Even in these comments, nobody seems to care that the detective just vanished. A WHOLE DETECTIVE LOOKING INTO THIS DISAPPEARED. How are more people not creeped out by this?
Maybe there were no children missing and it was a shared delusion and the detective who found it out was captured so that the truth wouldn't ever come out. You never know. Not saying it's probable but it's a theory.
These firefighters should have been charged for negligence... It's like an ambulance driver who wait 30 minutes before going to the call because he's in his lunch break!
They kidnappers used the ladder to extract the kids then ditched it … also stalled the cars ans the firemen stalled to allow tile to get away before parents notice the kids weren’t inside and are missing
Savage why is it sad some people don't understand the pain of losing someone? They are the lucky ones. I wish no one died in my life. I wish i didn't understand the pain.
One day the INFIRES nation attacked Yeah... I lost someone and I didn't cry but twice. A few people thought I was in shock, some probably thought I just didn't care. I'm what some would call a cold-blooded person.
I used to enjoy Shane's mystery videos (I used to binge watch them) for until one day he made a video about something I previously decided to obsessively search about and almost half of the info he gave was incorrect and it ruined it for me. At least ik these guys take forever to post a new video because they're researching it fully. Idk I still watch Shane's videos but I do my own research afterwards lmao
This episode is so sad. The Sodders’ house was deliberately burned down, and the local government was in on it. The Sodders were attacked by their own government, had five of their kids kidnapped, and their own government refused to help them because they (the local government) were the ones who did it.
The Casual Criminalist did a way more in depth video on it and it was stated that the Gasoline stored in the basement caused the heat required to incenerate the bodies
What was the motive of the town government to kidnap the children and burn down the guy's house? Surely if someone had a grudge against Mr. Sodder they'd have killed just him?
i just keep thinking 'how did the parents survive this incident emotionally?' like if parents lose one child they have so much diffeculty, yet can you imagine the guilt and burden they probably felt every single day after the incident? 5 children.. they lost 5 children. i can't even imagine how they continued living after that.
they still had one child to take care of and they seemed like great, concerning parents. I'm sure they never stopped loving their child that was still with them while searching for their missing ones (evidenced by the fact that even after their passing, their daughter is still continuing the search, granted because she wants to find her siblings but probably also out of respect for her parents)
positive Energy I would probably consider suicide if I was Jennie sodder even though I had four other children and my husband,I just don't think I'd be able to go on.
Dolphin Squared (Dolphin2) It's pretty obvious they were targeted by some pretty powerful and dangerous people. Most likely the Italian government or someone closely connected to them. The thing that surprises me most is that no one tried to kill the parents and the other kids afterwards.
The father was probably a Marxist or someone who was relatively left-wing, who fled Italy because of fascism, like a lot of Italian emigrants (many artists and Trade Unionists left Italy during WW2). He may have thought that he could be more outspoken about the atrocities under Mussolini in America (free country, etc), particularly after Mussolini was executed which had already happened around the time of this case. But his community was mainly Italian and probably fascist. It's desperately sad.
I can see at this point where the case remain unsolved is because probably at that time immigrants especially Italian residing in the US were treated "unfairly" by the us gov. or locals.. so i agree with the term that this has something to do with class relations and societal conflicts among both countries as we can see at that times the world war still ongoing and societal conflicts are occurring everywhere. we can conclude that the family couldn't get much help from the authorities like the federal bureaucracy because i can say that they all working up together to cover up the case of the missing children and that feds and FBI were corrupted as well as they try to really tear down the family.. i really hope the parents could find the truth in the heaven.. probably the most saddened tragic case of all time
Benjamin Blackwell how is it not? it's a fucking murder and a family was torn apart, it's a serious topic that shouldn't be laughed at and ridiculed. it's completely inappropriate. if someone murdered your family you wouldn't want people making videos laughing about things that happened.
13:40 This photograph is the reason I believe the children must've survived... In a True Crime Podcast, Sylvia (the youngest sister) gave an interview mentioning that Louis gave his brother Maurice the nickname "Frankie"... so Louis might've actually sent this picture to his mother as hint that he was still alive. Maybe they were scared to directly contact the family? Some people online said that Ilil could actually be supposed to stand for "Illinois". Or that the numbers could be a zipcode. (Car plate is unlikely).
Mafia. The Mafia 100% paid off the key people in the town. The Mafia were gaining power fast following Prohibition, and gained some influence over the government following WWII (where essentially the US used the Mafia in Sicily to gain power back from Mussolini). The Sodders lived in a town with a fairly large Italian population. I cannot think of an adversary as powerful as the Mafia, or another organisation that has a history of adopting and selling out children to punish parents. Unquestionably a shady Mafia play.
I thought maybe the Ilil isnt “lil” but maybe illionois. Like a mistake of reading the capital i as a lettercase l. And the 35” is part of a coordinate, if its 35” latitude, it’s nearby Fayetteville, north Carolina. Even though the case is in north virginia, the name of the city with the same name is hinted, like it’s indirectly saying thats where the man came from: Fayetteville. Instead of outright saying Fayetteville, North Virginia, it’s using the 35” coordinate of a place that coincidentally has the same name that is required to cross a border. Maybe they were taken to Illinois, and the letter is saying 35” for someone to find the city of the same name, the boy is from Fayatteville
Well even by today in the year 2021 there are a lot of fanatic Italians and Im sure among others are still big BIG fans of Benito Mussolini just like there are Neo-Nazis for Hitler. So not entirely weird
@@medianinitiantion1058 people target who they can. If most of the italians in their community are Mussolini supporters and he was very vocal of his opposition, they're gonna bully him just because he's the one they can easily access.
So Maurice was 14 years old when he was allegedly kidnapped. Wouldn’t he have remembered what happened to him? I get that Betty, who was 5 at the time, would probably forget what happened. But all the other kids were old enough to try to contact their parents at some point. Unless they’d been killed, of course.
@@chrysl6058 that is possible, but if this was the case, they would probably still be allowed to interact with the outside world (even if they had new parents), and this would have been viral news so if george was looking for them, they would know?
My heart breaks for the parents. A mother and a father lived out the rest of their days never knowing what happened to their children, or where they were.
So the Sodder story gets even sadder. The family lost the five children either in the fire or kidnapping. I also found that they had another baby boy named Michael years after the fire but he only lived one day.
i kind of imagine them at the station just having a casual conversation like "hey so should we go to that burning house report?" and another saying "eh they'll be fine for a while" and then they just played darts or something for the next 7 hours
I swear I showed this to my grandfather on my moms side. And showed him the pictures and paintings of these 5 kids. He said they looked like these people who he knew and two is still alive he said. They were Apparently Italian, and this was probably 10-15 years after the fire. He said he was real good friends with them and even started dating one of them. It didn’t work out between them and they broke up still being friends. The person he dated was Martha. She didn’t have the name and he said there is no way they are just doppelgängers. Here is what he said they died of. The supposedly Maurice - Lung Cancer 2004 The Supposedly Martha - Car Crash 1970 The supposedly Louis - still alive apparently living in New York The supposedly Jennie - still alive living with her brother in New York The Supposedly Betty - suicide 1968
This was definitely the doing of the Mafia, I mean the detective went missing. The Mafia obviously had eyes on them then found the detective and got rid of him to stop the detective from locating their son
Garden gnome I agree. I think the Mafia kidnapped the children, and told the children if they were to report back to their families, then they’d be killed, etc. I obviously don’t know what happened, but I really do believe the mafia kidnapped the children, especially if the father had business in Italy.
That and it happened in West VA...honestly citizens in WV never seem to get justice (Dupont poisoning, more than 1.5 century of coal co. abuses, corruption at ALL levels of gov't, trying to ban teacher protests)
I want to know why the current living descendent don’t take a dna test and hope it picks up on the children or grandchildren of the missing Sodder kids. It seems like it could be worth a shot.
