This story popped up and I'll tell it as just one of those odd things that occurs around Europe occasionally.
Cops got this call in a rural area of the Netherlands. They come out. Young guy in his early 20s.....long hair, beard, ill-fitting clothing, and seemed 'lost'. He'd stopped in some pub, asked for beer, and then after consuming five beers.....he spoke of a need for 'help'.
So the bartender gets the cops and they take this guy to the farm that he says that he lives on.
He and five other 'children' basically all lived out of the basement of the farm house....waiting for the 'end of time'. Dad? He lived around the house but seemed to be mentally 'unfit'. Mom? No where to be found. The six 'kids'? All are 18 or older. Mentally, they seem to have marginal skills to cope, and I would suggest, based on the story.....that all suffer serious mental issues. It may very well be that both Mom and Dad were crazy to start with.
Neighbors being suspicious? Yes, but no one ever called the cops (this is the Netherlands, and one tendency that you see is avoiding reporting on people).
The odd thing in this story is that the young guy at the pub was kinda surprised that other people existed in the world.....when he walked into the pub. It would appear that Dad kept all the kids in the dark about civilization, and the existence of other people.
Good script for a movie? Maybe.
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