The True Story of The Watcher

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  • Netflix recently released The Watcher, a re-telling of the unsolved case of The Westfiled Watcher. In this episode of The Tape Library, I'll be taking a look at the real life mystery of The Watcher and telling you what actually happened at 657 Boulevard.
    The original reports and updates on The Westfiled Watcher case -
    www.thecut.com/article/the-ha...
    www.thecut.com/2022/10/the-wa...
    00:00 - Ryan Murphy & Netflix
    01:50 - It Begins
    04:06 - The First Letter
    08:30 - The Woods
    10:59 - The Second Letter
    14:37 - The Third Letter
    17:11 - The Langfords
    19:27 - You Can Never Leave
    20:51 - The Forth Letter
    23:10 - New Blood
    Do you have a supernatural story to share? Drop me an email at thetapelibrary@protonmail.com
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    Archive of the Paranormal, the strange and the unexplained. The Tape Library brings you the creepiest stories, to keep you horror junkies up all night. True tales of ghosts, cryptids, UFOs and true crime.
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  • @TheTapeLibrary
    @TheTapeLibrary  ปีที่แล้ว +25

    If you've already seen it, what did you think of the Netflix show?

    • @less.7147
      @less.7147 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Only a few episodes in but not sure I'm a big fan. Too different from the real story

    • @toriladybird511
      @toriladybird511 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not yet... But will now😬

    • @rabbitcaroline666
      @rabbitcaroline666 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Boring. I wish Murphy had chosen more talented actors.

    • @herbiehopkins
      @herbiehopkins ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Terrible, I gave up on it after the first episode.

    • @kewllink3586
      @kewllink3586 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      It was absolute garbage. The part where John List showed up I was like wtf is going on. Yes. I get it he's from Westfield. But come on.

  • @melliemel151
    @melliemel151 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    The Watcher’s first letter through a voice modulator is truly terrifying! 😳

  • @steppy3736
    @steppy3736 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    I suspect this was a competing bidder. Trying to frighten the new owners out of the house while knocking down the asking price.

  • @BaneHuntress
    @BaneHuntress 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

    and all they needed was doorbell cameras.

    • @Jane-West
      @Jane-West 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Yeah, that's really been a game changer😂😂😂

    • @LP-iy5mv
      @LP-iy5mv 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They had cameras

    • @Meladjusted
      @Meladjusted 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      He said the owner put security cameras up all around the house.

  • @jemmajemma7130
    @jemmajemma7130 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    I live next door to Westfeild and my good friend lives in Westfeild. Neither of us could continue watching the Netflix version. It was not true to the story. The Watcher makes me angry, not scared. Some disgruntled jerk. Apparently the Westfeild school district teaches about The Watcher and the John List case. Another Westfeild excellent story.

    • @teresayates8274
      @teresayates8274 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I lived in Westfield, and the story was a bit exaggerated. Everyone believes it was some of the neighbors.

    • @coffeecrimegal5968
      @coffeecrimegal5968 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      These stories are always exaggerated for dramatic purposes! It’s Hollywood.
      I find it odd that a public school district would teach children about this case or the List case especially? Why would they do this? For what purpose?
      And with respect unless you say that you yourself are part of that family, you really don’t know what all happened or really didn’t for that matter! Just because you live in Westfield…. How many people reside in that town?!

    • @iaminpainauchocolat9300
      @iaminpainauchocolat9300 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The call was coming from inside the house

  • @johnkronos6435
    @johnkronos6435 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Dude, your channel's visual slides and general editing style is 10/10

  • @williamfoote1609
    @williamfoote1609 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +149

    It was all the neighbors in conjunction. Think about it. From what I have read, seen and gathered they thought the family was going to tear the house down and build two on the same lot. So, before they could do anything the neighbors decided to scare the family away. It was all of them in cahoots with each other. Which is why the last letter discussed “an army”.

    • @WitchyUmeko
      @WitchyUmeko 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      I totally agrees with you, it feels like the whole neighborhood wanting them out.

    • @kewllink3586
      @kewllink3586 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      They didn't have plans to make two properties on the land until well after the letters started arriving.

    • @williamfoote1609
      @williamfoote1609 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@kewllink3586, yes. The neighbors likely thought differently though.

    • @tryxszn
      @tryxszn 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      even in one of the first letter it said many cars pass by a day, mabye im one of them. so thats what made me think it was everybody around that house

    • @kewllink3586
      @kewllink3586 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @@williamfoote1609 I'm a realtor in NY. I can tell you that new owners of a home that needs to be updated like the one in Westfield, gets updated immediately by them. Especially in affluent areas, where said owners can afford to live somewhere else while the construction is ongoing. I myself had a client who purchased a luxury unit in Mamaroneck by the harbor, that wasn't updated since the 1960s. They went into the unit, and saw the potential of what it could be turned into, and then, they hired professionals to go about updating and modernizing everything to their standards, while they lived in their house in Westchester. This a common thing. Unless you're saying that everyone in that affluent area of Westfield were psychopaths, your argument is invalid.

