A family spent nine years waiting for the end of the world in the basement of a farm

A young man revealed this week that he had escaped from the basement of a farm in Holland where he had been confined for nine years with six other members of his family because he was a farmer. they "waited for the end of the world".

The police saved the rest of the clan and a viral story was revealed.

The boy in question would be the eldest of six young people aged 16 to 25 who lived in the basement of a boarding house on a farm near Ruinerwold, a rural town with a maximum of 4,000 inhabitants located in the province of Dentre, he said. the site RTV Drenthe.

He had very long hair and beard and was unkempt since he was living in the outside world. He had gone to Chris Westerbeek's cafe several times until last Sunday; with five liters of beer above, he had asked for help for his "brothers and sisters".

"He told me that he wanted to end the lifestyle they were leading," said Westerbeek, who called the police.

The authorities immediately surrounded the farm. There, they found a house with board and, behind a piece of furniture in the room, they found the stairs to get to the basement: they found the family home, their orchard and a goat.

Then it became apparent that the young people were headed – and controlled? – by a 58-year-old man who was lying in a bed as the police broke into the basement. His family claimed that he had suffered an attack some time ago.

The mayor of Ruinerwold, Roger de Groot, said Wednesday at a press conference that it was not confirmed that the 58-year-old was the boy's father, but that He rented the farm to someone else.

The mother of the young people is said to have died and the authorities have still not been able to identify them correctly because there is no trace of their birth.

The neighbors of the farm did not get much closer because the man observed the environment with his binoculars and stopped them before they could knock on the door of the house.

In fact, they thought that he was Austrian and that he spoke German and that he lived alone, because no one had ever seen the boys, even if they had stayed at home. basement for years.