Welcome to another edition of Time Suck Short Sucks.

I'm Dan Cummins and today I will be sharing the enduring and disturbing

mystery of the Hinter Kai Fek murders.

On March 31st, 1922, a cold, snowy, and quiet night in the Weimar Republic, now Germany,

at a small unassuming farm, roughly an hour's drive north of Munich, six gruesome murders were committed.

The Gruber family, 63-year-old Andreas, his 72-year-old wife,

Casilia, their 35-year-old widowed daughter, Victoria's two young children, seven-year-old

Casilia, and two-year-old Joseph, along with the family's newly hired maid,

44-year-old Maria Baumgartner, who had only begun working for the family thanks to the previous

made quitting because she believed the Gruber home to be haunted, were all brutally slaughtered

with a matic, a heavy, hand-held farm tool that looks a lot like an axe.

What unusual events at the Hinter Kaifeg farm preceded this slaughter,

and why has this case never been officially solved?

Words and ideas can change the world.

I hated her, but I wanted to love my mother.

I have a dream.

I'll plead not guilty right now.

Your only chance is to leave with us.

If you've ever lived in a home with an attic, I bet you've heard some strange noises coming from it.

Attucks are inherently pretty creepy. In most cases they're a place where someone theoretically could live but not where anyone is

supposed to be living or should live.

So when you hear a noise coming from the attic,

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