90: Trapped: Man Kept Family in Secret Room For Years Waiting For The End Of The World

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In 2019, a 25-year-old man walked into a pub in Ruinerwold. He told the bartender that his father had kept him and his 5 siblings underground for the last 9 years, and told them they were the only people left in the world.

TW: Child Abuse, reference of sexual abuse

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0:00.0	A bartender working at Costellan Cafe was about to start closing down for the night when he noticed
0:06.7	that there was a man standing nervously outside. Through the glass door, he could see that the man
0:13.3	had long, unkempt hair and a scraggly beard, his clothes were tattered and dirty. The bartender
0:20.0	tried to figure out who this old man was.
0:22.6	They were in the small village of Runawald in the Netherlands.
0:26.6	It wasn't common for vagrants to travel through the area.
0:29.6	And it was rare for someone to come to the bar that the bartender hadn't seen before.
0:34.6	At that point, in 2019, the village had only about 3,000
0:39.8	residents. Just then, the unkempt man pushed through the door and grabbed a seat at the bar.
0:47.0	In a quiet and unsure voice, he ordered five beers, all to be brought out at once. At this point,
0:56.6	the bartender was a little concerned.
1:03.4	See, now that the man was sitting closer to him, he could see that he was not, in fact, an old man, but a young one, maybe 20 or 25 years old. Dirt was caked into the creases of his eyes,
1:10.5	which made him look much older.
1:13.0	One by one, the man at the bar downed the five beers without saying a word. It was starting to get
1:20.6	late and they needed to close up soon, but the man just sat there, playing with the glasses like he
1:26.8	had something on his mind, like he had
1:28.9	something to say but just couldn't get it out.
1:32.7	Finally, he took a breath.
1:35.1	And with the same quiet and unsure voice, he said, I need help.
1:40.9	My name is Israel von Dorsden, and my father has been keeping me and my five siblings in a
1:47.8	bunker underground for the last nine years. Please, I need you to help me. At first, the bartender
1:56.2	doesn't believe the man, but he looks at his pleading eyes and the clothes that looked like they hadn't
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