  • @blackfyre8516
    @blackfyre8516 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

    Why wouldnt they put up surveillance cameras around the house especially one pointed at the mailbox? This was 2014 so that kind of equipment could have been had for pretty cheap

    • @rjsullivan3869
      @rjsullivan3869 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Yeah an easy thing to do...so easy seems it had to be the owner

    • @rebeccalaff853
      @rebeccalaff853 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      There's a lot of sketch in this story.

    • @mariigarcia022
      @mariigarcia022 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😅

    • @unropednope4644
      @unropednope4644 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Why? So it can pick up the mailman delivering the letters? They weren't put in the mailbox by the watcher, they were mailed.

    • @funk_face4744
      @funk_face4744 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You’re wrong. It wasn’t that cheap or effective in 2014.

  • @jared1870
    @jared1870 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    TH-cam would never have suggested this channel if I searched for it but now that I am laid up I am glad that I found it. This story was certainly disturbing and I could see where skeptics would accuse the family of being more Lutzes, but where I live we had an elderly couple just like the watcher. The slightest change in a 10-block area sent them bonkers, so when something did happen, we all knew who was responsible.

  • @Tommy-gh5dj
    @Tommy-gh5dj 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    The watcher mentioned that he used to run thru the halls of 657 Boulevard...you could go and check the historic records of the families who owned 657 Boulevard in the past....see if they had any kids...get names...or it's the neighbors kids who were friends with the kids living in 657 Boulevard....it would take a little bit of research...it can be done...

  • @MissLisaBowes
    @MissLisaBowes 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    My guess is someone’s parents could not afford to keep that house and they are bitter about it. That’s what I think…may be even someone who lives in a lesser house on the street. I feel that is why there was talk about greed. It could also be more than one person on that street. I think someone is bitter about not being able to have it, and they don’t want anyone else to have it. It is a weird ass story!

    • @Meladjusted
      @Meladjusted 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That was always my guess. Used to be a generational home and someone lost it to the bank. Now that person's adult child psychologically terrorizes whoever moves in.

  • @margopaton3240
    @margopaton3240 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    What you said at the end gave me chills. It always crosses my mind that we don’t know whether anyone is watching or snooping around. I just closed my blinds at the back. It would surprise you who sees more than we know. I watched this on Netflix but I’ve forgotten some of it. I love those mysterious stories when they are true. That sounds bad though, as it’s st someone else’s expense. I don’t wish that on anyone. It’s so strange.

  • @Mikita_95
    @Mikita_95 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I haven't watched the Netflix series. But I have heard this story, or versions of, by other youtubers. I find it so fascinating by the fact no one ever knew who the watcher was. Its so creepy. I cannot imagine what the family must of felt like receiving those letters.
    This was a good version of this story. As always your voice is so soothing. Thank you for another great video!! Looking forward to the next one!

    • @MadeYouMad
      @MadeYouMad 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      There’s a rumor saying that it was done by the family so they don’t pay ( I forget the rest)

    • @user-ox2ir6xr6f
      @user-ox2ir6xr6f 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I love this show man..seen many hounted seasons but seen the true story about them in this show..Great Job man..continue that..i subscribed

    • @rebeccalaff853
      @rebeccalaff853 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Must of? Omg please read a book

    • @Xx_aXtion_xX
      @Xx_aXtion_xX 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It was the family living there faking it to get out of buying it bc it was a bad purchase

  • @Samu25
    @Samu25 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I really enjoy these types of "true event" mystery videos. Good work, keep it up.

    • @TheTapeLibrary
      @TheTapeLibrary  ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Glad you enjoyed it! Loads more planned for the future.

    • @KristinaKarina
      @KristinaKarina 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TheTapeLibraryYes, really well done. Especially the film clips inserted to represent the watcher - creepy!

