Replay: Toby Anderson
The Vanished Podcast
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4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
At just 16 years old, Toby Anderson found himself tangled in a web of trouble. His teenage years were marked by hardship, pushing him to act out in ways that strained his relationships. Sent to a juvenile facility in Northern California, Toby was shuffled between different family members, struggling to find stability. Then, without warning, he vanished. Everyone assumed he had run away, a plausible scenario given his troubled past.
Toby's father searched for him, reaching out to relatives across the country in hopes of tracking him down. But Toby never turned up. When his father passed away, the search slowly faded into the background.
Decades later, a determined cousin became intrigued by the mystery surrounding Toby. As she dug deeper, she began to uncover startling truths that contradicted what she had been told. What she uncovered was not just puzzling, it was terrifying.
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| 0:00.0 | I believe that the time lapse is due to the family believing because of Toby's juvenile record that he ran away. |
| 0:21.6 | And we were all being told he ran away. |
| 0:24.6 | We all believed that and we all believed he would show up when he was 18. |
| 0:29.6 | Or even when his father died, we expected that. |
| 0:33.6 | Or when his mother passed, we expected that. |
| 0:36.6 | And he's never came forward. |
| 0:40.2 | There has been no contact. |
| 0:43.7 | He was still a child. |
| 0:46.5 | I think he needs peace. |
| 0:49.3 | He was a child. |
| 0:51.3 | He just needs to be found. |
| 0:53.8 | And I think our whole family needs to heal. |
| 0:57.3 | And maybe that's the only way we can get whatever is in those past is finding Toby and finding out the truth about my uncle. |
| 1:07.2 | 16-year-old Toby Anderson had found himself in some trouble during his teen years. |
| 1:12.6 | Toby's life wasn't easy, and he began to act out. |
| 1:16.6 | Toby was sent to a juvenile facility in Northern California, and was shifted around between different family members' homes. |
| 1:23.6 | Then he just disappeared, and everyone seemed to believe that he had run away, |
| 1:29.5 | since Toby had been in some trouble over the years. Running away didn't seem far-fetched. Toby's |
| 1:36.2 | father searched for him and contacted relatives in other states to see if he had turned up there, |
| 1:41.7 | but he never did. Then Toby's dad died, and not much was done to |
| 1:46.7 | really look for him as far as anyone is aware today. Decades later, a cousin took an interest in |
| 1:52.5 | finding Toby, after learning that some of what she had been told simply couldn't be true, |
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