know.
@@eabdgb554 well good for you, I just wrote this out to anyone still wondering, also I got this info from another youtuber.
Did she loss her children again
I don’t know this lady , I’ve never met this lady , she’s gonna give me a pony ? This lady’s my mom 😂
Exactly. Very young child lives with single mother who has nothing (and lets him be taken on a trip by some rando guy who beats him) and is then taken to a family that gives him a pony and a bike.
@@damnhandles Who knows how much his actual mother interacted with him too given that he was born out of wedlock. He didn't recognise her so clearly enough time had passed that he'd forgotten her. And he obviously didn't recognise the Dunbars. He went with them because they were caring, most likely. He was filthy for who knows how long travelling and the Dunbar mother bathed him. Definitely a big difference.
An article published in 2021 confirmed that the boy was Bruce Anderson. It was a match his mother's granddaughter.
Tragic that it took over 100 years to solve one case and Bobby is still missing
Is nobody wondering if Bobby got on the train while Paul wasn’t paying attention and then Bobby was just all like *YEET*
Nikolette _lunarEditz
FBI: stay right where you are
*FBI OPEN UP*
Oh god lol
*FBI wants to know your location*
That is possible. It had happened before, Look for the movie named "Lion".
“The only corpse they turned up from these efforts was that of a deer”
_Elon Musk laughs in the distance_
Oh my God 😂
😂
_Whoa is that, is that actually happened?_
Idollize elongated muskrat
I don't get it
I feel bad for both mothers, regardless of what the real truth is, one mother would still be missing a child. I feel sorry for Julia because of people judging her that she can't even recognize her son. She was stressed, pressured into thinking that it was not her son, i feel like she doubted her own thinking. I feel sad for Lessie because if the boy was not really Bobby, because of trauma from the loss, her mind conditioned itself that it was her own son. I also felt that the boy, young as he was, he was overwhelmed with the things he was receiving.
Damn.
Me too
and what about the boy that actually was missing?
No real mother forgets what her son looks like. You apologists will make excuses for anything and it’s pathetic and trashy.
@@victorialarson6415 actually, i am not an apologist. I just look at the situation on how it was presented in the most logical sense. There are several external factors for both mothers that is beyond their control. Being under that heavy emotional stress and anxiety may affect their judgment in recognizing their children.
Y’know, considering how young “Bobby” was when this all happened, he probably didn’t remember who his birth parents were. It’s all a such a sad situation, the grieving Dunbar’s, poor Mrs. Anderson, and most of all the original Bobby, who was most likely killed.
I forgot how young he was in the video and kept thinking why he couldn’t say something. But you’re right, his consciousness was still developing
I wonder if the person who actually kidnapped or killed him are just reading all the papers and soaking up the tea like 'ha, idiots'
The killer having fun in hell rn 😭
That's dark and funny
Them all idiots of the olden days
Dark humor, love it
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Bobby Dunbar's living descendants definitely could still do a DNA test at this point to find out if they are related to Julia Anderson's descendants. The DNA will still show a relationship, even several generations down the line.
They did! DNA showed a definite match to Julia Anderson. There's a great episode of This American Life about the case and how it was solved if you want to learn more!
Yup and they don't have to "compare to," just do 23 and me and see who pops up
That doesn't matter, what matter is what truly happened to the real bobby?
@@odyrejamay be it's what the fake Bobby said that the other boy was burried because he died.
Probably eaten by an alligator. But I would argue that a woman having her child taken away matters a great deal.
No one:
Bobby's mom: *Faints on the spot*
SO TRUE LMFAO
Acting 100
Adolf Hitler this ain’t 1945
Haha she fainted like 5 x that’s not normal xD
She had, what you would call back in 1912, a "weak constitution".
It’s also tragic because once the Dunbar’s found “Bobby,” they stopped looking. I wonder what would’ve happened if they kept looking for their missing child.
Seems to me a boy was still missing at the end of the day and nobody seemed to care that’s sad
I think he was actually kidnapped, fell of the wagon and died then buried. It also explains why that man didn’t tell the police. But in the end nearing his death I don’t see why he didn’t confess to that. Unless, nobody believed him or he was silenced.
@@Aus.S7in There's lots of cases where even on criminals's deathbeds, they never reveal the location of a body, despite having no reason to hide it at that point. It's pretty depressing :/
The boy knew he was Bruce Anderson but realised that being Bobby Dunbar meant a better life. He was showered with gifts and affection, something he never got under his mother Julia. It was a happy ending for a boy who went on to live a happy life under a false identity which he would never have gotten if he continued as Bruce Anderson. He knew that, which is why he refused to give a clear answer when asked by his son about his true identity.
