Family Of Six Found Living In Secret Room On A Farm ‘Waiting For End Of The World’

Five siblings and a man believed to be their father have been discovered living in a secret room on a Dutch farm for nearly a decade while they waited for the “end of the days”.

The group was discovered near Ruinerwold, a village in the northern province of Drenthe, after the eldest brother wandered into a local bar 11 days ago and “ordered and drank five beers on his own”.

He returned a few days later looking scruffy and bewildered and said he had not been outside for nine years, Reuters reports. 

“You could see he had no idea where he was or what he was doing,” the cafe owner, Chris Westerbeek, told RTV Drenthe. “He said he had run away and that he urgently needed help.”

After police were called, the five, estimated at 18 to 25 years of age, and a man they identified as their ailing father, were found living in makeshift rooms inside the farm and survived partly on vegetables and animals from a secluded garden on the property.

“We found six people living in a small space in the house which could be locked, not a cellar. It is unclear if they resided there voluntarily,” local police said in a statement.

“They say they are a family, a father and five children,” police added.