The Bobby Dunbar Disappearance (1912)
What a Creep
Margo Donohue
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
“The Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar” (1912)
Season 29, Episode 1
Margo & Sonia love us a creepy historical crime, and what is more puzzling than the case of Bobby Dunbar? In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar vanished during a family trip to Swayze Lake, Louisiana, sparking a massive search. Eight months later, a boy resembling Bobby was found with a handyman, William Walters, who insisted the child was Bruce Anderson, the son of Julia Anderson. Despite her claims, the Dunbars took the boy and raised him as Bobby. In 2004, DNA testing confirmed he was not biologically related to the Dunbars, meaning the real Bobby Dunbar's fate remains unknown, making this one of history’s most haunting cases of mistaken identity.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to What a Creep, the show with Margotonio and Sonia Mansfield, talking about creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:08.4 | This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes, and losers, the best of the worst. |
| 0:14.6 | From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy. Welcome back to What a Creep. This is Margo Donahue, |
| 0:29.7 | and my cohort in Creepatutas always is the amazing Sonia Mansfield. Hey, Sonia. Hello, my friend. |
| 0:35.1 | Hello, my friend. We are the podcast that talks about creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:39.1 | Today, we're talking about creepy history. |
| 0:41.3 | It's a disappearance from over 100 years ago in America's Gothic South. |
| 0:47.2 | I love it when Marco does creepy history. |
| 0:51.9 | It's just, that's my jam, y'all. |
| 0:53.8 | So we're going to be talking about that today. But just in case this is your first time listening, just so you know, we always end every single episode with somebody or something that is not a creep. So you leave feeling a little bit better about the world. We don't want you feeling too depressed when you're done listening to us talking about our stuff. |
| 1:15.0 | We are always looking for suggestions for creeps and also for non-creep. So this is our social media callouts. We have a basic Facebook page, but that's where people go to complain |
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