also trapped them.
As investigators continued their search of the property, they discovered diaries, handwritten notes, and fragments of family documents hidden inside the abandoned farmhouse.
The documents revealed a family obsessed with its own protection.
They thought the outside world was dangerous.
They thought that strangers would harm them.
They believed that the separation was a matter of survival.
The oldest writings suggest that these fears began generations earlier, perhaps after conflicts with neighboring communities.
Over time, caution has become a tradition.
Tradition has become isolation.
Isolation became a way of life.
And ultimately, an entire generation of children grew up knowing nothing beyond the boundaries of Hollow Ridge.
The most disturbing discovery, however, was not the one made by investigators.
That’s what they didn’t find.
There were no school records.
Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones – Welsh journalist who revealed…
No medical records.
Many children do not have a birth
