Story 1. What happened to the Sodder Children?

During the dying days of 1945, the small town of Fayetteville in West Virginia played host to a horrendous tragedy. A huge blaze

blaze tore through a local household, seemingly claiming the lives of five young children in the process.

But the failure of authorities to locate their remains, coupled with a series of bizarre

occurrences in the aftermath of the incident, ultimately posed the question, what happened to the

Sodda Children? So, And then. growing tired from shoveling and sifting through the smoldering ruins.

Forest Judson Morris finally stopped what he was doing and decided it was time for a break.

Unbuttoning the heavy overcoat and removing his helmet,

he made his way out of the smoldering to Bree in search of something to drink.

The house had already been completely destroyed by the time that he and Fayetteville's

other volunteer firefighters had arrived on the scene.

It had taken far too long for the men to

assemble and it was unfortunate that the cruise driver had been the last one to

arrive, wasting further precious minutes.

whilst unloading their equipment to the night before, they had looked on as the police officers had unsuccessfully attempted to restrain the head of the family nearby.

George Sodda's arm was bleeding profusely from where he had smashed a window in a failed effort to save his children from

inside the fiery inferno. His face was plastered with Grim and Sutt, save for the stark tear tracks beneath his eyes,

and his voice was completely lost from hours of anguished and unanswered cries.

Of the nine young children who had been asleep in their beds at the time the fire broke out,

only four were accounted for.

Unsure of how he was meant to proceed in a situation like this, Morris had put a call into the Regional Fire

Marshal who had told him to search the ruins for evidence of how the blaze had started

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