Who was THE WATCHER? | Family TERRORISED by an anonymous letter writer
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As someone who was stalked by anonymous letters as a teen, I can relate all too well to the sheer terror the family must have gone through. I was too afraid and ashamed to tell my parents what was happening, even though they got some letters too I convinced them it it was a nasty prank. After the letters became extreme I finally got the courage to go to the police, who discovered the writer was my best friend’s father. Worst of all my best friend knew what he was doing had been helping him, that’s how he knew everything about me. People can be so fucked up.
Excuse me what? Your friends dad? That is crazy. It shows sometimes you don't even know people closest to you behind closed doors
That's insane. He was probably mentally ill?
Wait so what ended up happening???
So ... what was the motivation?
@@himbo2335 eventually I got the courage to go to the police, I was too afraid to share the whole story so no charges were pressed but it was enough to frighten him off. My friend said I was trying to destroy her family by going to the police and we never spoke again
Perhaps they should look into friends of the children of the 1960s family: "I ran the halls imganing life with the rich people inside" sounds like kids playing after school, and stuff. Or perhaps, children of cleaning people, housekeepers, construction workers etc.
The style of writing doesn't sound like children and children would have no way of knowing the nicknames and ages of Broaddus families three children. Especially since the family hadn't even moved into the house.
@@Littleone124 I mean adults who were children in the 1960s. People who could have visited, and played in the house.
Yes, that’s what I thought. It doesn’t sound like the writer is someone who ever lived there, but someone who wanted to. Perhaps the child of a housekeeper or gardener. If they were a child in the 1960s it would also be a good indicator of age
Ehhh that seems like such a red herring. I’d bet money the writer didn’t live there in the 60’s. They just put that in there to muddy the waters.
@@whitneyangelie3682 also very possible
I honestly love these spooky yet non-murder mysteries. It's more accessible and light hearted. This and the last episode on spontaneous human combustion are some of my favourites from buzzfeed unsolved as well, I love the way you cover cases so I was excited to see this!
I’m glad, I worry people aren’t as interested in cases like this but we all need a break sometimes
@@georgiamarie_ At least for me I think they're just as interesting as the more dark stuff. Like Buzzfeed Unsolved was one of my favourite true crime/mystery channels on YT. As long as it's a compelling case that's researched & presented well I think it will generate interest no matter the subject.
@@georgiamarie_ And I have to say also. Since Buzzfeed Unsolved ended or really since Shane & Ryan who were carrying the whole of Buzzfeed on their shoulders left that channel. Georgia has become my favourite TC/Mystery/History channel on YT & one of my top 10 overall,
I have never given money to TH-camrs since I've been on Welfare because things are so tight but I am considering giving some to her because I see how hard she works & the effort she puts into her channel(s).
@@davebrayfb totally agree with you! on the topic of Shane and Ryan, they do have another channel called Watcher where they have a Ghost Files series very similar to unsolved! There are only a few eps out now and no true crime ones yet but i'd recommend giving it a go if you haven't already :)
@@colettemarita Yea, I saw one or two videos of the new channel, have to make some time to watch them fully & properly. I like how they picked the name "The Watcher" as a nod to the Watcher case, that's pretty funny.
I do like the ghost eps as well because like Shane I do not believe in ghosts either & they just seem to be illustrating the point that ghosts, spirits, demons etc.. do not exist & put all the other ghost shows that obviously, makeup lies & just put effects in the edit to try & to fool people to shame.
Sorry if you believe ghosts, they're just not there, it's just the wind or a creaky old house lol.
My money’s on one of the Woods kids (who sound like they’d be young adults at the time of this). They lived in that house for 20 YEARS, probably spent almost their entire childhoods there and were probably heartbroken/pissed when their parents sold the house. The fact that the Woods only got one letter right after they sold the house and then the minute the new neighbors moved in it got ramped up says a lot. This was anger targeted at the new owners for living in what they perceived as *their* house, not some “generational thing”. The “kid” would obviously want to hide their identity and talk/write like an older person, reference “the 60’s” etc just to throw them off. Its really not that far fetched, I remember when I was a teenager my parents decided to move from my childhood home I loved and I tried everything I could to keep anyone else from living there. I would even throw away the “for sale” sign every time the realtor put it up lmao. I didn’t want to let it go. And after it was sold I would pass by it and just get, like almost enraged. I never said anything to the new owners but I hated that they lived there. If someone in my situation had a more “troll” mentality I could see them getting what they saw as a kind of revenge, and trying to drive out anyone else who lived there .
