They saved a family that spent nine years waiting for the end of the world in the basement of a farm

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

The boy in question he would be the eldest of six young people from 16 to 25 years old who lived in the basement of a house with pension on a farm near Ruinerwold, a rural town of up to 4,000 in the province of Dentre, 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 on top, he asked for help for his "brothers and sisters".

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

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

Then it appeared that young people were driven – and controlled? – by a 58 year old man who was lying in a bed At the moment the police burst 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 father of the youngbut he rented the farm to someone else.

The mother of the young people is reported to have died and the authorities continue to they have not been able to identify them correctly because there is no record of their births.

The neighbors of the farm did not get much closer because the man looked at 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.