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  Speaker 1: The Chindawats were a big, tight knit middle class family
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  Speaker 1: who lived in a cramp city in northern Delhi, India.
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  Speaker 1: For generations, their family had been farmers living and working
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  Speaker 1: out in the desert, but in nineteen eighty nine, their
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  Speaker 1: beloved patriarch, Bopaul Singh decided it was time for a change.
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  Speaker 1: That year, he sold all of his farm lands and
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  Speaker 1: then used the money from that sale to move with
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  Speaker 1: his wife and his youngest son to the city, and
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  Speaker 1: over the next couple of decades, one by one, the
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  Speaker 1: rest of Bopaul's children and their families followed him out
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  Speaker 1: there to the city and moved in with him. By
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, there were twelve Chundawats, all living
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  Speaker 1: under one roof. They made their living by running a
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  Speaker 1: grocery slash plywood shop on the first floor of their house.
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  Speaker 1: The store was quite prosperous, not only because the goods
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  Speaker 1: they sold were top notch, but also because the locals
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  Speaker 1: just really liked being around the Chundawats. Bopaul was this big,
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  Speaker 1: friendly personality that took on a sort of fatherly role
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  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood, and so locals began calling him Daddy,
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  Speaker 1: just like his family did. Bopaul's wife, nara Yan, took
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  Speaker 1: on a motherly role in the neighborhood and so naturally
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  Speaker 1: was nicknamed Mommy. When she wasn't taking care of her
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  Speaker 1: own family, she'd be outside handing out tea to workers
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  Speaker 1: on the street or looking after neighborhood kids. The rest
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  Speaker 1: of Bopaul's family, which included his three adult children, two
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  Speaker 1: of their wives, and five grandchildren, were also often seen
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  Speaker 1: down at the store, and they were highly regarded and
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  Speaker 1: respected as well. By all accounts, the Chundawats seemed like
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  Speaker 1: very successful and happy people that kind of had a
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  Speaker 1: perfect life. But in two thousand and seven they would
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  Speaker 1: face a crisis when Bopaul died. Knowing how much he
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  Speaker 1: meant to that family, neighbors were concerned that the family
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  Speaker 1: would fall apart without him, But surprisingly, immediately following his death,
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  Speaker 1: it was like the family started improving in all aspects
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  Speaker 1: of their life. It was like an already perfect family
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  Speaker 1: got even better. They began working extra long hours at
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  Speaker 1: their store, and before long they'd earned enough money to
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  Speaker 1: open another store and put an addition on their house.
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  Speaker 1: They improved their health by changing their diet and cutting
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  Speaker 1: alcohol and tobacco out of their lives. Their children, who
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  Speaker 1: were already very gifted students, began studying even more and
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  Speaker 1: did even better in school, and the whole family, from
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  Speaker 1: the youngest to the oldest, became exponentially more devout. While
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  Speaker 1: neighbors certainly note these changes in the Chundawats, none of
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  Speaker 1: them raised any eyebrows. In fact, people were impressed this
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  Speaker 1: incredible family has managed to come out of a huge
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  Speaker 1: crisis better off and happier for it. Little did they
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  Speaker 1: know that behind the scenes, something totally sinister was driving
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  Speaker 1: these changes. Fast forward eleven years to July first, twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: That morning, like every other morning, locals began lining up
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  Speaker 1: outside of the Chundawats grocery store waiting for them to
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  Speaker 1: open their doors. The Chundawats were known to be extremely punctual,
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  Speaker 1: and at six am sharp every day they opened those doors.
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  Speaker 1: But this morning, six am came and went, and these
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  Speaker 1: doors stayed dark, and the doors stayed closed. People began
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  Speaker 1: calling the Chundawats, but none of them had their phone on,
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  Speaker 1: and so eventually a seventy nine year old neighbor decided
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  Speaker 1: they would just walk up the steps to the Chundawats
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  Speaker 1: house and check on them themselves, And so up they went.
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  Speaker 1: They knocked the door. They yelled out for the family,
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  Speaker 1: but nobody came to the door. Everything was off, and
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  Speaker 1: so eventually they just tried the doorknob and twisted it
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  Speaker 1: and it turned. He swings it open, and he yells
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  Speaker 1: out the family's name, and as soon as the door
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  Speaker 1: flings open and he can see inside, he nearly faints.
