Ep 59 - The Wrong Child

Haunted Hospitality

Four-year-old Bobby Dunbar disappeared during a family trip to Louisiana's Swayze Lake in the August of 1912. Everyone from his family to friends to strangers searched the lake for a week, using dynamite to unsettle the water in case it would bring his body to the surface. When they couldn't find him in the lake, his parents were left wondering what happened — did he drown in the water or was he out there somewhere, potentially in danger?

After eight months of sending out his photo to neighboring states and searching orphanages, the Dunbars got a telegram about a boy in Mississippi who looked just like their son. They weren't sure if it was Bobby when they first saw the boy, but they became certain soon after and took him back home with them. To almost everyone, this seemed like the happy ending to long, awful situation. There was just one loose end: a woman named Julia Anderson from North Carolina said they didn't have Bobby, that they had her son Bruce and she was his mother instead.

But before we get into this episode's main story, Zoey is here with a list of odd laws from every state we cover in this week's Something Southern.

Sources: https://hauntedhospitality.wordpress.com/2022/05/10/the-wrong-child/

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