I still think this family is in on it, but commenters on the article bought up a good point. They should have the house swept for bugs or small cameras. The previous owners, the Woods family, said they felt so safe there they'd leave the doors unlocked often. Maybe if there really IS a watcher, he or she has gone so far as to go into the house and install ways to spy on the residents. The letters have alluded to "finding what's in the walls" or something, and also mention the current family members by name and some other info only insiders should really know, like birth order of the kids. Sounds far-fetched that there could actually be cameras or something in the house, but then again so does the idea of a "watcher" even existing in the first place and it not being the current owners.
Given the fact that the Woods family got the first letter just before they moved out, it seems suspicious that there's apparently this "menacing" person stalking the house who hadn't made him or herself known before in the 23 years the Woods family lived there. And suddenly sends only the Broaddus family all these letters.
Again assuming there is an actual outsider doing this, I wonder if anyone the wife (Maria) grew up knowing could be doing this. She grew up in Westfield and the article also says they moved from another house in Westfield, so old neighbors, too, could be screwing with them. Assuming there
is someone doing this, it seems they have info only those who know the family could know, so maybe it is actually someone they know and not some random neighbor or other random person who really would seemingly have no obvious reason at all to terrorize a new family moving in.
I still can't believe these people tried to sell it to a developer to knock this beautiful old house down and build two on the lot. Westfield had a meeting to subdivide the lot, unanimously voted no after local outcry, and then this family tried to appeal the decision. Seriously, what is with them? Is it really necessary to knock the house down and build two more? How is that a solution? It's all just so weird, I'm sorry. And Derek admits to sending anonymous letters to neighbors who have spoken out against them, in a "weirdly poetic" way as one recipient points out, similar in style to the watcher letters? Come on.
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