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Man Survives Real Life “Squid Game” That Killed 551 People - Funded By Rich Australian Family

Wed, 15 Jan 2025

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December 12th is the night that everyone has been waiting for. The invitation is cryptic - it takes some guests weeks to figure out what it reads. “Sdaeh tsilaer & sesserd gnol eit kcalb?” The secret is this - you have to reflect it into the mirror to figure out what it says. “Black tie, long dresses & surrealist heads.” Welcome to the Rothschild's (one of the wealthiest and most powerful families) newest secret party. Everyone walks in donning a giant bejeweled mask of animals that you would normally hunt. Stags. Deer. Birds in cages. The staff in the massive mansion are dressed as cats, perched on the stairs, meowing at the passing guests. There’s no way they’re not hunting people afterwards right? That’s always been the conspiracy. Rich people hunting the poor for sport. But what if it is true? What if it happened in South Korea and became the inspiration of the Netflix show - Squid Game?

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Chapter 1: What is the conspiracy behind the Rothschild family's parties?

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The conspiracy that one of the richest families in the world hunts humans as sport started a really long time ago. It started way before TikTok. But this party definitely did not help with the conspiracies. December 12th is the night that everyone who is anybody has been waiting for.

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I mean, they don't even know what they're doing, who's going to be there or really a start time and end time to this party or whatever it is that they're doing. All they've received so far thus far is this invitation. At first glance, the invitation seems like it's in a different language. It's S-D-A-E-H-T-S-I-L-A-E-R and S-E-S-S-A. It doesn't make sense.

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Some invitees took weeks to decipher this code. It's an invite to a party because it's not in a different language. It is in English. You just have to hold up the invitation in front of a mirror and the reflection will tell you about it. It says, black tie, long dresses, and surrealist heads.

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Chapter 2: How do guests decipher the invitation to the surrealist ball?

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People spend weeks having the top designers handcraft surrealist heads and masks for this gathering because it's a party that you have to wear masks. And it's not every day that a Rothschild invites you to a party. Side note, the Rothschilds were one of the wealthiest families in the world. At their height, calculated with inflation, some estimates put their net family worth around $1.4 trillion.

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They're still all very wealthy, but there's probably hundreds and hundreds of Rothschild descendants. Their wealth is much more scattered and spread across with only a handful, just a mere handful, being billionaires still. But back then, they were likely the single most influential, wealthiest family in the entire world.

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If they tell you to jump, it is probably in your best interest, perhaps even safety, to jump as high as you can. If they tell you to wear black tie long dresses and surrealist mask heads, it is probably in your best interest to get the best surrealist mask head that you could possibly find or get a top designer to create one.

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These invites are so coveted that another wealthy socialite at one point threatened to self-exit if she was not invited to the next party held by them.

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I don't know what the guests were expecting, but when they get to the chateau in France, I mean, it's hard to miss the house, by the way, 80 guest bedrooms, a library with over 80,000 books with about 30 square kilometers of dense forest land surrounding this chateau. which that amount of land is about the size of a small city or a quarter of Manhattan.

Chapter 3: What happens at the surrealist ball hosted by the Rothschilds?

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Or maybe if you combine all four Disney theme parks, Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom into one, that's how much forest they have. It's massive. It's isolated. It's outside of Paris. And the guests are coming in. Audrey Hepburn is there wearing a bird cage filled with birds on her head. Another guest is just wearing a giant apple covering their entire face.

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Another guest has this giant mask. I'm sure everywhere they walk, they're just slapping people with this mask. And it's just giant cutouts of Mona Lisa with different expressions, different ugly eyes staring at the guests. All chopped up everywhere. Then the hostess wore a giant stag's head like a deer's head with tears of diamonds streaming down the stag's face. Real diamonds.

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What the hell are those? In front of the main staircase are the waitstaffs. They're dressed as cats and they're all meowing and pawing at each other, purring and sleeping on the steps. And when you sit down at the dining table, the plates are covered in fur. Not like, oh, someone's cat put fur on my plate, but the entire plate is made out of fur. And on the table, you see a taxidermy turtle.

