Sodder Children: Roasted or Alive One night, Christmas Eve to be exact, a life changing tragedy took place in Fayetteville, West Virginia. A family of twelve, one being in the army, went to bed only to be awoken by flames later that night. Once the house was in ashes, five out of the nine children were missing and never to be seen again. Although some believe that the Sodder Family house fire resulted in the five children dying, the fact that no bones were found, multiple witnesses have spotted them with two Italian men and women, further communication was kept, and the fact that they received mysterious foreshadowing threats led many to think differently. After the fire, naturally the family assumed that their five children were dead. A small search through the ashes of the house turned up with no remains. Jennie Sodder, mother, did not and could not believe that they turned up with nothing. “She conducted a private experiment, burning animal bones…” (Abbott). She did this to see if the fire can consume the bones, …show more content…
After the fire, the family started to recognize a large collection of odd moments leading up to and following that fearful night. “A woman claimed to have seen the missing children peering from a passing car while the fire was in progress” (Abbott). Another woman who owned a tourist shop 50 miles away from Fayetteville said she fed the children breakfast the day after the fire. A different lady at a Charleston hotel saw the children’s photo in the paper and claimed to have seen four out of the five of them a week after the fire. They were accompanied by two Italian men and two Italian women. Registering about midnight, she tried to talk to the children in a friendly manner but the men became hostile and refused communication. Sources say that they left early the next morning. If the children were supposedly spotted three times, could they have still been
On the way over to burglarize the home, the group of 5 juveniles rode their bikes and stop on the way to feed some ducks, then dumped their bikes in some bushes. At the last minute, two of the five juveniles took off. Leaving behind Kane, who didn’t want to be labeled a scaredy-cat, and 19 year old Alvin Morton and 17 year old Bobby Garner. The group of juveniles expected the house to be empty, but found 75 year old Madeline Weisser, and her son 55 John Bowers were in fact at home.
Strange things began to happen the next couple days. First, Joey was in the living room of Grandma’s house making a jig saw puzzle. He heard the sound of a horses hooves walking slowly on the street then the sound stopped in front of the house and heard someone put something in Grandma’s mail box. Joey heard the horse walk away and a little while later Grandma’s mailbox blew up. Next, Ms. Wilcox’s outhouse was destroyed by a cherry bomb. Then, a dead mouse was found floating in the bottle of milk that was delivered to the front
Tragically, the butchered upper-torso of Winter’s once-robust body was stumbled upon by his father, who had noticed the absence of his son since Sunday, March 11 (Smith 2002, 25-26). Unsurprisingly, an investigation occurred to obtain the identity and whereabouts of the murderer. When the various pieces of the body are found in differing areas of the town, theory begins to formulate that the murder was conducted by one of the two butchers in town; Adolph Lewy, a Jew, and Gustav Hoffman, a Christian, due to the precision of the cuts made upon Winter’s body (Smith 28).
Jeannette still remembers waking up in that hospital, the doctors all around her watching her wake. She was just three years old when the incident happened. During the incident, she had been making hot dogs, when all of a sudden, flames from the stove crawled up her little pink dress and lit her on fire. Her mother's activities were interrupted when she heard the sharp, painful screams coming from Jeannette. Her mother grabs her and her brother and gets a ride to the hospital.
The three witches are being punished for their witchcraft in 1693 as they were taking the souls of countless children. 300 years later, on Halloween, a skeptical boy by the name of Max, his younger sister Dani, and his school crush Allison go to investigate the Sanderson sisters house to see if any kind of supernatural things take place. While in the house Max lights the black candle, not truly believing that anything would happen, but the Sanderson sisters come back to life, and this would be the beginning of chaos striking the city of Salem and all the children within it.