  • @musicinthewildwood
    @musicinthewildwood ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I really appreciate the professionalism of this new channel! Evocative and super well done. I'm meditating a horror channel of my own, feeling rather lost, and seeking inspiration from the best channels I come across. I know what material I'd like to present and explore, but what it should look like is evading me at the moment. I'm doing a music channel first, that's an easier job for me. Anyway, this case is so strange! I'd heard about it before but I haven't been able to watch the series yet. Who hated this family so much, and why?? I really wonder if the entire neighborhood somehow covertly ganged up on them for reasons they will never divulge. What's crystal clear is that they were emphatically NOT wanted, and I really don't think it was down to one person (or family for that matter), and "watching" a house? To what purpose? Their only motivation seemed to be just driving them out of there. Hmmm... Derek Broaddus. Might that be a Jewish name? Yes, I'm really wondering. They obviously would have known Maria already, but, you know, she did go and marry... him. Racism rearing its extremely ugly head, you know. It could be that that little enclave of people were like that, just in the immediate area. Those neighbors certainly were - well, rather *odd*, weren't they?! And some of this does make it seem like several neighbors could well have been in on this. It's what it seems like to me, for sure. I'll come back and see if maybe others are in agreement here. Meanwhile, I'm going to investigate further and definitely watch that series! The greatest of luck to this new channel (and I do admit to being something of a lifelong Anglophile, lol!). Lots more to watch here! 😊 ♥️
    Edited to add: I was reading the article and found another reference to the priest, and it said that he was Derek's, so not Jewish, then, but my next guess was a grudge against "new money", which the article did mention as a possible motive too. He had a working-class background and one of the letters did indicate them as "ruining the neighborhood". There are soooo many ways for people to be cruel and poisonous in this world. 😞

    • @TheTapeLibrary
      @TheTapeLibrary  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for the kind words and for sharing your theories! I would like to mention (I may have done in the video, it's been a while) that the series takes some pretty drastic turns from the true story, so while it's entertaining I wouldn't go in expecting to learn too much about the actual case.
      Best of luck with your channel!

  • @mick_0359
    @mick_0359 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It’s very strange that the “watcher” ceased all of his sick games once the house was sold to a new owner… the person/s true identity(ies) will always remain a mystery to the world that I’m certain of…
    It’s obvious who it may be, it has to be individuals who have a seriously fierce vendetta against the family… From what the letters reveal,it’s with no doubt the individual has deep knowledge about the family… The family movements that’s happened are retold in the letters with extreme detail… even the conversation topic is known and retold a frighteningly vulnerable situation to have experienced…
    It could also be a past resident of the home that has a strong disturbing attachment to the home and property… It would be extremely difficult to prove even if there was a suspect in the radar…

    • @scottallston1623
      @scottallston1623 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think it had nothing to do with a vendetta but more to do something that happened to the grandparents or grate grandparents who mite of originally built it lived in the house and the first watcher mite of lives there in the family home until they had to sell up or lost the house in the depersonalisation and was made to move out for whatever reasons and the watcher couldn’t handle seeing his family home he was born in and raised in belonging to some other family as he had to watch it be taken and given to someone else as he had an attachment to it like we do to our family homes.

    • @12ozmouse99
      @12ozmouse99 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Or it was Derek Broaddus himself. He certainly monetized his “terrible ordeal”. He sued the previous owners. He tried to sell the house to developers. He rented the house and when the renters installed cameras, the letters ceased. He eventually bought a smaller, much less expensive house. Just saying…

  • @cesarchavelas9340
    @cesarchavelas9340 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wow this channel is great. So happy to have found it.

  • @ghostafterlivesmatter8732
    @ghostafterlivesmatter8732 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    A clip from lost highway NICE

  • @tracybarnes3923
    @tracybarnes3923 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Excellent telling! I love seeing the old reel-to-reel. ✌️

  • @thefoogle
    @thefoogle ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is an amazing video and its such a high quality video for such a small creator, I definitely see this channel growing in these coming months, keep up the great work.

    • @TheTapeLibrary
      @TheTapeLibrary  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video!

    • @PatriarchsHittingMarks
      @PatriarchsHittingMarks 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@TheTapeLibrary Congratulations on 40K subscribers. 50K incoming in no time. Cheers lad!

  • @Anita-eo9xt
    @Anita-eo9xt 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Such an interesting video and very suspenseful. Definitely kept me wondering who the creepy 😊letter writer was. Can't wait to watch more of your videos. I'm definitely gonna be a following for more. Thank you for a great video

  • @RobertButts-mv3hl
    @RobertButts-mv3hl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love this channel.. thank you

  • @JulieHannah-lg7fy
    @JulieHannah-lg7fy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Beautiful home but I would've been terrified recieving letters like that too. Especially when they mentioned the children and not being able to hear them in the basement! Oh hell no! Ida definitely checked into a hotel or a friend or family member yikes 😬. Too many crazy person in this world nowadays in my opinion

  • @jkwellness1639
    @jkwellness1639 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Your videos are awesome. If i wanna watch it on tv its awesome! If i just want to listen during the day doing boring life stuff, I get lost in these and before i know it the days over and i listen to your videos to sleep and I've cut down on sleeping meds anxiety meds. Thanks for bettering my life mate.

