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Dutch family removed from basement after 9 years
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2019-10-16 at 12:14 PM UTC
A family who spent nine years on a farm "waiting for the end of time" have been discovered by police in the Netherlands after one of them turned up at a local pub, reports say.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50054044
A man of 58 and six young adults aged 18 to 25 were living at a farm in the province of Drenthe.
The family were found after the eldest of the children ordered beer at a bar in the nearby village of Ruinerwold.
He then told staff he needed help, broadcaster RTV Drenthe reported.
"We found six people living in a small space in the house which could be locked but wasn't a basement," police said in a statement late on Tuesday.
The older man has been arrested. According to the family, he is the father of the six children, say police. It was not clear whether they had been there voluntarily, police added. The eldest son was not there at the time, police told the BBC.
Local reports described the man as a handyman called Josef B, who was originally from Austria.
"I've never seen anything like it," local mayor Roger de Groot told reporters. He revealed that some of the family had not been registered locally and also indicated that the 58 year old was not the father.
The public broadcaster said that the family had been living in isolation waiting for the end of time. -
2019-10-17 at 10:27 PM UTC
Freaks -
2019-10-17 at 10:40 PM UTCimagine being the last person on earth and instead of trying to find a way to bring back the race or creating a monolith to/of our achievements, just putting a bullet in your head
