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
“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
"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"
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 .
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*
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?
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.
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
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.
"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......
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 !!
@@amimfatmi7725 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
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.
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
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.
@@user-ud7wp1nb4i 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
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.
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.
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.
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 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 😂😂
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@@reese5437 Sometimes... some kids need it
"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 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.
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!
“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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
"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
'Hey our anchestors were shitheads' can be applied for a lot of history
True , but it's not they had a choice in most cases. I mean look at us , I mean just look at urself or at me , I'm sure our descendants might call us shitheads too. I know I make terrible decisions sometimes. We have probably made others we aren't even aware of ... Yet or never will be aware of it.
@@abhiprakash74999 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.
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.
You have to consider that the boy in question was only 4 years old, and was up until that point, living a rather traumatizing life (at the very least, being carted around by a man who kidnapped him from his mother, and being beaten). The boy's inability to recognize his own mother isn't that shocking at that age. So, he probably truly didn't know who his family was. This does have a pseudo happy ending, though - a boy who was being mistreated got taken in by a family who desperately wanted him.
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
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 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.
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
“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.
For anyone who wants an update: the granddaughter who was insistent on getting the truth? she did. someone from the other family submitted dna and bobby dunbar is in fact bruce anderson. a man was almost put to death for not dealing well with his nephew. a woman was shamed and an entire family bullied and they were the ones who were right. ofc the relationships within and between the two families are... tense at best.
Wow
I would like to know: Where'd you get that information
@larryalvares1369 Larry! If you, learned how to? Punctuate a question? And was polite. Id tell you,, another video on the same topic?. But it's alright, I get that old people struggle with search engines.
@@leagaillard755Wtf is wrong with you? They ask a simple question and you’re response is to be incredibly rude and not answer the question?
@@leagaillard755You tell this person to learn how to punctuate but put a period behind a question mark AND didn't spell I'd correctly 💀 not to mention you put two comma's after you 💀
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
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
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.
@@nootnewt9323 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
"Are you Bobby Dunbar" "I can neither confirm nor deny that"
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
“Are you Bobby Dunbar?” *yesn’t*
*yopen't*
yo
*No but yes.*
Nopesolutely
Yes, but actually no
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
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 ?
“I’m not Bobby! Who the hell are you?” “Here’s your pony and bike! We’re so glad you’ve returned!” “...Mother! Yes! I am Dobby Funcar! Most definitely. So glad to see you again!” “You mean Bobby Dunbar?” “I’ll be whoever you want me to be if you keep giving me stuff.”
LMFAOOO FUNCARRR
LOLLLLLL🤣
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
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’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 dynamite in the lake is an old practise. They would either shoot shotguns or blow explosives and idk why but it causes the body to float up. It has nothing to do with blowing the water out lol.
dislodging.
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?
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
*"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.
"That's not Bobby Dunbar! His name is, uh... Ricky Goldsworth!"
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.
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".
The fact none of the other boys noticed Bobby was missing is suspicious and the lack of details between them going to shoot garfish and coming back is also weird. Anyone remember that episode of supernatural where the two boys jokingly held their friend underwater too long and killed him? I’m guessing that happened. And Paul staying behind with the search party probably to make sure no one found where they buried him
I don't believe that, why would an adult help cover up a murder committed by children? The children wouldn't get punished for murder, because they're children, so what would Paul gain from helping hide a body and not just saying it was accidental.
Plus, you bet one of those kids would talk about it to their parents.
@@nolongerjuicyboiz4413and his body was never found in the lake that they extensively searched. No way this is what happened, I'll stick to the theory he was kidnapped and killed and is sitting buried somewhere
Probably a ritual sacrifice. Bodies don't just disappear.
The bunbars had to have known it wasn’t Bobby deep down. Imagine someone who looks exactly like your sibling just suddenly replacing them. You’d know
“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
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?
Can we all take a moment to think of even if Bobby was killed by an animal or kidnaped, how could that even happen? He was with his adult friend (Paul if I recall) and few other children, and he just vanished. If an animal got him he would start screaming, the animal would make a sound, others would notice it. Same if he fell into the water, everyone would hear a splash. If he was kidnapped, someone would have to notice or hear kidnapper or Bobby. Only reasonable explaination would be that Bobby wondered away from the group and then afterwards kidnapped or killed by an animal. But it still doesn’t make sense how ANY of the kids nor Paul noticed Bobby was missing, it was few kids it’s not like it was a kindergarten right? And they noticed he was missing as soon as they got to the vacation house. It could have been like 10-15 mins max, and yet no sounds or noise from Bobby or anything else in the forest. Very bizzare and after quite a while of thinking the possibilities I can’t imagine what could possibly happen to the boy in such a short period with no evidence or noise.
That's the spooky part but no matter what could've happened to Bobby, there would've been a trace. His clothes, his hat, even his body or bones after a while. But suddenly no one knows what happened to him in the 10-30 minutes he was walking from the lake to the house?
