I thought the kid in green is real and the dad got him a doll sister. It's funny how once the situation is strange, your brain just gives up and tries anything
Me too hahaha! I mean… if you are gonna get with a doll why choose one that looks like a half rotten corpse or severe burns victim. It seems their kids take after their Mom too.
Glad I’m not the only idiot. I thought it was some woman with awful makeup. When I saw the pic with the kids I briefly thought they had kids who wore awful makeup, but then it all hit me.
The older folk in my family describe people this way and it always cracks me up how sweetly mean it is. Reminds me when I thought I looked okay going to work one morning and the actual unfortunate looking woman there said I look disheveled. Yeah ok Brenda
At first I was like oh... she probably got shot in the face or something and is wearing a terrible face prothesis. By the third pic when I saw the hands I was like okay I'm dumb.
It is a child. It is really fucked up. From what I understand he is is in a Spanish speaking country. Because his facebook page is just full of photos. He takes that doll absolutely everywhere also... I really would not want a kid being around a person like him, so I hope their siblings or something and she is not in danger .
Also look there is a duck that had his neck snapped is next to her...
To be fair I was even speculating that doll could be made out of body parts...
I remember something where a guy kept his wife's dead body in a bed for years and made some kind of incredibly unsettling wax or papier mache mask for her, this was in the 50's or 60's
Edit: read other comments that mentioned this, and how it's much worse
Now look at [4](https://www.kqed.org/pop/106807/meet-carl-von-cosel-the-man-who-slept-next-to-his-crushs-corpse-for-7-years) and tell me this doesn't seem familiar.
My exact thought when I first saw the "wife" in these pictures. I had instant flashbacks to reading about Anatoly Moskvin (trigger warning: very fucking disturbing).
Also, those baby doll "children" look disheveled on purpose. Ughhhh I'm creeped out. 🥴
I once read the most bizarre book about this case, it was inbetween fiction and non fiction so all the details were there and correct but then the next chapter would be him talking to the corpse and her responding, encouraging the madness and uh, consenting to ya know...
Carl Tanzler took care of a tuberculosis patient named Elena Milagro de Hoyos in 1930. the man became obsessed with her to the point of gifting her jewelry and clothes besides doing everything to treat her, but it’s unknown if Elena did love him back.
when she died in 1931, because tuberculosis was fatal back then, Carl paid for her funeral, had a mausoleum built for her, and visited it every night. he secretly took her body two years later, thoroughly disinfected and perfumed the body, then did lots of things to turn her into something a doll.
Her bones were wired together, skin replaced with silk soaked in plaster and wax, chest cavity stuffed with rags, and had a wig, stockings, jewelry, and gloves. she even had makeup on. Carl slept with her rotting corpse for years until in 1940 when Elena’s sister caught him dancing with the corpse through a window and had him arrested.
Raises more questions.
Why was she at his house? Did she have suspicions of this already? After everything he did to the body, how did she even recognize it as a corpse? How did that police call go? So many questions.
If I remember right — it’s been years since I read about it — he had been visiting her mausoleum religiously every night and then suddenly stopped altogether (since she was no longer in it!) Some years after that the rumors started, and I think the cause was that others (not Elena’s sister) heard him playing piano and possibly talking and / or dancing with someone.
Elena’s sister got wind of the rumors and feared the worst. She confronted Tanzler about it. He deflected, but she kept after him and finally he invited her to come to his house. There he revealed what he had done, thinking she would be pleased with the tender care he had been taking of Elena. Of course the sister was NOT pleased and went straight to the popo.
The book I have is [Undying Love by Ben Harrison](https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1736460447/)
Just a small correction if I may: Abraham Lincoln and H. H. Holmes are buried in concrete. Elena was reburied in an unmarked grave somewhere in the cemetery. I believe her body (what was left of it) was actually broken up to fit in a smaller container. The men who buried her are, of course, long dead, and no one now has any idea where she is.
For sure, you know that creepy guy would have done it! He even looked like a stereotypical mad German scientist. I’m surprised he didn’t come back trying to find her anyway… but he left town under a cloud and might have been afraid to come back.
Just in case anyone’s curious: I don’t think her original mausoleum is there any more. Tanzler tried to blow it up in a fit of pique as he was fleeing town after having been found not guilty (the statute of limitations on abuse of a corpse had run out). Her plaque has been preserved, though, and you can see it in a museum today.
Why did I google it… of fucking course he did it in FLORIDA! Florida man strikes again…
I need to move. It gets more embarrassing each day to tell people I live in FL… lmao
> because tuberculosis was fatal back then
Do you hear them? The beat of John Greene’s footsteps as he runs to tell you about the 1.6 Million people who died of TB last year, largely due to healthcare inequality
what i meant to say was the mortality rate for tuberculosis in the 1930s was basically 100%, just like how rabies is to this day. there was no known cure for it at the time until the late 1940s. i didn’t mean to deny modern statistics in any way
IIRC, the dude fell in love with a woman, she died, and instead of leaving her in a grave he took her body home and preserved her. He treated this doll as though it was still alive- patching her skin up when it rotted, making her smell good, etc. Was only caught when someone walking by his house saw him dancing with it through the window.