    • @TheTapeLibrary
      @TheTapeLibrary  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ah thank you! Glad it can help it whatever small way it does.

  • @Mike-hi5nu
    @Mike-hi5nu 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Just found this channel, love all the clips from David Lynch movies.

    • @TheTapeLibrary
      @TheTapeLibrary  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      my favourite director!

  • @Survivor58
    @Survivor58 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I thought about "The Watchman". 😊 I did see The Watcher awhile back. If I remember correctly, I wasn't crazy about how it ended. Sounds like I need to watch it again soon. Thank you for the great narration and the telling of this story. Creepy!

  • @valorieoathout6956
    @valorieoathout6956 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love your channel. Just happened to see your channel only a few days ago and have been hooked since. Love it because I have never heard of some of the stories you tell and I am always on the lookout for different paranormal or true life mysteries. I don't know whether to be happy or scared 😮!!

  • @reyo6353
    @reyo6353 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was working and listening to this scary story and my dad randomly called me. The sound of my phone going off was a jumpscare and I nearly shit my pants ;____;
    That said I think it was one of the next door neighbors that either had wanted to live in the house but couldn't afford it (hence the greed) or didn't want little kids living next door and being noisy (talking about is that all for child quantity)

  • @s10-Mike
    @s10-Mike 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I don't get it. I've heard this story before and the guy or girl admits in the letter that they use to run threw the hallways of the house and there dad watched it in the 60s and alot of other things that would be easy to find out who lived there in the past or could even be a neighbor that was maybe friends with kids that lived there before so it wouldn't be hard to see who lived there and who grew up in the neighborhood and narrow it down. Idk just saying it don't seem that hard to solve.

  • @kevlarburrito6693
    @kevlarburrito6693 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    If my pet mysteriously died after getting letters like these, none of my neighbors would be safe from my wrath

  • @highlive2166
    @highlive2166 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Idk what i just stumbled upon...but im liking the way you tell stories so im subscribing

  • @ADwan83
    @ADwan83 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I’d just leave the letters in the mailbox, let those specific letters just collect dust inside my mailbox and with each drop of a new letter the “watcher” would see his letters aren’t bothering me. If someone’s going to play crazy just play right back.

  • @VincePipilas
    @VincePipilas 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    So no one knowing this was going on saw this person walk up to the mailbox or saw them creeping around? They didn’t dust the letter for prints?

    • @ultravi0lence
      @ultravi0lence 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Dust the letter for prints? 😂😂😂 As weird as the letters are, the police aren’t gonna waste time, money and resources on prints when a crime hasn’t actually been committed.

    • @VincePipilas
      @VincePipilas 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ultravi0lence to be honest your probably right and I’m not sure sure why your laughing at me. The truth is the neighbors probably hated them and wanted them gone. I just think it’s strange nobody saw anything and I didn’t know checking a letter was a big expensive process for the police

  • @kegsofvomitspit
    @kegsofvomitspit 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This seems like a more focused version of the Circleville Letters.

  • @feeman3345
    @feeman3345 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you.

  • @legacydouglas2821
    @legacydouglas2821 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I 100% believe its someone from their past that already knew their names and hobbies etc. Someone wanted revenge and decided to ruin all of their hard work and finances with this new house. The letters seem to come from a male prospective, but the envelope had the spit of a woman. Was the husband ever questioned for an affair? Was it a vindictive mistress? Jealous ex? A person jealous of the wife and their children? Thats what i think is the most likely. I mean, if the whole story is true about generations watching this house etc, why would the letters stop the second they moved out? And following them to the new house would be too obvious, so the letters had to stop. I think people believed the "watcher" way too much in their letters. Every word could be a lie, a story made up simply to make them live in fear everyday. That makes the most sense to me.

  • @coffeecrimegal5968
    @coffeecrimegal5968 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I’ve seen the Netflix series and it was pretty good. Yet the actual case is 100x scarier! The fact that this happened to a real family who set out to live in their dream home and had to go through this… nothing like turning someone’s dream into a nightmare!
    Excellent Narration as always.. 🤎📽🎞

  • @robynmannon7022
    @robynmannon7022 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Loved this! What creepy movie was that you were showing parts of,!? Looks good too.....

    • @TheTapeLibrary
      @TheTapeLibrary  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Lost highway, its a ride I’ll tell you that

  • @missdenisebee
    @missdenisebee 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ah! I’ve read several stories on Reddit’s Nosleep sub that were now-obviously based on this! I’ve actually never heard of it before, amazingly, so I had no idea. Now listening to the details, it all makes sense why so many “I’m your Watcher” stories exist lol

  • @autumnwind1216
    @autumnwind1216 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good shit pal!