@Johnny Hernandez-Perez pretty sure even in the illuminati episode they didn't mention Shane would be replacing Brent. He just kinda showed up and never left. Point stands.
Lmao and their still the same age physically and mentally as they were apart of a experiment/cover up in which they wanted to test out if an Elixir of Immortality worked and clearly it does.
This case makes my blood boil. The suspicious salesman, the firefighters 2 and a half miles away that took 8 HOURS to get there, the cow heart that was said it was their children. It is suspicious for everyone involved. This poor family.
Pretty much yeah, considering they were most likely from the dirt he used to fill the basement, and that we no longer know where they are. If they still had access to them then that would be great, they could DNA test them and see if it’s actually one of the kids or at least identify who they belonged to, but unfortunately they can’t do that. No use dwelling on it if it can’t help the case.
@@mafaldaviana9060 nope, those bones were very likely decades older and a part of the yard foundation, there's probably human bones somewhere close to your house
@@zenon8627 my brother says that the construction workers who have been disturbing my naborhood will search through the dirt they dug up to see if theres any bones or indian artifacts in it
Today the lost children ages would be: Betty 79 Jennie 82 Louis 83 Martha 85 Maurice 87 The other children would be: Sylvia 75 George Jr 89 Marion 90 John 96
So the Sodder story gets even sadder. The family lost the five children either in the fire or kidnapping. I also found that they had another baby boy named Michael years after the fire but he only lived one day.
Yeah, it was just a noodle demon man discovering he kinda likes that strange human so he made Brent go away (hopefully alive) and joined his human. And so the story began.
"FJ Morris thought the fire might have been so hot it cremated the children's bodies" yes, the fire chief who took eight hours to get there in an emergency on a 2.5 mile drive gets an opinion on this
I love and hate this episode. It's so good, but it scares the hell outta me every damn time. It always gives me chills. This poor family didn't deserve what happened to them. I pray they (the parents, family members, victims, and friends) have comfort and peace of mind soon.
the kids were abducted since no bones were found and thats why the ladder was gone and the cars wouldn't start and the bomb caused the fire and not wiring...if there are witnesses claiming to have seen the kids why is this even a issue?...it was a clear attack on his home...shady as fuck..especially the fire trucks not responding and the calls not being picked up
I honestly feel so bad for the whole family but especially the parents. They clearly loved their children to pieces and the fact that George travelled around the country to cover and investigate every single lead that came up shows how much they wanted to find their children, they never gave up.
In Australia in the 1960 parents lost all of their children, too. Three, two girls and a boy between 9 and six or so. I cannot imagine how you live on. There are tons of photograhs in the internet, you see the garden with the swings and their bikes and so on. The whole life was devoted to the children, and from one day to the next all had ended. All was quiet. And when your children DIE, it is killing yourself-- but they disappeared, ike here. They went to the beach, both parents wanted to go with them, but had something else to do, nothing they could have left, but... We have a grave on ou churchyard from the 1880s, and there are three children, which died in six days. Boy girl, boy. But, as I said before, they DIED. The poor parents sat alone in an empty house. But they knew what happened. The poor parents in Australia are in their 90s now They live so lobng, it would be a blessing for a happy big family but they only live now for suffering. I could cry every time I think of them, and both cases, that australian (I cannot remember the name in this moment) and the Sodder one, will always be somehow connected for me, since the parents never learned what happend to their beloved children
Coming back to these, I realize that Shane just sorta shows up. I came in about 2-ish yrs after they started so I never saw… but did they do any announcement for Shane joining the team/replacing Brent? Or did he just… appear
As I wrote under another comment: In AUstralia happened something like this to a family. They lost all of tgheir children, two girls, one boy, and they the parebnts, which are in their nineties now-s still fight and hope. It is heartbreaking How can you live onlike that? Here in Germany was child raper caught, which had murdered two years before the last girl another one, and the father of this girl could not eat, and could only stay alive in the hope to get his child back But he was like a skeleton. A paper wrote, he looked like a Holocaustvictim, and this is true. He said, if his little girl was alive, she would suffer that moment when he was eating, and so he couldn't. ANd in the end all was for nothing. WHen they caught that mean pig, weeks later he said where to find her He hAD THROWN HER IN THE DIRT NEAR A WILD WAY; ALL THEY FOUND WAS PARTS OF HER BONES: tHE PARENTS COUL NOT GO TO COURT; NOTHING THEY HAVE BEEN DESTROYED BECAUSE OF THESE TWO YEARS: aND THEY ONLY LOST one CHILD: tHEE AUSTRALIAN PARENTS LOST all: i AM HAPPY FOR EACH MOMENT i DO NOT THINK ABOUT IT: tHAT AUSTRALIAN CASE ALWAYS REMINDS ME TO THE sODER CASE hEARTBREAKING; i HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ELSE TO SA. Oh, sorry for the capital letters.
xx silvermoonlight xx yeahh and never found them but the kids were aged and thay could tell that the were kind napped and maby run away or do some thing
Person who would not be impossible to find: I WILL BURN YOUR HOUSE AND YOU WILL LOSE YOUR CHILDREN AND I HAVE A MOTIVE House: *Burns* Kids: *go missing* Police: I bet it was the wiring.
@Clinical Depression Wouldn't make sense, considering there are witness reports about the children being taken and still alive elsewhere. If they were all in on it, then there would be no sightings.
@Clinical Depression, did you really watch the whole video? it was said the town where they lived in italy before were fanatical about mussolini, not the town where their house burned.
George never gave up to find his children. He did everything, that man really believed they were alive and that's heartbreaking to me that he died not knowing 100% . I believe that they were kidnapped and I do sort of think that they went to Italy because if something went on between George and Mussilini (I know I spelled that wrong.) then of course George wouldn't go back. He could have went to prison or have been killed and where would that leave Jennie and the other four children?
this case is so goddamn weird. fire department who doesn't wanna do their job, lunatic life assurance salesman, the chief's beef liver/heart rumor, a detective going missing, and bone fragments from a different child that were completely glossed over. great job.
Watching this in a marathon and it's nice to see how much more Ryan is enjoying it with Shane than with Brent. I'm glad he found someone to run a show (and a business) with that he seems to enjoy hanging out with.
"The year was 1945, on the night before Christmas in Fayetteville West Virginia." The way Ryan narrates it makes it sound like some creepy beginning of a Christmas story
For people who's wondering what happened to the comments: The older videos has been moved from Buzzfeed Multiplayer to Buzzfeed Unsolved Network, hence the comments reset.
This feels like A Series Of Unfortunate Events (maybe inspiration for it). I mean a bunch of young siblings disappear in a mysterious fire and apparently go from place to place and get kidnapped, and also every adult who interacts with them is extremely incompetent and/or evil
What if they aren't really dead? I think it is possible that they are still alive, having secretly invested in cryogenics research to preserve them until either the case is solved or their lives can be extended in the future.
JonBenét Ramsay's murder, Roanoke colony, Madelaine McCann's disappearance, New Orlean's Axeman, Jack the Ripper, Cleveland Torso Murderer... All are great mysteries they could make episodes about. And I am in love with Shane! He asks very good questions, and can actually make this funny!
I live in Fayetteville. Dated a sodder in high school. Her and her grandmother once told me they received a letter from Italy hinting that some of the children was taken there.
Well it's obvious the police and all the law enforcement were kinda in on it. Even to go as far as protecting the life insurance guy that definately had everything to do with it by putting him in the jury and claiming it was faulty wiring. When it's obvious like that its better to not go pointing fingers at people who definately have nefarious intentions specifically set on you and your family...yknow like why give them more reason to kidnap and/or kill more of your pride and joy?
