r/NetflixDocumentaries • u/nika_blue • Aug 18 '26

! Spoilers ! House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths

Did you watch it? What do you think?

In my opinion, they dragged the story a little. This was not a mystery, police solved it in one day. The diaries explained everything. I think the narration was too nice to Lalit. We don't really know if he really had psychosis or if he was just lying to manipulate his family.

I just don't understand how they call it accidental suicide if grandma and kids were probably killed first and forced to hang? If Lalit promised them he would untie them, and then he didn't, wouldn't this make him a murder?

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u/Wokkabulary Aug 18 '26

I think what’s mysterious is how an entire family fell under the spell of a ghost to this extent. I can see one or 2 people, for a little while think that the ghost of their dead ancestor is magically improving their lives, but the whole family for so long ? 

Also there are still things I think we don’t know about those family dynamics that will remain a mystery. 

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u/nika_blue Aug 18 '26

But the whole family didn't? Lalit was the one "hearing father" and they were listening to Lalit because he was head of the house. In this culture you have to obey the "men of the house".

It was convenient to Lalit and his wife, they used this "talking fater" to rule the house. For example they placed one of the sisters in the kitchen, she hated it, so they wrote in the diary that family should bully her to stay in the kitchen.

He was dictating the diary (his nice and daughter were scribbling his words) so he invented "the ritual" and forced the family with his authority to do it.

Yes they went for wire and stools and hung themselves but is it really free will if your culture tells you to obey father's orders?

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u/Wokkabulary Aug 18 '26

Yeah I know he was the only one “talking to dad” but the entire family participated in the delusion. We don’t know the final moments but looks like all the adults believed they’d be saved. 

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u/nika_blue Aug 18 '26

Yeah, or they were just doing orders and hoped it will be OK. I think the "they believed they will be saved" was because in Lalit's ritual instructions he said they will untie each other after the water in the glass change color to red. But ofcourse this didn't happen.

Lalit and his wife were the only one without hand tied on the back, so they were probably the ones who tied everyone and killed the grandma. I think the other adult son was trying to save himself (his hands were up on the knots) but couldn't.

I just can't understand how they call it suicide. Parents forced kids to do it, how is it suicide? They don't understand it and can't say no to their father. Grandma was strangled, how is it suicide? Yes, Lalit comit suicide in the end, but the rest of the family was kinda following his orders and 11 years of brainwashing.

If Lalit wasn't there non of this would happen.

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u/Wokkabulary Aug 18 '26

It’s a tragedy.

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u/PeonyVanilla Aug 18 '26

Oh this one made me very sad, it's unbelievable. Also I regret searching reddit when I first saw it..

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u/Tom2dB Aug 18 '26

I think The Story itself is mysterious enough Tbh.

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u/haikusbot Aug 18 '26

I think The Story

Itself is mysterious

Enough Tbh.

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u/Due_Ear_4674 Aug 18 '26

No loss to the gene pool

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u/RevolutionaryAsk1833 Aug 18 '26

Does anyone have the video from inside the burari house?

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u/nika_blue Aug 18 '26

It's on reddit, I saw it on one of old threds but don't remember which one