This is the story of the Sodder family, a family of nine children living in Fayetteville, West Virginia in 1945. On Christmas Eve of that year, the family's house mysteriously burned to the ground, leaving no trace of the five Sodder children who were believed to have been
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Early Christmas morning, December 25, 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder residence in Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States. At the time, it was occupied by George Sodder, his wife Jennie, and nine of their ten children. During the fire, George, Jennie, and four of the nine children escaped. The bodies of the other five children have never been found. The surviving Sodder family believed for the rest of their lives that the five missing children survived.