Gather round. This happened in March 1922.

A farmer in the Vavaria walked outside and found footprints in the snow.

They came from the edge of the forest and led straight to his farmhouse.

He followed them all the way to his door.

Then he looked for tracks leading back.

There were none.

Someone had walked out of the woods, come to his home, and never left.

Andreas Gruber told his neighbors about the footprints.

He told him about the strange sounds in his attic at night.

A newspaper nobody ordered.

A set of keys that didn't belong to anyone in the family at night. A newspaper nobody ordered. A set of keys

that didn't belong to anyone in the family. One neighbor offered him a gun. He turned it down.

Four days later, everyone in his house was dead. Hinder Kaifik is about an hour north of Munich at the end of a dirt road that cut through

dense forest. The name means behind Kaifik, a tiny hamlet nearby. The farm was past the last

house, past the last field, deep in the woods where the road ended, isolated.

Andreas Gruber lived there with his wife, Cazilia, their widow daughter, Victoria, and

Victoria's two children, seven-year-old, Osloom Cazilia, and two-year-old Yosef. The family kept

to themselves. Most of the people in the area avoided the place entirely. Andreas had been convicted of incest for his daughter Victoria in 1915.

He served a year in prison.

When Victoria gave birth to Yosef in 1919, the paternity was an open secret in the village.

The family's maid quit six months before the murders.

She told people the farmhouse was haunted.

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