Location: Westfield, New Jersey 🌎
Story:
In 2014, Derek and Maria Broaddus fulfilled their dream, buying a $1.3 million Dutch Colonial home at 657 Boulevard for their three children. Three days later, a typewritten letter arrived: "Welcome… My grandfather watched this house in the 1920s, my father watched it in the 1960s, and now it is my turn." It was signed, The Watcher. More letters followed;sinister, intimate, referencing the children and the home's "hunger for young blood." The family installed security, hired ex-FBI agents, and suspected neighbors, including an elderly woman's reclusive son and a gamer using "The Watcher" as an online alias. But no evidence ever surfaced. 🏚
Twist:
Terrified, the Broadduses abandoned their dream home, unable to sleep or feel safe. They tried to sell, but the house's cursed reputation slashed its value. After five years of haunting uncertainty, they sold at a massive loss. To this day, The Watcher's identity remains unknown,no arrests, no convictions. The case stands as a modern ghost story, where the monster isn't in the shadows, but in the mailbox, and the most chilling threat isn't a break-in, but a letter asking, Have you found all the secrets it holds yet? Sometimes, the scariest houses aren't haunted by ghosts, but by watchers, real or imagined, who never let you feel at home. đź‘€