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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Derek and Maria Broaddus, who bought their Westfield, New Jersey, home for $1.3 million in 2014, have finally sold it after an alleged stalker repeatedly sent them creepy letters.
#ABCNews #TheWatcherHouse #657Boulevard #Westfield
How do you know The Watcher didn't do that just to buy the house at a lower price. IDK it's all very suspicious.
Yes!🤔
@SquidBag The kids make it complicated.
I saw a story just like this and it turned out be the old lady across the street. She was outbid by the family that bought it and began to terrorize them. Its someone in the neighborhood or a person that wanted the house badly.
Thats one theory
MsFluffySama yes the people that bought it probably wrote the letters
Security cameras and curtains solve a multitude of problems.
It would've been cheaper to hire security and get a good system and hire a PI to find who wrote the letters than take the loss on the price.
wildblue0 Trow in a big dog and you're good.
@@michaelsquires6255 Couldn't hurt. Though I'd be as sad to see the dog taken as the kids.
@@possumfriend2335 they did hire a former fbi agent he couldn't solve it
They did have cameras and even hired private investigators. They couldn't solve it still
Plot twist the "the watcher" is the new buyer. Wanted a deal on the house.
Yup.
steven XO Not likely because it’s happened before the young family bought the house. Didn’t they mention eerie HISTORY. Old school letters sent. Likely childhood emotion connected. Can feel it in the writing. Misty water color memories... Unresolved. Sad.
Yeah "The Watcher" would get his ass blown off
😂😂😂😂
Lol
Lmao weird seeing people talk about The Watcher and it not being Ryan and Shane??? In any case, aLl hAiL tHe WaTcHER
All hail the Watcher!
all hail the watcher!
All hail the watcher.
All hail the Watcher
All hail the watcher!
Imagine the watcher now watching the Netflix show and laughing at everyone dying to know who he/she is
Hope she watches TH-cam and yes it’s a woman when the DNA came back cause of the Y chromosome, but yea I hope they watch TH-cam I’m call them out for being salty losing the house next time work harder.
@@museme6309 in the show it was a woman
That inspires me to send creepy odes constantly to get what I want to the local store, the mechanic, my doctor, the DJ, the postal office, Santa Claus...
Maybe is dead
I would be checking out everyone who ever placed an offer on that home. This looks like a sore loser who figured out how to get them to sell, and sell cheap.
I agree, it has to be someone who is just bitter. I think it is a housewife/mom who skates by disguised by that....I think it is someone in their neighborhood.
@A C I will go as far as it takes lol.
Or they could just put cameras and curtains up, sit on the porch with a baseball bat and wait
@Caligula Are you referring to the woman who put an ad on Craigslist pretending to be the woman who lived in the home, and invited men to come over unannounced? That person was just gross.
Exactly
I would have AirBnb the watcher house. There's people who find excitement from these type of foolishness.
I know right 😄
Seriously 👏🏾👏🏾
Yeah this family was not very savvy
@@MidwestRainstorms its pretty common through real estate, mom dies and you sell the house and make a few million, go buy your own.
@We Have To Go Back they did rent it out, giving renters the option to break the lease if the letters continued, they even installed security cameras and a security system for the renters. But the letters continued and got increasingly threatening, so the renters left.
Before I took a 400g lose, I would have spent 50g in security ,
Steve W lol for real!
Shit 100k in security! 200 even... these assholes flushed 400k down the toilet
Chaplin Co assholes? Really? 🙄
If you watch the full history of the incident, you would find out that they did everything possible.
@@liliachan3753 obviously not a razor wire fence and motion sensors
There was some other case I saw on one of the investigative shows where a woman lost a bid on her dream home and became so obsessed that she mercilessly stalked the person who did buy the house. It went on for years. She became dangerous and finally was arrested.
This story reminded me of that. I think someone was outbid on their dream house and instead of moving on and finding their next dream house, they harassed the buyers
Yes I saw that report!!
Was this the case where she posted adult classified ads soliciting people to break into the home and “roleplay” a rape fantasy where the target would “stay in character” and never use a safe word?
