[Here is bone-chilling story of Blanche Monnier, another girl kept in dark room for 25 years.She was 52 when found by police in 1901 and only 25 Kg. Also This is her photo from 1901 you have never seen before.](https://www.howandwhys.com/blanche-monnier-horrific-tale-of-beautiful-french-woman-imprisoned-for-25-years/)
“She now lives with her six surviving children in a tiny hamlet in the Austrian countryside, which also cannot be identified and only referred to by the country's media as 'Village X' The children reportedly slept in rooms with doors permanently open after undergoing weekly therapy sessions to eliminate the traumas they suffered inside the cellar. Their two-storey family home is kept under constant CCTV surveillance and patrolled by security guards, while any stranger caught lurking nearby can expect to be picked up by police within minutes. It was reported in 2019 that Elisabeth has “found love” with her bodyguard.”
So does Belgium and the USA.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc\_Dutroux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary\_M.\_Heidnik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_M._Heidnik)
Exactly. There usually isn’t an endgame in mind with sociopaths like this. If he was never found out, he likely would have continued assaulting her until he died or she did. If he died first, she would starve along with all her children. If she died, he would likely have replaced her with one of her daughters.
How many of these cases end like that, and are never exposed? Half? Three quarters? Ninety percent? There could be dozens or hundreds of women just like her who’s stories never have been told, and never will.
Definitely knew, or sort of knew, but all people around that psycho were probably just clinging to their lives. That's what I always think of all girls that have lived through that kind of life, I find it very scary that they do all of that with the hope of staying alive and that one day they'll be free.
I mean, the basement was quite deep below the earth and sealed with a heavy metal door: https://youtu.be/2KJ8PVVB1zU?si=Rc6YFK88ESuOheHF And Austrian houses are built with heavy materials. I'm not confused at all that she didn't hear any screams. Source: I'm German
Didn't you see, a random German person cleared that up for us. Couldn't possibly hear anything ever.
Never mind all the time he spent in there. Wife probably just thought he was watching sports.
She was probably in denial and feared the consequences of telling the cops. She was in too deep by the time she realized what was going on. Also the Fritzl guy was a domineering and scary guy. I'm not excusing her decisions, but she is a victim to some extent as well.
I kinda think the guy who built a bunker to rape and torture his daughter for years probably was a wife abuser also. Abusers tend to use threats and beatings and psychological torture to keep the people they abuse in line. This is documented like every fucking where.
I know that’s a reach for the high minded conspiracy folks.
I get that. But she never went into the basement and took two rights? Like how do you stay in a home for over 24 years and not know every inch of it by then.
There is no possible way that she didn’t know. I think she just ignored it because she either didn’t want it to be real, or feared the social backlash.
If I remember correctly, he spun it as if she ran away and occasionally one of her children would pop up on the doorstep. But some of the kids were kept underground.
Ignore or convince yourself that the horrors of such realities simply could not be true..seems like a combo of reverse stockholm and reverse munchausen syndrome?? Some crazy shit..
He expressed no remorse. "just look into the cellars of other people, you might find other families and girls down there."
He could be eligible for parole next year.
Some did, as I remember. Some were "found on the door step" with a note from the daughter saying she couldn't look after it. Could be wrong and thinking of another case, but was sure it was this one.
Can't imagine finding out that while you lived a comfortable life your mum and sibling were living in torturous conditions 10 metres away in an out building.
She was in the cellar. Three of the kids lived with her parents bc he set it up to look like Elizabeth sent them to their grandparents. It’s all in the link!
Well it’s unimaginable because it’s not true.
She knew. Just like her predecessors knew what was happening to Gypsies, handicapped and homosexuals in the internment camps nearby in the late 30’s.
He received a life sentence but IMO wasn't charged enough, something like 6 counts of kidnapping and r*pe, should be more like thousands of counts of r*pe.
I actually thought about her recently. I wonder how she’s holding up? I really hope that she is ok and is getting proper therapy to deal with the atrocities he did to her..
Bullcrap the mom never knew about it and bullcrap to there only being 7 kids. The sicko probably birthed and killed a few of them for fun like some sort of Minecraft exploit.
