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May 6, 2026

The Sodder Children Disappearance

The Sodder Children Disappearance
The Sodder Children Disappearance
Still Unexplained
The Sodder Children Disappearance

On Christmas Eve 1945, five children vanished from a burning house in Fayetteville, West Virginia, and left behind no remains. The Sodder family spent decades insisting their children had survived, pointing to a missing ladder, two trucks that would not start, cut telephone wires, and a threat made against their father just months before the fire. Then a photograph arrived in the mail in 1967. Still Unexplained explores one of the most haunting cold cases in American history, and the question that never quite goes away: what does a house fire erase, and what does it leave behind?