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  Speaker 1: He back pedals. He screams. He runs down to the
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  Speaker 1: street and he yells for someone to call the police. Luckily,
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  Speaker 1: there was a police officer in the area, and so
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  Speaker 1: very quickly they came over and they cleared the crowd
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  Speaker 1: out of the way that was forming at the base
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  Speaker 1: of the Chundawat steps. They were all looking up to
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  Speaker 1: see whatever this neighbor had seen. And before the officer
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  Speaker 1: actually ascended the stairs, someone told him what was seen
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  Speaker 1: inside of the house, and so he's mentally preparing himself
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  Speaker 1: for what he's about to walk into. He walks up
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  Speaker 1: the stairs and he pauses right before turning the corner
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  Speaker 1: when he's gonna actually see inside the house. He takes
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  Speaker 1: a deep breath. He knows what he's gonna see. He
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  Speaker 1: turns the corner, he walks inside, and he's still completely
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  Speaker 1: shocked at what he's seeing. He would only be able
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  Speaker 1: to stay inside of the house that first trip for
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  Speaker 1: about ten seconds before he too turned around and ran
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  Speaker 1: out of there. He would say it was just too much.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of the worst things he had ever seen,
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  Speaker 1: and that he hopes he never has to see anything
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  Speaker 1: like that ever again in his career. Eventually, the police
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  Speaker 1: would go back inside the Chundawa's house, and after looking around,
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  Speaker 1: they would find eleven hidden diaries, and in these diaries
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  Speaker 1: would be the full awful story of what happened to
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  Speaker 1: that family. In the first few days following Bopaul's death
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven, the family called a priest
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  Speaker 1: to lead them in a prayer honoring their lost loved one.
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  Speaker 1: And during this prayer, Lalite, who was Bopaul's youngest son
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  Speaker 1: at the time, he was in his thirties, he began chanting,
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  Speaker 1: and as soon as he did, the rest of his
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  Speaker 1: family stopped what they were doing and just stared at him.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't believe what they were hearing. A few years earlier,
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  Speaker 1: Lalite had been in this horrible accident where plywood had
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  Speaker 1: fallen off of a shelf and hit him in the head,
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  Speaker 1: nearly killing him. He survived the ordeal, but the damage
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  Speaker 1: to his head left him unable to speak. But now
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  Speaker 1: here he is chanting and speaking, and so as his
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  Speaker 1: voice grew stronger and stronger. As he was doing this
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  Speaker 1: chant the other family members just continued to watch him
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  Speaker 1: and listen to him, and then they began whispering to
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  Speaker 1: each other. Daddy has returned. Following this prayer session, Lalite
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  Speaker 1: kept his voice and he began keeping a diary, the
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  Speaker 1: first of the eleven he would ultimately fill. The first
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  Speaker 1: few entries in that first diary were fairly normal. They
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  Speaker 1: were just reflections on his day or on his life,
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  Speaker 1: But pretty quickly the entries took a major turn. The
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  Speaker 1: first strange entry occurred on September seventh, two thousand and seven.
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  Speaker 1: To that point, Lalite had been writing in kind of
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  Speaker 1: narrative format about his life and whatever it was he
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  Speaker 1: was writing about, but it just kind of abruptly stopped,
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  Speaker 1: and in its place was this really deliberate instruction for
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  Speaker 1: his family. It said they all needed to get a
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  Speaker 1: black and white photo of Beaupaul, their patriarch, and put
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  Speaker 1: it in front of them, and then pray they're able
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  Speaker 1: to rid themselves of their old habits. From this point onward,
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  Speaker 1: the diary entries became more frequent, and they stayed in
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  Speaker 1: this kind of strange instruction format for the family. It
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  Speaker 1: was like it was a growing list of rules for
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  Speaker 1: the family to follow, and the tone of these instructions
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  Speaker 1: that Lalite is writing out in this diary became more
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  Speaker 1: and more aggressive and punitive and hectoring. It was like
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  Speaker 1: the family was being punished. But the family appeared to
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  Speaker 1: obey all of these instructions, and this was because Lalite
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  Speaker 1: told his family that beau Paul had come back from
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  Speaker 1: the dead. He had given Lalite his voice back, and
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  Speaker 1: he had spoken to l Lite and explained to him
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  Speaker 1: that the reason he was back is because he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to save his family's souls. Lalite explained that at night,
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  Speaker 1: beau Paul would possess his body and then using Lalite's body,
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  Speaker 1: he would write these instructions in the diary for his
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  Speaker 1: family to follow. And the idea was, if you follow
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  Speaker 1: these instructions, that will set you on the path to
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  Speaker 1: saving your soul. His instructions were at first just simple
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  Speaker 1: ways to honor beau Paul, but quickly they became really
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  Speaker 1: specific directives of how each of the family members needed
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  Speaker 1: to live their life on a day to day basis.
