The Mysterious Vanishing of the Sodder Children: A Christmas Eve Tragedy That Still Baffles the World
On Christmas Eve 1945, a terrible tragedy befell the Sodder family, a hard-working Italian-American family residing in Fayetteville, West Virginia. At the time, the family consisted of George and Jennie Sodder and their ten children, ranging in age from two to fourteen years old. However, five of the Sodder children vanished into thin air, never to be seen again, on that fateful night. The bizarre circumstances surrounding their disappearance continue to puzzle investigators and have left the Sodder family and the community in a state of shock and disbelief for decades.