Popular ID docuseries The Curious Case of Natalia Grace receiving a follow-up

ID docu-series The Curious Case of Natalia Grace will get a follow-up doc (also from ID), and you can watch it later this summer.

Anyone who watched The Curious Case of Natalia Grace will no doubt be interested in seeing The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks. This time around, Natalia Barnett will speak, telling her side of the bizarre story.

For those not in the know, Michael and Kristine Barnett adopted Natalia,a 6-year-old Ukrainian orphan in 2010. Natalia has spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, which is a disorder causing deformities of her knees, hips, feet and knees, and limiting the use of her hands and arms. According to the Barnetts, they very quickly began to suspect that something was amiss.

It seemed to her adoptive parents that Natalia was much older, due to several different things, including her advanced vocabulary. Things took several strange turns over the years. The Barnetts claimed that Natalia tried to kill Kristine by pushing her into an electric fence and attempting to poison her. Ultimately, they began to have medical and psychological evaluations performed on her, and ended up having her birthdate changed on her birth certificate, making her 22 years old instead of 8.

The story just gets stranger from here, but you will have to watch The Curious Case of Natalia Grace to get all the details.

Does this sound like a slightly familiar tale? The theme of the shocking horror film Orphan was very similar, although that film was inspired by another true story, that of Barbara Skrlova. Skrlova was a woman who posed a

s a 13-year-old boy, and her crimes are even worse than those committed by Esther in Orphan.

In ID’s follow-up documentary, Natalia finally freed from a gag order, is able to tell her own story. Obviously, her explanation of events differs from the claims of her adoptive parents, making The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks a must-see.

Need to watch the first docuseries first? No problem, all episodes of The Curious Case of Natalia Grace are available to watch on discovery+ and Max.