- [Voiceover] This story, in my opinion, may actually

be creepier than the last one.

On the evening of March 31st, 1922

six residents of the Hinterkaifeck Farm

in Bavaria, Germany were murdered

with a pickaxe.

Husband and wife Andreas and Cazilia Gruber,

their widowed daughter Viktoria,

and Victoria's two children Cazilia and Josef,

as well as the Gruber family, maid Maria Baumgartner.

I couldn't find like a super credible news source

that covered this, but there are so many

accounts of it online, it obviously happened.

- [Voiceover] So this is just fucking, fan fiction someone--

- [Voiceover] No! This isn't--

- [Voiceover] Someone just wrote, haha, of like--

- [Voiceover] There's picture, there's pictures

And then there's like records of it in Germany.

- [Voiceover] You work at BuzzFeed!

And you don't know that you can doctor pictures?

- [Voiceover] These aren't doctored.

- [Voiceover] Dude, okay, let's get into it.

- [Voiceover] Just to give you a little picture of the scene

two year old Josef was murdered in his crib,

the family maid Maria was murdered in her bed,

the rest of the family though

had been slaughtered in the family barn.

- [Voiceover] So four of the family's killed in the barn

and then the baby, two year old, and maid

are left killed in their beds.

- [Voiceover] Exactly.

So for some reason the rest of the family

was killed in the barn.

And they were found stacked on top of each other.

- [Voiceover] Safe to assume they weren't already stacked

on top of each other (wheezing)

and then killed. (laughter)

but they were killed and then stacked on top of each other.

- [Voiceover] (laughing) And then he killed them

all in one fatal strike.

- [Voiceover] (laughing) Okay.

- [Voiceover] Yeah, no, it didn't happen that way.

This is where shit starts to get fucking creepy.

- [Voiceover] Okay

- [Voiceover] Whoever did this,

and this is actually just disgusting,

actually stayed in the house

for several days after he murdered the entire family.

And we know that he did this because in the week

that followed the murders cattle were still being fed,

meals were still being eaten in the kitchen,

neighbors reported seeing smoke rising from the chimney,

and then the family dog was tied up outside the barn

when the post man came on Saturday.

The bodies were discovered by the way,

the next day, on Sunday.

- [Voiceover] So that's why he moved them to the barn

so he could (laughing)

continue living in the house.

- [Voiceover] I just feel like, you murder an entire family

you wanna get away from there. (laughing)

This guy felt the need to make himself a sandwich.

Anyways, another creepy detail of this

is that Maria, the family maid that was murdered in her bed,

she'd just been hired that day,

that was her first day on the job.

To replace the previous maid who quit six months earlier

due to the house being haunted.

You want to know some of the things that caused

the other maid to quit?

- [Voiceover] No.

- [Voiceover] The other maid claimed she heard

footsteps in the attic, voices, things like that.

You know, classic ghost story shit.

So she quit and the family dismissed her

as just another wacky lady with wacky thoughts.

You know, see you later.

But surprise six months later

now the family starts hearing footsteps

in the attic and then Mr. Gruber,

you know the head of the household,

he finds an unfamiliar newspaper

in the house that he'd never seen before.

A set of housekeys go missing.

- [Voiceover] Hmm

- [Voiceover] He also finds that the family toolshed

has been scratched up like someone tried to pick the lock.

- [Voiceover] That where they kept the pickaxe?

- [Voiceover] Exactly.

- [Voiceover] Noooooo! Really?

They kept the pickaxe in a tool shed?

- [Voiceover] Where else were you gonna keep a pickaxe?

And finally footprints

are discovered by Mr. Gruber, in the snow,

leading to the back of the house

coming from the woods, but there's no return footsteps.

They just go straight to the house.

Whoever walked into the house didn't walk back.

There was no money taken.

Because there was large sums of cash found on the farm.

So, they were pretty sure that this was a crime of passion.

For suspects they really only had one legitimate guy.

and it was their neighbor Lorenz Schlittenbauer.

- [Voiceover] It can't be the neighbor,

think about it practically if he's running his own farm

when does he have time

- [Voiceover] Huhuh

- [Voiceover] to live in someone else's house

and like wake up in the morning and feed his cows?

- [Voiceover] Hahuh.

- [Voiceover] That's a six man job

that one person was doing. (laughing)

- [Voiceover] Mr. Schlittenbauer believed

that Viktoria's son Josef.

- [Voiceover] The two year old.

- [Voiceover] Yeah, the two year old.

He thought it was his son.

He'd been intimate with Viktoria.

- [Voiceover] hmm.

- [Voiceover] However the son was later discovered

to belong to Andreas Gruber.

- [Voiceover] What!?

- [Voiceover] Josef was the product of incest.

Meaning Andreas Gruber played the horrifying role

of father and grandfather.

Also another little factoid to round off this

week of serious bad luck for this family.

When the families heads were removed

to be studied in the autopsy,

they lost the heads.

So that meant the family had to be buried headless.

- [Voiceover] Dude it's 1922

- [Voiceover] How do you lose?

- [Voiceover] Things get lost

- [Voiceover] That's six heads! That's so many heads!

How do you lose that many heads?

- [Voiceover] I, government, man.

- [Voiceover] (laughing) The government (laughing) what?

- [Voiceover] What happened to the house after,

did anyone move in?

- [Voiceover] They demolished it a year after

the crime had happened.

Just so there's not this terrible monument of murder

in their neighborhood.

And they but a, actually just a monument now,

like a literal monument.

- [Voiceover] That's nice.

- [Voiceover] To commemorate the family.

- [Voiceover] I'm just trying to find out who did it?

Who done it?

That's the question.

- [Voiceover] Yeah.

I mean still unsolved and I don't think

it ever will be solved.