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Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy

Blanchard House / Curiouscast 11 episodes Latest Nov 17, 2025

A kidnapped child whispers dark secrets from his past into a cassette tape in a language no one around him understands. Decades later, that lost cassette tape resurfaces and reveals the terrifying truth that he’s not the person everyone thinks he is. The podcast tells the true story of Taj, a child in India who was taken from his family and sent to an adoptive family half a world away. Through rare original recordings and immersive sound design, it explores a stolen childhood, the quest for truth, and the long road to belonging.

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Only For The Truth | 10 Nov 17, 2025 2672 Time may heal old wounds but as much as Taj wants to make peace with the past old wounds and family feuds remain. Can you really belong to two families at once when you feel like you are two different people? How does Taj fits in in this new world that has taken a lifetime to discover? Contact: Facebook: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ Instagram: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ X (formerly Twitter):

All That I Have Is Yours | 9 Nov 10, 2025 2642 What happens when the story you thought you knew has extra chapters you never read? Taj discovers a second cassette tape in his basement, and becomes furious when his whole identity is once again shattered and thrown into turmoil. Who’s telling the truth and who’s telling lies? Fred and Linda make plans to visit India, and Taj fears his two worlds are on about to collide. Contact: Faceboo

The Prodigal Son | 8 Nov 3, 2025 2408 Blood is thicker than water. Taj retraces his footsteps and hazy memories of Chellamuthu come back into focus, as Linda remembers a dark secret Taj once told her as a child. Will he get the reunion he’s been longing for all this time? And where does this leave Fred and Linda, Taj’s adoptive parents? Contact: Facebook: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ Instagram: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ X (formerl

Show Me The Right Path | 7 Oct 27, 2025 2232 Taj’s suppressed memories resurface and he’s sure he knows where he really is now. Are all the people claiming they know Chellamuthu’s family genuine friends or crooked chancers? And while Chellamuthu’s returned home, how will he know if anyone is still looking for him? Contact: Facebook: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ Instagram: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ X (formerly Twitter): ⁠@BlanchardTweets⁠

All the Forces of Darkness | 6 Oct 20, 2025 2398 An invitation to a wedding sees Taj back in India. He is determined to hunt down his family and unravel his past. So why won’t Priya's family help him? As dead ends and disappointments spiral, Taj feels more lost than ever. Will he ever find the place that Chellamuthu called home? Contact: Facebook: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ Instagram: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ X (formerly Twitter): ⁠@Bl

More Precious Than Jewels | 5 Oct 13, 2025 2428 Taj’s teenage years become difficult, until the LDS church sends him on a mission to London, England. When he arrives he gets a massive wake up call about who he really is and where he belongs. He returns home when a beautiful Indian girl called Priya walks into his life. He has no idea that she holds the key to something far more important than his heart when she finds his old cassette tape.

A New Testament | 4 Oct 6, 2025 2168 Chellamuthu gets a whole new identity as Taj Khyber Rowland. He also finally he finds his voice, and drops a bombshell on his adoptive parents. But as Taj becomes more integrated in his American life, Chellamuthu’s memories begin to blur and fade. Is it time to forget who he was and bury his dream of going home forever? Contact: Facebook: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ Instagram: ⁠@BlanchardHo

The Promised Land | 3 Sep 29, 2025 2074 How can you love someone new when you still ache for what you have lost? A terrified Chellamuthu arrives in America, Fred and Linda Rowland shower him with love and gifts but are baffled why he just won’t settle. Linda decides to record Chellamuthu speaking Tamil but no one around him understands the secrets the child tells the tape and soon he will forever block the language from his memories

A Father To The Fatherless | 2 Sep 22, 2025 2266 Chellamuthu finds himself at an orphanage, hundreds of miles from home. He’s told to forget he ever had a family. Meanwhile, far away in America, Fred and Linda Rowland are excited. They’ve been approved to adopt a child from India; a toddler with no parents who was found begging on the streets, have they been told the truth? Contact: Facebook: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ Instagram: ⁠@Blancha

Through A Glass Darkly | 1 Sep 15, 2025 2229 Taj Khyber Rowland knows he’s not who people think he is but he can’t quite remember how his life went so off course. He decides to spool backwards, to his younger self. A daredevil seven year old Chellamuthu, living happily, but in abject poverty, with his large family in rural India. But when Chellamuthu disobeys his mother and goes to play at the bus station, he’s persuaded to board a bus w

Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy - Sept. 15 Aug 28, 2025 147 Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy tells the true story about Taj, a child in India who was taken from his family and adopted half a world away. Although his adoptive family initially knew nothing of his past, he never forgot who he really was – or that he was taken. But without the language or tools to return, and with no one who understood his story, the details faded, and Taj’s past was quietly boxed a

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