In June of 2014, the Broaddus family moved into their new New Jersey dream home and discovered a shocking secret.
A man calling himself the “Watcher” claimed possession of the house and was intent on tormenting the family until he got it.
In the first of several frightening letters, the Watcher wrote “Why are you here? I will find out”...
...and warned, “My grandfather watched the house in the 1920s and my father watched in the 1960s. It is now my time."
The unidentified stalker appeared to be closely monitoring the new family and their children...
...writing, "Do you need to fill the house with the young blood I requested? I asked the (prior owners) to bring me young blood."
Subsequent letters asked if the children had ”found what is in the walls yet?” and promised that “In time they will.”
He later added, “I am pleased to know your names and the names now of the young blood you have brought to me."
Police investigated the letters, but were never able to identify the stalker despite his apparent proximity to the home.
Fearing for their lives and the lives of their children, the Broaddus family was finally forced to flee the creepy threats.
They tried to sell the home, but worried it would have to be demolished after its chilling history became known.
A subsequent lawsuit suggested the prior owners may have known about the Watcher and offered the Broaddus family as a sacrifice...
On morning of April 11, 1986, the mother of 14-year-old Rickie Ann Blake felt overcome with ominous dread when she awoke...
...discovering the front door of the family’s home wide open with no sign of Rickie Ann anywhere to be found.
The family’s worst fears were confirmed when her body was discovered dumped off a California freeway later that evening.
Suspicions immediately fell upon a mysterious man who had called for Rickie Ann at midnight when she disappeared.
The family remembered that he identified himself as “George,” but police were unable to trace the caller...
...and despite Rickie Ann’s death, the unexplained call from George was merely the beginning of the Blake family’s torment.
Following Rickie Ann’s funeral, the family continued to receive more bizarre anonymous telephone calls...
...playing New Edition’s “With You All the Way,” Rickie Ann’s favorite song and the same song that was played at her service.
Although he never mentioned the name George, the caller claimed to be the killer and knew intimate details about the crime.
His calls continued for nearly 10 years as also left gifts at Rickie Ann’s grave and allegedly stole belongings from her house.
The mystery of the phantom caller deepened when, in 2003, new DNA evidence implicated convicted criminal George Williams...
...a man who was imprisoned for another crime shortly after Rickie Ann’s death and who would have been unable to make the calls...
On May 28, 1980, Dorothy Jane Scott drove her co-worker Conrad Bostron to a California hospital after he suffered a spider bite.
She stayed with Bostron until he was treated and discharged at 11pm, although she never returned after going to get her car.
While waiting to be picked-up, Bostron saw Scott’s car speeding out of the parking lot, but he could not see the driver.
Scott was declared a missing person when car was later found empty and burning in an alley not far from the hospital.
From Scott’s mother, police learned that she had been receiving anonymous phone calls from a stalker prior to her disappearance.
The man seemed to know her every move and professed his love before promising to “get her alone” and “dismember” her.
It is believed that the same unidentified man then tormented Scott’s mother with calls every Wednesday for nearly 4 years...
...alternately claiming to still be holding Scott as a captive hostage or sometimes shrieking “I killed her!”
He never stayed on the phone long enough for police to trace the calls, and he vanished after Scott’s bones were found in 1984.
Among Scott’s remains was her watch which was frozen at 12:30 am on May 28th, 1 hour after she was last seen...
The awful phone calls to Bashir Kouchacji’s Marrakesh Restaurant in Washington DC began in 1983 and continued for nearly a decade...
...terrorizing the owner and his employees with violent and abusive language while imitating a range of child-like voices.
The restaurant’s staff tried to joke about the caller’s death threats and named him "L'enfant," or “the little boy”...
...however, as the calls reached nearly 20 a day, Kouchacji and his employees began experiencing mental breakdowns.
A police wiretap could only trace the calls to various payphones around the city in what appeared to be an organized plot...
...and when they failed to identify the perpetrator or perpetrators, Kouchacji checked himself into a psychiatric hospital.
Kouchacji believed the calls were related to a terrorist plot that dated back to his 1974 kidnapping and torture in Lebanon.
State Department records suggest his captors thought he was a CIA agent and only released him after he tried to commit suicide.
The event left him in a state of paranoia, but it was unclear why he continued to be stalked and targeted by the caller.
L'enfant seemed intent on driving Kouchacji insane and the calls only stopped after his mental state was completely destroyed...
In June of 1989, the Royal Mounted Police found Cindy James drugged and strangled in the yard of an abandoned Vancouver house.
Even though her hands and feet had been tied behind her back, an autopsy suggested that she died of an “unknown event.”
For 7 years prior, James had been the alleged victim of harassing phone calls and violent physical attacks...
...but while she believed she was being hunted by stalkers, police never identified any suspects and suggested that she was lying.
In early incidents, James reported seeing prowlers who would smash her porch lights and leave threatening notes...
...and after the torment progressed to home invasions and an alleged kidnapping, James hired her own private investigator.
Neither police nor the investigator could get reliable details from James, and doubts grew when she was committed to a psych ward.
Family, however, believed inconsistencies in her stories were due to overwhelming fear and were convinced she knew her attacker.
Recordings of the calls made to James only complicated matters, as the caller sounded female with a disguised voice.
If James’s death was a suicide as police suspected, it is thought that she may have stalked herself through a split personality...