Neighbors of the family have now come forward to call them reclusive and unusual, with some even saying they had no idea children even lived in the home (despite there being 13 of them under one roof). “I didn’t know there were kids in the house. I had no idea this was going on,” said Andrew Santillan, who lives nearby.

According to other neighbors, the children would “only come out at night” which led to them being dubbed the “vampire family” due to their “really, really pale” skin.

Other neighbors have recounted interactions they had with the family for the hoards of reporters now stationed on their street.

One recalled an occasion where he’d complimented the children on the Nativity scene that they were building outside the front of their house a few years ago, but rather than be flattered by the praise they were “weird about it.” Still, he thought nothing amiss.

Similarly, another neighbor had witnessed the children digging for food in garbage bins, but rather than be alarmed she ignored them. “[They] looked like they were having fun like a regular family,” neighbor Nicole Gooding told CBS2.

People have been left confused by the parent’s decision to imprison their own children, but some have hinted that it could have been caused by the family’s financial state which was in dire straits after the parents filed for bankruptcy in 2011 – despite David Turpin earning $140,000 a year as an engineer for a top defense contractor.

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