What really happened to the real Bobby Dunbar?
The Unbelievable Mystery of Bobby Dunbar: The Boy Who Never Came Home In the summer of 1912 , a family trip to Louisiana turned into one of the strangest and most heartbreaking mysteries in American history. The Disappearance Four-year-old Bobby Dunbar vanished while on a fishing trip with his family near Swayze Lake. His parents, Percy and Lessie Dunbar, searched desperately, and the story quickly made national headlines. For months, search parties combed the swamps, dragged the lake, and followed every rumor — but Bobby was nowhere to be found. The Miracle “Return” Eight long months later, a boy was found in Mississippi with a man named William Cantwell Walters , a traveling handyman. The child resembled Bobby, and despite Walters insisting the boy was actually Bruce Anderson , the son of a woman who worked for his family, the Dunbars were convinced this was their missing son. After a brief legal battle, the boy was declared Bobby Dunbar and reunited with the Dunbars....