Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy

Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy

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. What happens when the life you made collides with the life you lost? Stop Rewind: The Lost Boy 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. Taj 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 away . Told through rare original recordings, immersive sound design and unforgettable first-person testimony, Stop Rewind is a story of a stolen childhood, the quest for truth, the triumph of love and the long road to belonging. This ten part series is published weekly on Mondays, but all episodes available early and ad -free to subscribers on Apple Podcasts.

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August 28, 2025 2 mins
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 away – until one day when he discove...
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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 with some bigger boys. He’s kidnap...
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September 22, 2025 37 mins
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: ⁠@BlanchardHouseStories⁠ X (formerly Twitte...
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September 29, 2025 34 mins
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. Contact: Facebook: ⁠@Blanchard...
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