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  Speaker 1: There were instructions about which food they were allowed to
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  Speaker 1: eat and when they were allowed to eat it. There
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  Speaker 1: were instructions about which things they could sell in their store,
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  Speaker 1: and there were instructions on how to invest their profits,
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  Speaker 1: and there were countless instructions on how they should be
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  Speaker 1: praying and when they should be praying. Every night, just
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  Speaker 1: before nine pm, the family was instructed to stop whatever
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  Speaker 1: they were doing and head back to the house, and
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  Speaker 1: if anybody asked them what they were doing, they were
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  Speaker 1: supposed to tell them that grandfather was coming. And so
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  Speaker 1: they would all convene in a room inside of their
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  Speaker 1: house and they would wait, and then at some point
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  Speaker 1: Lalite would walk into the room. He would sit down
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  Speaker 1: in front, and then right at nine pm, he would
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  Speaker 1: become possessed by beau Paul, and then beau Paul would
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  Speaker 1: lead a fifteen to thirty minute long prayer. Eventually, Lalite
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  Speaker 1: began observing a vow of silence, and he told his
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  Speaker 1: family that if and when you hear my voice again,
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  Speaker 1: it's not Lalite, You're only hearing beau Paul. In the
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  Speaker 1: eyes of his family, Lalite was no longer Lalite. Lalite
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  Speaker 1: had become beau Paul, or I guess beau Paul had
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  Speaker 1: become Lalite, but either way, beau Paul was back. And so,
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  Speaker 1: with the exception of Lalite's mother, everyone and his family
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  Speaker 1: began referring to him as Daddy. Over the years this
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  Speaker 1: went on, the neighbors did pick up on the family's
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  Speaker 1: strange behavior, specifically l Elite's strange behavior, but no one
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  Speaker 1: ever said anything about it, because despite the weirdness, the
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  Speaker 1: family seemed like they were really flourishing. They looked healthier,
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  Speaker 1: they were making more money, the grandchildren were excelling in school,
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  Speaker 1: and they just generally looked really happy. And so fast
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  Speaker 1: forward to June of twenty eighteen, which is the month
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  Speaker 1: before the neighbor and then police officer sees this horrible
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  Speaker 1: thing in the Chundawat household. That month, June was an
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  Speaker 1: especially happy time for the Chundawat family because one of
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  Speaker 1: the grandchildren had announced they were going to get married,
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  Speaker 1: and so on June seventeenth, they have this huge engagement party.
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  Speaker 1: The whole family's there. They're dancing for joy about this
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  Speaker 1: incredible announcement, and then they began shifting their focus to
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  Speaker 1: planning this wedding that everyone is so excited about. A
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks later, on June twenty ninth, the Chundawats
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  Speaker 1: had their neighbor over for dinner, and that neighbor would
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  Speaker 1: later say that nothing seemed to miss, and over dinner,
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  Speaker 1: all the family wanted to talk about was this incredible
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  Speaker 1: wedding they were planning and how excited they were to
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  Speaker 1: go to it. And this wedding was several months away.
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  Speaker 1: Less than forty eight hours after this dinner, the Chundawats
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  Speaker 1: failed to open their grocery store, and so the neighbor
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  Speaker 1: goes up the stairs. He opens the door and he
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  Speaker 1: sees ten members of the eleven person Chundawat family dangling
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  Speaker 1: from nooses in the front hallway. They were hanging very
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  Speaker 1: close together in a circular pattern that looked very intentional.