A 5 year old can think all of that and that too in 1910s?
@@amartyaroy3754 what makes you think they won't?
@@MultiTopgearfan I'm not talking about them I'm taking about him
Well he was five....and he had been abused for months.....I'm not sure if any five year old can do that.
how in the hell do people not know how bobby looked like tho? aint no way any 4 years old would look the same
Imagine if he wasn't Dunbar or Anderson... What if the uncle had the anderson boy, but then endes up losing him and found another boy who looked like him. That would explain why he didn't identify any of the parents as his own.
Okay but then where’s bobby
OMG WHAT IF THE UNCLE TOO- never mind I just realized something bye
I was searching for this comment cause I was thinking the same thing
THEN WHO TF DOES THAT BOY BELONG TOO!? bruh this is too much
Unrelated but rogerina
Did they never ask Percy? all they had to do to test if he was Bobby was have Percy say:
"Where you been Heavy?" in a crowded room, and see if he responded.
Like, why was this kids best friend never mentioned again once he was found? He would have known.
Excellent question
Great question.
but he didn’t recognise his mom, dad or brother so why would he recognise him?
I missed the timeline a bit. How much time passed since Bobby was lost, until Bobby/Bruce was brought to his mother and brothers?
On the other side, if Julia allowed her son to go with his uncle for a couple of days and didn't see him again until 15 months later, 4 y.o. children can change a lot in that time. I'm not saying to the point of being unrecognizable but I partially understand Julia's not being sure at the start when she saw her son again.
But seems like Bobby's time being dissapeared was shorter? I lost that part.
Horrible, anyway. But the comments are hilarious 😆
True. They could've called him by his nickname or reference some past memories to see if he responded.
How do two boys just coincidentally have the same scar on the left toe , like what
I've met several people with the same scars as me. It's possible
I mean. World’s big.
Boys played barefoot more often back then. It's probably a common kind of scar.
teslagirl1 who knows hahaha
Temika De Verteuil that’s mad like
Is it 1am? -Yup.
Am I gonna be spooked after watching this? -Probably.
Should I go to sleep? -Definitely.
Am I still gonna watch it? -Absolutely.
Relish in the absurdity of this case
Wait where do you live? Its 7:13 pm on the East Coast U.S
@@aleahc1379 6:19 where I am
Stew Pitgal Hotel? Trivago.
@@lukewarmgrass9236 same
Ok, this one is legitimately scary and sad. Imagine realizing the possibility that your identity might not even be your own.
its like something out of a movie involving human cloning
I can’t imagine what it felt like
This case is so sad I feel bad for everyone even the alligators that got cut up
Fair honestly
Right?? I was searching for someone else to mention this!
The awkward moment when your dads name is Bruce Anderson.... 😬😂
Omg ask ur dad about his childhood. Lmao.
tobu draws you think her dad is 111 years old?
PT2 lmao 😂
tobu draws ..how?
Shane without hesitation: That's a *_fake_* name.
No matter what, this case is filled with a LOT of bad parenting. I don’t understand how you could not recognize your own child
Both kids had the same scar and mole. And near identical for both the mothers to say its their son.
They were probably projecting a false image of their son because they so badly wanted it to be him. Peoples minds do crazy things in grief.
The stress and despair they endured over those months probably made their memory faulty.
This is also happening in 1912-1913. They only had very few low quality photos during those times. It's not like now where we're bombarded with photographic memories that help us . After eight (or fifteen) months of hard travel a four year-old would have grown and his physical appearance would've have changed substantially, it would've been enough to make it so a parent who's entire relationship with their son through those months is a photo can mistake a child who looks essentially like his twin for their son.
Agreed. The Dunbar mother was clearly not well, considering she seemed to faint at even the slightest revelation.
This reminds me of a case where a man pretended to be a boy who was missing. (He was “found” in Spain and was “brought back” to America). Then he realized that he looked nothing like this boy and thought he would be found out, but the family accepted him right away, even showing him old family photos. So he went “home” and realized that something was wrong, the family weren’t happy to see him and looked scared. After a few weeks he turned himself in, an international criminal, because he believed so strongly that this family had murdered their son, but no body was ever found.
That's mental! Do you remember any of the names so I can look it up?
ryan look it up!!!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bourdin
There is a movie about it called the imposter
Kendall Rae done a really good video on this
What’s really weird is that Frederic Bourdin has a UA-cam channel where he’s just casually dancing to Michael Jackson ahaha, it’s so surreal after watching The Imposter
The poor girl who finally managed to prove the truth ended up being shunned by her family. She did the right thing but proving what the Dunbar family believed true was actually false cost her even though she helped vindicate a man.