After the family got into the car and were on their way, the grandmother remembered an old house that she had went to when she was a young lady and, being selfish once again, she took it upon herself to try and convince Bailey to stop at the house. She remembered many things about the house but “knew Bailey would not be willing to lose any time looking at an old house” (189) so she sweetened the story of the house up by stating that it had “a secret panel in this house” (190). That little white lie that she happened to throw into the mix sparked the kids up like a wildfire on a hot summer day. The children started kicking and chanting that they want to go see the house that grandmother had been talking about. They wanted to see the secret panel and they wouldn’t stop until they saw it. Little did the kids know, but their own selfish grandmother who lied about the secret panel and just wanted to go there to see if her memory served her right and had just manipulated them. She made them do her bidding for her and just when she thought that they were so close to the house “a horrible thought came to her. The thought was so embarrassing that she turned red in the face and her eyes dilated…The horrible thought she had…was that the house she had remembered so vividly was not in Georgia but in Tennessee” (191). She realized her selfishness got the better of her while
It was Sunday October 8th about 8:45pm, when Daniel “Peg Leg” Sullivan went to visit the O’Learys’ house only to find out they were asleep. So Sullivan walked across the street to Thomas White’s house and sat down to lean against the fence. The wind was very strong that night and there was a party at the McLaughlin’s to celebrate the arrival of a relative from Ireland. Sullivan decided to go home when he noticed a fire in the O’Learys’ barn. He started shouting, “FIRE!” as loud as he could and ran to the barn to save the five cows, horse, and calf inside. As he did, his peg leg got stuck in the floorboards. He hung onto the calf as they made their way out (13, 14,15).
Finally, Whenever pa wasn't near i guess he left a bucket of karesen on the oven and well ma got a little fire on her and went outside then Billie Jo thought “well i should get rid of this karesen” so she threw it outside and her mom was there and she didn’t know so her mom was on fire so Billie Jo tried to pat her down which burnt her hands, her mom survived for a few days then she gave birth to her baby then died and before anyone could take the baby he died and then Billie Jo and her Dad began to go into a big depression for a while
A couple of minutes later Jennie woke up to the smell of smoke and started yelling for her husband to wake up (The Mystery of 5 Missing Sodder Children). When George Sodder got up , he went to get his ladder to save his kids but it wasn’t there, so when he went to go get his trucks to help neither would work ( MacGowan, The Sodder Children Mystery). Even though only five of the 10 children got out of the house, no bones or body parts were found in the rubble(The Mystery of 5 Missing Sodder Children). Some believe that the children just died in the fire, but most think something very different
On December 18, 1975, more than a year after the terrible murders, a family of five moved in. They were George and Kathy Lutz and their children Daniel, 9, Christopher, 7 and Missy 5. Twenty eight days later the family fled the house, claiming it was haunted.
One of the most successful and influential early childhood educational strategies that have been used to promote children’s social and cognitive development is scaffolding. Scaffolding generally refers to the process through which adults facilitate children’s learning by enabling them achieve a level of ability beyond the child’s capacity at the time (Scarlett, 2005). This essay will discuss how scaffolding facilitates and supports meaning making in children’s play. First, the essay will briefly introduce the concept of scaffolding and its importance in children’s development. The essay will then explore various early childhood educational theories that support or acknowledge the role played by scaffolding, the view of children as learners capable of constructing meaning and the importance of teacher presence in a play based curriculum. The essay will examine scaffolding through the theoretical lens of the philosophy of Reggio Emilia, the constructivist theories of Lev Vygotsky and Jean Piaget and Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences. The essay will argue that all examined theories support the role of scaffolding in facilitating and supporting meaning making in children’s play and emphasize the importance of teacher presence in all areas of the curriculum, especially in a play based curriculum.
They went after another one. A boy, about 18. His name was Danny Mahealani. He was found in bread also. They found what’s left of his body in a dumpster outside of the town’s power plant.They found Allison’s outside of the sewage plant. But they haven’t found Cora’s. There is no fingerprints on any of the bodies or bread. No hair traces. Nothing. It’s like they don't exist.
	A few miles off the cost of Cape Cod, sits the island of Nantucket. On this island, during the 1600’s lived the Haley family. Tom Haley was the only tobacco farmer on the island and due to this fact they were extremely wealthy. Their estate was the largest on Nantucket and was located right over a beautiful cliff. Tom and his wife Janice ate breakfast every morning at 6:00am everyday with their son Garnet. Late Thursday night a storm was getting very close to their house until a bright fist from the heavens stroked down on their chimney and collapsing the house, killing the entire Haley family. As the legend of the family goes their souls were not able to escape the rubble and float into the sky. Therefore their soul will inhabit the house until their able to escape. Their souls will reside there until they find another soul to watch over the house.
the novel stories are told of the victims’ families and survivors trying to keep living their lives
Evidently the night of the attack had not been the only strange occurrence. Just a town over from the gated community there was another suburb with a particular blue house that had a large oak tree in the small back yard. It was morning when a small child was discovered under the tree nearly buried in the snow. That child was Fin.