  • @brandifuentes691
    @brandifuentes691 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I have seen some clips here and there of this case nothing as detailed as this video. OMG what a bizarre experience this must of been.

  • @ryanbellegrave9777
    @ryanbellegrave9777 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Having the last name “Branek” in real life, I was quite shocked when I watched the first episode of this show.

  • @rhondahankins4026
    @rhondahankins4026 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Maybe their was bugs and hidden cameras placed throughout the house. I know the letters said this person passed by several times a day which might be true, but all the intimate details of their lives could be known by hidden bugging equipment.

  • @suzannemost3400
    @suzannemost3400 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I would like to know about the house from day one…..including the land purchase.

  • @SeventhSwell
    @SeventhSwell 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    They threw the first letter away but somehow know it word for word.

    • @blowc1612
      @blowc1612 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It was the people who moved out are the ones who threw away their letter.

  • @unterdessen8822
    @unterdessen8822 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    A few notes:
    The Watcher speaks about the house as if it was a medieval European castle:
    - Being afraid of the far away basement, where nobody would hear you scream? Sounds like he's describing a dungeon.
    - Have they found what's in the walls? As a nobleman in old Europe you had the privilege of being able to avoid public shaming for your crimes. While commoners were executed in front of the whole village, noblemen "vanished" into their own walls: Their families were allowed to bury them alive in the walls of their homes.
    - Can't change the house? A lot of old castles and manors are under monument conservation laws. If you even just want to improve insulation by getting modern windows, you'll have to deal with a mountain of paperwork, and the windows will most likely have to be custom made, because they'll have to match the centuries old style of those that you're replacing.
    - People watching your house for you? Servants.
    - An entity that guards a specific place, is connected to the building and gets angry when you "mistreat" the house? The Salt Spirit. It has different names in different places, but where I live they're called salt spirits. Between antiquity and not so recent modern times properties needed a guardian spirit, especially big, somewhat public properties like castles, bridges, churches, graveyards, townhalls etc. This was essentially a human sacrifice: You bought a child from gyp$ies and buried it alive in the structure, most commonly under the main threshold, so the spirit would guard the house.
    (That is, btw, the reason why Europeans claim that gyp$ies steal children - it's not a prejudice, they're speaking from experience, because that's where they got their salt spirits from. These children were usually not gyp$y children themselves, but stolen from somewhere.)
    The connection with salt comes from the manner of containment: You would typically draw a trench with a thin line of salt around the house, that was later filled up, so the salt wouldn't be washed or blown away. Spirits can't cross those lines, so your new guardian was confined to your walls, and evil entities from the outside couldn't get in. Depending on the country and region this practice changed from the 16th century on - people would start using living dogs instead of children, and this went on until the early 20th century.
    All that talk about the young blood, that the house needs, and the remarks that suggest, that the children won't be safe inside the house... his legions of helpers, who protected the house from being torn down... and mentioning the attic... sounds a bit like Anton LaVey's Black House - the headquarters of the Church of $atan - to me. And the Watcher's grandfather watched it in the 1920s - a time when civilisation seriously started breaking down and people turned to drugs, cults and formerly unknown depravity.
    Let me take a wild guess:
    - Perhaps there's a $atanic cult in the area, that has been operating since the 1920s.
    - They performed (actual or mock) human sacrifices, and one of the places they chose for their gatherings was the Watcher House. That's why it needed to be guarded: They couldn't do this openly. Not even in the 20s.
    - They may have purchased or kidnapped children, and actually harmed them or pretended to harm them in initiation ceremonies taking place in the attic and the basement, and the remains are hidden in the walls.
    - The current Watcher may have been the child of a member, who came to the house regularly and witnessed this, accepting it as normal. If the cult did actually commit harmful acts, this could have caused considerable trauma and might have led to insanity, especially if they were seeing this (or forced to participate) as a very young child.
    - The Watcher and the rest of the cult are still protecting their old headquarters, although they're not meeting there anymore. Could be that the cult isn't active anymore, or they just found a better place. This is why the whole town opposed it being torn down. It's a sacred place to them, their former temple. This could also mean, that there isn't just ONE Watcher, but many, who forward intel to the person who writes the letters.
    - Cults always try to appear older and more accomplished than they actually are. They trace their legacy back to ancient Egypt or the Bible or the Goddess of the Milky Way etc. So perhaps this cult pretended to have medieval roots. We surely have $atanist noblemen, who harmed children in Europe. Gilles de Rais comes to mind, a French baron, who fought the English with Joan of Arc, but was also a p*dophile serial killer, who turned his castle into a slaughter house. The Watcher mentioned "playing" in the house as a child, and it sounds like they were pretending to be in a medieval castle.
    - This whole Watcher thing could be a form of psychosis. (I'm still guessing wildly:) What if the Watcher identifies as the Salt Spirit? Yes, I know, far fetched... but let's go back to the grandfather, who seems to stand at the beginning of the line. Let's say the grandfather's sibling (possibly twin) or a captive child that the grandfather was friends with became the house's Salt Spirit: The grandfather witnessed that child being buried alive under the threshold of the newly built house as part of their cult's little rituals, developed psychosis concerning this event and became unable to discern between himself and the sacrificed child. Which is why I think it could have been a twin; depending on the grandfather's age when this occurred, he may not have been old enough to understand that he and his twin were different people, so he started to believe, that one version of him had become the Salt Spirit and the other was still walking around in the world of the living. Taking the position of the Watcher subsequently, he passed on the story to his son: They were living representations of the Salt Spirit and had to protect the house.

