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://www.huffpost.com/entry/sodder-children-disappearance-unsolved-mystery_n_6574961ae4b09724b4345a46

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/mystery/5-curious-details-about-the-missing-sodder-children

https://thejohntravolta.medium.com/the-disappearance-of-the-sodder-children-dedda85e97a4

https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/print/Article/510

wikepedia.org/wiki/Sodder_children_dissapearance