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  Speaker 1: Their hands and their feet were bound, They were blindfolded
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  Speaker 1: with strips of cloth, their mouths were taped shut, and
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  Speaker 1: their ears were packed with cotton balls. On the ground
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  Speaker 1: underneath them were black stools that had toppled over. The
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  Speaker 1: eleventh and final member of the Chundawat family, which was
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  Speaker 1: the seventy seven year old widow of Beau Paul, was
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  Speaker 1: found dead laying in a bed nearby, with a belt
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  Speaker 1: right next to her. The initial thought by police is
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  Speaker 1: this was a mass murder, but after reading the last
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  Speaker 1: few entries of Lalite's final diary, they realized it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: Lalite had convinced his family that just abiding by beau
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  Speaker 1: Paul's strict instructions that he gave them in the diary,
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  Speaker 1: that was not enough to save their souls. What they
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  Speaker 1: needed to do was part anticipate in a ritual he
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  Speaker 1: was calling vat Tapasia, which means worship at the hanging
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  Speaker 1: roots of the Banyan tree. Eight days before their bodies
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  Speaker 1: were found, the family who agreed to do this ritual
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  Speaker 1: began practicing for it, and every night they'd work on
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  Speaker 1: binding their hands and their feet and then unbinding themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and they would tie nooses and put it around their neck,
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  Speaker 1: and they would tighten them, and then they'd loosen them
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  Speaker 1: and take them off, and they'd do it to each
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  Speaker 1: other until they were very good at doing all of
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  Speaker 1: those things. The day before their bodies were found, the
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  Speaker 1: family performed what's called a hawan, which is a ceremony
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  Speaker 1: of burnt offerings, and then afterwards they ordered food and
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  Speaker 1: then tied their dog up outside. At ten pm, one
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  Speaker 1: of the grandchildren and her mother left the house and
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  Speaker 1: went to a store, and then were caught on camera
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  Speaker 1: walking back to the house carrying these black stools that
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  Speaker 1: they would later use in the ritual. Just after midnight,
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  Speaker 1: it was time for the family to get in position.
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  Speaker 1: The parents helped their children put on their bindings. They
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  Speaker 1: got them up on their stool, and they put their
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  Speaker 1: nooses around their neck and cinched it down tight and
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  Speaker 1: told them to wait, and then afterwards they did the
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  Speaker 1: same thing to themselves. At this point, Lalite's mother most
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  Speaker 1: likely realized she was not able to climb up onto
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  Speaker 1: the stool because she was hurting or she was tired,
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  Speaker 1: and so a decision was made to move her into
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  Speaker 1: the bedroom. And so she, along with Lalite and Lalite's wife, Tina,
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  Speaker 1: walked into the bedroom, and once she was laying down
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  Speaker 1: on the bed, Lalite put a belt around her neck
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  Speaker 1: and then he and Tina pulled on it until his
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  Speaker 1: mother went still, and then afterwards he took the belt
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  Speaker 1: off put it next to her, and then Lalite and
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  Speaker 1: Tina casually walked back towards the front hallway, where the
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  Speaker 1: eight other family members were now in position. They're blindfolded
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  Speaker 1: with cotton in their ear. They had their noose on
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  Speaker 1: there just waiting, and Lalite and Tina walk around the
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  Speaker 1: room kicking their stools out from underneath them, and while
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  Speaker 1: their family slowly asphyxiates all around them, Lalite and Tina
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  Speaker 1: bind up their wrists and their ankles. They get on
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  Speaker 1: their stool. They blindfold themselves. They taped their mouth, They
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  Speaker 1: put cotton in their ears, they put their nooses on.
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  Speaker 1: They sent them down, and then they both jump. The
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  Speaker 1: very last line in the final diary that Lalite kept,
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  Speaker 1: it says, keep water in a cup. I will appear
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  Speaker 1: and save when color changes. This ritual was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: allow the family to see Bopaul in person. Elite told
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  Speaker 1: them that as soon as they were hanging, the skies
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  Speaker 1: would open up, the earth would tremble, and Bopaul would
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  Speaker 1: walk right into the room and save them from their death.
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  Speaker 1: And they were going to be able to prove that
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  Speaker 1: he was there because not only would they have lived
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  Speaker 1: through this ritual, but also Bopaul was going to change
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  Speaker 1: the color of the water in the cup that was
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  Speaker 1: left out near their bodies. The family had even left
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  Speaker 1: the front door unlocked to make it even easier for
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  Speaker 1: Bopaul to come in and save them. The Chundawats were
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  Speaker 1: not committing suicide. They believed they were going to survive
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  Speaker 1: this ritual. This is why just two days earlier, at
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  Speaker 1: that dinner with the neighbor, they were eagerly talking about
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  Speaker 1: this wedding that was often the future they were planning
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  Speaker 1: because they believed they would get to attend it, even
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  Speaker 1: though they knew in two days they'd be performing this
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  Speaker 1: thought to pass your ritual. Ultimately, investigators closed the case
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  Speaker 1: as a mass suicide, citing the cause as share delusion.
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