Which is why I believe that the family already sussed out that Bobby wasn't Bobby.
I just hope if Bobby lived he lived a good life
Someone may have uttered that about Bruce Anderson at some point after he disappeared. And it sounds like the Dunbar's took care of him at least.
Me to my darling me to!
Yes, but imagine if he did he probably heard about his case and didn't even know it. I also hope that he got a happy ending but the chanses that he heard about this and thought ill of his mother are horrible to me.
same here
He got a pony and a bike he living it up
Imaging being kidnapped and your family thinks they found you, and move on with their lives while an imposter takes your name and lives your life....
Thats why you're supposed to kill your doppelganger
There is one imposter among us
This is like the movie Us all over again
@@ESCL2004 Oh wow this is like that movie.
I'm a resident of northern Louisiana and the boy's name is mentioned relatively frequently. It's super interesting to see you guys put the story together objectively and not just speculation from the residents! Good job guys!
Abby Giss did you cringe every time they pronounced Opelousas wrong, too?😂
I'm so used to people pronouncing everything in louisiana wrong that I actually didn't notice 😂😂😂
@@mariaree19 how is that pronounced?
Emery Ralston I came to the comments just to see if anyone else cringed at the pronunciation!
AH-pelousas not OH-pelousas
Honestly this case is horrifying but that thing that Bobby/Bruce said "it doesn't matter who we are just that I'm your father, you're my son and that I love you" is poetic
Okay I have a theory. After the disappearance of Bobby Dunbar, his mother couldn’t accept his disappearance, looking for any possible lead they could find. Once she got word that there was a boy that matched her sons description she was desperate enough to believe it truly was her son. Her husband and the rest of the family watching her crumble apart due to the loss of her son, agreed with her and went along with her belief. Bobby aka Bruce was whipped by his uncle and would obviously want to escape from that, and the Dunbar’s could have been the perfect escape from his abusive uncle and poor mother so he went along with whatever they said seeing as they were spoiling him and showering him in affection, something he hadn’t previously been receiving.
Cici But what happened to the real Bobby Dunbar?
Yeah. Duh.
Trav Rogers I kind of believe the fact that he was also kidnapped and died too. Because if an animal would’ve eaten him I doubt they wouldn’t of heard a little boy screaming, and I don’t think he drowned considering they didn’t find evidence of Him either being eaten or drowning.
But didn’t Ryan say the Dunbar’s were so suspicious of the found boy that they wouldn’t even look into it until they saw some pictures?
Cici my problemis that the boy was only 5. At this age, kids dont usually lie very well. The truth would escape one way or the other.
For the postmortem: Do you think that it’s possible that the boy is actually neither an Anderson or a Dunbar? He could probably be some other child who shared some physical similarities with both boys. He could have gone through a very traumatic experience causing him to doubt everyone and not be able to trust anyone. The poor boy probably found the Dunbar’s gifts and accommodations comforting. Shane I love the hotdoga. Love you too Ryan.
#Shaniac #Boogaraguitara #lovethehotdoga
Beatriz Lopez thats what I was thinking as well. That would explain why neither mother could really 100% say it was her son and why the boy didn’t have much of a reaction to them either.
He might even be related to Walters.
Senna Augustus Walters is related to the boy so that doesn’t make sense
This show is truly addictive! Shane and Ryan are a phenomenal duo!
Creepy, yet interesting.
They needa dip from buzzfeed n start their own thang #growth💯
Ruptured Cells I agree. I think they have thought about it but then they wouldn’t be able to do Unsolved because technically the idea owns to Buzzfeed
Actually, they have left! Their new company is called Watcher Entertainment I believe!
What’s also crazy is the fact the boy had the same scar on his big toe that Bobby Dunbar did, like what are the odds of that?
I mean he was walking barefoot in mud so who knows
Kids get scars all the time.
@@Quackervoltz a burn scar they said,but yk maybe it’s a huge coincidence
Damn Bobby's mum needs to stop fainting
Josie Jeanne || Her heart’s too weak for that. 😂
Women did that back then. It's an overload of stress.
Her son: * breaths *
The mom: f a i n t s
She was being an attention seeker
@@pmack2454 no it was to do with the shock and ptsd
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When he said bare footprints, I thought he meant bear footprints lmao.
