On Christmas Eve, 1945, the Sodder home burned to the ground. Both the parents and 5 of the 10 children made it out. As for the remaining 5, no evidence was found that they were in the house when it burned down. But that wasn’t all about that night that makes no sense.

The father, George, tried to use his coal truck to get them out, but it was inoperable during the fire, but not before or after. Their phone lines were also cut. Then, there was a woman in the neighbourhood claimed to have seen them in a passing car leaving the scene, while a hotel worker in Charleston, SC said that 4 of the 5 kids were checked into her hotel a week after the fire.

There are rumours abound on what really happened, but the last remaining Sodder child, Sylvia, knows in her heart that her brothers and sisters survived the fire and are still out there somewhere.