The Sodder Family Mystery

On this episode of Expanded Perspectives Elite, the guys start the show off talking about how a person and they’re family had a terrifying encounter with Sasquatch near the Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota back in 1992. The large hairy beast was beating on the back of they’re RV and actually smashed out a window before the father took a shot at the thing with a pistol. They then fled the scene and drove 4 hours to get back home. Then, a man in Logan County Arkansas, reported seeing a large White Bigfoot! The man said “It was walking along a barbwire fence from my left to right, from one tree line to the other. I instantly crouched down and moved as quick as I could without drawing attention to myself.” The eyewitness said that the biped didn’t look at him and that he was able to see a few physical details but not its face. The hair was described as silvery white, similar in shades to aluminum foil.

After the break Cam talks about the Sodder Family Mystery. At 1am on Christmas Eve 1945, the Sodder family woke up to find their home in West Virginia was on fire. They managed to get four of their nine children out of the house safely, but, before they could get to the others, the stairwell caught fire, cutting off the upstairs. The father, George Sodder, rushed to get his ladder so he could reach the second floor from the outside and rescue the remaining five children from their rooms. The ladder was missing. Switching tactics, he went to get his trucks, thinking he might back them up to the side of the house, so he could reach the 2nd story window. They wouldn’t start, though they had been working just fine the day before. The Sodders tried to call the fire department, but got no response.

Eventually, some neighbors saw the smoke and went for the fire department. Within 45 minutes of the fire beginning, the house was a pile of ashes, but help didn’t arrive for nearly 7 hours. Firefighters searched the home, but found no remains – not even bones – and declared the 5 children dead. It is unclear whether a house fire can burn hot enough to completely consume bones – but that’s not the only reason the Sodder parents believed their children could still be alive. In the months leading up to the incident, not one, but two people had foretold that their home would burn down, including one who specifically threatened, “Your children are going to be destroyed. You are going to be paid for the dirty remarks you have been making about Mussolini.” The Sodder parents were both Italian immigrants and outspokenly anti-Fascist. Additionally, one of the older boys remembered having seen a strange man lurking by the road, watching the younger children walk home after school. Then there was the bizarre phone call they received from an unknown person, the very evening of the blaze. Since the fire, they’ve received tips and letters from people around the United States claiming to have seen their children.

All of this and more on this installment of Expanded Perspectives Elite!

Show Notes:

Bigfoot Attacks RV Near Mt. Rushmore https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2019/02/bigfoot-attacks-rv-neat-mt-rushmore.html
White Bigfoot Spotted in Arkansas http://cryptozoologynews.com/white-bigfoot-spotted-in-arkansas/
The Children Who Went Up In Smoke https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-children-who-went-up-in-smoke-172429802/

Music:

All music for Expanded Perspectives Elite is provided by The Black Angels http://theblackangels.com, Pretty Lights http://prettylightsmusic.com

Songs Used:

Young Men Dead (Black Angels)
Let The World Hurry By (Pretty Lights)
We Must Go On (Pretty Lights)
In The End (Tommee Profit)