    • @TheTapeLibrary
      @TheTapeLibrary  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Now this is the kind of comment I’d love to see more of, love hearing other peoples theories and takes on these cases. thanks for sharing really interesting ideas!

    • @Seeker0fTruth
      @Seeker0fTruth 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Looooove all these anecdotes and conjectures. A layer to consider (when mentioning trauma and you mentioned twins and psychosis to explain the confusion of identity): Trauma causing DID or Dissociative Identity Disorder formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder. For anyone interested, search up Trauma Based Mind Control, which has a literal handbook for creating the “ideal” human slave. Creepy stuff, and an (unfortunately) very real thing. The idea of the Manchurian Candidate or creating a Super Man / Super Soldier are related concepts. Thanks very much for the comment! Excellent video!!!!

    • @barrbudo
      @barrbudo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "Gee-p-sees" have a terrible reputation in Brazil as well, and stealing children is a factor in it. Now as far as the "paranormal" side of the story, there must have been a human of flesh and blood writing the letters, and a deceased one dictating it. The latter can be responsible for the sounds in the attic and the details that that nobody would know about. I think this case is overall quite simple, but it lacked the involvement of people with greater knowledge about the afterlife.

    • @jayy2949
      @jayy2949 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dang I have Romani ( gypsy but that's a term when their bloodline was thought to be from Egypt, though it's really from down in India ) he would be greatly offended to hear the child stealing part of that, but so many people such as the descendants of the English and other white European colonizers in USA and Canada have been stealing native babies and kids south of the border easily and still do( thru such huge loop holes that are right infront of ppls face) so that would be a huge possibility....... You have a strong case with all that

  • @toriladybird511
    @toriladybird511 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did the like Sub Bell thing you did a fantastic job!

  • @Ninis4u
    @Ninis4u 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was a interesting story... Hopefully I will still find it on Netflix or TH-cam to watch..

  • @PrincessLight3146
    @PrincessLight3146 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I wouldnt have even acknowledged the letters, I would have just ripped up every letter they sent and not give the watcher any amunition. Not showing any fear and standing firm. Or maybe keep the letters in a trash bin and not even reading them. Nothing chewes off somebody more than ignoring it.

  • @feldwebel999
    @feldwebel999 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It's gotta be that former family member - with an accomplice, or two. In any case, people who do stuff like this are sick in the head and cowards.

  • @billylee322
    @billylee322 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was just some of that new jersey hospitality

  • @Neku628
    @Neku628 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I swear I saw this case mentioned on Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack, but the case happened in like the '80s or '90s. Am I losing my mind?

    • @angelastahl626
      @angelastahl626 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Are you thinking of the Circleville, Ohio letters?

    • @Neku628
      @Neku628 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@angelastahl626 I think so.

    • @coffeecrimegal5968
      @coffeecrimegal5968 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You’re definitely thinking of the Circlevile letters!
      The Watcher happened in 2014.

  • @judedonnelly4100
    @judedonnelly4100 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I WOULDN'T HAVE MOVED..
    A GOOD GUARD DOG.....
    I BELIEVE IT WAS SOMEONE THAT WAS SOOOOO JEALOUS BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T AFFORD TO BUY IT..
    🙄

  • @lisagimblett8646
    @lisagimblett8646 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Now I need to watch the Netflix show!

  • @andrescientos
    @andrescientos 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This story reminds me of The 2019 Movie "The Intruder" feat. Dennis Quaid.

  • @rob41137
    @rob41137 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I’ve never understood why there’s no name attached to the Boulevard. e.g. 657 Smith Boulevard? How is it literally just 657 Boulevard?
    657 [WHICH?!] Boulevard?!

