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'HE HAD THIS PROBLEM WITH CLEANING'

Girl-in-the-cellar Natascha Kampusch obsessively cleans the house where her kidnapper held her prisoner and raped her daily for eight years

KIDNAPPED Natascha Kampusch obsessively cleans the home where she was raped every day for eight years by her evil kidnapper, it has emerged.

Natasha, who still lives at the house, was just 10-years-old when twisted Wolfgang Prikopil snatched her off the street as she walked to school in 1998.

Speaking in a television interview, Natascha said she takes care of the house so that it 'doesn't become a theme park'
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Speaking in a television interview, Natascha said she takes care of the house so that it 'doesn't become a theme park'
She was abducted at the age of 10 and did not manage to escape until she was 18
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She was abducted at the age of 10 and did not manage to escape until she was 18
Giving a tour . . . Natascha now lives in the horror house on most weekends
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Giving a tour . . . Natascha now lives in the horror house on most weekendsCredit: Channel 7
The 28-year-old continues to clean the building from top to bottom
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The 28-year-old continues to clean the building from top to bottomCredit: Channel 7
She inherited the home after she escaped and her kidnapper committed suicide
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She inherited the home after she escaped and her kidnapper committed suicideCredit: Channel 7
10 years ago Natascha ran to freedom when her captor became momentarily distracted on his mobile phone
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10 years ago Natascha ran to freedom when her captor became momentarily distracted on his mobile phoneCredit: Channel 7

She was held captive for most of childhood in a dungeon-like cellar in a suburban house near Vienna, in Austria.

Now 28 and free from the monster who snatched her, Natascha has given an exclusive tour of the building - a place where she was once held against her will but now calls home.

In a video interview with Channel Seven's Sunday Night, she walks reporter Rahni Sadler through the nightmarish place and says she still spends most weekends there.

Police images show the secret stairs that led to the cramped cellar where Natascha was forced to live
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Police images show the secret stairs that led to the cramped cellar where Natascha was forced to liveCredit: AP:Associated Press
The tiny, windowless cellar where Natascha was kept prisoner for over eight years
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The tiny, windowless cellar where Natascha was kept prisoner for over eight yearsCredit: Epa
Deranged . . . Wolfgang Prikopil abused and psychologically tortured Natascha for eight years before she escaped
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Deranged . . . Wolfgang Prikopil abused and psychologically tortured Natascha for eight years before she escapedCredit: Getty Images
Now 28, Natascha has written a book about her life called Ten Years of Freedom
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Now 28, Natascha has written a book about her life called Ten Years of FreedomCredit: Getty Images

Surprisingly, Natascha continues to clean the entire house from top to bottom to the exact specification of her vile captor.

She explained how Prikopil threatened to punish her throughout her hellish eight years in the house.

When asked why she didn't burn or sell the house, Natascha said she didn't want the nightmarish place to "become a theme park".

She then told of what it was like to live deranged Prikopil, saying, "He had two parts of his personality".

In halting English she added: "I call the one part the dark side and it was like a schizophrenic personality."

"I think one part was the part of the handsome person. The brave son. And the dark side ... the brutal person with no conscience."

Prikopil killed himself after Natascha daringly escaped the suburban 'compound', but his house - which was left to Natascha - seems almost untouched like an eerie time capsule mirroring a horrific past.

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Today she remains without a boyfriend, still carries a photo of Priklopil in her handbag and spends several nights a week at the house where her stolen teenage years were spent.

Natascha recalled the day she escaped in an interview with Germany’s BILD newspaper: “I was told to clean his car.

“He wanted to sell it and had told me to clean it really thoroughly and completely. I remember that I felt like I could eat a horse because I had to make him jam sandwiches for breakfast but got nothing myself.”

At 12.56pm Priklopil, 44, took a call on his mobile phone and was momentarily distracted.

Natascha went on: “Previously he has observed me all the time. But because of the vacuum cleaner whirring in my hand he had to walk a few steps away to better understand his caller.”

The view from outside the house where Natascha was held
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The view from outside the house where Natascha was heldCredit: Getty Images
Natascha has since had the cellar filled with concrete - all that remains is a small square on the floor of the basement with 2011 carved into it
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Natascha has since had the cellar filled with concrete - all that remains is a small square on the floor of the basement with 2011 carved into itCredit: Epa
Sealed off . . . The entrance to sick Priklopils secret dungeon is now closed off
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Sealed off . . . The entrance to sick Priklopils secret dungeon is now closed offCredit: Channel 7

Natascha, who received his house in his estate – he died beneath the wheels of a train later that night – said: “I crept to the gate which was usually closed or blocked by heavy objects, but not on this day.

“I could hardly breathe. I felt solidified, as if my arms and legs were paralyzed. Jumbled images shot through me.”

At 12.58pm she opened the gate and ran to freedom, bringing an end to the ordeal that had begun in March 1998 when Priklopil snatched her as she walked to school.

“I looked to the right and left without knowing which way to go,” she said. “Then I ran.”

She explained it was "therapeutic" to spend time in the home where she spent most of her traumatic childhood
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She explained it was "therapeutic" to spend time in the home where she spent most of her traumatic childhoodCredit: Channel 7
Hell hole . . . for 8-and-a-half years Natascha was raped and abused in this suburban house near Vienna, Austria
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Hell hole . . . for 8-and-a-half years Natascha was raped and abused in this suburban house near Vienna, AustriaCredit: Channel 7
Natascha, pictured as a child before she was abducted, was just 10 years old when she was taken
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Natascha, pictured as a child before she was abducted, was just 10 years old when she was takenCredit: AP:Associated Press

Natascha walked past two family homes where she could have asked for help but didn’t, explaining: “I was afraid he would follow me here so I wanted to get further away and hide.”

She decided to run to a local allotment. “There I met two men who were travelling with a boy. I asked them to make a call with their mobile phone but they ignored me and simply went further along.

“Then I saw a woman in a garden house and knocked on her window and whispered; ‘Please help me!’

“She asked what I was doing in her garden and then called the police.”

Natascha has had no contact to the woman who saved her since.

It recently emerged Natascha had written a new book about her life called Ten Years of Freedom but her ordeal goes on.

A new probe is underway concerning the alleged suicide of Priklopil. Two coroners who examined the case files determined that he might have been murdered.

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