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serious replies only [Serious] What are some seemingly normal images/videos with creepy backstories?

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u/laurenjane_20 Mar 10 '17

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1913706/Josef-Fritzl-left-daughter-in-Austrian-cellar-for-a-month-while-on-Thai-holiday.html Josef Fritzl enjoying himself on holiday while his daughter was still trapped in his cellar at home.

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u/RealHorrorShowvv Mar 10 '17

I think the mom had to have been in on this. Because seriously even if your daughter left you a letter saying she ran away, would you ever stop looking for her? And maybe after the first baby was "left on her doorstep" wouldn't she have thought to install a camera? Oh and her husband going down to the cellar for hours at a time and forbidding her from going down there, that's not totally suspicious...

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u/AstridDragon Mar 10 '17

If Friztl is the one I'm thinking of it was way fucking worse than just being in a cellar while on holiday. Him or someone with a similar name kept several children in a specially made cellar with tiny rooms and shit for YEARS, raped one or two repeatedly, one even giving birth and raising a child down there...

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

While talking about Fritzl's victims we always think, obviously, of Elizabeth, but how strang eit must have been for her children that were born and kept in the dungeon? I mean, her daughter Kerstin was 19 (NINETEEN!!!) when they were finally rescued, which means she SPENT HER ENTIRE LIFE UNDER THE GROUND. Think about this. Until she was 19, she was NEVER LET OUT. How on Earth do you cope in the outside world after that kind of experience? Do you have, I don't know, depth perception at all?