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive Oh geeze, bizarre.
@@petemavus2948 yep, she also sent letters to all the married women in the neighborhood pretending to be the husband that bought the house.
The idea was for the wive's husbands to think they were cheating with the guy. Some believed it too.
@@melodramatic7904 If you say so.
They coulda just got rid of their mailbox and got a po box. Then the dude would have to physically drop it off. Nothing a $10 camera couldnt solve at that point.
Sounds *too simple and good to be true but worth a shot if neither law enforcement or the U.S.P.S. can/will do anything about it.
Unless he knew the p.o. box number he wouldn't even be able to get it to them.
@@charlesritter6640 So it is true and I learned something, Thank You both. 👍🇺🇲✌️
Or better yet put a camera where they could see the mailbox
@@VonSly The original comment here said that and I doubt 'The Watcher" hand delivers it. 🤫
$400,000 is an incredible amount of money to lose. It could have been a neighbor. I would have walked on the front lawn buck naked with a sign saying "watch this you azzhole"
LOLOL😂
LOLLLLL
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New Jersey prevents law abiding citizens from defending their home, while they let criminals skate. This is why this shit happens in Jersey.
Someone text ryan and Shane and give them an update
Wait a minute the FBI can find out how stole Brady’s SB jersey, but no one knows how to track where a letter came from??? BS!!!!!
MissVontease TS its too early for this. we know what he meant
This "watcher" dude probably smart
😂
Exactly !!!
Someone in another comment mentioned that "the watcher" could be sending the letters from different post offices and different return addresses.
Just finished the series on Netflix, The Watcher, damn shame this actually happened to a family with no resolution only losses and stress
The show was so disappointed, only 10% of it is based on the true events, the rest of it is just cheap fiction none related to the real story, although the John Graff actually happened still not related to this story.i
@@Wolfer1985 oh wow I have to look up the John Graff story. I mean it's Ryan Murphy I'm surprised there weren't more murders.
Me too! I thought to myself dam I'm glad this ain't real then boom 2 days later this video pop up in my feed smmfh
They never moved in
@@krissyc6000 oh shoot lol. In the beginning of the series it states based on true events. But you know these days the embellishments made for dramatic effects is so extra.
The new owners are the watchers. They lost their bid and now they got the house. $400k cheaper. What a twisted genius.
Could be possible
Y’all need to stop about the owners gain what on that?? Waste money?? That don’t make no sense
@@museme6309 They're saying that it's possible that the new buyer of the house was the watcher all along and that it was a plot to scam the owner into selling it for $400k less than they paid so that they could afford to buy if from them. Which isn't far fetched at all
Hope their new house doesn’t come with “the listener”...
bigbosscf lol, that's hilarious!!! well said!
😂😂😂😂😂
Omg! Gold😂🔥💯
After “The Listener” there will be “The Speaker” He will leave voice recordings in the mailbox instead of letters 😂
...Or the Smeller.
Should have installed some cameras...They shouldn’t have left that creep win.
power 2 the people creep
@power 2 the people look how tough you look oooooooooo. Piece of shit. You ARE a creep.
power 2 the people you have the mind of a fucking walnut
oanh lai I’m pretty sure he didn’t deliver them personally, he probably put it in the mail, and the mailman delivered them
Pretty sure the police would’ve caught this guy long time ago... if he did deliver them
Uteki lol if that were the case they’d easily have the mail company track the shipping location bud..🤦🏼♂️
That's horrible! It's easier said than done to tell this family to stay in the home with small children. For their peace of mind I'm glad they had the means to move!
Exactly
That's why you outfit security cameras, gates, possessing a gun or multiple guns also helps if someone tries shit like that... a bummer is pretty useful for ending stalkers one way or another. Now they literally lost $400,000, that's most likely multiple years worth of income for them. And having children is only going to make that loss even more of a burden.
@@fullcircle8231 Security is overrated. If someone wants in, they'll eventually find a way.
What does "I watch and wait for the day the young blood will be mine again" even means?! That sounds creepy af
@@fullcircle8231 security camera won't save you from a psycho.
