Case file · High strangeness
Bobby Dunbar disappearance
Four-year-old Bobby Dunbar vanished at Swayze Lake, Louisiana, in August 1912; eight months later a boy found in Mississippi was declared to be him, despite a woman's claim that he was her son.
1912 CE · 30.55, -92.00 · status: explained
The account
Drifter William Walters was convicted of kidnapping. The boy grew up as Bobby Dunbar.
The sceptical view
DNA tests in 2004 showed the boy was not a Dunbar; the real Bobby's fate is still unknown.