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September 16, 2022 68 mins

What would you do if you suspected there was a person living in your attic? Andreas Gruber had to answer that very question for himself in 1922, and the carnage that followed is something out of a nightmare. Let's get into the unsolved case of the Hinterkaifeck murders.

Editing & Audio Engineering by Dane Ostrander.

Sources:
Bedtime Stories. “The Mysterious Murders of Hinterkaifeck.” YouTube, YouTube, 7 May 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r93z8MH_eg8&t=609s. 

Chilvers, Edward. Footsteps in the Attic: A True Account of the Slayings at the Hinterkaifeck Farmstead. Kindle ed., 2017. 

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