  • @isaiahdavis1163
    @isaiahdavis1163 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Dude's living in the walls/attic, obviously. There are numerous stories of people doing this.

  • @nadine5747
    @nadine5747 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I'm really intrigued with what history the house might have and who all lived in the house back in the 60's and I wonder if it might be a cult

    • @TheTapeLibrary
      @TheTapeLibrary  ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Would love to know more about the previous owners!

    • @musicinthewildwood
      @musicinthewildwood ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@TheTapeLibrary Ditto, totally. Not sure "cult" is quite the correct word, but some kind of binding ideology certainly does seem indicated here, as I proposed in my own comment. This is something I'm going to keep an eye on, in case there are any further developments in the future.

    • @peteallyn412
      @peteallyn412 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@musicinthewildwoodseems to me like an old family friend of the previous owner was unhappy with the way the house was handled after the original owner of the house passed away and didnt want out of towners moving in? They wanted locals to move in. They didn’t like seeing some out of town fella with new money buying up one of “their” houses. People are wicked like that sometimes. People don’t realize the mischief our fellow humans are capable of. Like a super karen from hell. I’ve dealt with them before. They actively seek out to cause disruption in other peoples lives because they are unfulfilled and supremely lonely.

    • @MarcoVillarreal99
      @MarcoVillarreal99 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Good theory 👌🏻

  • @Xx_aXtion_xX
    @Xx_aXtion_xX 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I believe it was the family living there trying to get out of buying a bad real estate deal

  • @mphase7575
    @mphase7575 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It was the guy they sold it to. He got a great deal on the house and the letters stopped after he bought it 😂

  • @sebswede9005
    @sebswede9005 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Would've loved if Netflix made a second season of "The Watcher", where a new person moves in the house, but he is the one that messes with the neighbours that were behind the letters.

  • @AnotherDeadTransgirl
    @AnotherDeadTransgirl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I guess as a footnote here. It's worth noting that apparently the Langfords most suspected of this had died roughly around the same time the letters stopped coming in. :/
    This one seems pretty cut, dried and frankly kinda boring and Netflix jumping to make a buck on it is also pretty on the nose here.
    Especially considering this seems to be a more recent happening? Only two generations of people being traumatized, it seems. 3 if you count the kids but I'm cou ting families who moved into and owned the property.

  • @sciencenotstigma9534
    @sciencenotstigma9534 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Just neighborhood stalkers who hate kids. Definitely just as scary, though!

    • @musicinthewildwood
      @musicinthewildwood ปีที่แล้ว

      I really think that there was a little more to it than just hating children, though that may have played a part.

  • @nicholasgenovese2295
    @nicholasgenovese2295 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I used to cut the grass right behind the house in Westfield drove by the house, never seen nothing like going on weird

  • @marianecarri1493
    @marianecarri1493 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    take a shot everytime they say "young blood" in this video

  • @basilbasil3629
    @basilbasil3629 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice nice!!

  • @elphiegleason3899
    @elphiegleason3899 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I’m thinking it had to be the neighbors
    All that stuff isn’t a coincidence

  • @thewildfolk6849
    @thewildfolk6849 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    sounds like classic HOA to me 😂

  • @user-kb6xn6ig7k
    @user-kb6xn6ig7k 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I know Westfield is pricey, but between The Watcher and John List, I'll say that it is one weird town !

  • @barrbudo
    @barrbudo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The opinions of those who have watched the series make me believe that Netflix should use this video to get people hooked.

  • @lotus1695
    @lotus1695 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Did they do research on the house? If they did I missed that point.

  • @christinespaulding8332
    @christinespaulding8332 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So many who’s possible that appear not to be looked into. I wouldn’t worry about the what until human interference was investigated and ruled out. I think it was someone they need before they moved there. Since supposedly the residents before only got one letter just before they moved out. And the people after nothing. Someone they knew well and knew where they were moving to. Although I assume they didn’t get any letters after they moved out. ?

  • @Halloweenlover10.31
    @Halloweenlover10.31 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Couldn't pull up the links, but wondering what clip that was in the beginning with the super creepy guy?

    • @TheTapeLibrary
      @TheTapeLibrary  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lost highway, it’s a great film

  • @ComradeCommissarYuri
    @ComradeCommissarYuri 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How many bodies are buried at the house?

  • @Entity8473
    @Entity8473 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Taking it that we are dealing with an actual person. There is more than one person involved in this affair. A single person can not monitor all windows and doors simultaneously. For the community at large, some might be unwilling or unknowing pawns in the ordeal.

  • @artcflowers
    @artcflowers 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was good.

