Episode 21
We Never Spent ONE Night in Our Dream House
The documented facts
- In June 2014, Derek and Maria Broaddus bought 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey, a house built in 1905, for 1.3 million dollars.
- The first typewritten letter, addressed to The New Owner, arrived about three days after closing and was signed The Watcher.
- DNA from one envelope suggested the sender might be a woman, but matched no suspect; no one was ever arrested.
- In 2019 the Broadduses sold the house for $959,000, a loss of more than $400,000; the new owners have never been contacted.
The full narration
They paid one-point-three million for their dream house, and never spent a single night inside. Twenty fourteen. Westfield, New Jersey. Six fifty-seven Boulevard.
A letter arrived before they ever moved in. [SAY:MALE:MENACING] "Do you know what lies within the walls?" It knew their children's nicknames.
A second letter came once the contractors arrived. [SAY:MALE:MENACING] "The young blood I requested." The house was crying out, and it wanted them.
They sold at a loss and fled. But the family BEFORE them got a letter too, years earlier. The Watcher was never caught. So tell me... who's watching YOUR street?
Detectives chased the letters for years. Journalists. Neighbors. Nobody found him. The house still stands, and someone lives there now.
Stitch this video if you'd move your family into six fifty-seven Boulevard tonight. Follow for a new true nightmare every day. Sleep with the lights on, if you can.
Dramatized for the telling. The facts above are documented; the narration is the Draugr’s retelling of them.