...living in Dutch farm cellar for years waiting for world to end

[Maverick]

If the world is going to end does hiding in a cellar going to save one from the end... Good Grief! I really don't understand this mentality

"Family of 7 discovered living in Dutch farm cellar for years waiting for world to end"

https://www.foxnews.com/world/ruinerwold-farm-end-of-world-cellar

 

[tmttactical]

This will be interesting to follow, if there is some follow up.

 

[Silent Earth]

Any betting on yet another religious nut job destroying his family because of some warped or misguided belief??

 

[Gazrok]

Years?

 

[Brent S]

Yes years. The Kids had no idea there were other people around in the world. Just saw this this morning. Wack job...

 

[Brent S]

Personally, I love modern times. Sure the world has a lot of f’d up stuff, but there are a lot of really great things as well. I’m riding all the modern conveniences as long as possible! Living in a hole in the ground may be ok to stay alive for a bit, but I’m not interested in trying it out for fun.

 

[DrHenley]

Didn't they make a movie about that?

 

[Brent S]

Brendan Frazier did a great comedy about it. Blast from the Past!

 

[DrHenley]

I believe there have been several movies using that scenario and I'm getting them conflated.

 

[lonewolf]

they had to come out to tend the garden so cant have been in the basement all the time.
probably a case of mental illness, you go into isolation AFTER the world ends not before.

 

[DrHenley]

Bigpaul, if you read it, it says

A neighbor told Dagblad van het Noorden he only saw one man on the farm at all times and was "totally surprised" at the news of the discovery.

 

[lonewolf]

Bigpaul, if you read it, it says

whatever.

 

[Dani]

Have to wonder where was momma? I can only take a guess and say either dead already, which is most likely, or she had left the family before all that to never look back?

 

[lonewolf]

moved on long ago i'd guess.

 

[DrHenley]

Have to wonder where was momma? I can only take a guess and say either dead already, which is most likely, or she had left the family before all that to never look back?

I found this in another story about it:

Mayor Roger de Groot had said on Tuesday that the 58-year-old was not the father of the family, and that the mother of the siblings, aged 18 to 25, is believed to have died "a number of years ago."

 

[Dani]

https://www.news.com.au/world/europ...e/news-story/c6ad13be2cd9137bca65f9cb6f90cd4b

This is just not adding up here. . .

Another post about the family and eldest son.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/was-t...or-the-end-of-time-or-more-facebook-followers

 

[tmttactical]

Got to wonder where the money came from, house was rented and the 5 beers cost a few dollars. Something smells.

 

[Dani]

The eldest son had an online type job. There was another man involved, 64 I think it was, who was also arrested.

 

[lonewolf]

saw something this morning that says the older male was a "moonie".

 

[DrHenley]

saw something this morning that says the older male was a "moonie".

Are they still around? I haven't heard anything about the Moonies since, uh, well, I think since Jimmy Carter was president.

Or have they just distanced themselves from the "Moonie" nickname since Sun Myung Moon went to prison?

 

[Maverick]

Mayor De Groot: '58 -year-old arrested man is not the father '

The eldest of the children who had been living in total seclusion for nine years in an enclosed space of a farm in Ruinerwold, visited Café De Kastelein a number of times in recent weeks. "The first time I sent him away, but he came back a few days later," says cafe owner Chris Westerbeek.

...farm family followers of Moonsekte

The farm family that had been isolated for years in Ruinerwold would be affiliated with the Moonsekte, also called moonies. The Austrian Josef B., who held the family, was also a member of this sect.

Josef B., tenant of the farm in Ruinerwold, was according to his brother a selfish person Brother Josef B .: My brother felt better than Jesus

..the Austrian man who rented the farm in Ruinerwold, is a selfish man who always looks to his own advantage. That's what his brother Franz says.

www.rtvdrenthe.nl

 

[DrHenley]

Here is the farm on Google Maps. "De Verborgen Kelder" translates "The Hidden Cellar"

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Escape+Room+"De+Verborgen+Kelder"/@52.7167783,6.2809871,113m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x47c812ea24f67343:0x865129d8001b5b54!2sRuinerwold,+Netherlands!3b1!8m2!3d52.7224272!4d6.2477691!3m4!1s0x47c813033473c88f:0xb575c5578c54659b!8m2!3d52.7167785!4d6.2815511