  • @entertherealmofchaos
    @entertherealmofchaos ปีที่แล้ว

    Creepy👌

  • @libertycowboy2495
    @libertycowboy2495 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This doesn't frighten me at all. I carry, my wife carries, and both my teen sons are expert shots. Also I have several security cams around the property.

  • @Bothfeetatonce
    @Bothfeetatonce 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hi, I've seen the Netflix watcher, but I'm not familiar with the story as I don't live in America, how close to the truth is the story on Netflix? judging by some of the reactions listed here, its nothing close to the true account.
    #TheTapeLibrary Awesome job, will be checking more of your channel out 10/10

    • @TheTapeLibrary
      @TheTapeLibrary  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I didn’t make it through all of it, but it is very different. Thanks for watching!

  • @deborah5209
    @deborah5209 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Definitely one of the strange neighbors previously mentioned….. NO DOUBT.

  • @mkb4560
    @mkb4560 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It's a family member of someone who lived there

  • @madwell1
    @madwell1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nothing a few security cameras couldn’t have fix

  • @KristinaKarina
    @KristinaKarina 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The real home/neighborhood is not nearly as nice as the one in the Netflix series.

  • @Yourmomsplacefasuppa
    @Yourmomsplacefasuppa 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wondered what it would be like to have someone watch

  • @ChadwickTheChad
    @ChadwickTheChad 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    So basically, some useless, unemployed neighbor had too much time on their hands.

  • @__berichh5375
    @__berichh5375 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can’t tell if the letters want him to stay or leave lmao

  • @2KMMC2
    @2KMMC2 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It was definitely someone in the family I mean if he had cameras wouldn’t he see who got the letter . This just seems a lot easier to figure out then one might think

  • @hot_pony_unicorn
    @hot_pony_unicorn 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It was the Realator

  • @evilnick2885
    @evilnick2885 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is that scene with what looks to be bill Pullman from the show, or some movie. Can't place it

    • @TheTapeLibrary
      @TheTapeLibrary  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It’s from the film Lost Highway

    • @evilnick2885
      @evilnick2885 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TheTapeLibrary thank you

  • @antichristrahab1325
    @antichristrahab1325 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yikes..this was creepy af 👏👏👏

  • @vaughangarrick
    @vaughangarrick 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So if their surname is misspelled then I’d rule out the agent as a suspect

  • @mikemonk4375
    @mikemonk4375 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It was the guy staring at him from the lawn chair.

  • @whatwhat745
    @whatwhat745 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the watcher was Netflix the whole time

  • @KathleenCalhoun-em6ys
    @KathleenCalhoun-em6ys 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How is the new family doing--any harassment from "The Watcher"? It seems that, with all those suveillance cameras and help from private detectives, the family should have been able to find out who the watcher was. I would like to hear what all the neighbors thought and said about this while it was going on.
    From the info gathered in this video alone, I would suspect that The Watcher was some batty old lady who hated noise and resisted any changes this family had intended on doing to this house, judging from the wording and expressions in the letters (along with the female DNA). A clue could have come from the neighbor who spoke of 'young blood'. That could have been a Freudian slip indicating the identity of the letter writer as the family suspected. What makes this suspicious is the fact that the family could not spot something, anything, on those cameras or get anything more definitive from the PIs, which casts suspicion onto the family themselves. I still believe the neighbor theory (unless I hear info to the contrary).

  • @Boss_Man00
    @Boss_Man00 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Then why did the wood’s get a letter after living in the house for almost 2 decades?

  • @Trebeany
    @Trebeany 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The wotcher I've never seen it .i have has a wotch / storker wotching my place around 3am every morning Head come i just know someone was out side and around my home .Then i moved he followed i could not get away from this boogie man a after 3 or 4.years im at a nuther address my partner whent away for some time That's when it happened somebody had the key to my back door they opened it as soon as i went to bead Lucy i had the inside locks on .i drilled a holl in the floor so that i could put a scowdriver in it to stop any one from getting in .That night' after he opened the door he pushed on it so hard the scowdriver bent .so much more to this . I found out who was behind my storking and all my story is true as well .

  • @brandonaceituno1756
    @brandonaceituno1756 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow I thought u had way more subscribers considering the well put content, I’m sure it will happen soon

  • @yasspur4838
    @yasspur4838 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i think michael did it, wrote the letters and had a woman in the home lick the envelope. or he could’ve written them but had a woman write the actual letters that were sent to the families

  • @marlinavallejos2258
    @marlinavallejos2258 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    😬I believe we all have to answer for our actions one day. 😉

  • @SIX6SIXer
    @SIX6SIXer 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    these H.O.A.'s are getting ridiculous