The renter told the Star-Ledger he wasn’t worried about The Watcher, though he had a clause in the lease that let him out in case of another letter. He sometimes spooked newcomers to the neighborhood when he did strange things, like walk through their backyard or peek into the windows of homes that were being renovated. Westfield is 45 minutes from New York and a bit too slow for singles, meaning the town’s 30,000 residents are largely well-to-do families. The Broadduses shared the content of the letters with The Cut, with the first one reading: "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.

It was like trying to find a needle in a haystack,” said Scott Kraus, who helped investigate the case for the Union County Prosecutor’s Office. An investigation led the Broadduses to suspect that one neighbour in particular, Michael Langford, was the Watcher due to the vantage point of his family's home, and that his family was thought to be eccentric. The Watcher boasted of having learned a lot about the family in the preceding weeks, especially about their children.

They had recently told the prosecutors that they planned to file civil charges against the Langfords and wondered if the prosecutors were lying to prevent the story from blowing up again. These four Archangels are not mentioned in most modern versions of the Bible, because the book of Enoch was judged noncanonical in the 4th century CE. By the Second Temple period, this myth was transformed, and some religious scholars like David Suter believe it is the underlying myth for endogamy rules—who a high priest is allowed to marry—in the Jewish temple. The therapist said she was suffering post-traumatic stress that wouldn’t go away until they got rid of the house.

By the modern day, the Watchers foresaw a great devastation that would happen on Earth and had chosen Rick Jones as their herald to face this coming crisis. In the Bible, Michael is the angel general and the advocate for the people of Israel, the one who appears in Daniel's visions while in the lion's den, and leads God's armies with a mighty sword against Satan in the Book of Revelation. On the Origin of Watchers: A Comparative Study of the Antediluvian Wisdom in Mesopotamian and Jewish Traditions". Chambliss didn’t have enough evidence to compel him to appear, and with the media attention dying down, he dropped the case and moved on.This is someone who threatened my kids, and the police are saying, ‘Probably nothing’s gonna happen,’ ” Derek said.