James Nuallan me too omg, I didn’t realize till I read this comment
SAME
ohhh that makes more sense, I thought he was saying bear footprints but I haven't seen any in the video lol
James Nuallan haha same dude
ryans biggest fear
Since he was only 4 i can see why “he” wouldn’t recognize his mother after so many months. Can you imagine the confusion in this child’s mind ?
will the real bobby dunbar please stand up
Insert meme
Get out
Cant stand up in a grave
Please stand up
@@codysangVAvods that's what kelly would say
I am missing more details about this Paul Mizzi who lost a child while walking with him.
Right? The whole family is just so damn odd and suspicious.
He had all the children from the trip with him, do you know how distracting a group of children can be? Plus he told Bobby to get out of the way, so he could have moved behind him or somewhere out of his direct viewpoint. Unless the "group" was only 3-4 kids it's Irresponsible, but not immediately suspicious
Who are these other kids? There's Bobby and his bro Alanzo. Guess I'll have to look into it
But... he calls him heavy, so he must look special, i doubt he would disappear.
Joseph Stalin there were other children, it’s very possible he had nicknames for them as well and we just don’t know what those nicknames are. i don’t think that bobby was particularly special just because of a nickname lol.
this woman sure does faint a lot
Hailey Alice yeah :/
corsets were still a thing back then
Might have POTS
And fainting was seen as a normal way to act for a woman if something dramatic happened. It was kinda part of the stereotype of how fragile women were which is so wrong. I feel like now a days we have much more sense to pull ourselves together in tough situations.
They were also well-off, which makes me think that she was probably sensitive and dramatic to begin with. Notice how the “coarse country woman” who’s lost all of her children wasn’t reported as fainting once. Could have also been part of the biased narrative to make Mrs Dunbar seem more sincere, and to make Anderson seem more callous.
*"I know who I am, and I know who you are, and nothing else makes a difference"*
One of the most honest, wholesome, heart-warming things ever said on Unsolved.
Theory: They blew up Bobby with the dynamite and actually found him in the lake but they decided to hide him
GamerLegend102 so their like “ oops gotta hide the evidence! It won’t be a big deal at all”
This could be the case , and it sounds quite believable
Tam Soon Chan I wouldn’t care about a person called Tam Soon Chan.🤷🏾♀️
It is called size mc testing the the sound waves will bounce of anything it is like echo location
The dynamite thing is pretty common in searching for a body in a body of water. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn mentioned it lmao.
Could it be that Bruce accepted his role as Bobby because he was trying to run away from a not so good situation with his own family? What with his uncle abusing him and kidnapping him, and his mother probably had some issues too with her losing all her children within a year. Maybe he saw the Dunbars and saw a better life for himself, and decided that this was going to be a better outcome for him moving forward? Cos now we know that he married, had a family, and his family also grew, and it looks like he got what he wanted. If this was true tho, still sad that the real Bobby Dunbar was never found.
I think this make sense.
I'm not blaming Bruce here if he was in fact Bruce. But the thing about that is by accepting his identity as Bobby, the real Bobby Dunbar was never found.
@@user-yo5yr9yr2h yes, I think Bobby was killed. Whether by an animal or the abusive uncle, these stories are why dark fairy tales exist.
M yes, however if Bruce just plays Bobby well then “Bruce” would still be missing and people would look for him and obviously they had to look alike so then bobby would be Bruce. Sorry if that makes no sense I promise it made a lot of sense in my head.
@@actual_trash4385 yes that's what I was saying. If Bruce accepted the role of Bobby, that still means his mother still got her son taken from her. But, maybe nobody was looking too hard for Bruce because of how his mother was seen in the public. Think about it, at that era, being a woman who had 3 kids from 2 different men, then losing all 3 within a year. This child in particular, she let some family member take to see another family member, but turns out this uncle was not that great and ended up abusing the boy. Bruce's family had some issues, I'm sure. And that can not be seen well by the media. So I won't be surprised if literally nobody believed Bruce's mom and didn't help her search for Bruce. It's sad and depressing either way.
ryan literally says "it's one of the weirdest cases I've ever read" like every episode
Each case is weirder than the last
Yes. We have ears.
He has to go through a lot of cases in order to choose those used for the series. It only makes sense that he would choose the weirdest ones.
Each case really is odd though, each are equally eerie
there is a reason they are unsolved.
"Are you Bobby Dunbar"
"I can neither confirm nor deny that"
Once time travel is invented all of these cases will be solved
If time travel will be possible than all the world catastrophies would not happen they would of been prevented
@@quad3409 but it'd be pretty cool if someone invented a time machine that can only see the past, not interfering on it
@@juliacortez10 i was actually writing a script for an animation i wanted to make based on that subject, a machine built that allows the user to travel to the past as a "shadow" where the user can observe the past without interference to the world. Its been a while since i worked on the script and this comment reminded me of it.
moviemaker2011z question, would you be able to come back to present time and talk about those events or would that count as interfering and so you wouldn’t be able to say?