I agree , maybe they even copied the handwriting of one of their parents to hide thier age but might explain the GOT reference which would possibly be that of a younger person 🧐😃
@@catherinepalmer4812 Exactly! If I was gonna write a letter like that I would read a bunch of my grandmas letters and try to copy her style lol, I’d do whatever I could to make the reader think I was from a different generation so they wouldn’t pick me out as a suspect. And good catch on the GOT reference, I know very few boomers/or older who would know about that lol
as someone who used to write notes for their friends that mimicked a parents writing in order to get out of gym class etc, I can absolutely see a young adult writing these.
my thoughts are stuck between neighbours who grew up playing with other kids in that house or construction workers who would know the house well
This case creeps me out SO much. Maybe not the best idea when home alone and right before sleep but...i LOVE the way you present cases .
The constant references to the owners greed makes me think someone local wanted to buy it but couldn't afford it. With an unhealthy interest in children. Greed & their children is a running theme in the letters.
Totally agree.
I agree
This is jealousy at its worst. The references to the children are just thrown in there to make sure the parents are terrified. This is most likely a local woman who has watched and wanted that house for maybe her entire life. Perhaps she has a history of mental illness and also loss. I get the feeling she has grown up invisible in the community.
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Hi Georgia, you should do the Ventura County Jane Doe case. She was a Jane Doe found in 1980 in a schoolyard in Thousand Oaks, CA. She was about 15-30 yrs old and was pregnant with a child. She was murd3r3d by a serial killer named Wilson Chouest. Chouest also k1ll3d Shirley Soosay who was also murdered in 1980 and also a Jane Doe until 2021. Both women were violated and k1ll3d viciously. The DNA Doe Project handled the identification of both Shirley and Ventura Jane Doe. The latter, also nicknamed Lyra Jade by Websleuthers, still remained unidentified and the DDP struggled with her identification due to her Hispanic heritage (Hispanic/Latin cases are hard to identify due to not much data in genealogical database) and consanguinity in her family tree (basically making distant relatives seem closer). They have managed to track down her baby's father but not much info came from that. I think this would be a good suggestion for a later vid as part of your John/Jane Doe series.
I’m going to put this right to the top of my list, a fantastic recommendation!
I never stopped to think about how much more difficult it would be to identify familial links for Hispanic families because of lack of DNA testing.
I've looked into this one pretty thoroughly, and I believe everything points to John Woods sending the letters. It's extremely odd that the previous occupants only got one of these letter, and only right before they left the house to sell it to the Woods, who got inundated with letters. When they finally sold it, the letters mysteriously stopped. All of that looks really suspicious. I think it's odd that, for a long time, the letters only showed up when John was home alone. A large part of this story that gets left out is the part where John told a lot of his friends and family that it was a big purchase, and he was worried they couldn't really afford it. It's my belief that he panicked over the cost of the house and renovations, decided they couldn't do it after all, and tried to back out of the deal without owning up to his wife that they'd made a huge financial mistake.
It's just really, really odd that the letters started when they bought the house and stopped when they left. There's a very obvious explanation for why that is.
That is what I've always thought too.
I just read a news story about a mother who bombarded her own teenage daughter and other teens with endless hateful online messages, hiding behind a VPN and various closely held resentments or odd motivations unguessable to others. I would believe an egotist man with a personality disorder would do this to his own family rather than admit he made a financial error. There have been entire family murders by men motivated solely by the fact of their debt and not wanting to be seen as a failure.
There are people also who claim to be victims of this or that thate crime and are rpoven to have hurt themselves and written slurs on themselves or on property. Why? Often as a diversion from behaviour that is going to get them into trouble, or to attract pity and that special kind of power that comes with being a celebrated victim online.
It's also like spiking ... sure, a lot of people are spiked by total strangers who want something specific (to rob, rape etc) but it's astonishing the number of young people who are spiked by so called friends - people within their own social circle who resent something about them and think it's fun to see them out of control and simply don't care if they get raped or hurt because of it. A lot of resentments exist between people who know each other and the more intimate, the more twisted people can get. If you're spiked in close company and cannot figure how? It's probably your friends.
The absolute thing of nightmares. I can not imagine some stranger threatening my young children. Especially saying they are young blood being brought to him/her. I couldn't have stayed there.
