Post by tk on Jan 7, 2019 11:12:45 GMT -5
I recently found myself very bored, so I decided to re-watch most of Buzzfeed Unsolved True Crime episodes on YouTube (it's one of the few things they've got that's actually entertaining nowadays, methinks!).
I've watched this episode when it first came out, but I never realized how similar this case is with ASOUE until recently. It's about a mysterious house fire in 1945. I mean it's not 100% similar of course, but here are some of the things about this case that remind me of ASOUE:
Maybe it's pure coincidence, but I find it very interesting. I wonder if this incident was ever part of DH's inspiration as he wrote the series. Like, I think we all know about JK Rowling and the whole 'I just got onto a train and thought of Harry Potter' story, so I wonder if DH has ever discussed where he got the idea for ASOUE.
So what do you guys think?
PS: admittedly, I'm not at all well-versed when it comes to ASOUE. It's been such a long time since I've last re-read the series (doing my very own 2019 ASOUE Re-Read now, in fact!) ; but even back when it was still being written/published, I was never really a die-hard-fan and mostly relied on others on this forum to come up with theories and interesting discussions lol so I apologize if the case of the Sodder Children has in fact been brought up before. I should also point out that besides watching this Buzzfeed video and skimming through Wikipedia, I've done very little to research the Sodder Children case itself lol...so I'm not an expert in that area, either. I just thought that this is something interesting to share~
I've watched this episode when it first came out, but I never realized how similar this case is with ASOUE until recently. It's about a mysterious house fire in 1945. I mean it's not 100% similar of course, but here are some of the things about this case that remind me of ASOUE:
- Mysterious fire: no one really knew how it started; the fire burned the house down in 45 minutes but the fire department only arrived the next morning -- this, of course, is very close to the whole fire theme in ASOUE
- Missing children: 5 of the 9 Sodder children did not make it out of their burning house, but no human remains were found in the rubble afterwards -- this reminded me of Quigley more than anything else, but really, again, it's just so similar to the theme of people dying in fires in ASOUE
- The 'Kidnapped Children' theory: it's a famous theory that the 5 children did not die in the fire, but were instead kidnapped by the mafia (as retaliation for Mr Sodder's strong opposition against Mussolini); in fact, there were sightings of them after the house fire incident. This reminded me of how children were initiated into VFD, y'know, the whole "kidnapping your kids from the house" thing. I've forgotten a lot about ASOUE and its plot, and initially thought that children's homes were burned down before/as they were being recruited into VFD, but then I did a little reading to freshen my memory about the way VFD recruited children and found that this wasn't the case.
Maybe it's pure coincidence, but I find it very interesting. I wonder if this incident was ever part of DH's inspiration as he wrote the series. Like, I think we all know about JK Rowling and the whole 'I just got onto a train and thought of Harry Potter' story, so I wonder if DH has ever discussed where he got the idea for ASOUE.
So what do you guys think?
PS: admittedly, I'm not at all well-versed when it comes to ASOUE. It's been such a long time since I've last re-read the series (doing my very own 2019 ASOUE Re-Read now, in fact!) ; but even back when it was still being written/published, I was never really a die-hard-fan and mostly relied on others on this forum to come up with theories and interesting discussions lol so I apologize if the case of the Sodder Children has in fact been brought up before. I should also point out that besides watching this Buzzfeed video and skimming through Wikipedia, I've done very little to research the Sodder Children case itself lol...so I'm not an expert in that area, either. I just thought that this is something interesting to share~