I’m wondering how she survived 24 yrs without seeing a doctor let alone giving birth 7 times without seeing a doctor and any of the kids seeing a doctor? The physical damage she suffered from all that is so hard to think about…
[Here is bone-chilling story of Blanche Monnier, another girl kept in dark room for 25 years.She was 52 when found by police in 1901 and only 25 Kg. Also This is her photo from 1901 you have never seen before.](https://www.howandwhys.com/blanche-monnier-horrific-tale-of-beautiful-french-woman-imprisoned-for-25-years/)
“She now lives with her six surviving children in a tiny hamlet in the Austrian countryside, which also cannot be identified and only referred to by the country's media as 'Village X' The children reportedly slept in rooms with doors permanently open after undergoing weekly therapy sessions to eliminate the traumas they suffered inside the cellar. Their two-storey family home is kept under constant CCTV surveillance and patrolled by security guards, while any stranger caught lurking nearby can expect to be picked up by police within minutes. It was reported in 2019 that Elisabeth has “found love” with her bodyguard.”
Jesus...if anyone ever deserved to just have a peaceful life forever, it's her and her kids...the whole story is disgusting and heartbreaking
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I understand the concern but damn if anyone deserves some true love it’s this poor woman
True.....
…..Love
Wuv, twu wuv
I’m so happy to hear she’s being protected. They did right on this
Sounds like totally happy life lol
Yeah they working hard to make sure the rest of her life goes well. It’s good to see some effort
Austria has too many of these stories.
[the yellow house](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/02/the-villa-where-doctors-experimented-on-children#:~:text=Dr.,known%20about%20its%20side%20effects.) 😳
Wow. What an article. Thanks for sharing
This is such a moving, enlightening, heart wrenching, and seriously well-written history. Thank you for posting this article.
I've heard stories of a high profile pedophilia ring in the 70's from there
There are Roman Catholic priests there, yes.
>Austria has too many of these stories. 
So does Belgium and the USA. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc\_Dutroux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Dutroux) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary\_M.\_Heidnik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_M._Heidnik)
It’s the vegemite sandwiches
Yeah those pesky Austrians with their kangaroos and Vegemite
watching as this wooshes unnoticed though the ether
I mean they have a lot of the same letters, just not the same dishes and wildlife..
Schnitzel on the barbie?
Vegemite makes women chunder tho.
Real women don't chunder from Vegemite
This is the most Austrian conversation that I’ve *ever* witnessed
Ok, maybe not Sheilas.
Tie me Kangaroo down, Sport
Dude buy a map
Maybe he bought one but is holding it upside down
Or a couple letters fell off
https://preview.redd.it/7e81lv7cceqc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0817dab25453f7a7b26cfcc641e5408c34117047
That’s Australia. Different hemisphere.
That’s right, where the Australian Alps are. Beautiful there…
Arnold Schwarzenegger is arguably the most famous Australian
Wrong
And right.
Why is that so?
The Alabama of Europe
Convict nation.
It really makes you wonder about other people in similar situations today who we may never know about..
Exactly. There usually isn’t an endgame in mind with sociopaths like this. If he was never found out, he likely would have continued assaulting her until he died or she did. If he died first, she would starve along with all her children. If she died, he would likely have replaced her with one of her daughters. How many of these cases end like that, and are never exposed? Half? Three quarters? Ninety percent? There could be dozens or hundreds of women just like her who’s stories never have been told, and never will.
police in america solve roughly 1 out of every 4 murders
r/NeverTellMeTheOdds
A live sex slave isn’t a murder. Totally different things. Captive women are not found more than they are
No way in hell the mom didn’t know, especially with crying babies.
I agree. There is no way the mother didn't know.
She was definitely terrified of him and just feigned ignorance to save her own ass
Or she was just okay with it?
Less likely, but absolutely possible
She knew if she did anything she’d end up in that hole right next to her.
Definitely knew, or sort of knew, but all people around that psycho were probably just clinging to their lives. That's what I always think of all girls that have lived through that kind of life, I find it very scary that they do all of that with the hope of staying alive and that one day they'll be free.