@@butterbun7033 why would such professional organisations such as the police and law, be in on a crime? I agree the fire services not picking up is very suspicious, but I dont see a clear justification as to why they would want to cause harm to the sodder family
@@kishenparekh9416 because a lot of police were corrupt back then. Usually they were involved in the mafia or a mob at the time and. Of course wouldnt do anything about mafia/mob related activities and then get paid for it at the end of the day
@@butterbun7033 oh makes sense. Honesty out of the countless episodes I've watched, what really happened in this one still irritates me, it's such a fascinating case
watching their old content now is such a raw comparison to their new flashy stuff. just two guys in a basement talking about weird stuff and clicking in a very natural and charming way. none of that expensive BS content that feels overly scripted and forced.
@@priyamanobal Because you are allowing the government to look into a computer database of every single person on Earth. If you don't think that will go downhill, then you are a moron. It's an obvious slippery slope.
Yeah, this is the one Buzzfeed Unsolved that will always make me angry. Too much went wrong all at the same time. It sounds like half the town was in on it, from the idiot police who "couldn't" do a proper investigation, to the fire department PURPOSEFULLY letting the house burn for 7 hours while there were children inside. You KNOW it was on purpose, too, because no fire fighter worth their boots would knowingly let children burn to death for 7 hours. They had to have known the house was empty -they were in on it and waiting for evidence to burn away, for sure.
because those 5 children's are on the upper level of the house, and their room is close by. I think the kidnapper won't risk going for all of the child
Interesting fact: Jennie Sodder had a brother named Frank Cipriani. He was from Fayetteville and according to his obituary owned a trucking business like George. He was the relative that lived in Florida that was investigated because of the witness report of the children seen in cars with Florida licence plates. The picture of Louis was specifically addressed to Jennie and said “brother Frankie”. I’m surprised the Sodders didn’t have him investigated more.
This is my theory: The police department and the fire department knew about this. That’s why they never answered and were late, also they didn’t want to work with the FBI. So the man who kidnapped the kids payed them to keep their mouth shut and told them to not respond to the call and be late.
everyone there are basically Oblivion Guards *sees you kill an npc and chases you down* *immediately stops running and looks down at the body and tends to it* Oblivion Guard - "oh my goodness, who did this?"
i hope this family, alive or not, ALL of them, find peace one day. i lost a sibling tragically and am still working on the case only 6 years later. time does not heal all wounds such as this, but hopefully with this amount of time they can at least enjoy their remaining time on earth as much as they can.
hoor alain thats kinda the whole point of this show, you can watch so many videos on mysteries and read about them but this show adds a level of comedy which is why it has such a high viewing
They're probably like "Oh that can't be our parents/siblings they all died in a fire on that same night, right parent who told me all this? Oh you're going to work? Good luck selling life insurance!"
Interesting fact: Jennie Sodder’s brother Jimmie Cipriani was one of the fire fighters that was 8 hrs late. Her other brother Frank was also suspected and investigated in Florida. Not to mention the picture sent to her and the “brother Frankie” message. Very suspicious.
Even if those kids were still alive today, the oldest, Maurice, was 14 at the time of the fire in 1945, meaning he was born in 1931, meaning that if he was still alive today he'd be 87. It's possible but also a little unlikely. So if they didn't die back then, I'm sure they've probably started to die off from old age by now, which is really sad.
But wouldn't you think at least with the older kids, they would know the truth? That eventually they would break free (move out, or get married) then tell the story? I can see the younger ones not remembering the ordeal and growing up with the thought.. O these are my real parents.. Not knowing those people aren't their parents.
BuzzFeed, I am talking directly to you. It's pretty clear that BuzzFeed as a company is focused on the quantity over quality mindset with your content creation, which there is nothing wrong with that, but hear me now! Please keep the BuzzFeed Unsolved videos as they are. Keep Shane and Ryan as the men on screen, they both have really great reasoning and humor, when appropriate. Brent was alright, but I think Shane is better at bringing up valid points of reason to keep Ryan grounded and accountable. Ryan and Shane both have sound reasoning at times and fallacies at times and they do well at highlighting that each of them have both. As much as I'd love to see more Unsolved videos being published, I would MUCH rather you guys maintain the quality of the videos that have been published so far, even if that means that videos are being published at the current, "slow," rate. I love the balance of content from realistic theories to the more controversial ideas. For example, there is great balance with a video on the Men in Black where some evidence is there, but it's mostly a "crazy alien theory," followed with a video about a serial killer, such as the Zodiac, where there is quite a bit of hard, sound evidence from traditionally, credible sources. I would appreciate more on screen notation of where Ryan is getting his data and quotes from, or at least more notation in the description bar. Thanks BuzzFeed, Ryan and Shane!
The best part of this is that this is Shayne's debut episode, and up until him losing his mind at the insurance salesman he's just kind of been chilling and then boom.
“I will set your house on fire and your kids will be destroyed”
Oh boy. I wonder who it is
There's no real way of knowing, you Know?
He predicted that one to a tee🤦🏾♀️common since ppl
All hail the watcher
Exactly. I think it’s pretty obvious what the hell happened here
Big Chungus LOL lol
“Help! Our house is on fire and our children are inside!”
Firefighters: *Seven hours later* we’re here!
seven hours late wih starbucks
"no need to thank me"
cold cup of jo, LMAO 😂😭👏🏻😂😭👏🏻
The Sodders:where the FUCK have you been
Like does he want them to die?
I feel terrible for the parents. They never gave up searching and hoping.
maddielovelee I can’t like the comment it has 666
@Really Dude
I do the same thing! I hate when some asshole ruins a perfectly good 666 👿
maddielovelee I think the youngest child (Sylvia who is probably in her 80s now) is still hopeful about information on her siblings.
Yeah, literally till the day they died
I feel terrible for the parents. They never gave up searching and hoping.
Sylvia Sodder died on April 21, 2021. There are now no Sodder children that are alive that we know of.
that is so recent its scary
Damm
@@bloc4473 fr
That’s recent
I hope this family finds closure :(
I swear like most of these murders and tragic cases are never solved due to bad and lazy police work.
Most of unsloved cases are like that.
corrupt too
ACAB indeed
ACAB
@@emmac7509 chill lol
The saddest part about this is how much George clearly loved his kids ;/
Poor man never found out what happened to his missing kids. A horrible trauma for a parent (and the siblings too)
I know right.. so sad..I feel so bad for him.
Poor guy, he didn’t deserve it... he deserves to have found his children alive
Or it could be the tow commentators stupidly laughing. Jerks!
@@lostinvictory8526 relax lol
I totally forgot that C.C. Tinsley was, like, a real person and not just a persona/au made up for Shane
Same
Ricky: I want the top house
yeah when i heard that name i was like holy crap i forgot its a REAL PERSON
i was about to write the same thing
*Fanfiction flashbacks*
Even in these comments, nobody seems to care that the detective just vanished. A WHOLE DETECTIVE LOOKING INTO THIS DISAPPEARED. How are more people not creeped out by this?
He probably ended up in a acid barrel like in breaking bad
it's either some big company/mob or the government doing this
Maybe there were no children missing and it was a shared delusion and the detective who found it out was captured so that the truth wouldn't ever come out. You never know. Not saying it's probable but it's a theory.
a whole detective? you say that as if there is an alternative
can just a part of a detective vanish?
@@InitialPC yes, if you cut a detectives leg off, then steal the leg and hide it, the leg has vanished
the fact that the fire department took 7 hours to travel 2.5 miles and denying the phone calls make them look like they were part of the crime.
derylmikael I know
Right! Like the shady people in Italy said something to them to make them do that
derylmikael true
Enough cash they received from the culprit
The fire chief was actually reportedly drunk and unable to drive. Not an excuse but ya know
These firefighters should have been charged for negligence... It's like an ambulance driver who wait 30 minutes before going to the call because he's in his lunch break!
Annie M. Very true, but let’s not forget this was 1945, so it was a different time
doesn't matter what time it was--hell, it was during the time period of ww2! negligence is negligence.
Pupsicle yes it was very wrong! I just said
No matter the time being 7 hours too late is bad
I think they realized their mistake as soon as they saw the sign “welcome to North Carolina”
The upsetting part of this story is that George sodder had to live the rest of his life with the thought of what happened to his children.
