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  • - [Voiceover] So what's the name of this one?

  • - [Voiceover] This story, in my opinion, may actually

  • be creepier than the last one.

  • On the evening of March 31st, 1922

  • six residents of the Hinterkaifeck Farm

  • in Bavaria, Germany were murdered

  • with a pickaxe.

  • Husband and wife Andreas and Cazilia Gruber,

  • their widowed daughter Viktoria,

  • and Victoria's two children Cazilia and Josef,

  • as well as the Gruber family, maid Maria Baumgartner.

  • I couldn't find like a super credible news source

  • that covered this, but there are so many

  • accounts of it online, it obviously happened.

  • - [Voiceover] So this is just fucking, fan fiction someone--

  • - [Voiceover] No! This isn't--

  • - [Voiceover] Someone just wrote, haha, of like--

  • - [Voiceover] There's picture, there's pictures

  • And then there's like records of it in Germany.

  • - [Voiceover] You work at BuzzFeed!

  • And you don't know that you can doctor pictures?

  • - [Voiceover] These aren't doctored.

  • - [Voiceover] Dude, okay, let's get into it.

  • - [Voiceover] Just to give you a little picture of the scene

  • two year old Josef was murdered in his crib,

  • the family maid Maria was murdered in her bed,

  • the rest of the family though

  • had been slaughtered in the family barn.

  • - [Voiceover] So four of the family's killed in the barn

  • and then the baby, two year old, and maid

  • are left killed in their beds.

  • - [Voiceover] Exactly.

  • So for some reason the rest of the family

  • was killed in the barn.

  • And they were found stacked on top of each other.

  • - [Voiceover] Safe to assume they weren't already stacked

  • on top of each other (wheezing)

  • and then killed. (laughter)

  • but they were killed and then stacked on top of each other.

  • - [Voiceover] (laughing) And then he killed them

  • all in one fatal strike.

  • - [Voiceover] (laughing) Okay.

  • - [Voiceover] Yeah, no, it didn't happen that way.

  • This is where shit starts to get fucking creepy.

  • - [Voiceover] Okay

  • - [Voiceover] Whoever did this,

  • and this is actually just disgusting,

  • actually stayed in the house

  • for several days after he murdered the entire family.

  • And we know that he did this because in the week

  • that followed the murders cattle were still being fed,

  • meals were still being eaten in the kitchen,

  • neighbors reported seeing smoke rising from the chimney,

  • and then the family dog was tied up outside the barn

  • when the post man came on Saturday.

  • The bodies were discovered by the way,

  • the next day, on Sunday.

  • - [Voiceover] So that's why he moved them to the barn

  • so he could (laughing)

  • continue living in the house.

  • - [Voiceover] I just feel like, you murder an entire family

  • you wanna get away from there. (laughing)

  • This guy felt the need to make himself a sandwich.

  • Anyways, another creepy detail of this

  • is that Maria, the family maid that was murdered in her bed,

  • she'd just been hired that day,

  • that was her first day on the job.

  • To replace the previous maid who quit six months earlier

  • due to the house being haunted.

  • You want to know some of the things that caused

  • the other maid to quit?

  • - [Voiceover] No.

  • - [Voiceover] The other maid claimed she heard

  • footsteps in the attic, voices, things like that.

  • You know, classic ghost story shit.

  • So she quit and the family dismissed her

  • as just another wacky lady with wacky thoughts.

  • You know, see you later.

  • But surprise six months later

  • now the family starts hearing footsteps

  • in the attic and then Mr. Gruber,

  • you know the head of the household,

  • he finds an unfamiliar newspaper

  • in the house that he'd never seen before.

  • A set of housekeys go missing.

  • - [Voiceover] Hmm

  • - [Voiceover] He also finds that the family toolshed

  • has been scratched up like someone tried to pick the lock.

  • - [Voiceover] That where they kept the pickaxe?

  • - [Voiceover] Exactly.

  • - [Voiceover] Noooooo! Really?

  • They kept the pickaxe in a tool shed?

  • - [Voiceover] Where else were you gonna keep a pickaxe?

  • And finally footprints

  • are discovered by Mr. Gruber, in the snow,

  • leading to the back of the house

  • coming from the woods, but there's no return footsteps.

  • They just go straight to the house.

  • Whoever walked into the house didn't walk back.

  • There was no money taken.

  • Because there was large sums of cash found on the farm.

  • So, they were pretty sure that this was a crime of passion.

  • For suspects they really only had one legitimate guy.

  • and it was their neighbor Lorenz Schlittenbauer.

  • - [Voiceover] It can't be the neighbor,

  • think about it practically if he's running his own farm

  • when does he have time

  • - [Voiceover] Huhuh

  • - [Voiceover] to live in someone else's house

  • and like wake up in the morning and feed his cows?

  • - [Voiceover] Hahuh.

  • - [Voiceover] That's a six man job

  • that one person was doing. (laughing)

  • - [Voiceover] Mr. Schlittenbauer believed

  • that Viktoria's son Josef.

  • - [Voiceover] The two year old.

  • - [Voiceover] Yeah, the two year old.

  • He thought it was his son.

  • He'd been intimate with Viktoria.

  • - [Voiceover] hmm.

  • - [Voiceover] However the son was later discovered

  • to belong to Andreas Gruber.

  • - [Voiceover] What!?

  • - [Voiceover] Josef was the product of incest.

  • Meaning Andreas Gruber played the horrifying role

  • of father and grandfather.

  • Also another little factoid to round off this

  • week of serious bad luck for this family.

  • When the families heads were removed

  • to be studied in the autopsy,

  • they lost the heads.

  • So that meant the family had to be buried headless.

  • - [Voiceover] Dude it's 1922

  • - [Voiceover] How do you lose?

  • - [Voiceover] Things get lost

  • - [Voiceover] That's six heads! That's so many heads!

  • How do you lose that many heads?

  • - [Voiceover] I, government, man.

  • - [Voiceover] (laughing) The government (laughing) what?

  • - [Voiceover] What happened to the house after,

  • did anyone move in?

  • - [Voiceover] They demolished it a year after

  • the crime had happened.

  • Just so there's not this terrible monument of murder

  • in their neighborhood.

  • And they but a, actually just a monument now,

  • like a literal monument.

  • - [Voiceover] That's nice.

  • - [Voiceover] To commemorate the family.

  • - [Voiceover] I'm just trying to find out who did it?

  • Who done it?

  • That's the question.

  • - [Voiceover] Yeah.

  • I mean still unsolved and I don't think

  • it ever will be solved.

- [Voiceover] So what's the name of this one?

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