Luckily, they hadn’t yet moved into their new home in Westfield. Once they purchased 657 Boulevard, Derek and Maria Broaddus almost immediately began renovations on the old house. The now infamous Watcher House is indeed positioned at 657 Boulevard in Westfield, a neighborhood in New Jersey of around 31,082 people and a median household income of $158,323, according to the latest census data.

(Take a look on Google Maps!) Here’s what to know about the truth behind the tale. The series inserts broad fictionalizations into the nightmare the real-life Broaddus family experienced, but the house itself is real. The so-called Watcher claimed to be in charge of watching the house and welcoming its “young blood,” a task that apparently has preceded The Watcher for generations. The limited series is based on a feature reported in The Cut, telling the true story of a family moving into a beautiful home in Westfield, New Jersey, in 2014, only to be harassed by an anonymous letter-writer called The Watcher. Viewers of The Watcher will undoubtedly have one pressing question after the credits play: If that creepy old house was real, what the heck happened to it? Tack on the little nugget that it’s based (loosely) on a true story, and well? You’ve got yourself a crowd of true-crime junkies eager to know more. Ryan Murphy’s newest Netflix series might take its creative license as gospel and pierce its story full of plot holes, but that doesn’t make the real-estate thriller The Watcher any less absorbing a binge.

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