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House of Secrets The Burari Deaths -- Beyond the Netflix documentary (MATURE AUDIENCES) · Crime and Horror

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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 farmlands and then
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  Speaker 1: used the money from that sale to move with his
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  Speaker 1: wife and his youngest son to the city, and over
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  Speaker 1: the next couple of decades, one by one, the rest
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  Speaker 1: of Bopaul's children and their families followed him out there
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  Speaker 1: to the city and moved in with him. By two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and seven, there were twelve Chundawats, all living under
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  Speaker 1: one roof. They made their living by running a grocery
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  Speaker 1: 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 taught 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, Narayan took on
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  Speaker 1: a motherly role in the neighborhood and so naturally was
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  Speaker 1: nicknamed Mommy. When she wasn't taking care of her own family,
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  Speaker 1: she'd be outside handing out tea to workers on the
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  Speaker 1: street or looking after neighborhood kids. The rest of Bopaul's family,
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  Speaker 1: which included his three adult children, two of their wives,
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  Speaker 1: and five grandchildren, were also often seen down at the store,
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  Speaker 1: and they were highly regarded and respected as well. By
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  Speaker 1: all accounts, the Chundawats seemed like very successful and happy
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  Speaker 1: people that kind of had a perfect life. But in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and seven they would face a crisis when
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  Speaker 1: Bopaul died. Knowing how much he meant to that family,
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  Speaker 1: neighbors were concerned that the family would fall apart without him,
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  Speaker 1: But surprisingly, immediately following his death, it was like the
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  Speaker 1: family started improving in all aspects of their life. It
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  Speaker 1: was like an already perfect family got even better. They
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  Speaker 1: began working extra long hours at their store, and before
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  Speaker 1: long they'd earned enough money to open another store and
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  Speaker 1: put an addition on their house. They improved their health
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  Speaker 1: by changing their diet and cutting alcohol and tobacco out
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  Speaker 1: of their lives. Their children, who were already very gifted students,
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  Speaker 1: began studying even more and did even better in school,
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  Speaker 1: and the whole family, from the youngest to the oldest,
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  Speaker 1: became exponentially more devout. While neighbors certainly note these changes
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  Speaker 1: in the Chundawats, none of them raised any eyebrows. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: people were impressed this incredible family has managed to come
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  Speaker 1: out of a huge crisis better off and happier for it.
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  Speaker 1: Little did they know that behind the scenes, something totally
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  Speaker 1: sinister was driving these changes. Fast forward eleven years to
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  Speaker 1: July first, twenty eighteen. That morning, like every other morning,
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  Speaker 1: locals began lining up outside of the Chundawats grocery store
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  Speaker 1: waiting for them to open their doors. The Chundawats were
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  Speaker 1: known to be extremely punctual, and at six am sharp
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  Speaker 1: every day they opened those doors. But this morning, six
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  Speaker 1: am came and went, and these doors stayed dark, and
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  Speaker 1: the doors stayed closed. People began calling the Chundawats, but
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  Speaker 1: none of them had their phone on, and so eventually
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  Speaker 1: a seventy nine year old neighbor decided they would just
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  Speaker 1: walk up the steps to the Chundawats house and check
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  Speaker 1: on them themselves, And so up they went. They knocked
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  Speaker 1: on the door. They yelled out for the family, but
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  Speaker 1: nobody came to the door. Everything was off, and so
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  Speaker 1: eventually they just tried the doorknob and twisted it and
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  Speaker 1: it turned. He swings it open, and he yells out
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  Speaker 1: the family's name, and as soon as the door flings
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  Speaker 1: open and he can see inside, he nearly faints. He
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  Speaker 1: bat pedals. He screams. He runs down to the street
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  Speaker 1: 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 Beapaul'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 Lalite and explained to him that
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  Speaker 1: the reason he was back is because he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: save his family's souls. Lalite explained that at night, beau
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  Speaker 1: 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. This wedding was several months away. Less
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  Speaker 1: than forty eight hours after this dinner, the Chundawats failed
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  Speaker 1: to open their grocery store, and so the neighbor goes
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  Speaker 1: up the stairs. He opens the door and he sees
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  Speaker 1: ten members of the eleven person Chundawat family dangling from
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  Speaker 1: nooses in the front hallway. They were hanging very close
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  Speaker 1: together in a circular pattern that looked very intentional. Their
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  Speaker 1: hands and their feet were bound, They were blindfolded with
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  Speaker 1: strips of cloth, their mouths were taped shut, and their
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  Speaker 1: ears were packed with cotton balls. On the ground underneath
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  Speaker 1: them were black stools that had toppled over. The eleventh
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  Speaker 1: and final member of the Chundawat family, which was the
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  Speaker 1: seventy seven year old widow of Beau Paul, was found
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  Speaker 1: dead laying in a bed nearby, with a belt right
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  Speaker 1: next to her. The initial thought by police is this
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  Speaker 1: was a mass murder, but after reading the last few
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  Speaker 1: entries of Lalite's final diary, they realized it wasn't. Lalite
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  Speaker 1: had convinced his family that just abiding by beau Paul's
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  Speaker 1: strict instructions that he gave them in the diary, that
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  Speaker 1: was not enough to save their souls. What they needed
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  Speaker 1: to do was part anticipate in a ritual he was
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  Speaker 1: calling vat Tapasia, which means worship at the hanging roots
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  Speaker 1: of the Banyan tree. Eight days before their bodies were found,
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  Speaker 1: the family who agreed to do this ritual began practicing
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  Speaker 1: for it, and every night they'd work on binding their
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  Speaker 1: hands and their feet and then unbinding themselves, and they
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  Speaker 1: would tie nooses and put it around their neck, and
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  Speaker 1: they would tighten them, and then they'd loosen them and
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  Speaker 1: take them off, and they'd do it to each other
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  Speaker 1: until they were very good at doing all of those things.
