Post-war Germany was a difficult and at times bleak period. In the rural heartland

amongst the farms of Bavaria Lake Groban, a small hamlet populated by farmhands and peasants.

The isolated and suspicious community toiled with the riggers of daily life to earn money that became increasingly worthless as the days past.

On the outskirts of a small patch of wood, half a kilometer outside of Groban, lay

Kuyefec farm, an old stone building home to the Gruber family.

In the winter of 1922, strange events were to befall the residents, scaring away the maid and seeding unease.

These events, however, merely foreshadowed a much darker future for the Groubours, one that

would end in brutal fashion and that has held no answers for almost a hundred years.

This is dark histories where the facts are worth some fiction.

Built between 1862 and 1864, Hinter Cai Effect Farm owned by the Gruber Gabriel family, was situated

in Bavaria, Southern Germany, surrounded by vast flat farmland and isolated by forest trees.

To the south lay the border of witchwood, a small and dense patch of woodland that continued

to stretch along the western boundary of the farm.

The closest neighbor was a half kilometer to the east at the end of a long dirt road in

Groban.

A small village hamlet made up of 25 buildings with a population of around 75 people,

the vast majority of which were peasants and farmers.

The larger village of Viedhoven was situated two and a half

kilometers to the south and the city of Munich sat 70 kilometers away to the

northeast of the vast farmland. The town of Kaefec, which the farm took its name, sat around one

kilometer away. The farm building was a large stone structure resembling an L shape with the living quarters atop the long end of the L

and attached a stable, a barn which took the corner and a machine house which made up the shorter

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