Five children vanished after a mysterious house fire on Christmas Eve, 1945. The Sodder family was left with questions that were never fully answered.

What happened that night? Were the children really killed in the fire, or was something else going on?

Listen to the full mystery and explore the clues, unanswered questions, and theories surrounding the disappearance of the Sodder children.

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Christmas Eve, 1945.

A family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, caught fire in the middle of the night.

Four children escaped.

But five children were believed to be trapped upstairs.

When the fire was over, the five children were gone.

No confirmed remains were recovered.

Then came a missing ladder, trucks that reportedly would not start, questions surrounding the telephone line, reported sightings, and years later, a mysterious photograph.

Did the five children die in the fire?

Or were they taken before the house was destroyed?

Decades later, the case remains unresolved.

This is the Sodder Children Mystery — one of America’s most enduring unsolved mysteries.

Listen to the full story on True Tales HQ.

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