But the mother didn't?
if it was me i would have gone crazy
At least the living 5 siblings and the mother didn’t have to live with that though.
That poor man stopped at nothing and still came up empty handed. I hate this case.
he seems like a good guy and I pity him so much
I think it’s also worth noting that after the fire George’s ladder was found hidden in the woods near their house
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@@PrincessZaire100 oh my gosh i love cardi haha
Oh yeah, it was definitely that salesman for sure
They kidnappers used the ladder to extract the kids then ditched it … also stalled the cars ans the firemen stalled to allow tile to get away before parents notice the kids weren’t inside and are missing
ew that gave me shivers. honestly terrifying
Hats off to the parents, they did everything that they could do, Its sad to see how people don't understand the stress and pain of losing someone
the parents didn't cry.
Karyme Fernandez just because they didn't cry doesn't mean they're emotionless, and it doesn't state in the video that they didn't cry
Savage why is it sad some people don't understand the pain of losing someone? They are the lucky ones. I wish no one died in my life. I wish i didn't understand the pain.
One day the INFIRES nation attacked Yeah... I lost someone and I didn't cry but twice. A few people thought I was in shock, some probably thought I just didn't care. I'm what some would call a cold-blooded person.
I'm ur 2.1k like.
“If a detective goes missing, its like a fish drowning” -Shane
"Somebody come find me now."
@@adambump5297 *Detective looking for missing detective goes missing*
@@lenab.1080 "Don't worry help has arrived HELP!"
@@adambump5297 💀💀💀
He's not wrong..
shane makes this 80% less scarier
Marvin Robles no, he makes it 100% better
well the scarier the better lol
Marvin Robles it's the fucking the play in the background + the voice he uses 😭😭 shits creepy 😭
Marvin Robles i get less creeped out when they have their dialogue haha
I used to enjoy Shane's mystery videos (I used to binge watch them) for until one day he made a video about something I previously decided to obsessively search about and almost half of the info he gave was incorrect and it ruined it for me. At least ik these guys take forever to post a new video because they're researching it fully. Idk I still watch Shane's videos but I do my own research afterwards lmao
This episode is so sad. The Sodders’ house was deliberately burned down, and the local government was in on it. The Sodders were attacked by their own government, had five of their kids kidnapped, and their own government refused to help them because they (the local government) were the ones who did it.
just to clarify once more: it was the local government
@@simi6003 thanks, needed the clarification
The Casual Criminalist did a way more in depth video on it and it was stated that the Gasoline stored in the basement caused the heat required to incenerate the bodies
What was the motive of the town government to kidnap the children and burn down the guy's house? Surely if someone had a grudge against Mr. Sodder they'd have killed just him?
@@Makarosc But then wouldn't all of the appliances have been incinerated, too? In the video it says that there were parts of appliances found.
those little comedic conversations they have throughout the video keep ME SANE BECAUSE SOMETIMES THESE VIDEOS GENUINELY FREAK ME OUT
Jazmyn Simmons ikr?
Jazmyn Simmons same
Witch's Brew Sims they weren't laughing at the victims or anything.
Jazmyn Simmons the excorsism audio was by far the most disturbing
Jazmyn Simmons gotta love Shane
i just keep thinking 'how did the parents survive this incident emotionally?' like if parents lose one child they have so much diffeculty, yet can you imagine the guilt and burden they probably felt every single day after the incident? 5 children.. they lost 5 children. i can't even imagine how they continued living after that.
positive Energy I also the pain of noone even trying to help them is a heartache within itself.
they still had one child to take care of and they seemed like great, concerning parents. I'm sure they never stopped loving their child that was still with them while searching for their missing ones (evidenced by the fact that even after their passing, their daughter is still continuing the search, granted because she wants to find her siblings but probably also out of respect for her parents)
I am a spark of positive energy, but i can make sad statements from time to time.
positive Energy I would probably consider suicide if I was Jennie sodder even though I had four other children and my husband,I just don't think I'd be able to go on.
Sousukex3 More than one, there were four left. Still, Sylvia is one determined woman, and I admire her!
This was probably the most messed up case. Somebody should've helped this family.
I agree. So many black holes in this case that has not been washed off. And there are still many, many cases with this kind of injustice.
Dolphin Squared (Dolphin2) It's pretty obvious they were targeted by some pretty powerful and dangerous people. Most likely the Italian government or someone closely connected to them. The thing that surprises me most is that no one tried to kill the parents and the other kids afterwards.
Good point, jbmp
The father was probably a Marxist or someone who was relatively left-wing, who fled Italy because of fascism, like a lot of Italian emigrants (many artists and Trade Unionists left Italy during WW2). He may have thought that he could be more outspoken about the atrocities under Mussolini in America (free country, etc), particularly after Mussolini was executed which had already happened around the time of this case. But his community was mainly Italian and probably fascist. It's desperately sad.
I can see at this point where the case remain unsolved is because probably at that time immigrants especially Italian residing in the US were treated "unfairly" by the us gov. or locals.. so i agree with the term that this has something to do with class relations and societal conflicts among both countries as we can see at that times the world war still ongoing and societal conflicts are occurring everywhere. we can conclude that the family couldn't get much help from the authorities like the federal bureaucracy because i can say that they all working up together to cover up the case of the missing children and that feds and FBI were corrupted as well as they try to really tear down the family.. i really hope the parents could find the truth in the heaven.. probably the most saddened tragic case of all time
Rest in peace Sylvia Sodder. She passed April 21, 2021 due to ongoing illness
She actually has a younger brother named Michael. He died right after he was born. It's really sad.
IF THEY DIDNT HAVE LITTLE CONVERSATIONS IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS I WOULD GO INSANE
FairlyLocalPhilly Lmaoo samee😂😂
FairlyLocalPhilly Lmaoo I wouldn't watch if they didn't have that!!
FairlyLocalPhilly Lmaoo SAME
FairlyLocalPhilly Lmaoo for sure
i meaann that's the best thing about buzzfeed unsolved
I swear the only way I can get through this is when they start to make jokes
Sierra Crocker sammmee
Sierra Crocker i was frosen for 10 min
i thought it was terribly inappropriate, Buzzfeed has so little self awareness that's why everyone hates them
kenny shepard why is it inappropriate
Benjamin Blackwell how is it not? it's a fucking murder and a family was torn apart, it's a serious topic that shouldn't be laughed at and ridiculed. it's completely inappropriate. if someone murdered your family you wouldn't want people making videos laughing about things that happened.
"I wil set this house on fire and your children are going to die"
"Hmmm who could it be? Who could've done it?"
Shane is so damn cute
das kinda gay bro
0205sy and?
Nya Mair dont get offended, it was a joke; I mean no harm 😔🤚
no homo bro 😳✋
There is only one word to describe this man: *G A Y*
13:40 This photograph is the reason I believe the children must've survived... In a True Crime Podcast, Sylvia (the youngest sister) gave an interview mentioning that Louis gave his brother Maurice the nickname "Frankie"... so Louis might've actually sent this picture to his mother as hint that he was still alive. Maybe they were scared to directly contact the family?
Some people online said that Ilil could actually be supposed to stand for "Illinois". Or that the numbers could be a zipcode. (Car plate is unlikely).
Yeah, I think you're definitely on to something with this. 90132 and 90135 are zipcodes in Palermo, Sicily.
why is a car plate unlikely
The thing I like about this series is that it's scary but then something funny will happen to take your mind off of the scariness that just happened
lilac.aaliyah agreed. thats what makes this series unique and standout from other youtubers.
lilac.aaliyah exactly
lilac.aaliyah ikkkkrrrrr
lilac.aaliyah your pretty😇
haha right!
This case is so frustrating..... it's like the whole town was trying to sabotage the case......really interesting though.
