Post by Jaga on Oct 16, 2019 6:05:28 GMT -7
A family was kept in a secret farmhouse room for nine years, police say. The oldest son escaped to find help at a bar. The father was waiting for the end times...and kept his children isolated from the world
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/16/dutch-family-discovered-living-farmhouse-nine-years-waiting-end-world/
Sitting on the terrace at the pub, in the small village of Ruinerwold in north Netherlands, the young man looked out of place. He had long, tangled hair and a dirty beard, wearing tattered clothing and appearing perpetually confused. There was something “unworldly” about him, as the bar’s owner, Chris Westerbeek, would soon recount to Dutch news outlet RTV Drenthe, and when Westerbeek sat down to talk to him on Sunday, he learned why.
He had not been outside in nine years, he told Westerbeek.
The 25-year-old man was in desperate need of help, he said. He had managed to sneak out of the small, secret room where he and his adult siblings had been kept all that time, living in isolation in a farmhouse just outside of Ruinerwold that appeared almost abandoned. He said he had never been to school, and hadn’t been to the barber in nearly a decade.
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www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/10/16/dutch-family-discovered-living-farmhouse-nine-years-waiting-end-world/
Sitting on the terrace at the pub, in the small village of Ruinerwold in north Netherlands, the young man looked out of place. He had long, tangled hair and a dirty beard, wearing tattered clothing and appearing perpetually confused. There was something “unworldly” about him, as the bar’s owner, Chris Westerbeek, would soon recount to Dutch news outlet RTV Drenthe, and when Westerbeek sat down to talk to him on Sunday, he learned why.
He had not been outside in nine years, he told Westerbeek.
The 25-year-old man was in desperate need of help, he said. He had managed to sneak out of the small, secret room where he and his adult siblings had been kept all that time, living in isolation in a farmhouse just outside of Ruinerwold that appeared almost abandoned. He said he had never been to school, and hadn’t been to the barber in nearly a decade.
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