4/28/2023 0 Comments Michael langford the watcher![]() Will they sleep in the attic? Or will you all sleep on the second floor? Who has the bedrooms facing the street? I’ll know as soon as you move in. If you were upstairs you would never hear them scream. It is far away from the rest of the house. Have you found all of the secrets it holds yet? Will the young blood play in the basement? Or are they too afraid to go down there alone? I would very afraid if I were them. It has been years and years since the young blood ruled the hallways of the house. Perhaps it was an honest mistake by someone that could have been close enough to eavesdrop on their identity but far enough to mishear.Ħ57 Boulevard is anxious for you to move in. However, the spelling of the name was incorrect. This time, he or she addressed the couple by name. The Watcher had kept his or her word and wrote once more. She also checked the mail and noticed a familiar envelope. That all changed when Maria dropped into the house in order to check on paint samples. Perhaps because of their extra precautions, nothing happened over the next two weeks. When a contractor arrived one morning, he discovered that someone had ripped out a sign he erected the night before. Meanwhile, construction on the house was still ongoing. ![]() While that may very well be a coincidence, it did little to ease his nerves. During one visit by a neighbor, the wife commented that having new “young blood” in the neighborhood would be welcome. All of these precautions were necessary, but the new owners did not want to appear unsociable to their new neighbors.ĭerek invited some of them to inspect the work he had been doing on the house. Whenever they ventured into a far corner of the garden or came close to disappearing from her view, she would call out their names in a scolding manner. Derek had a work-related trip that had to be canceled, and Maria kept a tight rein on all her children. When it was delivered, the Woods simply considered it a prank and threw it away.įor the next week or two, the Broaddus family maintained a status of high alert. Their letter followed a similar vein to the note Derek received. She said that in the entire 23 years that they had lived in the house, they had never received any letters until a few days before the transference of ownership to the Broadduses. A Letter to the WoodsĪndrea replied the following morning. Once he arrived there, he sent an email to John and Andrea Woods, who owned 657 before him, to ask them why the letter said, “I asked the Woods to bring me young blood and it looks like they listened.” Derek asked them for a possible identity to the so-called Watcher. Derek removed a piece of construction equipment from the back porch so that no one could use it to potentially smash a window.Īfter meeting with the police officer, he headed back to his family at their old home. After a few routine questions, the officer suggested that certain steps be taken to reduce any possible threat. When an officer came to the house and read the letter, he was dumbstruck. Once he knew that no one could see him from outside, he immediately called the local police department. Derek hurried throughout the house and switched off any lights that were on. Do you know the history of the house? Do you know what lies within the walls of 657 Boulevard? Why are you here? I will find out. My grandfather watched the house in the 1920s and my father watched in the 1960s. If that was not eye-catching enough, what followed was a chilling and radical shift in tone.Ħ57 Boulevard has been the subject of my family for decades now and as it approaches its 110th birthday, I have been put in charge of watching and waiting for its second coming. Questions were put to the new owner - questions such as, ‘How did you end up here?’ and ‘Did 657 Boulevard call to you with its force within?’ The note inside seemed welcoming enough before it developed into something else entirely. Aside from the normal bills, there was a plain white envelope addressed to the New Owner. When he had finished, he decided to check the mailbox outside. It was June 2014, and Derek had spent the day repainting various rooms inside the house. ![]() The First Letter from the Watcherīefore the couple and their children had officially moved in at 657 Boulevard, the first of the startling letters arrived. Derek recently celebrated his 40 th birthday and had worked hard to achieve promotion to Senior Vice President at an insurance company based in Manhattan. Maria Broaddus had been a resident of Westfield and grew up not far from her new home. It hardly seems an appropriate setting for a mysterious letter-writing campaign. ![]() 657 Boulevard is a beautiful six bedroom home that cost a cool $1.3 million to buy in 2014.
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