1851455 almost like the Keddie Murders
yes you know when some one screams in your face they are going to burn down your house and kill your children, nah, its not them
Mafia. The Mafia 100% paid off the key people in the town. The Mafia were gaining power fast following Prohibition, and gained some influence over the government following WWII (where essentially the US used the Mafia in Sicily to gain power back from Mussolini). The Sodders lived in a town with a fairly large Italian population. I cannot think of an adversary as powerful as the Mafia, or another organisation that has a history of adopting and selling out children to punish parents. Unquestionably a shady Mafia play.
Honestly.
Yep
"A90 132 or 35" could be a license plate that Louis remembered from the kidnapping and kept writing down so he'd never forget it.
A) that's actually a really interesting idea and it could be a partial plate B) your username and profile pic is perfect 👌
OMG
This needs to get to top comment. Legitimately good theory
I thought maybe the Ilil isnt “lil” but maybe illionois. Like a mistake of reading the capital i as a lettercase l. And the 35” is part of a coordinate, if its 35” latitude, it’s nearby Fayetteville, north Carolina. Even though the case is in north virginia, the name of the city with the same name is hinted, like it’s indirectly saying thats where the man came from: Fayetteville. Instead of outright saying Fayetteville, North Virginia, it’s using the 35” coordinate of a place that coincidentally has the same name that is required to cross a border.
Maybe they were taken to Illinois, and the letter is saying 35” for someone to find the city of the same name, the boy is from Fayatteville
@@spangebred328 HMMMMM
The weirdest thing about this case is that it's 1945, the year Mussolini died, and George is in trouble for being anti-Mussolini
Well even by today in the year 2021 there are a lot of fanatic Italians and Im sure among others are still big BIG fans of Benito Mussolini just like there are Neo-Nazis for Hitler. So not entirely weird
@@theantone7476 yeah but the thing is even more 50% of italy were against mussolini so why burn down a Italian immigrant house in a foreign country
@@medianinitiantion1058 people target who they can. If most of the italians in their community are Mussolini supporters and he was very vocal of his opposition, they're gonna bully him just because he's the one they can easily access.
@@tinaffable yeah
Mussolini had supporters that were still invested in getting his policies in place.
So Maurice was 14 years old when he was allegedly kidnapped. Wouldn’t he have remembered what happened to him? I get that Betty, who was 5 at the time, would probably forget what happened. But all the other kids were old enough to try to contact their parents at some point. Unless they’d been killed, of course.
Or maybe they were threatened, and so afraid that if they went back something awful would happen to their family.
they were probably threatened
They could of convinced the kids the parents died in the fire they would think they were orphan s,or murdered
@@chrysl6058 that is possible, but if this was the case, they would probably still be allowed to interact with the outside world (even if they had new parents), and this would have been viral news so if george was looking for them, they would know?
Or they are trapped somewhere and can't get out 🤷🏻♂️
My heart breaks for the parents. A mother and a father lived out the rest of their days never knowing what happened to their children, or where they were.
I thought the same thing 😢
Off topic but I love your pfp
Atleast the half lived
So the Sodder story gets even sadder. The family lost the five children either in the fire or kidnapping. I also found that they had another baby boy named Michael years after the fire but he only lived one day.
i take a long time to get ready too, but those firemen REALLY took their time
I could walk 2.5 miles in under 40 minutes, what were they doing?
@@TripleA_Battery vibin
i kind of imagine them at the station just having a casual conversation like "hey so should we go to that burning house report?" and another saying "eh they'll be fine for a while" and then they just played darts or something for the next 7 hours
@@TripleA_Battery counting the money they were paid to watch it burn 👀
Helped the criminals get a good head start to get away before parents noticed no bodies !!
I swear I showed this to my grandfather on my moms side. And showed him the pictures and paintings of these 5 kids. He said they looked like these people who he knew and two is still alive he said. They were Apparently Italian, and this was probably 10-15 years after the fire. He said he was real good friends with them and even started dating one of them. It didn’t work out between them and they broke up still being friends. The person he dated was Martha. She didn’t have the name and he said there is no way they are just doppelgängers. Here is what he said they died of.
The supposedly Maurice - Lung Cancer 2004
The Supposedly Martha - Car Crash 1970
The supposedly Louis - still alive apparently living in New York
The supposedly Jennie - still alive living with her brother in New York
The Supposedly Betty - suicide 1968
you should report this info
report this info ASAP
I’ve reported it but it ain’t got out much
You should def send this info to sylvia
Oh my god!!!
George Sodder spent the rest of his entire life searching for his children...really sad...but dang what a great guy.
Kaia Rivialle yeah
Kaia Rivialle honestly tho
Kaia Rivialle it is really sad poor man
I respect him.
Kaia Rivialle what if it was himmmm who knows
1945: they had burnt!!!
1948: they're kipnapped!!!
1980s: found their pics!!!
2019: hope they're alive.....
lmao
😂
Brian Ritchie because it was like over 70 years ago and they were mostly young teens so they’re most probably dead by now
@@oliviafarry5283 well 80-90 good chance they're alive, maybe not all though.
The youngest will be around 80 next year. It's doubtful we'll ever know what happened at this point
This was definitely the doing of the Mafia, I mean the detective went missing. The Mafia obviously had eyes on them then found the detective and got rid of him to stop the detective from locating their son
Garden gnome I agree. I think the Mafia kidnapped the children, and told the children if they were to report back to their families, then they’d be killed, etc. I obviously don’t know what happened, but I really do believe the mafia kidnapped the children, especially if the father had business in Italy.
That and it happened in West VA...honestly citizens in WV never seem to get justice (Dupont poisoning, more than 1.5 century of coal co. abuses, corruption at ALL levels of gov't, trying to ban teacher protests)
I want to know why the current living descendent don’t take a dna test and hope it picks up on the children or grandchildren of the missing Sodder kids. It seems like it could be worth a shot.
See my thought was the mafia theory was just racism. Italians? MUST be mafia.
@@ajadumas6414 but it said the father was publicly against the totalitarian government in italy
here to cleanse my soul after that atrocious watcher announcement
they just came out and said that they will be releasing vids free after 1 month
so real
Came to the comments to see if anyone else was reliving the good old days 😢
I love how they didn't mention this being Shane's first episode of unsolved
alex it wasn’t though?
@@kamwashere_ He had episodes before this??
Nisha Massey
It was his first episode of true crime but he did a supernatural one before this
@Johnny Hernandez-Perez pretty sure even in the illuminati episode they didn't mention Shane would be replacing Brent. He just kinda showed up and never left. Point stands.
@@maroonggirl they were hoping we wouldn't notice that it wasn't Brent.
the internet storms area 51 and finds the sodder children, eating breakfast.
Perfect
An amazing breakfast at that
They do say officials refer to the creatures inside area 51 as 'the kids' 🤔 🧐#buzzfeedsolved
👽👽👽👽
That's a beautiful mental picture😂😂
Lmao and their still the same age physically and mentally as they were apart of a experiment/cover up in which they wanted to test out if an Elixir of Immortality worked and clearly it does.
Why did Shane and Ryan change sides?
Sounds like a case for C.C Tinsley 👀
What do you mean change sides?
Your Lovely Neighbour Shane now sits on the left and instead Ryan now sits on the right
@@sunnybob_ holy sweedish meatballs you scare the hell outta me! I thought they left & no longer making videos😕
Your Lovely Neighbour oh no i’m so sorry 😂 i just pick up on little things easily and had to point out that they sat in different spots :’)
Sunnybob :3 i guess thatll be....unsolved
This case makes my blood
boil. The suspicious salesman, the firefighters 2 and a half miles away that took 8 HOURS to get there, the cow heart that was said it was their children. It is suspicious for everyone involved. This poor family.
Damn this whole town was together in this.the only man doing his job was c.c.tinsley
right! like does no one else know how to do their job?!
