Three years ago, a case of extermination in the homes of ordinary people shocked society.
Three generations of 11 people in a family hanged themselves in their homes.
Everyone was adamant that this must have been a heinous murder.
But in reality, the truth is even more creepy.
More terrifying than the movie, there is always only reality —
The House of Evil Secrets: A Case of Collective Death in India
House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
Directed by: Anubhav Chopra / Lena Yadav
Writers: Lena Yadav
Premiere: 2021-10-08 (India)
Episodes: 3
It all started in the early morning of July 1, 2018.
On this day, residents of the town of Brari in New Delhi, India, as usual, went early to the grocery store of the local Lalit family to buy fresh milk.
Paradoxically, everyone waited left and right, but the shop was slow to open.
After making a fruitless call, the upstairs neighbor went to knock on the door and found that the door was not locked.
He pushed open the door, half-dead by the sight before him.
Ten members of the Lalit family hung neatly on the ceiling net, their eyes blindfolded and their hands and feet bound.
All 10 people lost signs of life.
Their mother lay on the floor of another room and lost her breath.
The dog in this house was tied to the roof and barked incessantly.
After the panic, residents quickly notified the police.
When the police arrived, they were also shocked by what they saw.
From twelve- and thirteen-year-old children to fifty- and sixty-year-olds, they were all hung by colorful scarves.
Why, exactly?
After reconnoitring the scene, the police first ruled out the possibility of his killing.
There were 11 bodies at the scene, and if he had killed them, it would have taken twenty or thirty people, even if two people controlled one victim.
However, there were no signs of fighting at the crime scene, and the victim's jewelry and other items were not lost.
After viewing the surveillance video of the intersection before the incident, the police also ruled out the possibility of intrusion by outsiders.
Could these 11 people have committed suicide?
But if it was suicide, why would they blindfold themselves and tie their hands?
What was the motive for suicide?
As the events continued to ferment, more and more people gathered.
Speculation and reports have been released, people are getting angrier, and anti-social groups are accumulating emotions.
While pursuing the facts of the case, the police are also constantly stabilizing public opinion.
Experts in chemistry, psychology and physics quickly arrived at the scene and refused to let go of any clues.
After all, any small detail can be the key to solving a case.
Judging from the descriptions of neighbors and relatives, the Lalit family can be called a local "model family".
This big family consists of three generations of a family —
The elderly mother, Vilayani, one of her daughters, two sons and daughters-in-law, and five grandchildren.
At first, the family farmed in the countryside and later moved to the town of Brari.
A few years later, they opened their own grocery store and wood furniture store, earning a decent income, equivalent to the local middle class.
In the eyes of the locals, the family is kind-hearted, gets along well with everyone, and the family members are very harmonious.
Granddaughter Park Yadi even recently got engaged to a local family, and the family celebrated happily for seven days.
Why has such a happy family reached such a point?
As more and more discussions have been discussed, someone has discovered some of the mysteries of the scene.
In the scene, the children were tied with their hands tied and unable to break free.
Their eyes were also blindfolded, and cotton was stuffed in their ears.
The hands of the eldest son, Bvarnes, have marks of breaking free of the rope.
The old mother, Vilayani, was lying on the floor, also with a hanging scarf and a belt.
On her neck, police found scars that matched the traces of her belt.
Everything points the case in the direction of murder.
But at this moment, another strange thing happened.
During police review of intersection surveillance, they discovered that Lalit's wife had purchased stools for hanging on June 28 and the night before the incident.
Also the day before the crime, Lalit's children went upstairs with bundled wires, scarves and sarees.
But in the eyes of neighbors and relatives, the family did not have any abnormalities before the incident.
The deceased's brother even had a normal phone call with them the night before.
The family seemed to disappear into thin air, without warning or answer.
Why, on earth, was the family prepared tools for their own death?
At the scene, the police found a strange phenomenon -
Inside the house there are traces of some kind of ritual activity.
Some onlookers found that the strange arrangement of ventilation pipes on the building was exactly the same as the way the deceased was hanged.
The multiple structures in the room also coincide with "11".
Although it has been proved that all this is a coincidence, more and more people speculate that this incident may have been directed by some faith or cult.
At this time, the police found a huge breakthrough.
They found 11 copies of the "Family Diary" inside the house, from 2007 to 2018.
In the diary, a week before the incident, the family recorded in detail what happened at the time of the crime.
The diary states that they will perform a ceremony that lasts 7 days, the Banyan Tree Worship.
In this ritual, everyone must "keep hidden", "blindfold their eyes with cloth", and "have no distractions in their minds".
After seven days, they will be reborn like branches of a banyan tree that has taken root in the ground.
In their eyes, this is not suicide, but the recovery of life.
At this point, although it is difficult to understand, the mystery of the occurrence of the case seems to have finally been solved.
But we can't help but ask, what kind of power can make a family follow such a cruel ritual, and even believe that their own lives can be reborn?
As more of the diary was revealed, the true truth of the matter also surfaced.
These "family diaries" began in 2007.
The year coincided with the death of the head of the family, Poparsinger.
After losing the leader of the family, the family seems to have lost its authority.
At this time, Lalit, who had been silent for a long time after suffering a mental blow, suddenly re-spoke during a family chant.
He spoke in the same tone and language as his father.
He told everyone that he was possessed by his father's soul and would redirect everyone's lives.
Since then, the whole family has been under the authority of Lalit.
These diaries, written in the tone of Papor Singh, also became the norm for the behavior of the entire family.
They would recite every morning, knowing from their diaries who were going to do what and who wasn't doing it.
As real life flourished, the family was even more convinced of Lalit's delivery of his father's will.
Finally, after the granddaughter Pudia was about to marry and the family authority structure was broken, the family chose the ceremony according to its will.
Their intention was not death.
In their faith, at the last moment, the ghost of the father appears and rescues them.
After the truth of the matter is revealed, we can't help but sigh.
Psychologists, after understanding the incident, defined the accident as a "collective mental disorder."
But whatever the reason, it is enough to make us feel sorry and warn.
At the end of the film, despite a year, the family of the deceased is still reluctant to believe the fact that they have lost their loved ones.
Many people have said that since this incident, they have all become atheist.
For us, it may never be possible to figure out exactly what happened that night.
But what we can be clear about is that there is faith or no faith.
At any time, the last thing we should lose is respect for life.
*Author: Myrtle