On Christmas Eve 1945, George and Jennie Sodder & 9 of their 10 their children were sleeping peacefully in their home in Fayetteville West Virginia, when a sudden & devastating house fire tore through their two-story farmhouse and burned it to the ground in less than an hour.
6 members of the family escaped the flames unharmed….but 5 of the young Sodder siblings seemed to simply vanish into thin air. The mafia, snipped power lines, ,mysterious letters, a fire chief who doesn’t know how to operate a fire truck—this one is a real mind-bender y’all.
Sources for this episode:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/
https://thejohntravolta.medium.com/the-disappearance-of-the-sodder-children-dedda85e97a4