Hello Georgia, I wrote a comment about this a couple months ago but I strongly believe this case could use some attention. On your video about the plane that crashed into the Andes in 1972, I wrote a comment regarding the Saskatoon freezing deaths, 3 confirmed murders and possibly more commited by the Canadian police force. Indigenous Canadians were literally driven to the outskirts of town during the unimaginably cold Saskatchewan winters by police officers. Nobody deserves to die at the hands of the police, but these killings were especially cruel. They were given no dignity. They were just left out there to die of hypothermia, the police officers have never faced any repercussions. In 2012, the Wikipedia page for the Saskatoon freezing deaths were edited on a computer that was, in the end, traced to a police station! I can't explain how infuriating that is! It's so obvious the cops drove these innocent people out to let them die, the arrests they made weren't even valid. This whole story breaks my heart in so many places that it was hard for me to even write this comment
Your right about the last letter, it does read differently than the others, more; like a poem than a statement.
this is one of my favorite stories!! you are so awesome, your videos help me focus while I study haha
Gr8 but scary stuff!...One case that has always intrigued me ( Even possibly kick started my true crime obsession ) is the story of Peter Reilly who was wrongly convicted of the murder of his mother in April 12, 1974. He was forced / coerced into making a false confession by the police after many hours of interrogation ( No one has ever been charged ) It spawned a book called A Death in Canaan by Joan Barthel & also a tv movie of the same name!
they’ve just put a series on netflix around this case, thought i wouldn’t enjoy it but it was really good- all the theories worked there way into it
Oh wow, what's it called?
@@EveLavellan the watcher
Omgee. I love the background and your haircut. And this story is so creepy.
I’ve heard this story any times. Every time I hear it it’s just as creepy! Thanks Georgia!
I wounder if The Watcher was the mailman.
Thanks for doing this incredibly bizarre & crazy story!! I loved in Westfield for years- 1 of my all time fave places- even to this day. I still only live about half hour from there. I knew about this creepy situation right when it happened, but it never gets old-kinda like the John List (family annihilator) case/house, Westfield, NJ.
It’s so strange that you put out this video today, cuz just this past Sunday, my hubs & I decided to take a ride to Westfield to walk around the awesome town/Main St type stores & shoppes since it as such a beautiful day, & we literally drove right past the ‘Watcher’ house- which was all decorated for Halloween- umm the irony my husband had said lol!! ! So yeah, just saw this house as we drove slowly by it barely 4 days ago…I LOVE seeing/touring very old, haunted , or historic places, even if i have seen them many times before already!
Again, Georgia, great choice for a rather chilling, but yet so questionable Halloween time tale!! 😘💀🎃👻 Hope you’re feeling well, luv!! 💯🙏🏻
Perfect as always. Just started the Netflix show last night. Btw you’re new hair is FABULOUS! 😍
Between this and John List, Westfield has given us some prime terror. (A best friend of mine lives there, but in the not-rich part of the neighborhood.)
Love the video Georgia!
So creepy, I definitely wouldn't move my kids into that house.
I live 15 minutes away from this town! Westfield also has another interesting case in the list family murders. The father was in the run for 18 years
I find this so scary because I have family who lives in Westfield and a friend who is from the town over, they we’re there when this happened.
You look gorgeous 💕 thank you for covering this case! Always gave me the willies 🙃💕🌙
what a nightmare!!!And it must be so infuriating for the homeowners!! I feel sorry for them, no one deserves to have their dream home taken away like that!!!
OMG!! I’ve just paused your video at the end of the first letter. How creepy and scarey xx
Your hair looks so cute short ! Beautiful as always
This is such a bizarre story ! You look beautiful, love your hair
Man I wanted to feel bad for these guys, but hounding their neighbors, and filing lawsuits against the previous owners???
I love that background so nice!
There's a good book inspired by this case, The Keeper by Guadalupe García McCall. It's Middle Grade, but I'm in my early 30s and still enjoyed it.
Meanwhile... today the price of $1.3 million will get you a small house that's a complete knockdown (or if you're extraordinarily lucky, just a total gut job) in my city. And just in case anyone thinks I'm bragging (believe it or not, someone once did accuse me of this), rest assured I am absolutely NOT bragging at all. I'm commenting on the insanely high cost of housing where I live, and it's become a huge problem where people are being not just priced out of the city itself, but all the suburban areas around it as well.
I think someone was playing mind games. They left the letter to freak the family out. It’s strange timing that the letter to the former owners. Sounds like a creepy prank that worked.
I’ve always been fascinated by this story
Love your hair!
I’ve been by the house before. It’s pretty interesting what went on with all of that.
