Creepy ‘Watcher House’ to remain standing

It was the case that mesmerised - and terrified - the world.

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When the excited young family of Derek and Maria Broaddus and their children finally bought the lavish $1.7 million New Jersey house of their dreams in 2014, it was an excited countdown until they moved in.

That is until they began to receive a barrage of spine-chilling letters from “The Watcher”.

Far from welcoming them to the neighbourhood, the long time stalker of the home who insisted he had a “right of ownership” to the six-bedroom property terrified the family with chilling letters.

“My grandfather watched the house in the 1920s and my father watched in the 1960s. It is now my time,” one letter reportedly said. “All of the windows and doors in 657 Boulevard allow me to watch you and track you as you move through the house.”

In another letter made even more horrifying given the couple’s children, The Watcher wrote: “Do you need to fill the house with the young blood I requested?”

With the understandably terrified Braoddus family refusing to move in, and later filing a lawsuit against former owners John and Andrea Woods, the latest chapter in the nightmare saga has seen an application to bulldoze the house to the ground rejected.

Despite the Braoddus family proposing to replace the current structure with two homes, board members voted against the idea, siding with neighbours who were determined to protect the historic feel to the area.

“I think everyone should realise this: The Broadduses didn’t ask for this,” Westfield Planning Board Vince Wilt said. “I think they are just trying to get out of a bad situation.”

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