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  Speaker 1: The day before their bodies were found, the family performed
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  Speaker 1: what's called a hawan, which is a ceremony of burnt offerings,
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  Speaker 1: and then afterwards they ordered food and then tied their
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  Speaker 1: dog up outside. At ten PM, one of the grandchildren
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  Speaker 1: and her mother left the house and went to a store,
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  Speaker 1: and then were caught on camera walking back to the
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  Speaker 1: house carrying these black stools that they would later use
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  Speaker 1: in the ritual. Just after midnight, it was time for
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  Speaker 1: the family to get in position. The parents helped their
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  Speaker 1: children put on their bindings. They got them up on
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  Speaker 1: their stool, and they put their nooses around their neck
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  Speaker 1: and stinched it down tight and told them to wait,
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  Speaker 1: and then afterwards they did the same thing to themselves.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, Lalite's mother most likely realized she was
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  Speaker 1: not able to climb up onto the stool because she
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  Speaker 1: was hurting or she was tired, and so a decision
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  Speaker 1: was made to move her into the bedroom. And so she,
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  Speaker 1: along with Lalite and Lalite's wife, Tina, walked into the bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: and once she was laying down on the bed, Lalite
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  Speaker 1: put a belt around her neck and then he and
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  Speaker 1: Tina pulled on it until his mother went still, and
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  Speaker 1: then afterwards he took the belt off put it next
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  Speaker 1: to her, and then Lalite and Tina casually walked back
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  Speaker 1: towards the front hallway, where the eight other family members
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  Speaker 1: were now in position. They're blindfolded with cotton in their ear.
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  Speaker 1: They had their noose on there, just waiting, and Lalite
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  Speaker 1: and Tina walk around the room, kicking their stools out
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  Speaker 1: from underneath them, and while their family slowly asphyxiates all
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  Speaker 1: around them, Lalite and Tina bind up their wrists and
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  Speaker 1: their ankles. They get on their stool, They blindfold themselves.
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  Speaker 1: They taped their mouth, They put cotton in their ears,
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  Speaker 1: they put their nooses on. They sent them down, and
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  Speaker 1: then they both jump. The very last line in the
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  Speaker 1: final diary that Lalite kept, it says, keep water in
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  Speaker 1: a cup. I will appear and save when color changes.
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  Speaker 1: This ritual was supposed to allow the family to see
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  Speaker 1: Bopaul in person. Elite told them that as soon as
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  Speaker 1: they were hanging, the skies would open up, the earth
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  Speaker 1: would tremble, and bo Paul would walk right into the
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  Speaker 1: room and save them from their death. And they were
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  Speaker 1: going to be able to prove that he was there
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  Speaker 1: because not only would they have lived through this ritual,
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  Speaker 1: but also Bopaul was going to change the color of
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  Speaker 1: the water in the cup that was left out near
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  Speaker 1: their bodies. The family had even left the front door
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  Speaker 1: unlocked to make it even easier for Bopaul to come
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  Speaker 1: in and save them. The Chundawats were not committing suicide.
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  Speaker 1: They believed they were going to survive this ritual. This
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  Speaker 1: is why just two days earlier, at that dinner with
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  Speaker 1: the neighbor, they were eagerly talking about this wedding that
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  Speaker 1: was oft in the future. They were planning because they
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  Speaker 1: believed they would get to attend it, even though they
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  Speaker 1: knew in two days they'd be performing this bought to
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  Speaker 1: pass your ritual. Ultimately, investigators closed the case as a
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  Speaker 1: mass suicide, citing the cause as share. So that's going
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