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The Sodder Children: Vanished on Christmas Eve, 1945 · D-constructing Topics

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  And welcome to the Deconstructing Topic Podcast. My name is David,
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  and I hope that you enjoy that little kind of mysterious thing going on in this
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  intro, because you know what?
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  Today, we got an interesting, interesting, mysterious story.
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  And welcome to the Deconstructing Topic Podcast. My name is David,
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  and I'm your host of this legendary Deconstructing Topic Podcast.
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  And today, I want to share with my audience, my wonderful, legendary audience.
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  A mysterious story that I've known for a long time, and it's been out there.
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  You could always look it up, but you are listening to my podcast,
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  so I am going to introduce you, even in case you have not heard about this mysterious
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  story of the Sardar children.
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  This is definitely a fantastic true crime unsolved mystery on this podcast,
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  because, you know, in my podcast, we grab a topic, we grab something,
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  we kind of deconstruct it, And hey, by all means, after you listen to this episode, you let me know.
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  I mean, if this is the first time that you hear this story, and I just want
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  to say, heads up, Involved Children, so for those people out there that are
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  sensitive in regards to certain topics, by all means, I could definitely understand it.
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  And listen, you can still listen to my podcast, Underload Tip,
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  but if it's a story that you want to learn, that you want to say to yourself, huh, interesting.
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  Let me know what I think. But this is the case that involves five children who
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  disappear during a house fire in Fayetteville, West Virginia on Christmas Eve, 1945.
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  What were you doing on Christmas Eve of 1945? I definitely was not alive,
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  but it's definitely one of those interesting things that we have been for the most part.
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  Those who are listening and for those who do celebrate Christmas Eve,
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  what are we doing on Christmas Eve?
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  We already know we want to open the presents. We want to wait up until midnight,
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  whatever it is that you do in the United States or in other countries or other parts of the world.
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  By all means, hey, listen.
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  This story is crazy because their bodies were never conclusive.
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  They were never kind of found. So it leaves the imagination to think what happened.
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  Was this a kidnap and arson? It was something beyond that's out there in regards
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  to what happened to the side of children.
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  And it's one of those things that I said to myself. When I came across this
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  story a long time ago, a long time ago, I said to myself, Geez,
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  what a crazy, interesting mystery story.
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  And today we got these sighted children disappearing.
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  And it takes place. I mean, it's Christmas Eve of 1945.
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  And it's one of those situations. Just imagine, and for those people who've
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  been out there, you know, celebrating this joyous day or whatever it is with
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  family, you know, there's always a lot of times there's always kids involved in these festivities.
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  And for the sake of these five children who just vanish.
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  We don't know But we're going to get into it We're going to talk about a little
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  bit of everything in regards to this mystery story And, you know,
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  one of the things is that I did introduce myself as your legendary host of the legendary podcast,
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  The Deconstructing Topper podcast So I want to introduce and I want to meet
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  the side of family that's out there in regards to this story,
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  Obviously, there's a husband and wife, if I'm not mistaken, by the name of George and Jeannie Sauter.
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  And they had a big family. Hey, listen, five kids.
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  Fayetteville, West Virginia.
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  Country Rose, West Virginia. And then this celebration on Christmas Eve.
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  It starts weird because it's a story where even from the offset, and I'm just going to.
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  Ooh, just put that little mysterious hat on.
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  What's going to happen in a situation where it's Christmas Eve,
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  you're spending time with your family, and out of nowhere, there's a strange
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  call by Jeannie, which is the wife, Jeannie Sautter.
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  And out of nowhere, you know, Jeannie's on the phone, and there's some unusual,
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  kind of noises in the room, boom, boom, boom, boom, something is going on.
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  And as many children, in my understanding here in the United States,
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  they do that midnight type of thing, or they do the, you know, we could go on and on.
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  But the fact that, you know, these kids, these five children were just waiting
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  for their presence, if I'm not mistaken, that's my understanding of some of the official story.
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  After midnight, there's a fire that breaks out and you just.