This post likes is 666 I had to unlike you keep it that way lol
and he probably got killed for it :(
@@MegaMegajennifer ? he wasn't the detective that went missing if that's what you mean, the detective that went missing was George Swain
@@lolarose8973 sorry, i thought the detective who went missing was doing his job, so i got confused. im not good with names
So uh, everyone just moved on from the whole "bone fragments from a different child" thing??
Pretty much yeah, considering they were most likely from the dirt he used to fill the basement, and that we no longer know where they are. If they still had access to them then that would be great, they could DNA test them and see if it’s actually one of the kids or at least identify who they belonged to, but unfortunately they can’t do that. No use dwelling on it if it can’t help the case.
I saw that and was like ??????? ok do we not have ANOTHER case on our hands now?????????
@@mafaldaviana9060 nope, those bones were very likely decades older and a part of the yard foundation, there's probably human bones somewhere close to your house
@@zenon8627 spooky yet very interesting
@@zenon8627 my brother says that the construction workers who have been disturbing my naborhood will search through the dirt they dug up to see if theres any bones or indian artifacts in it
Today the lost children ages would be:
Betty 79
Jennie 82
Louis 83
Martha 85
Maurice 87
The other children would be:
Sylvia 75
George Jr 89
Marion 90
John 96
Wow
strawbarely Meghan no maurice would be 89
@@alexkaplanyeet3696 nah you're both wrong, he'd be 87.
This is so sad😢😢😢 Alexa play Despicable Me by Pharrell Williams
Idc
Rest In Peace Sylvia, I hope you are reunited with your family
It's unfortunate that she died without fully knowing what happened but i hope she's happy
So the Sodder story gets even sadder. The family lost the five children either in the fire or kidnapping. I also found that they had another baby boy named Michael years after the fire but he only lived one day.
@@daniellewallace1996and what happen to him
I am literally addicted to buzzfeed unsolved I sit watching my phone waiting for a notifications.
Yeah same but I get real creeped out 😂
Carrie North Right?! They take too long to come out...
Carrie North ikr they should do a Bloody Mary one
KawaiiMinori Cake:3 we have same profile pic
Heart Fillia ik someone has the same exact thing as u
I love how Shane just kinda appears. Like out of nowhere, there is no more Brent, there’s a noodle man! A very iconic/demonic noodle man.
Best comment
Iconic Demonic noodle man is the best way I've ever heard Shane described.
Shane was a demon sent to kill Ryan but got too attached to him
Yeah, it was just a noodle demon man discovering he kinda likes that strange human so he made Brent go away (hopefully alive) and joined his human. And so the story began.
Just like Andrew in Worth It
I feel awful for that family. They clearly loved their children.
Points to them for investigating.
"FJ Morris thought the fire might have been so hot it cremated the children's bodies"
yes, the fire chief who took eight hours to get there in an emergency on a 2.5 mile drive gets an opinion on this
"I found a heart, and buried it to give them closure"
"Morris that's beef liver, it's not even cooked"
Even people who are creamated leave their bones.
pOtakuWolf 104 ahah
obvault I Could Run that in about 30 minutes .
Fucking dead. 😂😂😂
I love and hate this episode. It's so good, but it scares the hell outta me every damn time. It always gives me chills. This poor family didn't deserve what happened to them. I pray they (the parents, family members, victims, and friends) have comfort and peace of mind soon.
The parents are dead by now so I don't think that's gonna happen
*the parents are old and very much dead,also the kids are very old by now as well and they could be alive or dead. We don’t know.*
They are deceased.
The first three sentences describe pretty much all of these episodes I love them but they scare the heck outta me
the kids were abducted since no bones were found and thats why the ladder was gone and the cars wouldn't start and the bomb caused the fire and not wiring...if there are witnesses claiming to have seen the kids why is this even a issue?...it was a clear attack on his home...shady as fuck..especially the fire trucks not responding and the calls not being picked up
Can I see the heart?
"Yeah sure"
...sir this is beef liver
"...oh"
Well damn 😂
I'm only 3:11 into the video so all I can say to this is:
The Evil Queen @ the hunter in Snow White be like:
Steve who thought he took the beef liver for lunch :Hold up
I honestly feel so bad for the whole family but especially the parents. They clearly loved their children to pieces and the fact that George travelled around the country to cover and investigate every single lead that came up shows how much they wanted to find their children, they never gave up.
cracked up at the part when shane said "who could it be? who could have done this?" 😂😂
Ollisia Shasha same
Ollisia Shasha me too 😂
Sameee 😂😂
Ollisia Shasha a
Ollisia Shasha same
I can't imagine anything worse than what these parents went through. And they never gave up. Truly amazing.
Jessica Pereira that shows that the parents really loved the kids. They didn't give up.
In Australia in the 1960 parents lost all of their children, too. Three, two girls and a boy between 9 and six or so. I cannot imagine how you live on. There are tons of photograhs in the internet, you see the garden with the swings and their bikes and so on. The whole life was devoted to the children, and from one day to the next all had ended. All was quiet. And when your children DIE, it is killing yourself-- but they disappeared, ike here. They went to the beach, both parents wanted to go with them, but had something else to do, nothing they could have left, but... We have a grave on ou churchyard from the 1880s, and there are three children, which died in six days. Boy girl, boy. But, as I said before, they DIED. The poor parents sat alone in an empty house. But they knew what happened. The poor parents in Australia are in their 90s now They live so lobng, it would be a blessing for a happy big family but they only live now for suffering. I could cry every time I think of them, and both cases, that australian (I cannot remember the name in this moment) and the Sodder one, will always be somehow connected for me, since the parents never learned what happend to their beloved children
winterweib OMG thats sooo sad
Truly a sad story.
Gianlu from Milano
Humans r the only monsters in this world
I just came back from recent episodes and I don't like seeing shane on the right makes me
uncomfortable
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Sameeee
😆😂🤣😂
Correct
😂😂😂😂
Now that Watcher has folded to streaming services, its time to go back to the good old days
vids are gonna come out for free on yt 1 month after. they listened tbf
Coming back to these, I realize that Shane just sorta shows up. I came in about 2-ish yrs after they started so I never saw… but did they do any announcement for Shane joining the team/replacing Brent? Or did he just… appear
This is probably the saddest buzzfeed unsolved to me. George worked until he died to find his children :(
As I wrote under another comment: In AUstralia happened something like this to a family. They lost all of tgheir children, two girls, one boy, and they the parebnts, which are in their nineties now-s still fight and hope. It is heartbreaking How can you live onlike that? Here in Germany was child raper caught, which had murdered two years before the last girl another one, and the father of this girl could not eat, and could only stay alive in the hope to get his child back But he was like a skeleton. A paper wrote, he looked like a Holocaustvictim, and this is true. He said, if his little girl was alive, she would suffer that moment when he was eating, and so he couldn't. ANd in the end all was for nothing. WHen they caught that mean pig, weeks later he said where to find her He hAD THROWN HER IN THE DIRT NEAR A WILD WAY; ALL THEY FOUND WAS PARTS OF HER BONES: tHE PARENTS COUL NOT GO TO COURT; NOTHING THEY HAVE BEEN DESTROYED BECAUSE OF THESE TWO YEARS: aND THEY ONLY LOST one CHILD: tHEE AUSTRALIAN PARENTS LOST all: i AM HAPPY FOR EACH MOMENT i DO NOT THINK ABOUT IT: tHAT AUSTRALIAN CASE ALWAYS REMINDS ME TO THE sODER CASE hEARTBREAKING; i HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ELSE TO SA.
Oh, sorry for the capital letters.
winterweib Do you mean the missing Beaumont children in Australia.
xx silvermoonlight xx yeahh and never found them but the kids were aged and thay could tell that the were kind napped and maby run away or do some thing
Person who would not be impossible to find: I WILL BURN YOUR HOUSE AND YOU WILL LOSE YOUR CHILDREN AND I HAVE A MOTIVE
House: *Burns*
Kids: *go missing*
Police: I bet it was the wiring.