Victor Cortez check above comment
detectives: whose man's is this?
bobby: but the real question is, whose man's am i?
The Andersons knew he was Bruce but the Dunbars insisted he was Bobby. It's sad that they stopped searching for the real Bobby.
The editing work on these is insane, did anyone else notice the reflection of the words in the lake at 3:36? Hats off to them!
dude thats not impressive at all.
Wait... They said Bobby had a catchphrase and talked... His accent would be largely different than Bruce's.
Redd Head yooo they should of called the boy Heavy and seen if he would react
@@yukinoyukinoshita1750 if he didn't react to his actual name he wasn't gonna react to a nickname he wasn't called all the time.
well, he was gone for a long time and he was still very young so it's pretty likely that he would start talking like whoever too him. and he could've been beaten to the point where his memory was foggy cause he was also at the age where memories were just starting to form. sorry that was a lot
@@stessymwadime4921 if it was actually Bobby, he would.
They should've brought Paul into the scene to check if "Bobby" recognized him.
she protec
she attac
but most importantly...she wants her son bac
Elite Gamer lmaooooooo
GENIUS
joyce from stranger things in a nutshell
This meme will never get old. I love it.
margaritarr1ify :)
I mean, think about it: if Bobby was actually Bruce, it makes sense for him to pretend to be Bobby.
Walters beat him and stole him away from his mother. His mother could’ve been a negligent mother on account of her just letting Walters take the child. She also had to give up another child for adoption, most likely meaning she didn’t have the funds to raise it.
And then Bruce meets this family that’s willing to give him everything that he’s probably never had. A pony, a bike, a bunch of siblings and cousins. He meets this town that gives him so much love. Obviously, he would prefer this to his life with Walters or his mother.
So he pretended to be Bobby. He resented his mother for not taking care of him so he pretended he didn’t know her either. It all makes sense?
ѕнe dιdn'т jυѕт "leт нιм тaĸe тнe cнιld " ѕнe allowed нιм тo тaĸe вrυce тo vιѕιт a relaтιve
@@themoneyshaver to visit a relative for 15 months seems way too long for just a "visit". given the fact that julia anderson previously placed her child up for adoption, i won't be shocked it was okay for her that her son was away from her for that long
@@tanya9623 well even if she did want her son back she didn't have the money or the resources to look for him.
@@tala9817 the father of bruce anderson could be a resource, and the supposed "sister" or relative they visited.. i guess.
@@tanya9623 the visit was supposed to be for a few days, not 15 months. Though her putting the other child up for adoption asks some interesting questions.
I’m with Shane on this. I know it was most likely the grief talking, but the Dunbars KIDNAPPED a boy! Additionally, I can’t wrap my head around the fact that a parent could forget and misidentify the face of their child. Like Christ how many doppelgängers exist out there for that to happen?
The worst part is, they managed to kidnap Bruce in a way that was completely legal. All it took was slandering the mother that came to collect the little boy.
The bad part about it is that once they found the boy that could’ve been Bruce Anderson they stopped searching for any other boy they just focused on him...
Destroyer_5 Rockz I know!
Yes, it's really sad, isn't it? I think it could have had something to do with the public animosity towards the Anderson woman and the fact that he was a "bastard child".
I know, I would never use that term myself but that's what kids like him were called back then. There was a stigma attached to kids born out of wedlock in that day and age and they were considered tainted by the sins of their parents. Horrible, isn't it?
Destroyer_5 Rockz i know it’s so sad to think the other boy was just forgotten and replaced (which i know was probably not intentional but still really sad)
Why don’t these parents know what their kids look like tf-
That's were am still confused too
Back then people were a bit slow
DeathWalker420 people today are slower
Because they were relations to the people who replied (apart from Marina with her normal comment). 😂😂😎
Samuel Vega eh
I recognized a boy a used to play with when we were 6/7 after 15 yrs without knowing who he was..how tf do you not recognize your own child after only 1 year?!?
Kira She was panicking and I don’t think you were when you identified that person. Your brain can play tricks on you in important situations.
Maybe she wanted it so bad that she just believed it
@@jessmyzelf5912 exactly
Kira I think they many people are different. And, in their minds, after being so traumatized because of their loss, they were so convinced that this was their boy.
no, children change extremely fast at young ages ... specifically under the age-range you mentioned... you would be surprised ... thats why its even more shocking to have a kidnap or such occur ... its a race against the clock for that matter alone. 2-3 months of absence can cost you ever finding/recognizing your child again. thats real horror right there...