Off topic but I absolutely love your back wall! Is it wallpaper? If so where from? Xx
That letter says that running from room to room dreaming of living with the rich owners so you have to wonder if they're running from room to room as something a child would do maybe it was a neighbor kid who was friends with one of the children who lived there at that time maybe he was invited to some sort of house party
After watching this, I've binge watched the netflix series to compare facts and fiction.
You should cover the case of missing Michael Rockefeller. The theories behind that one are wild!
Makes you wonder if there is someone living in the walls. So creepy.
Congratulations on your house !!
I would love it if Georgia could do a video in her history series about the battle of Bamber bridge. I was watching a video on another channel about Margaret Livesey who was accused of murdering her son in Bamber bridge ( she was most likely wrongly accused) and someone mentioned the battle of Bamber bridge in the comments. Living only 20 minutes away I was surprised I hadn’t heard about it before. I think Georgia would be the ideal person to tell this tale. Unfortunately I don’t know how to request it so I just have to hope she will read this and at least think about it.
Imagine being such a creep that a giant media company wants to tell your story. The world is a very strange place. I hope this person isn't relishing the infamy. Also, why was Mr. Broaddus staking out the house hoping to catch The Watcher at the mailbox if the letters were stamped and going through the mail? That makes no sense.
This reminds me of the case in 2015 of a women who lost out on her “dream house” and so she tormented the new owners and even placed a sex ad with the new owners face hoping men would r*ape her while the men thought it was consensual!!! Absolutely insane!!!
I hate unsolved mysteries lol! But after hearing the true story, I think that maybe for whatever reason, the father may have been the watcher? Maybe it had something to do with their finances and he needed a way to back out of the deal? The old owners got the letter right before they moved and then the letters came to the new family before they even moved in. So maybe something happened after the deal was closed that made the father have to create a legal way out by claiming the letters were never disclosed to them. Plus, he went as far as writing his own letter so something seems off.
It's crazy how the police actually take you seriously when you're rich. No disrespect for this family
My cat is always in a hello fresh box too
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This is seriously creepy!
Heard something recently where this is one of like four houses well mansions that you can buy for like $40 or something ridiculous. But nobody wants them because of the situation some are haunted and then there's this one.
I want to figure out if it's true ans talk my husband into it bc this wouldn't scare me lol especially for that house.
This house was sold in 2019 for one million dollars so i highly doubt it is true
@@Littleone124 yeah I see that. I wish I could find that the other 3 houses were serious haunted.... I am going to look for that video later and see if it was that one. Or call the thing out!!!!
No crime??? Malicious harassment I'd say.
I'd think stalking too given they knew their children's nicknames and ages. This whole story would be so traumatizing to live through.
I'm watching it now on Netflix.
I really hate things that are unsolved.
Ugghh
The cat called crumble 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
You look so gorgeous without makeup ! Wow
This reminds me of the circleville letters
That’s what I thought this story was..
This is extremely creepy!! Netflix is doing a series, let's hope it's good 🤞
Ryan Murphy is involved so that's usually a good thing to me 😁
I just hope they roughly stick to the facts and don’t just turn it into a horror movie. The creepiness of this story comes from subtle threat and paranoia
.I've seen it. "The watcher" it's not bad. And they do stick to this storyline
I feel not enough investigation was done on the type writer (trying to locate it). Im sure the local trash collector had papers the culprit had thrown in the trash while typing. There’s no doubt in my mind it was somebody local so that would of been easy.
This story is so scary
i would have never ever ever ever ever lived there lol
Same!
Same!
I wonder if they ever compared handwriting to everyone?
Murders or not this is so creepy and I wouldn’t go near
Part of me feels like they should have looked at other people that were trying to buy the house, maybe it was someone that had their heart set on the place but the deal fell through or their offer wasn’t accepted. Either way it’s so creepy!!!!!
Mhmm, every time I get a new box...
What do you mean?
My cat sees it as a fortress. Sometimes he also goes into my empty backpack if it's on the bed. Amusing to see only paws showing from the opening.
I believe it was the actual homeowner 🤷🏽♀️ nothing happened before it after..
Or*
Hmm. I'd be looking at the Netflix New Projects director, Spooky Horror film Division 🤷♂️🤷♀️??? Possibly????
Or, slightly more seriously someone who had felt they had a vested interest in the property, a craftsperson builder, 👷♀️👷♂️ renovator,
👩💼👨💼interior designer, landscaper, gardener etc, who felt their work was to be destroyed or would be unappreciated by the new owners.