All they needed was security cameras, outdoor sensors, Alarms, window sensors and two Dobermans or pitbulls and firearms. That is better than any police officer imo. That's the best 24/7 security anybody could ever have.
“All they need” lol
Through investigation, ya right. They wrote this off as a crank and didn't even TRY to investigate. IF this had been a real investigation, they would have set up camera's in a surveillance vehicle and caught him/her in a week minimum. This entire story is a perfect example of police NOT doing their job because it wasn't worth their time (in their opinion).
lol he/her didnt deliver the mail.. 3 years later alot has been discovered ugh watch the new netflix series about it. but yea LOL nobody walked up man too put it in the mail
I was thinking the same thing
That’s cause they never moved in
You're as naive as you are ignorant 🤣
Watch the watcher. Freak him out.
@dorothydreams oftornadoes I always post stupid comments. 😂
dorothydreams oftornadoes seriously think before you comment. It was an obvious joke, I’m sorry your brain is tinier than a peanut.
@@ted6607 🙂👍
dorothydreams oftornadoes terrorize the watcher
And then watch the watcher who’s watching the watcher
What’s really terrifying? The Watcher has probably watched this video.
It’s just some weird guy.
Just cats you
😂
How is that terrifying?
After all he is the watcher lol
The watcher probably bought it and did it to get it for much cheaper
Thats to easy, watcher would probably have someone else buy it to divert attention. That would be asking to get caught
That's some Scooby Doo bullshit right there
I hope the police is trying to find who did this to them . What a shame .
Why didn’t they hire a private investigator to watch who drops off the letters or put in cameras around where they could catch who this person is..??
They did.
@@rileyramsey5797 and still they couldn’t figure out who did it? Like what?
@@Stina6266 it could be regular mail sent to them by usps with a fake return address.
No one is going to make me lose $400,000 with creepy ass letters. Ever thought to put up cameras??
They did. Watch "the watcher" on BuzzFeed unsolved. It's gives more details than just this video. Do your research.
Nina 88 She’s just asking a question that wasn’t answered in the video. She shouldn’t have to do a research project.
Gabriel Delt thank you! How was I supposed to know there was another video on this?? It was just a question
Nina 88 Asshole. It was a question which you could have simply answered without the sarcasm 🙄
@@Nina-856 I agree with you!
It be easier without having children that way you just have to protect yourself. I hope that sick person gets what's coming to them
Even if you were alone what if your sleeping that’s only problem.
@@museme6309 motion cameras. Alarms, and guns.
I would have just walked around the house naked and did highly questionable things haha
Siobhan Fogarty id rather be ugly than stalked lmao
😂😂😂😂
Lol
Maybe he was faking about seeing the family. If previous owners got the letter, maybe it's a neighbor. Cameras would catch who puts the mail in the box. Maybe it's the mailman.
Thank you give you something to watch o rub my ass on that wall the watcher will come marching in.
The people that bought the house are high fiving right now. "I cant believe that worked" that's better than negotiating a price.
Netflix out here stealing news stories 😂
Spend $1,3000,000 on a house and never even move in?! Must be nice to have that kind of money.
Probably the buyer was doing the harassing !
I feel bad for the family, I would have done the same thing to protect my children. But if I lived alone I would stay.
Dumb Idea
@@nickkyy3383 no it’s not get a gun and it’s a even fight.
Was waiting for the yanky gun talk, guns solve everything, just randomly start shooting and claim stand your ground laws, if kids get in the way it's their fault and your right to own guns and shoot whenever/whoever you want
@@CZF971 if the problem isn't guns it's the person that owns them why are there so many school shootings in merica, there's none in the UK or Aus in the last 25 years, there must be a lot of physcopaths there. No I don't have the experience with guns over here as if you ever open carry a gun in Aus and your not at a shooting range you will be arrested, plus we can shoot first and use stand your ground as a justification for murder.
@@nickkyy3383 I see your point but there’s better way putting that
I believe the community is behind everything that happens. Because it's strange that nobody sees anything
The new owners forced them to lower the price by tormenting them with letters. Due to the disclosure law, they have to tell the new potential owners of the history of the place. Id take a realllly close look at the new owners!