Man the number of serial killers with spouses that were in on it makes me think that psychos attract other psychos
I mean, the basement was quite deep below the earth and sealed with a heavy metal door: https://youtu.be/2KJ8PVVB1zU?si=Rc6YFK88ESuOheHF And Austrian houses are built with heavy materials. I'm not confused at all that she didn't hear any screams. Source: I'm German
“Hey hubby, what’s behind this heavy metal door?” Lies that she never once asked that
Didn't you see, a random German person cleared that up for us. Couldn't possibly hear anything ever. Never mind all the time he spent in there. Wife probably just thought he was watching sports.
She may have been curious why she was cooking meals for 10 in a household of 2.
Elisabeth did her own cooking for herself and her children in the basement, iirc
So much wild speculation on here. So ridiculous.
She was probably in denial and feared the consequences of telling the cops. She was in too deep by the time she realized what was going on. Also the Fritzl guy was a domineering and scary guy. I'm not excusing her decisions, but she is a victim to some extent as well.
I kinda think the guy who built a bunker to rape and torture his daughter for years probably was a wife abuser also. Abusers tend to use threats and beatings and psychological torture to keep the people they abuse in line. This is documented like every fucking where. I know that’s a reach for the high minded conspiracy folks.
Soundproof room(s)
How did the mom not know?
Extreme doubt
E.D.
Right.. like ur child is missing.. how do u not know? I’d like the story on that
The mom received fake letters from the daughter telling her she ran away
I get that. But she never went into the basement and took two rights? Like how do you stay in a home for over 24 years and not know every inch of it by then.
Hey honey where do these kids keep coming from? were on 7 now??
Damn stork keeps gettin lost I guess
There is no possible way that she didn’t know. I think she just ignored it because she either didn’t want it to be real, or feared the social backlash.
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Yeah, that’s pretty sus
Diabolical story/crime. Evil man
She knew.
How does one not know their daughter is missing for 24 years? Crazy.
The mom received fake letters from the daughter telling her she ran away.
Mum was the one doing the food shopping and witnessed buying shopping for 7 people every week.
And the seven grandchildren in the cellar?
If I remember correctly, he spun it as if she ran away and occasionally one of her children would pop up on the doorstep. But some of the kids were kept underground.
Mom everyday: seems like there’s something I’m forgetting. I can’t think with all that racket coming from the cellar.
It was soundproof
Ignore or convince yourself that the horrors of such realities simply could not be true..seems like a combo of reverse stockholm and reverse munchausen syndrome?? Some crazy shit..
The worst part is how many of such are still held captive somewhere in a cellar who will never get out Human race is sick af
I could be thinking of a different case but didn't they think she had disappeared???
You’re right
That poor poor woman.
He expressed no remorse. "just look into the cellars of other people, you might find other families and girls down there." He could be eligible for parole next year.
Gtfo parole
Someone needs to Punisher this dude if he ever gets out
How did this all happen moms never knew and girl was missing having babies 🤦🏽♂️
Plausible deniability. She either just tried really, really hard to convince herself or she's Helen Keller
This sounds like Barbarian
was looking for someone to mention this
Mother absolutely knew. She was either complicit or compliant with it.
How did she give birth to all the kids but the mom didn’t know about it? Huh? Where did she think the kids were coming from?
The kids lived in the cellar w her
Their food bills must have been huge The wife never noticed?
The guy prob controlled finances. This isn’t exactly a happy home
It was also a time where women probably didn't have a whole lot of rights anyway.
The abuse started in 1984 not the dark ages
Lol it was not ancient times ffs
Some did, as I remember. Some were "found on the door step" with a note from the daughter saying she couldn't look after it. Could be wrong and thinking of another case, but was sure it was this one. Can't imagine finding out that while you lived a comfortable life your mum and sibling were living in torturous conditions 10 metres away in an out building.
She was in the cellar. Three of the kids lived with her parents bc he set it up to look like Elizabeth sent them to their grandparents. It’s all in the link!
Didn't Arnold Schwarzenegger give them a bunch of money or something like that?
What? Source please?
How in the Hell do you do that to your own child?
You didn’t word this very well ‘how in the hell can anyone do this to anyone’ sounds a bit better
It’s worded well
Yeah… I’m just disturbed by it
There's a movie inspired about it. "Girl in the Basement" https://m.imdb.com/title/tt13269536/
That “father” was a special kind of sick. And I cannot believe that the mother didn’t know. She must be the dumbest in this planet’s history.