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  So apparently, you know, if there's fire, if those people that have been in
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  fire, hey, listen, I've been in a building that got caught on fire,
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  you want to scram out of there.
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  You want to at least think and then do the action that you're thinking about.
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  In this case, you have these parents and the four children that decided, you know what, we out.
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  Now, my understanding is that, you know, there's a big family,
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  a large family with eight or nine kids, but then the father of these children,
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  of the Sardar family were trapped and missing and people was like,
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  okay, what the hell happened?
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  The fire came on, you know, they turned off the fire, something's going on.
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  The mysterious phone call that Jenny Sardar got, you know, the mysterious sounds
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  there and you'd be like, huh.
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  So the next day, you know, within 24, 40 hours, my understandings, whatever it is.
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  You know, where's the kids? We are missing five kids.
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  And then one of the first thing that obviously when it comes to anything that
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  happens, and especially in a case of the fire, you want to look, is anybody alive?
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  I said, they rumble, look through the breeze and all that good stuff.
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  My understanding that there was nobodies that were, nobody, but I say nobody,
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  nobodies that were found there was a missing ladder and they were like well
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  wait a minute that ladder was right there just in case in the event that you want to go down,
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  out of nowhere you know they trying to send the fire department and.
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  You know we ain't listen we don't know the trucks can't start,
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  and then there's that suspicious of something going on around the house of people
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  who if you live in a small town or you live in any place in the United States, you already know.
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  That sometimes in life when we know that, hey, listen, that person looks suspicious.
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  I've never seen that person before.
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  So imagine having an amount of individuals that are in this story,
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  in that vicinity, that becomes suspicious. Are you from town?
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  Are you from Fayetteville? Where were you from?
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  And there were witnesses that would come up and say, huh, you know,
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  I saw this person walk over here. I saw this person walk around the house.
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  And it starts to become like, okay, the fire happened. We got five missing children.
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  We got a lot of elements going on, like what happened. And you start to think, who are the survivors?
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  And one of the things that when it comes to a situation like this,
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  the first thing you want to do, you want to talk to mom and pop dudes.
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  Say, listen, sir, madam, what happened? Where are your kids?
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  So, you know, in regards to the situation that how these kids just vanish in
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  a fire, you start to explain, okay, what are the obvious?
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  And what are the theories here in regards to the situation? And I'm bringing
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  up the theories here now because, again, we got the story of five children in
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  Christmas Eve who just vanish,
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  poof out of nowhere and no pun intended to the family or anybody that's living
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  or anybody that has been affected by a fire.
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  But what happened? Now, it's very, you know, simple to come and say,
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  okay, the fire happened.
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  And sadly, the kids got on fire and then just.
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  So that's the official explanation. Obviously, there's a fire. Five kids are missing.
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  I want to keep in mind that those people out there that are listening to this,
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  when it comes to a fire, a lot of times there are people that doubt of fire
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  and there's people that doubt of inhalation.
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  You know, the smoking of the, the breathing of the smoke.
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  And sadly they go and lose conscience and, you know, whatever comes afterwards,
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  sadly that many things comes afterwards.
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  But the fact that one, for the most part, does not die due to the fire,
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  but it smokes. So, I mean, you know, it's a simple math. It's okay,
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  boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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  And I don't know, you know, and I'm trying to think here, it's 1945.
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  I don't know what are the fire safety laws back then. You know,
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  I could have probably done a little bit of research.
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  But, you know, we don't think that a lot of times, and I listen, and I work in a building.
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  Many people are there, over 500 people at one point in that building that I work in.
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  And one of the things that when we do fire drills, what does the fire drill
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  inspector does or tells?
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  You're most likely could die off inhaling the smoke.
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  So I don't know the mindset of back in 1945, if that was the case with these people,
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  but the fact that it's like there's a fire five kids are missing and the stories,
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  you see something was going on because my understanding even in the the fire,
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  investigators they were like oh you know,
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  we could say there was a fire and five kids missing now but where's the body
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  is there anything that we could probably grab that we could say.
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  That's the story. That's it. End of the world.
