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Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee to talk about Nicholas Barclay, the 13-year-old child who went missing from San Antonia, Texas. The family was mourning the loss when miraculously three years later, someone turned up. Supposedly Nicholas was found in Spain! Only problem, it was not Nicholas and instead was “the chameleon”, an imposter from France. Frédéric Bourdin was the person pretending to be the lost teen, and this is that story.
Be sure to check out our other podcast recommendations:
True Crime Guys at @truecrimeguys on IG
Strange & Unexplained at @sandupodcast on IG
Our sources for this episode:
https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/missing/8-things-to-know-about-the-nicholas-barclay-disappearance-and-ensuing-deception
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/imposter-netflix-frederic-bourdin-nicholas-barclay-b2269897.html
https://historicflix.com/frederic-bourdin-historys-greatest-imposter/
https://www.grunge.com/460699/frederic-bourdin-the-crazy-true-story-of-a-serial-impostor/
https://charleyproject.org/case/nicholas-patrick-barclay
https://historybyday.com/human-stories/the-true-story-of-a-missing-boy-and-his-imposter/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/08/11/the-chameleon-annals-of-crime-david-grann
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Welcome to Cryptic Soup, your after-dark podcast. In this week's episode, join Thena and Kylee to talk about Nicholas Barclay, the 13-year-old child who went missing from San Antonia, Texas. The family was mourning the loss when miraculously three years later, someone turned up. Supposedly Nicholas was found in Spain! Only problem, it was not Nicholas and instead was “the chameleon”, an imposter from France. Frédéric Bourdin was the person pretending to be the lost teen, and this is that story.
Be sure to check out our other podcast recommendations:
True Crime Guys at @truecrimeguys on IG
Strange & Unexplained at @sandupodcast on IG
Our sources for this episode:
https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/missing/8-things-to-know-about-the-nicholas-barclay-disappearance-and-ensuing-deception
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/imposter-netflix-frederic-bourdin-nicholas-barclay-b2269897.html
https://historicflix.com/frederic-bourdin-historys-greatest-imposter/
https://www.grunge.com/460699/frederic-bourdin-the-crazy-true-story-of-a-serial-impostor/
https://charleyproject.org/case/nicholas-patrick-barclay
https://historybyday.com/human-stories/the-true-story-of-a-missing-boy-and-his-imposter/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/08/11/the-chameleon-annals-of-crime-david-grann
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