He could have been ritually sacrificed ie. Pre meditated.
My theory: Bobby died or was killed in or near the swamp (it would have been to hard to check everywhere) that man had Bruce under weird circumstances and the boy was traumatized and didn’t know what to think. Either way it’s been a long time since he saw his mother. I don’t think the Dunbars took Bruce with I’ll intent, both parties were grieving and desperate for their child
"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!
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.
Bruh the way they say the stories makes them 10x more scary with the music and stuff
My guess? Somewhat grizzly so don't keep reading if triggered. They found footprints leading to the train track. kids like playing on tracks. A small 4 year old boy is low to the ground, he might not have been seen by the driver. He was hit by a train and body would have been smashed to pieces and spread along the route. Parts eaten by carrion animals and any (for want of a less blunt way of putting it) 'residue' on the train could easily be shrugged off as a small animal due to his size.
Yeah but pieces of clothes would've been found since most animals know not to eat that stuff. And that wouldn't happen in a single afternoon. It'd take a couple of days for _all_ the "pieces" to be completely gone at the _least._
@@captainngoose Unrelated but I love your icon
"grizzly"
@@Quackervoltz Thanks haha
@@captainngoose It's Varian, my sad little meowmeow
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
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
And the parents died still believing that was their son.. when it wasn't.
DNA came back. He was an Anderson which means they did kidnap someone else's child. I think they all knew deep down he wasn't Bobby but chose to pretend which was beyond wrong. They vilified the actual mother and kidnapped her son. They all knew. He especially knew yet pretended and lied to his children about who he was and who they were. I do wonder though, what happened to the real Bobby that day?
He was probably killed.
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.
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.
Hold up... Bobby said "you can't do it! You ain't no bigger then me." And then he goes missing? Why did no one look at Paul as a suspect?
ikrr Paul was very suspicious for me..
Why would Paul take a comment from a 4 year old so personally like that They were just teasing
@@JJ-re4qk idk murderers just be messed up uno
I think its just sad that Bobby Dunbar was with someone else and if he lived then he lived to know that his family replaced him for another boy. I'd be crying.
Bobby turned into a deer. Case solved.
😂
Oh deer.
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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
@@CrazyMuffin997 You disgusting sexist.
this is a really sad case on both ends, Julia had her son taken away and was ridiculed for wanting her son back and the Dunbars grieved so much that they convinced themselves to believe that Bruce was 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.
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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R.I.P that innocent alligator.
If it makes you feel any better, I'm sure they still ate the alligators lol. I 100% believe an alligator got him being from Florida.
opal tobi alligators got it rough man
opal tobi I thought that same thing
Alligatorlivesmatter
Aligator is good af you should try some
I find it pretty crazy that one family went on thinking that they were reunited with there lost family member while the other family went on thinking that there family member was kidnapped.
No. One family thought they found their boy while the other thought the same but that the other family was claimed him - which is so messed up, because no matter who would have managed to keep the boy, no one would have looked for the other missing child.
It’s actually heart breaking how no one believed Julia, even if he wasn’t her son (he was her son btw they did DNA testing) no one offered help to find her son.
recent dna tests proved he was bruce anderson. its very unlikely we'll ever find out what happened to the real bobby ):
Recent DNA test?? Where did you see the news??
source?????
@@confusedpotato9406the dna test wasn't recent it was in 2004 www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/may/5/20040505-111755-3134r/
@@pulsareyes1 I just read the article and it never says they did a test with Anderson DNA. They say it's "more than likely" that he was Bruce, but the whole article is really just talking about the test they did on Bobby's son that didn't match.
@@uni7124 what if Bobby's son was adopted and they never told 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 :)
Imagine if DNA testing was already invented during this time and imagine if Paul Mizzi was thoroughly investigated during that time.
"i aint your chil-" "here's a pony and a bike" "oh aight thanks mom, im def bucky bundar" "did u mean bobby dunbar?" "you can call me anything as long as u give me stuff"
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
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
i think: -maybe bobby had saw something and wandered off. -bobby was brainwashed -bruce was julia's son
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".
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
Bruce Anderson's mother probably suffered and grieved but what if Bobby Dunbar's mother only realized her mistake when her life flashed on deathbed. It's a truly haunting story where both mother's lost their sons. Everyone kinda lost something here. I hope the real Bobby Dunbar didn't suffer.
They knew very well that he wasn’t their son but they were in so much pain they made themselves believe he was because they couldn’t deal with the loss anymore therefore putting that pain onto the Andersons
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.
Poor alligators just minding their business
Dang, I know right? They were probably just gonna bring some food for their family smh and some hairless thots jumped em.
Yeetus Mcfeetus 😂😂😂😂
@@brandnewmob goddammit
As one myself I do not like this
Your beautiful 😊
“Are you Bobby Dunbar?” “…give me pony and then I’ll decide”
"don't Whip A Boy" All Parents In The World: "I'm Gonna Pretend Like I didn't See That"
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