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Posted: 2015-06-25 01:12:00
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A NEW Jersey couple is suing the people who sold them their dream home for neglecting to tell them about a stalker who calls himself “The Watcher,” who has been harassing them since they moved in.

Derek and Maria Broaddus paid $1.7 million ($US1.3 million) last year for their six-bedroom Union County dream house only to learn of “the Watcher,” who had a fixation on the home​, the suit says. ​

In ​their suit, the couple says the stalker threatened them with several letters and packages — mail the previous owners received before unloading the haunted house.

The house “has been the subject of my family for decades,” one letter said.

“I have been put in charge of watching and waiting for its second coming,” said another.

Two others allegedly refer to the couple’s young children. “I am pleased to know your names now, and the name of the young blood you have brought to me,” one reportedly says. Another asks, “Have they found out what’s in the walls yet?”

The threats were enough to send the Broaddus​es packing. The new owners claim the home’s previous owners, John and Andrea Woods, received at least one letter from “the Wat​​cher” in May 2014.

In the suit, the Broadduses claim they are “extremely concerned for the safety of their children and for their own safety”.

The house was sold June 2, 2014. Three days later, the Watcher introduced himself to the new owners.

They argue they were deceived as “a reasonable person ... would undoubtedly attach significant importance to the fact that a mentally unstable individual ... claimed a right of ownership” to the house”.

“[The defendants] should have known that the Plaintiffs would ... regard such information as vitally important in determining whether to purchase the home,” the suit states.

Their lawyer, Lee Levitt, declined to comment.

The Woods could not be reached for comment.

The suit says the Broaddus family has been “consumed daily by stress.”

They are trying to sell the home, but buyers have been scared off by the Watcher.

“I would be pretty upset if I bought a house and found out that the previous owners knew about it,” Robert Hagen of Westfield told CBS News.

Westfield Mayor Andy Skibitsky addressed the issue at a town council meeting on Tuesday night. “Our police department conducted an exhaustive investigation based on the factual circumstances and evidence available,” he said.

THE WATCHER’S TERRIFYING LETTERS:

• “[The house] has been the subject of my family for decades”

• “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 to flaunt it, they pay the price”

• Tsk, tsk, tsk ... bad move. You don’t want to make 657 Boulevard unhappy”

• “Do you need to fill the house with the young blood I requested?”

• “Once I know their names I will call to them and draw them too [sic] me”

• “I asked the Woods to bring me young blood”

• “Have they found what is in the walls yet? In time they will”

• “I am pleased to know your names now and the name of the young blood you have brought to me”

• “Have you found all the secrets it holds?”

• “Will the young bloods play in the basement”

• “Who has the bedrooms facing the street? I’ll know as soon as you move in”

• “It will help me to know who is in which bedroom then I can plan better”

• “All of the windows and doors in 657 Boulevard allow me to watch you and track you as you move through the house”

• “Who am I? I am the Watcher and have been in control of 657 Boulevard 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”

• “You have changed it and made it so fancy”

• “It cries for the past and what used to be in the time when I roamed its halls”

• “When I ran from room to room imagining life with the rich occupants there”

• “And now I watch and wait for the day when they [sic] young blood will be mine again”

• “657 Boulevard is turning on me it is coming after me”

• “I am in charge of 657 Boulevard”

• “Let the young blood play again like I once did”

• “Stop changing it and let it alone”

This article originally appeared on New York Post.

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