The Sodder Children S2 Ep.042

On Christmas Eve, 1945, tragedy struck the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, when a fire destroyed their house. Five of the Sodder children were believed to have died in the blaze—but what happened afterward would turn the case into one of America's most enduring mysteries.

The family never accepted the official explanation that the children had simply perished in the fire. Questions surrounding the lack of recovered remains, reports of suspicious activity around the home, a telephone line that had been cut, and strange events surrounding the fire fueled decades of speculation. The Sodders eventually placed a billboard along a highway asking whether their missing children were still alive, keeping their search in the public eye for years.

In this episode of That’s Effin Weird, we dig into the timeline of the Christmas Eve fire, the investigation, the evidence that raised questions, and the theories that developed around the children's disappearance. Were the children victims of a tragic fire, or was something much more mysterious happening that night?

Decades later, the Sodder children remain at the center of one of America's strangest missing-person mysteries.

What do you think happened to the Sodder children?

Host: Stevenson Longbotom

Guest: none

Reference: What Happened to the Sodder Children, the Siblings Who Went Up in Smoke in a West Virginia House Fire?

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