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The small town of Fayetteville, West Virginia has been haunted by a mysterious, and horrible, tragedy for 78 years.
Jennie and George Sodder had ten children by 1945. Some stories state that the oldest child had moved out, yet others say they were still living at the family home that year.
The Sodders lived just a couple miles outside of the small West Virginia town of Fayetteville, and they owned a trucking company.
Christmas Eve was a fairly normal evening, by most accounts. The family spent some time together, and then Jennie and George went to bed around 9:00 pm, with their 3-year-old. The older children stayed up for a bit and would go to bed a little later.
Jennie woke up at 12:30 a.m. to a strange phone call. It was a wrong number, but she had heard giggling in the background, almost as if it was a prank call. She hung up the phone, checked on her other kids, who had all fallen asleep by now, and then went back to bed.
Shortly after, she woke again to the sound of what she thought was a rock hitting the window. It was a little windy that night, and Jennie figured it was the wind causing the noise. She fell back asleep.
A half-hour later, she woke up to smoke pouring into her bedroom.