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  So people start to kind of wonder, okay, so this fire happened?
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  It's a nice big home. But even a nice big home with a lot of people,
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  and listen, you kind of start to think, hey, still nobody?
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  You know, you cannot find something?
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  So obviously, that's when the little chatter start coming in.
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  You know, that's when it becomes a little bit more mysterious because you know what?
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  What do happen? What can one think if you cannot find five bodies in a fire?
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  You cannot find anything?
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  What would come to your mind as you're listening to this podcast?
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  If this is indeed the first time that you're listening to the story of the five Sada children.
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  And one of the things, an interesting thing here is that, hey, wait a minute.
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  Did they get kidnapped? Hmm. If you thought about that, let me know in a comment.
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  Maybe I kind of jumped the ship a little bit and did not let you think.
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  But you could always pause it. But I would think, listen, because sadly,
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  in regards to the theory, in regards to them being kidnapped,
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  there have been some witnesses that claim, you know, so went down the line in
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  the attic. Some of these kids were.
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  And the fact that, you know, many interesting stories that have become mysterious,
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  they become conspiracies and then whatever it is.
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  People might have said, hey, listen, I saw the Sauter children.
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  The fact that, you know, these kids were between the age of 5 and 12 and 13.
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  The fact that people might have said, hey, listen, I seen them when they got older.
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  The fact that these kids were seen after the fact of that fire,
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  you start to think, hey, who would take these kids?
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  My understanding is that George Sauter, the husband, might have,
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  you know, have done some weird stuff going on there.
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  I'm trying to find, you know, more information, but I just want to stick it
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  to the side of children here.
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  So there's always, you know, these rumors of organized crime,
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  some, you know, some mysterious stuff there.
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  Hey, listen, that could happen. It's virtually, we don't know.
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  If this person owes somebody, let's say, $10,000, we might scoff at that idea.
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  $10,000, can he just have taken a loan?
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  1945, $10,000 was, you know, probably $50,000, $60,000, $70,000,
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  Maybe $100,000, who knows?
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  But it's definitely $10,000 would have been a lot of money.
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  But I'm just giving you the idea that if this was a thing, then I could understand. Listen, why not?
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  But then something happened here.
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  Now, George Sutter was, in a sense, my understanding was very outspoken on his
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  political views. He might have, at that time, been a little bit different,
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  thinking outside of the box, in a place that is West Virginia.
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  And again, I'm trying to just focus on in itself all the story of the five children.
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  And we already know that, you know, if people have always been,
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  especially from the 40s, the 50s, the 60s, if it has been outspoken in regards
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  to certain political views that don't align to that local space, then, huh.
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  Then something's going to happen.
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  But we just gonna say oh I don't know why your house got on fire was that the
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  person that you was calling out was that the politician that you call corrupted I don't know.
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  And sadly, you know, it started to become, okay, one of the theories would be,
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  that, yes, there was arson. Somebody set the house on fire.
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  But then that was a crazy cover-up that you said to yourself,
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  okay, if that's the case, do we have anybody? Do we have any suspect?
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  Why is it that this person's political views have to do with this, right?
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  But again, there's an investigation going on. And it's so many questions,
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  but nobody's able to answer it.
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  What does George Sutter knows that we don't know?
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  But then if you're starting to investigate, I see.
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  George Sutter belongs to some committee, independent, whatever it is,
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  and they try to screw over whoever is the leading candidate of whatever the
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  local politicians are at the time.
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  Somebody's going to pay the price, especially if there are those people who are responding to it.
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  Because I always say in life, when it comes to changing somebody's mind regardless
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  of their views, it starts with one, it starts with two, it starts with five,
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  it goes to 10, 15, you got the gist.
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  Start getting momentum, what's the best way to do at that time?
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  Hey, listen, an assassination, it's a little bit too obvious.
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  A little bit of arson? Turn the house on fire? And we just don't know what, I don't know.
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  But as the story becomes more and more mysterious in regards to the child of
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  children, there was a picture, a photograph.