Why was it not disclosed to begin with
By the way there’s been people renting them home
So they had a suspect but couldn’t charge him because not enough evidence 🤦🏻♀️... bs
It's not BS. I watched the Buzzfeed Unsolved documentary on this case. They had a couple suspects, but their case was super thin and they little to no proof to convict anyone. It sounds like the DNA proof they had, couldn't be traced back to anyone in particular.
Elsa Reinsch oh i see 🤔
Not him her it’s a female
Looks like the watcher got himself a good deal on the house, it just took some patience and a couple of creepy letters. Question, what can the watcher be charged with because from the quotes they gave he never threatened the owners and I am sure the news picked the most disturbing quotes for this story and none of it seemed illegal.
This person was stalking the family, the letters even mention their children.
Chon stknca misdemeanors harrassment?
Threats are illegal.
Kevin Pryne what threat?
Vote Your Conscience "Tasting young blood again"
Couldn’t be me... this story would’ve ended with my foot in the watchers *ss 💯
Is that why your feet smell so much ?
It’s an old owner. Only someone who lived there or has family ties to to it would have such a passion for a home.
There was a similar case like this in San Diego. The stalker was a person that was outbid on the house and was bitter about it.
The real mystery is the the heck they paid 1.3 million for a house with siding 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I GUES, CAUSE THOSE HOUSES ARE WELL BUILD AND HAVE CHARACTER.
THEY USED THE BEST WOOD TO BUILD IT.
NOWADAYS HOUSES ARE BUILD WITH POPSICLES WOOD STICK AND CRAZY GLUE.
PLUS THEY PROBABLY ARE IN THE BEST PART OF TOWN.
I GUESS...
I'll TRY AGAIN.
I GUESS THOSE HOUSES ARE MADE WITH VERY GOOD WOOD THE FINEST STRONGEST WOOD EVER, LIKE MAHOGANY, THE HOUSES COMES WITH BEAUTIFUL BUILD IN SHELVES AND MORE THAN ONE FIRE PLACE BIG PANTRY ETC. ON THE CONTRARY HOUSES NOWADAYS ARE BUILD WITH POPSICLE STICKS AND CRAZY GLUE, AND NO BUILD-INS, CAN YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE???
PLUS THEY ARE SET IN THE BEST PART OF TOWN.
With 1.3 million you can have a good quality house built definitely better than the one showed.an old house is still an old house.the older the more of a money pit it becomes
Rosa Colon this is so true. My friend bought a house a year ago and everything just looks and feels cheap. It doesn’t feel like a real home.
Buzzfeed unsolved covered this.
The Eerie Case Of The Watcher
TH-cam · BuzzFeed Unsolved
BuzzFeed is trash and extremely left biased. Worse than the any of the msm
Jesse Centeno You watch Buzzfeed? 😂😂😂 pathetic really
RTAIRSOFT but buzzfeed unsolved is completely different
AvGeek buzzfeed unsolved is really different then regular buzzfeed
rawrbro69 Doesn’t change the fact that Buzzfeed is a load of bias liberal BS
How hard is it to get a camera and find out who it was
The letters came in the mail.
ry but they said they drive by the house frequently
@@carlyl7254 so do many other cars. A camera wont identify them. Also just because the letters say they do does not mean they do.
ry true
How was he able to leave all those letters and not have been caught
First thing I do in every home I move into is to make sure I can close either blinds or curtains so people can't see into my house if I don't want them to. Creepy folks out there in the world with nothing better to do apparently.
They should of just thrown out the letters in the front yard on a pole an had it say good try fool I'm not moving
This is going to be a nightmare for whoever brought this from them. God be with them!
God be with them cdfu what he gonna do these people need to own guns and not be puss
Why is this even still a thing? I can't believe people would allow themselves to be bullied like this. It's time to take this seriously and find out who this guy is
It’s a woman when the DNA Cameback but yea I’d been dealt with it.
@@museme6309 who was the guy?;
Westfield or westview ?
