On Christmas Eve 1945, a house fire in Fayetteville, West Virginia, erased five children from a family—and left behind more questions than ashes. Nearly a century later, the town still argues whether the Sodder children died that night… or vanished into something far darker.

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Writer: Mike Colucci

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