The Canadians accused of kidnapping their neighbors while naked had gotten together for a spot of tea — and that kicked off “the whole crazy spell,” says a relative of some of those involved.

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Tesla driver ‘completely reclined’ and apparently asleep at 90 mph, police say The bizarre episode began around 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 6 in a community just south of Edmonton, Alberta. Three people, including a baby, were forced into the trunk of a BMW after opening their door to a neighbor. About 15 minutes later, Royal Canadian Mounted Police responding to a car crash found that the three had managed to escape and that the BMW in the snowy ditch contained five naked people — a man, two women and two teenage girls.

A man who identified himself as the father of the girls told the Edmonton Journal that his daughters, his ex-wife and a young couple had been breakfasting together and decided to try a tea that had been brought back from a trip to India. He says his daughters don’t remember what happened after that, leading him to believe the tea contained a hallucinogenic compound.

“It’s a scary thought thinking, ‘Oh, let’s try this tea that we purchased.’ And then all sit down thinking they’re just going to have a nice morning and end up in that circumstance,” the man told the Journal. He is not being named so as not to identify the minor girls, ages 13 and 15.

The Mounties did not respond to the tea theory, but they had earlier said that drugs and/or alcohol may have played a role.

The man who was kidnapped said he knew the five people in the BMW: They all went to the same Jehovah’s Witnesses church, he told the Journal. He said that the woman who knocked on his door had been clothed but frantic at the time.

The adults — the girls’ mother, age 35; another woman, 30; and that woman’s husband, 27 — face charges of kidnapping, resisting arrest and mischief. Their next court appearance is Nov. 30. The girls were not charged.

The girls’ father told the newspaper that he laughed when he heard the news report about the naked kidnappers — and then he learned that his daughters, whom he described as straitlaced, were involved. “I was just like, what the heck?”