Strange occurrences start to plague a family on a remote farmstead in Germany months before they are brutally murdered with an axe. This is a case that is shrouded in mystery. Was the house haunted? Was there someone creeping around in the attic without the family knowing? Or did the family’s dark secrets have deadly consequences?
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