‘The Watcher’ house terrified Westfield neighbors for years: ‘It was freaky’
nypost.com“The Watcher.”Their haunted house story is the basis for the new Netflix show with the same name, but in real life, neighbors were shaken up for years, and many are still questioning what really happened, residents say. “It was kind of freaky.
If you know Westfield, it’s more of a quiet town, more family oriented. When that story came out, it definitely struck people,” Ralph Bencivenga, 54, an owner at Bovella’s Pastry Shoppe in Westfield, who has been a lifelong resident working less than a mile from “The Watcher,” house told The Post.The home was the subject of the 2018 New York Magazine story detailing The Broaddus’ harrowing home buying experience in 2014 when they received a letter addressed to “The New Owner” with the anonymous scribe claiming he was in charge of watching the home.Each letter included personal details about the owners, their home and their children and that they wanted the house filled with “young blood.” The Watcher also wrote that the home had been “the subject of my family for decades” and that they were waiting for its “second coming.” “How did you end up here?” the writer asked in the first letter to the family. “Did 657 Boulevard call to you with its force within?”“657 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,” the anonymous author wrote in one letter, claiming their grandfather watched the house in the 1920s, and their father watched in the 1960s.“It is now my time.
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.”Bencivenga said the news spread like wildfire in the town, and the.
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