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  And that's where the pictures of some of the children. And again,
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  and I'm collectively telling the story of the child of children in itself because
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  the names, you know, could vary.
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  You know And what are the Possibility Of a Picture Of Louis Sardar One of the children As an adult.
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  Else could come there my understanding is the picture and the photograph was,
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  verified as being a true picture but we don't know that,
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  you already know that in this world we have doppelgangers we have someone that
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  looks like us we don't know you know,
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  but the fact is this that if your bodies there were no bodies that were found,
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  nothing indicating really in regards to the situation of these kids,
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  the fact that the parents were able to continue to live their life.
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  And yes, by all means, were they looking for their kids? Absolutely.
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  Because we don't know what happened. To this day, it's still a mystery.
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  To this day, it's still a soft mystery.
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  And again, there are those who believe that, hey, these kids were able to grow
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  as adults, hiding from the land life.
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  Sadly, if you grab one of the kids that, you know, my understanding,
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  eight, nine years old, if you talk dumb into that, hey, listen,
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  your parents are bad people, all that good stuff, all that nonsense, you start to think, huh,
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  why should we try to go back home?
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  If indeed, perhaps our parents were part of the whole scheme or the whole situation.
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  It's a crazy story. And when I first came across this story,
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  I'm like, wow, because it is still mysterious again.
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  It is unresolved. Unsolved, I'm sorry.
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  And people are still wondering what happened. We're still looking for clues.
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  We're still looking for those people out there in the investigated kind of thing
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  that they do in the internet.
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  By all means, hey, listen, have fun. That's stories that we could tell.
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  But what's the conclusion here in regards to this side of children?
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  Were they victims of some type of tragic fire? Did they survive?
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  And just disappear in the mystery that has kind of got a lot of people,
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  especially in the United States, and there's people overseas.
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  And I've seen some documentaries that they're just intrigued with this story.
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  The fact that everything that happened down there and that day,
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  December 24th, Christmas Eve, 1945, might have vanished with the flames. Just poof.
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  But yet the questions, you know, they still kind of like burn like a firelight. Like what happened?
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  Interesting story, to say the least. And if you're enjoying the stories,
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  I'm pretty sure that I would try to bring more stories during the time here,
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  in the fall season, heading to Halloween.
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  But this is that season when it comes to October, November, December.
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  We got so many mysterious stories here at the Deconstructed Topic Podcast.
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  Because I'm just wondering, what's your theory after listening to this,
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  and I'm going to put my information on the description.
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  Always, always say, listen, I encourage people to hit that like button.
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  No matter where you are listening to this, and feel free to share.
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  Hey, listen, if you are saying, David, you know what? I listened to this story.
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  There's nothing crazy that's going to maybe throw anybody off.
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  I'm going to sit with my family. I'm going to sit with my friends,
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  my coworkers, my colleagues, whatever.
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  I'm going to be in church. As a matter of fact, after a nice,
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  good sermon, whatever it is, we're going to listen to this story.
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  And again, what's your theory? What happened to these side of children?
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  They're just in the fire.
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  You think that they were just straight? Listen, kidnap. You let us know your story.
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  Don't forget to listen to the deconstructing type of podcast because we have
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  some more unsolved mysteries, hidden histories, forgotten histories.
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  Because I always say about my podcast that, you know what? Saving a mind is saving a life.
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  And in my podcast, there's one thing that you're going to come out of.
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  You're going to come out knowing something, and you're definitely not going
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  to be on college debt listening to my podcast.
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  Because all that education that we get, it is that thing that we always make it happen.
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  This is a deconstructed topic podcast. Once again, you let me know hit up the
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  kid feel free to retouch me is there a story you want me to that you want to
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  share with me because you know what.
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  We all live in mysterious ways and what makes us want to i don't know how can i say,
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  Sometimes there's some mysterious stories that we just gravitate to.
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  And this is one that I gravitated to. And there's many others like this one.
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  All right, folks, hit me up. You already know. It's the Deconstructed Topic
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  Podcast, and I'm out of here.
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  Let's go.