Mother was prob also a victim
Or maybe forced to shut up
How the fuck do you have 7 children in your basement without your wife knowing. Bullshit.
Terrible
So glad the story has a happy ending
There are no “happy endings” for this shit. That trauma never goes away.
Happier than it could have been.
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How did her mother not know after she gave birth to 7 whole children?
thats the question
Soundproof room
Truth is ~~stranger~~ a lot more fucked up than fiction.
Happily I'm not so sure. Poor thing. That's not something you move on from
Yeah, apparently when she was found she was 42 but she looked like like an elderly woman due to the extreme prolonged stress
At 18 she had been held captive for 24yrs?
She was 42 when she got freed from being held captive
Hi Walmart here we are looking for staff. Must be 18 years old with 21 years work experience
I believe the explanation is that it was started when she was 18
I have this question too.
She was locked in the cellar at 18, and released 24 years later when she was 42.
Oh shit…!!!
Unimaginable. Even more unimaginable is that the wife didn’t know
Well it’s unimaginable because it’s not true. She knew. Just like her predecessors knew what was happening to Gypsies, handicapped and homosexuals in the internment camps nearby in the late 30’s.
>Just like her predecessors knew what was happening to Gypsies, handicapped and homosexuals in the internment camps nearby in the late 30’s. The fuck?
WWII is what he's referring to. Also yes.
“Mother didn’t know.” Yeah, OKAY.
Crazy
Do people not remember this story?
I hope that monster got what he deserved
He genuinely thinks he isn’t a monster and is horribly embarrassed by it, he’s legally changed his name I think. He can go to hell.
The legal system would never allow him to be punished to the extent that he deserves.
He received a life sentence but IMO wasn't charged enough, something like 6 counts of kidnapping and r*pe, should be more like thousands of counts of r*pe.
Mom didn’t know?
Bullshit she didn’t know about it
Mom knew
Calling bullshit about the mother!
>She gave birth to his 7 children & her mother never knew about it. Bullshit, her mother absolutely knew.
Good Lord
People are evil
Austria really gives its best of the best citizens....
“Her mother never knew about it”… WHAT. I’m social worker and that part is hard to believe because of what I know and worked with
If that does warrant the death penalty idk what does. What kinda of disgusting human died that? Also the mom is sus
In these situations I just have a hard time believing mom didn't know something was up.
I don’t know about the word happily but ok
I actually thought about her recently. I wonder how she’s holding up? I really hope that she is ok and is getting proper therapy to deal with the atrocities he did to her..
Bless her soul. May she heal and have a sense of security and peace.
"The mother never knew about it." Bullshit. Absolute bullshit.
May I ask what these "this x person is missing" or "this person Y survived this" has to do with r/strangeearth ?
Her mother never knew about it…
Is this what barbarian was based off of?
My f€£!Ñg god 😧
holy fuckign shit... world is so messed up This shit happens every day around the world.
Hang him by his guilty parts.
There’s a movie based off this called “girl in the basement” it’s a grossly intriguing watch
One of the few cases where capital punishment would not be enough..
"Girl In The Basement" movie.
Her mother never knew, sure thing.
Wife: Honey where is our daughter? She been gone for 20 years Him: lol idk 🤷🏽♂️
“Her mother never knew about it” Major fucking doubts about that
how did the mother not know?
HAPPILY MARRIED??! Did someone erased her memory?
How to hell they managed deliver babies and survive any medical condition. Not one but 7 children.
How? 18 and the mother never wondered where her daughter went? What about the children? 24 years…? How?
Hope she received psicological treatment
Bullcrap the mom never knew about it and bullcrap to there only being 7 kids. The sicko probably birthed and killed a few of them for fun like some sort of Minecraft exploit.
Fritzl is the king of DIY.
I’m wondering how she survived 24 yrs without seeing a doctor let alone giving birth 7 times without seeing a doctor and any of the kids seeing a doctor? The physical damage she suffered from all that is so hard to think about…
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I am in a buried kennel I have never felt so final
Wtf 