Location: A quiet, middle-class home in Burari, Delhi ( July 1, 2018.) 🇮🇳
Story:
On a summer morning in 2018, 11 members of the Chundawat family were found dead in their home ,10 hanging in a chillingly precise circular formation from a ceiling grill, their eyes and mouths taped, hands tied, and an elderly grandmother strangled nearby. There were no signs of struggle, no robbery, no forced entry. The doors were locked from the inside. The family had wedding plans, new jobs, ordered dinner the night before. To the world, it looked like a mass murder. To investigators, it was a puzzle with no intruder. ☠
Twist:
The answer lay in 11 years of handwritten diaries. After the grandfather Bhopal Singh died in 2007, his youngest son Lalit began channeling his "spirit." The family, believing the grandfather's ghost was guiding them to prosperity, followed Lalit's every command. The diaries detailed a final ritual called "Badh Tapasya" ,a banyan tree meditation ; where they were to hang themselves briefly, believing their father would descend and grant them divine power. Instead, they died together in a shared psychosis, victims not of violence, but of blind faith and familial delusion. Their deaths stand as one of India's most haunting cases of collective suicide , a tragedy woven from devotion, madness, and the silent power of belief. 🤐