What Happened to the Sodder Children?
The Sodder Children case is one of the most puzzling and mysterious cases in American history.
On the night of December 24, 1945, the Sodder family, consisting of George and Jennie Sodder and their ten children, went to bed after celebrating Christmas Eve. A few hours later, their house caught fire, and five of their children, aged 5 to 14, disappeared without a trace.
The cause of the fire was never definitively determined, but it was believed to have started from faulty wiring. What is really strange is that no remains of the children were ever found in the ashes. Despite the fact that the fire department and the local authorities searched the site, no bodies or bones were discovered.
The case became even more mysterious when the Sodders started to receive strange phone calls from people claiming to have seen their missing children.
Some callers demanded ransom money in exchange for the children’s release, but the Sodders never complied.
Another strange detail of the case is that a few months before the fire, a strange man visited the Sodders’ home…