NJ ‘Creepy Watcher House’ Back On The Market: New Jersey Home, Complete With Weird Stalker, Can Be Yours For $1.25 Million


A New Jersey home known as the “Creepy Watcher House” can be yours for $1.25 million, but there’s a catch: the house comes with its own stalker, who sends eerie letters to its occupants and claims to be the house’s “watcher.”

As the Daily Mail reports, the Creepy Watcher House is a beautiful, century-old home in the New York City suburb of Westfield. The six-bedroom home is in a desirable neighborhood and comes with all of the modern conveniences, according to the video below, produced by a real estate agent.

Unfortunately, a person (or persons) seems to believe that the house belongs to them, or at least believes he or she is tasked with watching it. And he’s sent creepy letters to the past two owners to remind them of that fact.

“I have be [sic] put in charge of watching and waiting for its second coming; my grandfather watched the house in the 1920s and my father watched in the 1960s. It is now my time; Why are you here? I will find out; Now that they have it to flaunt it, they pay the price.”

John and Andrea Woods lived in the house until 2014, when they sold it to Derek and Maria Broaddus for just under $1.4 million.

Almost immediately, Mr. and Mrs. Broaddus began receiving chilling letters from the person or persons claiming to be “The Watcher.”

“Who am I? I am the Watcher and have been in control of [the home] for the better part of two decades now. The Woods family turned it over to you it was their time to move on and kindly sold it when I asked them to.”

Nearly two years after they purchased the home, the Broaddus’ have not moved in, claiming they’re too terrified of “The Watcher” to move in. They’ve put the house back on the market for $1.25 million — less than they paid for it.

They’ve also sued the former owners, claiming that they should have disclosed the fact that the house has its own stalker. They want to be compensated for the cost of the home, plus the cost of the renovations they put into it.

The former owners have counter-sued. In court papers, they claim that the Broaddus’ claims about the house and The Watcher have done irreparable damage to their reputation.

“John Woods and Andrea Woods have suffered, and continue to suffer, a special grievance and special injuries and damages, including but not limited to severe and ongoing emotional distress, psychological injuries, defamation, public ridicule and embarrassment, loss and/or damages to reputation, significant economic losses, damages and accrual of debt.”

The Woods’ did admit that they, too, have been in contact with The Watcher; they admit receiving one letter from “him,” which they claim to no longer have, in May, 2014. They insist that the letter was not disturbing in any way.

As the current owners and the former owners duke out their differences in court, law enforcement officials in New Jersey are at a loss as to who The Watcher might be or what they want, according to a 2015 NJ.com report.

Insisting that authorities had “left no stone unturned,” Mayor Andrew Skibitsky told a town meeting that they had no suspects, and pleaded with anyone with information about The Watcher to come forward.

The Watcher House is not the only house to have been tainted by its association with something creepy. Earlier this year, according to this Inquisitr report, the owners of a Pennsylvania home featured in the movie The Silence of the Lambs claimed they had trouble selling the otherwise beautiful home because of its association with the horror movie.

Would you live in The Watcher House?

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