They allowed an unknown threat to drive them out of their house? It could’ve been a prank. An advanced security system and a gun would’ve helped tremendously.
In a level I agree but as a mom I get their point what would you do? And a gun can take days due to background check but I do agree before they moved in they got the letters and that by then should have you time.
This sounds familiar , heard a story like this , turned out to be some lady that wanted the house herself . So she terrorized the family, trying to scare them out ...
Probably some 40yr old neckbeard, living in his mother's basement with nothing better to do.
angie38 check out the neighbor, he was one of the top suspects but the DNA evidence on the letters didn’t match up
I'd put camera in nextdoor neighbour house to find the watcher. Once you find him/her. Start sending them similar letters.
The fact that the writer answers the question on how he/she can know so I’m much of the movement and what goes on in the house isn’t because of the windows or doors... I guarantee he/she has listening devices in walls/vents!
I’m here because of Netflix Lol
$1.3mil damnn i get a 5 bedroom house in Georgia for under $500k ny and nj is way too expensive
panacoaster Yep, that's why thousands of people are leaving NYC every year, partly because of the overall cost of living especially in terms of real estate.
panacoaster lol you’re acting like Atlanta doesn’t exist.. I’m sure there are run down places in Jersey you could find the same thing
Sounds like the intruder.Very weird.I know we must protect our children but I wish they could have found another way,but peace of mind is priceless. If the watcher knew about the renovation they had been there.A security system would have caught someone leaving letters to.
They were smart enough not to get caught I think it’s being mailed I would burn those letters
The watcher was just trying to buy the house cheap lol
I'm thinking it was a neighbor that didn't want anyone to move in.
I’m here cuz of the Netflix Series
SAME
How awful they had to buy a different million dollar + house... life must just be terrible for these poor people... On to the next one.. which could take several hours to find....
Shane & Ryan already covered this story 🤭🤫 so many conspiracies
The watcher bought the house, master plan
But then he would be caught easily
Wouldn’t that be crazy if the person that bought it for way less was the watcher and that was their plan to get it for cheaper? 🤔
So either detectives are bad at their job or the criminal is a genius.
Here after the Netflix show😅😅😮😮😮
They should check the list of previous owners because of the person wrote that they didn’t like the renovations. It’s probably someone who previous owned the home and probably got evicted or couldn’t afford it anymore and they are jealous and petty.
F-that...now the letters have stopped BS
Does the house still get those creepy letters ? Like to know how the new owners are doing ?
Who bought it 😢
Also, with houses that expensive, were there ZERO cameras around?
"The Watcher" is probably the person that bought the house.
John Fisher, Ha! 🤣
People are far to skittish to get ran off by some letters. No way someone is chasing me from my home with stupid letters. I would have made a chalkboard billboard to write the stalker back and let the real mind games begin! It would start with "Dear secret admirer oh how much I enjoyed your letters we are truely kindred spirits!"
Right? Nobody will ever scare me enough to make me leave a 1.3 million dollar home. With the 400k they lost they could've easily used that to install security.
@@Nikki-rv3rb truth! You could add trained attack dogs/geese and security gaurd.
Well they have three kids
@@Thats_MarieHoney So do I, they would gladly have dinner table discussions on what to say in the billboard letter LOL. I would legit do a news interview with a fake letter with sweet and innocent stuff in it and say that was what my response was to just to further convince the writer I was serious. If that person was a threat they would be enticed to reveal themselves to me and if not they would not want to mess with me!
This may seem reckless but from a psychological standpoint most of the dangerous ones don't write letters to their victims, they stalk and strike with little to no warning so the most likely outcome would be an end to the letters.
th-cam.com/video/xBoKesAQFHU/w-d-xo.html this video will change your mind
That house is beautiful. If I had the money I’d buy it at 1.1 million because obv theirs work to do on it
Anyone who would do that is a sick human being.
I’d lock my mailbox, put security cameras, and put security gates around my house if all else fails I’ll tear down the house so we both lose 😂
Same thing on my mind 😂
How sad that envy and greed by a psycho ruined this young family dream.