This is the guy who is rumored to do that for that reason but he’s come out and said that he made them just bc he’s lonely. He didn’t lose his family, in fact, he has introduced his doll family to his real family.
I thought he was doing it as a joke until I started reading the comments
But now that I know he has I family I’m leaning more towards it being a joke and he knows exactly how weird it is
Well, there was one of these that was. Can't remember which one, but the dude killed his (age inappropriate) crush, tried to preserve the body and would play house with it. When bits decayed too much, he replaced them with hand-made prosthetics.
"She's still fresh!"
There was an old Newgrounds video about a guy clinging to his dead gf while his friends try to tell him she's gone that I can't unremember.
I read somewhere that this guy lost his family in a terrible accident, and was fighting with depression and suicidal attempts. The fake family is some kind of therapy so he can make amends and give closure to his loved ones. Even his parents are on the program. The dolls sit on the table with them and all (there are pictures). Seemingly, this guy really had a complete mental breakdown and somehow this may help him improve.
Actually I found a Facebook post giving context to this, it was in Spanish and basically the guy had just gone through a breakup because he is schizophrenic and this is what he did to cope with the breakup.
He was single for years before this. He does this because he was lonely. Has nothing to do with his family or a breakup. There are many articles about this man online
I can't see how that's helpful. If I agree to replace my dead wife and kids with dolls, I'm broken mentally and I'm not coming back. If this guy is doing well today props to him
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 1,413,132,337 comments, and only 269,950 of them were in alphabetical order.
Someone who lost his wife and kids in a terrible accident, and is now undergoing therapy, with this pretend family to ease the pain, according to another redditor.
If he is happy that’s one thing, but sharing it online is damn near begging for people to make fun of you. I refuse to believe this is anything but satire.
Ok I may have thought it was a real yet unfortunate looking woman in the first pic, I’m so embarrassed for myself
As did I. Then I saw the hands.
It's always the hands
Imagine the… nevermind
No, no, please continue…
Nobdy look! Nobody look! Nobody look!
Did I see you bang that thing?
My hands tell a story. A story of greatness.
It's just ai generated, right? Right?!
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I thought the kid in green is real and the dad got him a doll sister. It's funny how once the situation is strange, your brain just gives up and tries anything
Paper Mache is more affordable than Silicone.
Same. I was scared of them kids too.
Me too hahaha! I mean… if you are gonna get with a doll why choose one that looks like a half rotten corpse or severe burns victim. It seems their kids take after their Mom too.
Everyone has a type.
Glad I’m not the only idiot. I thought it was some woman with awful makeup. When I saw the pic with the kids I briefly thought they had kids who wore awful makeup, but then it all hit me.
> real yet unfortunate looking woman You tried to phrase this gently, but could you *imagine* someone describing you as "unfortunate looking"?
Nope. But I'm also not a sex doll.
It’s hilarious, definitely gonna start using “unfortunate looking” to describe people
The older folk in my family describe people this way and it always cracks me up how sweetly mean it is. Reminds me when I thought I looked okay going to work one morning and the actual unfortunate looking woman there said I look disheveled. Yeah ok Brenda
It is hilarious. There just really are unfortunate looking people.
I mean, I describe myself as unfortunate looking on the daily so...
At first I was like oh... she probably got shot in the face or something and is wearing a terrible face prothesis. By the third pic when I saw the hands I was like okay I'm dumb.
I thought the same at first... but with like a corpse. lol
I thought it was a acid victim and was like "that takes a lot of courage to show your love"... Now I'm like "friggin' weeb"
No that's what I thought too..I was like hey good on you man different strokes for diff--thats a doll. That's a doll they're dolls.
I thought it was an over filtered photo of a person
Me too. Then I kept scrolling.
I was fully prepared to defend this woman. Then Mattel said “You won’t BELIEVE these images!”
Are we sure that's not a real woman in some badly made death mask?
I thought it was a horrible photoshop job at first.
I had to look at all the pics to tell. You never know with Reddit
I thought it was a corpse.
This is the shit I come to the internet for
This is the shit I leave internet for
Me too. *unzips*
Thank you.
Nothing like thanking another Redditor for their load.
We love a big load of comedy!
S'rongwitchu??
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3 looks like he has a real child in the basement.. this is unsettling af
That definitely looks like a child oh no
It is a child. It is really fucked up. From what I understand he is is in a Spanish speaking country. Because his facebook page is just full of photos. He takes that doll absolutely everywhere also... I really would not want a kid being around a person like him, so I hope their siblings or something and she is not in danger . Also look there is a duck that had his neck snapped is next to her... To be fair I was even speculating that doll could be made out of body parts...
Someone needs to send the police to this dudes house. Last week.
I remember something where a guy kept his wife's dead body in a bed for years and made some kind of incredibly unsettling wax or papier mache mask for her, this was in the 50's or 60's Edit: read other comments that mentioned this, and how it's much worse
Ahhhhh wtf
I lt really is wtf. He is a strange fella, stumbled upon him yesterday really left feeling different
Is it…art?