10/10 police
hahaha
@Clinical Depression Wouldn't make sense, considering there are witness reports about the children being taken and still alive elsewhere. If they were all in on it, then there would be no sightings.
Zulhardika Rendy Permana 😂👍🏻
@Clinical Depression, did you really watch the whole video? it was said the town where they lived in italy before were fanatical about mussolini, not the town where their house burned.
George never gave up to find his children. He did everything, that man really believed they were alive and that's heartbreaking to me that he died not knowing 100% .
I believe that they were kidnapped and I do sort of think that they went to Italy because if something went on between George and Mussilini (I know I spelled that wrong.) then of course George wouldn't go back. He could have went to prison or have been killed and where would that leave Jennie and the other four children?
madie solberg and now I feel depressed too
Poor people died without knowing the truth ...ofc that's not the only case but still...
madie solberg (
Mussolini was already dead by then.
madie solberg well he will know when he went to heaven
But I think Mussolini was dead already by time the fire broke out?
this case is so goddamn weird. fire department who doesn't wanna do their job, lunatic life assurance salesman, the chief's beef liver/heart rumor, a detective going missing, and bone fragments from a different child that were completely glossed over. great job.
It would be so cool if a buzzfeed unsolved video could cause a clue that solves the actual case
lol then the name would be irrelevant
Jazzmin Mora I think the OP means like one of the funny comments or jokes by the hosts could lead to a real investigation breakthrough
Jazzmin Mora Do you mean ironic
The irony
Bente M yeah lol 😂
Sounds like a case for C.C. Tinsley
Help has arrived! Oh, never mind. Help!
And Holly Horsley investigating
yeaaaaa! at your service see.
Kayla Perkins Neigh
Yea “my bones not there anymore ”
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Buzzfeed Unsolved needs it's own channel now.
yess
Dreamer and No Friends Kk BuzzFeedBlack
Dreamer and No Friends yesssss
Dreamer and No Friends Yesss
YASSS :)
Watching this in a marathon and it's nice to see how much more Ryan is enjoying it with Shane than with Brent. I'm glad he found someone to run a show (and a business) with that he seems to enjoy hanging out with.
That salesman guy be like: T'was the night before Christmas and I swear to the lord, I WILL BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN IF YOUR LIFE'S NOT INSURED
Washingbubble THIS SHOULD GET MORE LIKES
THIS JUST MADE MY DAY.
(Wheeze)
Washingbubble (wheeze)
*strikes match* YEET *throws match at house*
"The year was 1945, on the night before Christmas in Fayetteville West Virginia."
The way Ryan narrates it makes it sound like some creepy beginning of a Christmas story
The year was 1945, on the night before
Sound like some creepy
Beginning of a Christmas story
I live in west Virginia, and honestly if a case like this is gonna happen, it would happen here
For people who's wondering what happened to the comments: The older videos has been moved from Buzzfeed Multiplayer to Buzzfeed Unsolved Network, hence the comments reset.
It still says uploaded in 2016 so what the heck?
stop it!
@@btat16 that doesn't matter, it's still the same video uploaded on the same date, just now on a different channel
Hm
@@grimoireweissfan6969 that’s something you can do? Huh, ya learn something new everyday.
This feels like A Series Of Unfortunate Events (maybe inspiration for it). I mean a bunch of young siblings disappear in a mysterious fire and apparently go from place to place and get kidnapped, and also every adult who interacts with them is extremely incompetent and/or evil
Yassss very much!
That's a good reference. I see the connection you made.
Its sad that Mr. And Mrs. Sodder died without seeing or knowing if there missing kids is still alive
Joy Manangan at least they'll join them in heaven
its sadder that the youngest daughter, age 2 when it all happened, live a long life and died still not knowing what happened to her siblings
What if they aren't really dead? I think it is possible that they are still alive, having secretly invested in cryogenics research to preserve them until either the case is solved or their lives can be extended in the future.
Their*
I said their.
JonBenét Ramsay's murder, Roanoke colony, Madelaine McCann's disappearance, New Orlean's Axeman, Jack the Ripper, Cleveland Torso Murderer... All are great mysteries they could make episodes about. And I am in love with Shane! He asks very good questions, and can actually make this funny!
Sounds like you're just listing things from American Horror Story heh :D
xXButterflyXx94 Now that you mentioned it...
xXButterflyXx94 actually the axe man is is s1
I guess they only did Roanoke on this latest season and the Axeman in Coven, but I could be wrong.
And since we mentioned American Horror Story, another mystery they could talk about next is the Amityville (supposedly) haunted house.
Everytime I watch these I fell like I will be taken away for knowing to much.
Sparkle Lover SAME
SAME
Sparkle Lover SAME
Sparkle Lover same
same
The salesman quote immediately cutting to Shane cracking up absolutely kills me
I live in Fayetteville. Dated a sodder in high school. Her and her grandmother once told me they received a letter from Italy hinting that some of the children was taken there.
Oh wow.
What the last name difference @ 15:26
OMG OMG
That’s cool
I'm from Summersville. There's no way those kids died in that fire. It's believable that they would be in Italy.
I hope the children knows that their family never give up on them.
Why did they not investigate that why the fire truck arrived so late.
Well it's obvious the police and all the law enforcement were kinda in on it. Even to go as far as protecting the life insurance guy that definately had everything to do with it by putting him in the jury and claiming it was faulty wiring. When it's obvious like that its better to not go pointing fingers at people who definately have nefarious intentions specifically set on you and your family...yknow like why give them more reason to kidnap and/or kill more of your pride and joy?
@@butterbun7033 why would such professional organisations such as the police and law, be in on a crime? I agree the fire services not picking up is very suspicious, but I dont see a clear justification as to why they would want to cause harm to the sodder family
@@kishenparekh9416 because a lot of police were corrupt back then. Usually they were involved in the mafia or a mob at the time and. Of course wouldnt do anything about mafia/mob related activities and then get paid for it at the end of the day
@@butterbun7033 oh makes sense. Honesty out of the countless episodes I've watched, what really happened in this one still irritates me, it's such a fascinating case
apparently the fire department was made up of volunteers and they didn't have a stable phone line or supplies
watching their old content now is such a raw comparison to their new flashy stuff. just two guys in a basement talking about weird stuff and clicking in a very natural and charming way. none of that expensive BS content that feels overly scripted and forced.
Honestly i like this more then their current stuff.
This looks like a job for Ancestry DNA.
Alie The Artist LMAO OMG
Nope. DNA results should be confidential, no one should be allowed to trace or use the database for any reason.
neVER FEAR-
TheSP33DFREAK why should they
@@priyamanobal Because you are allowing the government to look into a computer database of every single person on Earth. If you don't think that will go downhill, then you are a moron. It's an obvious slippery slope.
Yeah, this is the one Buzzfeed Unsolved that will always make me angry. Too much went wrong all at the same time. It sounds like half the town was in on it, from the idiot police who "couldn't" do a proper investigation, to the fire department PURPOSEFULLY letting the house burn for 7 hours while there were children inside. You KNOW it was on purpose, too, because no fire fighter worth their boots would knowingly let children burn to death for 7 hours. They had to have known the house was empty -they were in on it and waiting for evidence to burn away, for sure.
Allison Shockley probably paid by the ones responsible for the fire
Dyssekt DGE You’re probably thinking too hard about it. Maybe it was supposed to be a quick job and couldn’t get all the kids
because those 5 children's are on the upper level of the house, and their room is close by. I think the kidnapper won't risk going for all of the child
They said the house burned for 45 mins
Allison Shockley yeah this actually made me quite angry too
Wheeze line-up:
1:09
1:42
1:50
2:01
2:05
2:14
9:24
10:00
10:51
10:56
14:24
15:03
Shane's wheezes: 2
Ryan's wheezes: 10
Final wheeze count: 12
Rating: 11/10, _really_ fantastic wheezes right here
*(Wheeze)*
Kokoi lol...