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I mean, are we supposed to, I don't think you're supposed to eat the turtle. Then what are we, what are we supposed to, what's the real food here? The food is placed on a giant mannequin that is laying nude on a bed of roses, and the menu consists of slightly cannibalistic sounding titles such as Sir Loin. Welcome to the surrealist ball held by the Rothschild.

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It has been decades since this now viral ball, but everyone still talks about it. Mainly because of the creepy pictures of the host and the hostess, the Rothschild couple that's hosting. They're standing there, black tie, event gown to the floor, hand in hand, just wearing giant masks. It's very unsettling.

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So much so that netizens believe that after this little dinner, they were most likely hunting people in the dense woods in the thick forest afterwards. That makes the most sense, does it not? They're hunting humans. There are two men in the forest. They have long rifles. They're looking through their scopes. You see that? Yeah, I do. I see it. They see a person in the middle of the woods.

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This is not in France. This is not connected to the Rothschild, at least not directly. This is in Ulsan, South Korea. And the two hunters see another person on the other side of the rifle, which is not alarming. It is the season for hunting for pheasants. But the intriguing thing is, it's not another hunter. Wait, look, there's more. There's more people. There's a lot of people.

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And then there's another one and another one. Seeing a few people in the middle of the woods at this time should not be the most alarming. But when you see nearly 100 people in the middle of the woods gathered, it's weird. It's intriguing. The hunters get closer. It looks like some sort of construction site. Maybe they're building out here. I mean, again, it's not too strange.

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This is a developing area. They're about to walk back when one of them stops. No, something's weird about this place. The next day, that man alone, one of the two hunters comes back. This time, instead of a rifle, he starts bringing a telephoto lens and he's shooting, shooting pictures. If you look from afar, this feels like a regular construction site. It's very typical.

Chapter 4: What is the connection between the Rothschilds and the real-life horrors in South Korea?

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That if given the chance to do what the front man does or the chance to be a VIP, they will choose to do that. Or a really crazy theory that there's this old lady in the second season. She joined the games because she needs to make money so that she can pay off her son's gambling debt. And her son is also in the games, right? That she might be the wife of the old man that started the games.

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There's so many conspiracies. There's a character in the game that happens to be heavily pregnant. Naturally, there's theories about her and her unborn baby. One, that perhaps the main character might have to sacrifice himself to save her and her unborn child, make sure that she's the last one standing.

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Or another conspiracy, that in the end, everyone must die and the only thing in the corner that is surviving is that little baby. That she gives birth and only one can survive so she has to sacrifice herself so her baby lives on. So many. But a lot of the recent conspiracy theories have to do with the VIPs of the show.

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The premise of the show is that every year, hundreds of contestants that are riddled with debt are invited to have a chance to win tens of millions of dollars, typically around $40 million.

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And the catch is, once you enter the game, you're taken to a facility in the middle of nowhere with no escape, guarded by pink suit-wearing guards while you wear a green tracksuit, and you're forced to play and win childhood games. And if you lose the game, you die on the spot. But that prize money, the facility, the guards, they have to be funded somehow.

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It is funded by a global elite club of VIPs that find it enjoyable and entertaining to watch these people fight to the death for, to them, what feels like pennies. In season one, it's so interesting. You get a glimpse of the VIPs. They're watching while getting served food and drinks. A lot of the masks are eerily similar to the ones worn at the Surrealist Ball held by the Rothschild family.

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The staghorns, the bejeweled masks, they're so similar. In season two though, someone points out a conspiracy. They never show the VIPs again in season two. They never show them. They never show them watching, their reactions, nothing, even though they did in season one. Would it not be more natural to show them again?

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There could be a play of dynamic of people are dying and the VIPs are reacting and maybe they form interpersonal relationships and they grow attached to some characters and not other characters, but no. And at one point, it feels like the main character breaks the fourth wall and is telling others in the game that the VIPs are watching them.

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But it almost feels like he's looking at us, the viewers, watching Netflix.

Chapter 5: Who are the victims of Brothers Home in South Korea?

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I mean, you just know that somebody's in trouble. They need Jesus. That is why Madam Park is called because they need Jesus. Usually she has her purse and it's filled to the brim with choco pies. They're like these fluffy cream sandwiches. I guess imagine Oreos, but fluffy, just packets of individual choco pies in her purse, walking down the hall.

