Family waiting for “the end of time” discovered in farm basement
According to local news outlet RTV, a 58-year-old man was living with six siblings, aged 18 to 25, on a farm in the Drenthe province. The oldest of the siblings escaped from the basement on Sunday evening, asking staff at a pub in nearby Ruinerwold for help.
The owner of the bar, Chris Westerbeek, said the man was unkempt and looked confused.
An aerial picture shows a view of the farm where a father and six children had been living in the cellar, in Ruinerwold, northern Netherlands. Wilbert Bijzitter / ANP / AFP / Getty Images”He ordered five beers and drank them,” Westerbeek told local media. “Then I had a chat with him and he revealed he had run away and needed help… Then we called the police.”
“He said he had brothers and sisters who lived at the farm. He said he was the oldest and wanted to end the way they were living,” Westerbeek said.
Mayor Roger de Groot said the man living with the children is not their father nor the owner of the farmhouse. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” he told local reporters. The family is in “a safe place” now, he said.
The mayor also said their mother is believed to have died before the family moved into the house.
The names of the family members have not been released by authorities and it is unclear how they are related to the man. He has been arrested after failing to cooperate with the investigation.
According to Dutch media, the family had no contact with the outside world and was entirely self-sufficient, living off a vegetable garden and a few animals. The children were not registered and neighbors believed only one man lived alone on the farm.
The children had no idea that there were other people in the world, RTV reports.
Local law enforcement confirmed they went to the house after receiving concerned reports from neighbors, sending a large team to investigate. They found a hidden staircase that led to a basement where the family was kept.
The investigation is ongoing, police said. In an update Tuesday, authorities said they are looking into possible criminal offenses.
well,he had all those supplies that needed to be used up so …
You mean Dutch police didn’t go in and murder everyone in the name of their safety like they do in the US?
https://www.rt.com/usa/470935-texas-atatiana-jefferson-cop-resigned/
They have muslims for that sort of stuff.
Stupid , ignorant comment there Ass Cornhole
I’m impressed with the intelligent and informed opinion,Pollack.
Move to Brussels and live with those peaceful Muslims.
Go fuck some goats.
Shooting gun owners in their own homes is getting to be an everyday thing.
Remember when the Philly cops illegally entered the wrong house (they just commandeered it actually) and dude started shooting? It’s sort of hard to blame him, isn’t it?
This is why “they” want red flag laws.
I see a need for stronger doors to delay entry. Or stop it.
I’m thinking more along the lines of instead of a doorbell camera having a claymore mine aimed outward.
F that. The world isn’t going to end, but if it did the last way I’d want to go is while cowering in a basement. I’d rather face the blast with a hot dog in one hand and a beer in the other.
F-n right KaD. If I’m gonna go to the Bolsheviks, I’m takin’ a few of them down on my way out. Solzhenitsyn anyone? Maybe one hand on the AR and one with a rib-eye.
Meat and the modern sporting rifle (w/ drum magazine) may be all that’s left, if Civil War 2 doesn’t get erased from Twitter.
Don’t mess with the bacon or beer or there’s gonna be a fight.
They’re looking into “possible” criminal offenses?
I’m calling bullshit. Too many plot holes.
You mean like CBS and BBC, I like your call.
Carry on….
Reminds me of this one..
We told the guy down the road that if a big tornado were to level our home, please send a bulldozer to get us out of the damn safe room!
It sounds like they recycled the story about the Jap solider who remained bunkered up on a deserted island for 20 years after the way.
That was probably a hoax, like this story.
They want people to feel they can stay remote and hidden which is complete bullshit. The tech out there can see everything even 15 feet underground from planes…
The children were not registered?
What, no ear tags?
That was an eye catching turn of phrase.
Bullshit. The children, including the escapee did not know any other humans were alive but he ordered and drank 5 beers….this is a start of the next “conspiracy theory” that “ preppers are crazy” narrative.
hey, I found a youtube AND twitter link in the story, so it must be true…
How much has already been put in their GoFundMe account?