Kokoi good man
Your comment deserves more likes !
(pensive sigh)
Lol
Interesting fact: Jennie Sodder had a brother named Frank Cipriani. He was from Fayetteville and according to his obituary owned a trucking business like George. He was the relative that lived in Florida that was investigated because of the witness report of the children seen in cars with Florida licence plates. The picture of Louis was specifically addressed to Jennie and said “brother Frankie”. I’m surprised the Sodders didn’t have him investigated more.
wow, that's suspicious...
@@share_accidental It really is. Quite a bit of evidence to suggest her brothers were involved.
I always feel like I'm being watched whenever I watch these, they always put me on edge.
Flop La Fish me toooo it creeps me the hell out !
Shane's commentary is the only thing that keeps me from having nightmares tbh
I keep on feeling the ghost of the dead corpse is watching me...
Bro me too!!!!
Flop La Fish same😂
This is my theory:
The police department and the fire department knew about this. That’s why they never answered and were late, also they didn’t want to work with the FBI. So the man who kidnapped the kids payed them to keep their mouth shut and told them to not respond to the call and be late.
Police and fire could have been paid off by mob
100%
I figured it was because if his open criticism of Mussolini 🤷🏾♀️
@@jordanrobinson323 The mob did not like Mussolini either though, it was because of him so many mobsters came to America.
I'll believe it
*you could call it* “The nightmare before Christmas”
Oh My God So True, J Was Literally Thinking Of The Movie When He Said "The Night Before Christmas"
FUCK
wow
sMaRt
Baby Gaming not a time for jokes.....
And this was the birth of a beautiful duo 😭
This is fucking heartbreaking. I can't imagine the suffering of the family went through all those decades.
I think the thing that makes these so scary is the background music lol
Lexxis Guerra
Right, I totally agree.
it's kind of annoying
Ellenor P-B it isn't annoying just scary
Ikr which is why it was a good idea that they make the funny side comments so you could take a break from the creepy vibes
Lexxis Guerra jujhh
Shane’s debut episode lmao
Shawn Wu hmmMMM
Ikr
His voice is way better than the other dude that was originally on with Ryan too. Hell Shane is overall better. That's just my opinion though
@@GingerThereforeNoSoul everyone agrees with you.
If only Ryan knew the chaos that would ensue
I love how Ryan freaks out and Shane mocks him for it
Their chemistry makes these cases 90% less scary lol
10/10 the children were told their parents died in that fire.
Lady Kata “your parents have died in a fire and you’re orphans now”
It was the VFD the whole time!
AbsolX Guardian we I’ll find out in season 3
Just don't understand what the motive could have been
Yep
Neighbours: Oh, there are those missing Sodder children. Well, I'll just go on about my day now, ice tea sounds nice
DeathlyHallows Huh. Those kids still not found yet...? Yo, Carl, wanna hit up Starbucks? I got coupons!
The people In this town kinda remind me of those people that had one job
rose Dolan imagine dead
rose Dolan imagine 500th like lol
everyone there are basically Oblivion Guards
*sees you kill an npc and chases you down*
*immediately stops running and looks down at the body and tends to it*
Oblivion Guard - "oh my goodness, who did this?"
rose Dolan imagine i mean the firefighters had one job 😂
Thats Italians for you
i hope this family, alive or not, ALL of them, find peace one day. i lost a sibling tragically and am still working on the case only 6 years later. time does not heal all wounds such as this, but hopefully with this amount of time they can at least enjoy their remaining time on earth as much as they can.
Shane and Ryan are just the perfect team for buzzfeed unsolved
i wish if they take the cases seriously instead of stop telling the stories and making jocks
hoor alain thats kinda the whole point of this show, you can watch so many videos on mysteries and read about them but this show adds a level of comedy which is why it has such a high viewing
Dylan Johnson really
Dylan Johnson what, for real?
All of these unsolved cases are due to laziness and ppl not doing jobs
In the Sodder case it doesn't sound like laziness; it sounds like they worked pretty hard on their cover-up.
Or a cover up in some cases
you solve it
@@stephencoldbear WELL THEY GAVE HIM A PONY AND A BIKE. WHO ELSE WOULD HAVE MISSED THE CHANCE?
Stephen Cold Bear
Seven hours
They took seven hours
Imagine the Sodder children being fans of Buzzfeed Unsolved ...
L'Heure Bleue HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHA
L'Heure Bleue It would most likely be the children of the Sodder kids thst would be watching
L'Heure Bleue "Mommy, that looks like you" "Holy shit it does"
They're probably like "Oh that can't be our parents/siblings they all died in a fire on that same night, right parent who told me all this? Oh you're going to work? Good luck selling life insurance!"
L'Heure Bleue omfg
Interesting fact: Jennie Sodder’s brother Jimmie Cipriani was one of the fire fighters that was 8 hrs late. Her other brother Frank was also suspected and investigated in Florida. Not to mention the picture sent to her and the “brother Frankie” message. Very suspicious.
I love these videos - they're literally the only thing on buzzfeed i watch :)
Leopard Gecko same!
Leopard Gecko same
same
Leopard Gecko po
Leopard Gecko same
Even if those kids were still alive today, the oldest, Maurice, was 14 at the time of the fire in 1945, meaning he was born in 1931, meaning that if he was still alive today he'd be 87. It's possible but also a little unlikely. So if they didn't die back then, I'm sure they've probably started to die off from old age by now, which is really sad.
tyanabanana1147 don't forget that their mother lived until 85. they'd only be around her age, so it's perfectly possible that they're alive still
But wouldn't you think at least with the older kids, they would know the truth? That eventually they would break free (move out, or get married) then tell the story? I can see the younger ones not remembering the ordeal and growing up with the thought.. O these are my real parents.. Not knowing those people aren't their parents.
Also the father(George) was 84 when he died
tyanabanana1147 we have to remember though the youngest that went missing was 5 so maybe she could show herself
tyanabanana1147 they probably have really bad health though, my grandpa was born in 1936 and he died at 71
BuzzFeed, I am talking directly to you. It's pretty clear that BuzzFeed as a company is focused on the quantity over quality mindset with your content creation, which there is nothing wrong with that, but hear me now! Please keep the BuzzFeed Unsolved videos as they are. Keep Shane and Ryan as the men on screen, they both have really great reasoning and humor, when appropriate. Brent was alright, but I think Shane is better at bringing up valid points of reason to keep Ryan grounded and accountable. Ryan and Shane both have sound reasoning at times and fallacies at times and they do well at highlighting that each of them have both. As much as I'd love to see more Unsolved videos being published, I would MUCH rather you guys maintain the quality of the videos that have been published so far, even if that means that videos are being published at the current, "slow," rate. I love the balance of content from realistic theories to the more controversial ideas. For example, there is great balance with a video on the Men in Black where some evidence is there, but it's mostly a "crazy alien theory," followed with a video about a serial killer, such as the Zodiac, where there is quite a bit of hard, sound evidence from traditionally, credible sources. I would appreciate more on screen notation of where Ryan is getting his data and quotes from, or at least more notation in the description bar. Thanks BuzzFeed, Ryan and Shane!
Yes!! 100% agree with this whole post!!
Erin Feiner preach!!!! 👐
Erin Feiner +
Erin Feiner agreed
Damn brent is more entertaining, shane is so skeptical that some of his opinions sound stupid
The best part of this is that this is Shayne's debut episode, and up until him losing his mind at the insurance salesman he's just kind of been chilling and then boom.
this is sad. losing one child is bad enough. 5??? i'd go crazy
"To lose one child may be regarded as a misfortune, but to lose five looks like carelessness."
- Oscar Wilde (paraphrase)
eh 2 out of 3 aint bad
Fatin Amirah it is sad but, I wouldn’t even have five kids. Ouch!
Eh, they have like 6 others. They're fine.
Sightseeing I understand that you're joking, but that's a very cruel joke 😭