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She's staring at the hundreds of children standing at attention because they're like, please don't let it be me. Please don't let it be me. Which one is it? The guards point at the two boys and they already look like they've been beat. Nothing we've done seems to fix it, Madam Park. We've already tried everything. We've tried the first step as well.

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The guards mean that they've already tried to tie the private parts of the two boys together with a small thread. What? The logic behind it is these two boys keep peeing in their sleep. They keep wetting the bed as they sleep. If they're connected by their privates, if one of them starts... wetting the bed while they're sleeping.

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Then the other boy's private part gets wet and he wakes up and says, hey, wake up. You're using the restroom. We got to go use the restroom.

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What are you, what?

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It almost never works. So the idea that they continue the practice seems to be based off of torture alone. And if that doesn't work, which is almost always, the next step that the guards do is call in Madam Park. She's the cure. She sits down with the boys. And if this is your first time seeing Madam Park, she almost seems maternal. She looks like a little ajumma, like a church lady.

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And she's got all these children's snacks in her purse. You know I can help you, right? The truth is, the reason you're doing this is, it's the demons. The demons are making you wet the bed. Come here. She makes the boys, one by one, all the bedwetters, lay on her lap, on their backs.

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Their private part is across her lap and she pulls down their pants and their underwear and she starts grabbing and squeezing their private areas. Say it with me. Lord, I believe. And then she'll squeeze as hard as she can and they all scream out in pain. She screams, boys who believe in the Lord will be cured. Many victims say that the pain is so unbearable that you can't even think.

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You can't even think to say what she wants you to say because you just want to stop the pain, yes. But you can't even think to say, what did she tell me to say again? I just need to scream. It's almost a reflex. Until finally, it's just white hot pain and they're screaming, I believe in the Lord! I believe in the Lord! And it seems like their vision is going white.

Chapter 6: What are the experiences of survivors like Han Jung-sun?

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He jumps up out of bed, turns on the light, and it's his older sister, the one that was trapped with him at brother's home.

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I thought the older sister is in the other... Psych ward?

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This is once they're out. They're trying to live together once they escape. We're going to go into detail on how they all escape. And he turns on the light. Shin-ae, what are you doing? I told you we're supposed to sleep now. Yeah, I'll go to sleep. But when Han looks up again, she's not asleep. His older sister is just sitting there staring at the wall. Some nights, she laughs at the wall.

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Other nights, she cries at the wall. Whenever Han would ask her, she'd say, why are you laughing? Why are you crying? She'll turn around and tell him stories about their lives before Brothers Home. She never talks about what happened at Brothers Home, at least not in these moments. Han says, there was a time I thought about just killing everyone. For me, I had nothing to lose.

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It was entirely possible to do it. I could have become a psychopath that society could learn to fear. I could have. Instead, he thought, well, why don't I just start small? I'll just kill one person first. I'll kill my dad. Because he thought, he's the reason that we're in brother's home. My older sister, who was so smart, so very kind, ended up in brother's home, put on psych ward meds.

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I mean, she lost her mind in there. She was beat every single day. She was tortured in ways that, I mean, Han was tortured the same way. They were both essayed. It was a lot. The whole thing became more complicated when Han finds out that his dad was also trapped in Brother's home later, but that doesn't make things better.

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So over a decade after they're released, Han decides, I can't do this anymore. For the past decade after Brother's home, I've just been floating around. My sister is still not my sister like the sister I remember. I gotta do something. So he goes to see his dad with a knife. He says, I visited my father. He didn't realize I was his son. He didn't recognize me, but I recognized him.

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And at the time I was carrying my knife. My intention was to kill my father. I asked him, do you remember sending your children to Brothers Welfare Center? He responded, I remember. I had no choice at the time. It was difficult. Again, his father does not recognize him. He asks, sir, what do you think brother's home was like for your children? Do you think it was a nice place for your kids?

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Han said, if his dad said anything along the lines of, I think it was okay. I think it wasn't the best, but it's okay. He would have killed them right then and there. He would have no second thoughts about it. His father opens his mouth, looks up at Han. That place was not a place for humans. They broke my ribs in there. I was beaten badly. I feel... And Han could see the guilt in his dad's face.

Chapter 7: How did the prosecutor uncover the truth about Brothers Home?