*_"Watcher" is a real estate fear🤑flipper ._*
I would have to examine every square inch of the house for anything questionable.
I would light it up like the fourth of July just to see the reaction of the watcher.theres my renovations
Who is here after watching the watcher
It sounds like the Watcher got a great deal on a house. I grew up in the hood everybody watching one another. Camera's sercurity something. I know that block got a Neighborhood watch.
I bet "the watcher" just got a new house.
In other news: the Watcher buys New Jersey mansion at 50% of market price.
*closes blinds*
Where’s Shaggy and Scooby Doo when you need them?
Personally, I think the Watcher was just trying to scare them out of the house. I think perhaps he or she was slightly jealous of the fact that they couldn't have the house. I believe it was a woman. I believe she's always wanted the house ever since she was a little girl, and for whatever reason, she couldn't have it and I think it sent her over the edge. And now she's just consumed by the idea of owning the house.
The watcher just got one heck of a deal on a house!
Why didn't they, or the police, installed CCTV cameras?????
TH-cam is watching me 😂😂I just added the “The Watcher” Netflix series to my list few days before only
It's a pretty good point - like others mentioned here - that someone called himself :"the Watcher", wanted so badly that specific beautiful and wide property the Broadduses bought, but couldn't afford it - if you observe the letters, the writer's Jealousy & Possessiveness regarding the house is pretty obvious-, so he/she started to terrorize the family in order to send them violently away...
But isn't it strange that when the family filed a suggestion to the town's board in order to approve the split of the property & construction of two separate new houses, unanimously all the neighbors turned it down, by expressing a resentment to anything new that would violate their home town scenery and architecture, as they have been used to it?
While, on the contrary the board had accepted similar cases, as Maria the wife had declared!
I mean the majority of the neighbors seems to line up with the opinions of the so called :"Watcher"!
So, it hasn't come up through police's mind, that maybe the whole neighborhood was nurturing feelings of despise against that family?
The reasons remain unknown:fear against anything new in town, jealousy regarding family's wealth and prosperity, simple bullying and terrorism...?
Besides human's wickedness and viciousness is well known...
Why not just install security cameras? In any case, how much do you want to bet that the person that ended up buying the house was "the watcher". It was all part of his master plan to get the house at a discounted price.
No it won’t make sense, and that is the first thing the owners did but the letters were dropped into those mailboxes by the side walk on the street anyone can use a fake address that’s the tricky part their kinda smart on that idea.
The Watcher is the one that bought the house for under value. 😂 Mission accomplished. Boom! 👏🏼
I'm kinda surprised at how easily they gave up. Get a security system. Get a permit to own a firearm. I be damned if a threatening anonymous letter makes me give up my dream home. I would take that as a challenge. If they got the money to buy a million dollar home, they got money for security.
Side Note: I am still blown away at house prices. That house would be about $500,000 dollars in my city.
Lol where do you live because that would be close to a million in atl suburbs… or more honestly
I have family that live in NJ (all around) and I never heard of any house anywhere that is even close to 1 million. What? They might as well have bought a house in NYC in certain neighborhoods.
@@TheKutie36 PA
how come no camera on the mailbox to film the culprit?
Genius
2:20
Watcher: Good to know
I am here after Rishipedia
Same
My German Shepherd will eat The Watcher willingly.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's someone from their Inner Circle: a jealous relative or friend. This sounds like a passive aggressive beta-male, or fake-nice "mean girl", the kind of person who throws rocks & hides their hands. All they need to do is pay attention to people's eyes as they talk to them, like Tony Montana said "it's the eyes chico, they never lie"
This has happened to multiple owners for years.
Beta male??? U really gonna perpetuate that ignorant steteotypical Bs????? 🤣🤣🤣🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🤣🤣🤣🤣🙈🙈🙈
It’s weird how cameras were never installed, conveniently……I do not think we are getting the entire story.
You know these cameras you get alert on the phone every time somebody approaches, it’s has 2 ways conversations , they could have placed one at the letter box , totally agree weird story from owners
This guy sounds like a Scooby doo villain