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Stuff You Missed in History Class

The Disappearance of the Sodder Children

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.224.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Sodder family's West Virginia home caught fire on Christmas Eve, 1945. Five of the children were never seen again, though their bodies weren't recovered from the rubble.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:03.9

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0:13.9

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0:14.9

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0:23.5

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0:28.3

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0:33.0

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0:37.2

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from House Stuff Works.com.

0:44.2

Hello and welcome to the podcast.

0:52.7

I am Tracy V. Wilson and I'm Holly Fry.

0:55.6

We have a sad Christmas mystery today and it's one that is a listener request from Lauren,

1:01.2

Rachel, hella, Lizzie and probably other people.

1:04.5

Something we've heard people ask for a lot.

1:07.0

We are going to talk about five children from the solder family of West Virginia who's

1:11.8

home cop fire on Christmas Eve, 1945.

1:15.5

Their bodies were not recovered and they also were never seen again.

1:20.0

So that sounds dreadfully sad.

1:22.6

It's actually not as sad as what I had originally been researching for today's episode and I decided

1:27.3

I had to put that one off until after the new year because it was just too sad to talk

1:31.6

about right now.

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