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But then at one point in the dinner, she looks at her nail and then just breaks it off. Just like that, unprompted. It seems perhaps to be a stress response. Just like other interviews with other victims that we found online, Han's sister will stop talking about her experience at Brothers Home to medicate. She has at least eight pills that she takes three times a day.

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Some are antidepressants, anxiety meds, other psychiatric meds, And Han interestingly takes none. He tells her researchers that the doctors are actually more concerned for him because his sister is medicated so they can try to stabilize her condition. Whereas for him, he can't be medicated because he's trying to take care of his sister.

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But because he has all this trauma and no way of really helping, not that medication is the only solution, but it just puts him at a higher risk. But Han will do anything for his sister. He says when he first got her out of the mental institution, this is after brother's home. She was sent to another mental facility. He fought to get her out and she wanted to go back.

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He realized, you know, they're at the hospital. You can't eat when you want. You can't skip meals. You don't make choices. So the real world, all the freedom to make choices was overwhelming her. He said it reminded him of, you know, those beautiful birds that have their feathers plucked out to prevent them from flying.

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And over time, even if no one pulls out their feathers, they pluck them out themselves. It's like a bird locking themselves back in the cage because it feels safer. But now she's learning to love her freedom. And Han asks her researchers, you know, what kind of colors do you think people like us like? People like me who have gone through all of this. Think about it.

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A lot of people will say we like dark and gloomy colors, but most of us, the victims and survivors of Brothers Home, we all like really bright colors. When thinking about how he even survived Brothers Home, he says, I think it's from my sister. I think it's because in this world, only my sister loves me without discrimination. But still, how did they get out of Brothers Home?

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The prosecutor in the woods has pictures of what Brothers Home is doing to their victims. In fact, he has multiple pictures. The ones that he took when he stumbled upon the construction site in the middle of the woods. I mean, this is a slam dunk case. Are you kidding? Chaining people by the ankles, throwing them into a warehouse, locking them up, padlocking it from the outside.

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The prosecutor thought... My thoughts on this were quite simple. This is a very serious crime. Even confining and forcing one person to do labor is a very serious crime. Confining and forcing hundreds into labor, I mean, there's no room for excuses. We have to launch an investigation. He gets a search warrant for brother's home.

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He says the first thing he noticed when he walked into that massive compound, 60 plus buildings in the middle of the woods in Busan, the smell. It's like human grease. Like you don't wash your hair for a few days and it starts to smell like scalp, but so much worse. Every building is darkly lit.

Chapter 8: What were the consequences of the investigation into Brothers Home?

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He waits and he waits and the director walks in and you would think that the prosecutor begged for this meeting on his hands and knees like a dog. His name is Director Park. This is Madam Park's husband. He runs this place. He started this place. He's a short, unassuming ajushi. He looks like a regular 50-something-year-old man. He does have a more built figure. He used to be a boxer.

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He walks in and he's instantly agitated. Someone like me cannot be interrogated by someone like you. Let's not even have this conversation. Bring me the chief prosecutor. Bring me your boss. No, you know what? Bring me your boss's boss's boss's boss.

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You're kidding. That's what he said?

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Wow.

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Where the hell does this guy get this type of confidence? To have this level of confidence when facing a prosecutor, you have to have one of two things. In a very serious crime like this one, kidnapping, entrapping, forcing thousands of people into what can only be considered the closest thing to a modern day concentration camp in South Korea. That's how people have described it.

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You have to have three things. A lot of money, a lot of money. Two, you better have connections. Not your average, I want an aquarium in my home, the size of a dining table by 3 p.m. connections. You better be well connected to the most powerful people. If you're talking like that to a prosecutor, maybe you're like a tibar, that level of connection.

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And three, you better have a lot of luck on your side. So who the hell is Park In-geun, the director? Mr. and Mrs. Park are living legends in the welfare sector in South Korea for nothing other than starting, running, and expanding their business of brothers' home.

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The welfare center in South Korea that has kidnapped, entrapped, and tortured 3,500-plus people, making them work in factories 12 hours a day with no pay, and ultimately, if they die from severe beatings, they're just buried in the massive grave in the compound, or their bodies are sold for medical purposes. The government is paying the Parks for every head they bring in.

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