'Youngblood' implies Dracula? Vampirella intimations. Or could be a sly clue as to a name or a profession. A Mr or Mrs/Ms Young? Jung?
A phlebotomist? Obstetricians, Nurse?
The 'Wall' aspect might also be a name hint or indicate someone who was proud if their work on the walls of the house or garden. I've seen some surprisingly artistic walls done by exceptionally talented stone masons for example.
If a particularly artistic tradesperson on a quality project had heard that such a project were to be destroyed or altered too soon in their eyes at least, I can imagine it might hurt.
It’s not mentioned in the video but I’m pretty sure I’ve heard Derek was caught sending some other letters? Can’t remember what they were about or who they were sent to but it was something that made him look suspicious
I always found the case of the Water so interesting but also creepy. To think that you bought your dream home and spend million son it, only to be sent anonymous letters about the house. I will be creeped out right away. I definitely don't think the police did enough to find out who was responsible. They thought it was a prank since the beginning so they didn't bother investigating. I always thought it could've been one of two things: the letters could've been sent by someone who saw it as their dream house as well and really wanted it but the Broaddus’ got it instead and they were really mad. They thought by writing these letters, it would scare them enough to move out of fhe house and then they can bought. Or it could've been a past owner who lost the house and really loved the house so the person and the family started watching the house to make sure it was being properly taken care of or whatever.
Could the broadeses be writing the letters them selves?
That had crossed me mind as well.
I can't imagine what their motive would be though. They never did move into the home and took a half million dollar loss when selling it.
@@Littleone124 attention is one hell of a drug unfortunately. A million might seem like a lot to the everyday person but to some its nothing.
Like Sherri, and they couldn't really afford the place. And after there where no letters seen
Why would the neighbours stop with them
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John shmidt ? Was his middle name Jacob-Jingleheimer?
No one know who the watcher is. Very creepy letter. Sounds like a previous owner who was doing that. Good they didnt move in
Cool background.
Previous bitter owners?
Sad to see my comment was deleted about the fact i'd like you to do a video on Leah Croucher, there was a development on this case today and would have been really interesting to hear you talk about it.
I haven’t deleted any comments so it must have been caught by a filter! I don’t cover cases where there are developments ongoing as it’s not all too helpful for the investigation but I’m certainly keeping a close eye on the case.
@@georgiamarie_ That makes sense, thanks Georgia.
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How the hell does one buy a house in 2022 😭
I feel, in my opinion, that was a faux.
Love your videos. This one sounds really echoey???
I herd she did screw up and it was the Witcher game!!!!
I personally believe this was an a hoax because that is what allows me to sleep at night
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All hail The Watcher
I've know about this case for years and nobody's addressed what would have been a simple solution. It's not like this happened in the 1980s or anything. Why didn't the Westfield police [or the Broaddus family, for that matter] install surveillance equipment aimed at the mailbox? >Boom< Problem solved and The Watcher on camera.
It went through the post? So just regular mail people delivering letters.
There was a whole part of the video where Georgia talked about the stamps on the letters and that they'd been tracked to a local mail facility, so this person was not delivering them personally. As such, it confused me when she later mentioned Mr. Broaddus staking out the house to catch The Watcher at the mailbox. Why was he doing that if they were stamped and delivered through the postal service?
With the DNA on the letter that was of a woman, I think that may have been to through the readers off. The “Watcher” had a high probability of wearing gloves when writing letters..
No the show wasn't the same
You look beautiful today
I hope youre doing fantastic
Some ppl also think it qas faked... bc look at their previous reaidence...residence.... they think they were in way over their head with tge bills so they were trying to get out if it!!! Although idk if u r going to end up talking about that.
Okay u said that... and I agree with u!!! Also if it was another buyer who lost out they would have bought it when they tried to sell it after.....
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fer the record if the family was yankee then they were 'terroriZed'.
that’s not how language works
@@georgiamarie_ i was joking around with you. nuttin' serious meant.
Think this is on netflix now
Just commenting for the algorithm 🤎💜
I just want to say that I never listen to anyone’s hello fresh ads, but Georgia’s? Whole thing watched, and enjoyed😅 big love Georgia 🤍🤍
The game is probably watch dogs
I feel not enough investigation was done on the type writer (trying to locate it). Im sure the local trash collector had papers the culprit had thrown in the trash while typing. There’s no doubt in my mind it was somebody local so that would of been easy.
All hail The Watcher