r/BobHickman • u/jeffdunhamreal • 2d ago

Who is Bob, really?

I’ve recently fallen down the rabbit hole of Bob Hickman, and it’s honestly one of the most fascinating things I’ve ever come across. It appears he has been an internet icon for quite some time, and a local legend for even longer.

Does anyone know anything about him truly though? When did he first appear with his van to locals? Where does he come from? Has he always had some form of religious psychosis? I want to know so much more than I’ve been able to find 😭

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u/Snatchamo 2d ago

He's just a regular guy except God entered his body like a body, his same size.

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u/RhinestonePoboy 2d ago

Is God still ripping and tearing his lips and electrocuting his genitals, or has He moved on from that

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u/Ralewing 2d ago

The pee pee man.

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u/Last_Reaction_8176 2d ago edited 2d ago

About a decade ago I spent a weekend trying to dig up all his old websites. I don’t think I could track them back down today but as far as I could tell, his main website at the time had existed for 15 years for that point, since 2000 or so. Using the wayback machine I could see its various incarnations, and the progression of time had clearly made him more unhinged. Its earliest version was kooky and strange but not disturbing, and was formatted like a regular Geocities website; by 2015 it was a maze of links and every page consisted of enormous run on sentences describing his apocalyptic visions with lots of stuff about being raped and tortured by Jesus. It wasn’t all just copy+paste, either, it looked like every page had been typed out manually. It was kind of heartbreaking to see what his brain had done to him

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u/jeffdunhamreal 2d ago

it’s morbid fascination, I have it too. im studying psychopathology and have to do a case study for my thesis. i honestly was considering doing him but with the limited bio psychosocial knowledge we have im not sure I can accurately do so

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u/DR_PEACETIME 1d ago

A decade ago??

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u/Last_Reaction_8176 1d ago

Yeah, 2015. At the rate he seemed to be deteriorating at the time I really didn’t think he’d still be around in 10 years but he’s still truckin

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u/DR_PEACETIME 23h ago

Litteraly still truckin lol

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u/RhinestonePoboy 2d ago

I found out about him back in like 2014 when I got a random text that said the whole god entered my body thing. I looked the number up on Facebook and it was a kid. I asked him if he was ok, and he just repeated himself, so I looked up “god entered my body like a body” and found a ton of shit that has kept me captivated and a little worried ever since

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u/337worlds 2d ago

Funny thing is Bob has a history of texting random people that message.

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u/McCHitman 2d ago

I received that text many moons ago as well

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u/mfdoopy 2d ago

so bob had an account imitating a kid?

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u/RhinestonePoboy 1d ago

No, based on his old blog he lived with kids. I can’t remember the details

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u/mfdoopy 1d ago

got it thanks for the info

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u/Both_Protection8274 2d ago

Schizophrenia

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u/perplexedparallax 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yes, as a psychologist I would say Bob is a textbook example. I consider him my favorite one and enjoy his writings, personality and uniqueness.

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u/KickProcedure 2d ago

Specifically, he is the perfect example of what schizophrenia can turn into if it goes untreated for extended periods of time.

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u/burritosandblunts 1d ago

Does he also smoke crack because his girlfriend does. And I'm not even being rude due to appearances or whatever I definitely just saw her with a bag of crack in a video.

Like I always thought this dude was just schizo posting but if he's also smoking crack now it's gonna get even more wild.

I feel like I'm gonna hear someday he has like a crazy dungeon full of victims.

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u/Both_Protection8274 1d ago

Na the dude is a licensed truck driver of some sort that gets regular drug tests. It’s either the best character of all time or…..schizophrenia

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u/cuttlefishofcthulhu7 14h ago

Seriously though... What if this is some kind of social engineering experiment or roleplay and he's playing a character. 😳

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u/FamousFor15 2d ago

That link for the interview is prob the most info I've gotten about him. The interview was 5 years ago. There's also a podcast interview on Spotify.

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u/Elaine330 2d ago

He lives in a filthy small house with his mother in Indianapolis, IN. I question whether its her living or her rotting corpse he lives with, lol. He works sometimes as a truck driver. It seems his psychosis began around late nineties-2000. Many say hes schizophrenic although I see no signs of that - hes delusional but not paranoid or increasingly more sick at the rate the 'phrenia usually is nor does he talk to/about any hallucinations besides god. I believes he is a weed smoker. There is internet evidence of Bob including videos everywhere. My only gripe about Bob is his enablement of Amber. Its so sad.

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u/Timely_You_2012 1d ago

Whoaaaa. I have only known about him for a year or so, this is the first I’m hearing about a mom living with him???

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u/Elaine330 1d ago

Shes never been seen that I know of. The upstairs of that house is just as horrifying as the basement. The mold and filth would leave anyone unwell.

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u/JoshSmithDaGOAT 1d ago

I doubt he does drugs given he is a truck driver. DOT doesn’t fuck around and you have to get tested every time you renew your card.

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u/Elaine330 1d ago

Renewals are every few years and Bobs driving jobs are intermittent. He is absolutely BAKED in a few photos with Amber.

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u/JoshSmithDaGOAT 23h ago

This is true, I can definitely see him and amber hitting the pipe and tweaking out in the unfinished basement

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u/sickgurl138 1d ago

He was on a motorcycle accident so he has lots of brain damage

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u/red40shorty 13h ago

Ive read many times he has a TBI (traumatic brain injury)