Have you ever had the feeling of being watched? There's nothing quite like that feeling.

There's this almost primal sense that something isn't quite right, but at the same time your

brain is telling you it's probably nothing. A far worse feeling though is the fear of realizing

that you were actually being watched. In the months preceding April of 1922, a family felt

exactly that and what followed would be one of the

most horrifying events in German history. So although the events in this video are fleeting and

nondescriptive, they're still highly disturbing, so viewer discretion is strongly advised.

In a heavily forced area just outside the village of Groberne in the German state of Bavaria,

quiet was something people were used to, but it wasn't always that way.

Just several years had passed from the end of World War I, and residents here could still recall

the distant sounds of mortar explosions and rifle fire.

Thankfully that time had passed and things returned to the way they were, or at least mostly.

In this area dotted by farmlands, as you might imagine, although life was mostly quiet and

slow, there was also such thing as too quiet. After all, the life in agriculture was generally

one of hard work that never seemed to end. So when one particular farmstead known as Hinter-Kifek fell silent for a few days in the spring of 1922, it was impossible for neighbors not to notice. The farm, which was built in 1863, was home to the Gruber family, including the 63-year-old father, Andreas, his wife, 72-year-old Cazilia, their 35-year-old daughter Victoria, and her two children, 7-year-old Silly and 2-year-old Joseph. They were known to be a bit reclusive and were rarely seen in the village, but the farm itself was normally filled with activity, as there was always some part of the property that needed attention, whether the animals had to be fed or the fields had to be plowed. On April 1st, two coffee sellers visited the remote property to take the family's usual order, but their knocks on the doors and windows of the farmhouse went unanswered. Before this, the vendors had never encountered the farm so quiet, and the eerieness of the surroundings unnerved them. Strange as this might have been, however, they figured it was just a rare time no one was home and left the property.

As the weekend came and went, concern and the village grew when the gruber's, who were always a fixture at Sunday worship services, failed to show for church.

Suspicion then started to move through the small community even more when word spread that young Siliot was absent from school for a few days without excuse.

But it wouldn't be until April 4th when enough of an alarm was raised to merit checking on the family. That morning, local mechanic

Albert Hoffner arrived at Hinter-Kifek to repair a piece of machinery. And expecting to be greeted

by Andreas, as he usually was on his visits, Albert encountered a scene similar to one the coffee

vendor's experience just a few days earlier.

He then called out to the family but heard only the restless sounds of farm animals in the barn and the incessant howling of the family dog. The state of the farm was a bit odd to Albert,

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