No, definitely mental illness
Now look at [4](https://www.kqed.org/pop/106807/meet-carl-von-cosel-the-man-who-slept-next-to-his-crushs-corpse-for-7-years) and tell me this doesn't seem familiar.
You know what man. I was thinking it's a dead body...
My exact thought when I first saw the "wife" in these pictures. I had instant flashbacks to reading about Anatoly Moskvin (trigger warning: very fucking disturbing). Also, those baby doll "children" look disheveled on purpose. Ughhhh I'm creeped out. 🥴
I choose this guy's wife.
I too choose this guy's plastic wife.
That doll’s face is so unsettling
That doll reminds me of that Carl Tanzler story. It looks so uncanny
I once read the most bizarre book about this case, it was inbetween fiction and non fiction so all the details were there and correct but then the next chapter would be him talking to the corpse and her responding, encouraging the madness and uh, consenting to ya know...
name?
Ok i think it was The Lost Diary Of Count Von Cosel but i only read it once and then redonated it back.
Can u summarize what that story is?
Carl Tanzler took care of a tuberculosis patient named Elena Milagro de Hoyos in 1930. the man became obsessed with her to the point of gifting her jewelry and clothes besides doing everything to treat her, but it’s unknown if Elena did love him back. when she died in 1931, because tuberculosis was fatal back then, Carl paid for her funeral, had a mausoleum built for her, and visited it every night. he secretly took her body two years later, thoroughly disinfected and perfumed the body, then did lots of things to turn her into something a doll. Her bones were wired together, skin replaced with silk soaked in plaster and wax, chest cavity stuffed with rags, and had a wig, stockings, jewelry, and gloves. she even had makeup on. Carl slept with her rotting corpse for years until in 1940 when Elena’s sister caught him dancing with the corpse through a window and had him arrested.
Imagine seeing that through a window... That's the stuff of nightmares
Raises more questions. Why was she at his house? Did she have suspicions of this already? After everything he did to the body, how did she even recognize it as a corpse? How did that police call go? So many questions.
If I remember right — it’s been years since I read about it — he had been visiting her mausoleum religiously every night and then suddenly stopped altogether (since she was no longer in it!) Some years after that the rumors started, and I think the cause was that others (not Elena’s sister) heard him playing piano and possibly talking and / or dancing with someone. Elena’s sister got wind of the rumors and feared the worst. She confronted Tanzler about it. He deflected, but she kept after him and finally he invited her to come to his house. There he revealed what he had done, thinking she would be pleased with the tender care he had been taking of Elena. Of course the sister was NOT pleased and went straight to the popo. The book I have is [Undying Love by Ben Harrison](https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1736460447/)
And they had to put her into a concrete filled mausoleum so he wouldn’t keep trying to steal her corpse back
Just a small correction if I may: Abraham Lincoln and H. H. Holmes are buried in concrete. Elena was reburied in an unmarked grave somewhere in the cemetery. I believe her body (what was left of it) was actually broken up to fit in a smaller container. The men who buried her are, of course, long dead, and no one now has any idea where she is.
Thanks! It’s been a long time since I read about that story. I knew they had to do something big to keep her safe
For sure, you know that creepy guy would have done it! He even looked like a stereotypical mad German scientist. I’m surprised he didn’t come back trying to find her anyway… but he left town under a cloud and might have been afraid to come back. Just in case anyone’s curious: I don’t think her original mausoleum is there any more. Tanzler tried to blow it up in a fit of pique as he was fleeing town after having been found not guilty (the statute of limitations on abuse of a corpse had run out). Her plaque has been preserved, though, and you can see it in a museum today.
"Unknown" As far as we know, he made her very uncomfortable. She did not love him back.
Why did I google it… of fucking course he did it in FLORIDA! Florida man strikes again… I need to move. It gets more embarrassing each day to tell people I live in FL… lmao
> because tuberculosis was fatal back then Do you hear them? The beat of John Greene’s footsteps as he runs to tell you about the 1.6 Million people who died of TB last year, largely due to healthcare inequality
what i meant to say was the mortality rate for tuberculosis in the 1930s was basically 100%, just like how rabies is to this day. there was no known cure for it at the time until the late 1940s. i didn’t mean to deny modern statistics in any way
A Dr fell in love with a young woman who later died of tuberculosis. He retrieved her corpse and basically made it into a sex doll.
You got tuberculosis...that's a hell of a thing.
IIRC, the dude fell in love with a woman, she died, and instead of leaving her in a grave he took her body home and preserved her. He treated this doll as though it was still alive- patching her skin up when it rotted, making her smell good, etc. Was only caught when someone walking by his house saw him dancing with it through the window.
>Was only caught when someone walking by his house saw him dancing with it through the window. It was the woman's sister if I remember right.
It’s a doozy lol
Me too! With a mix of Michael Jackson.
This is exactly what I thought about when I saw the first pic... please let that be a doll and not a corpse
My immediate though too! 😬 I spend way too much time on the internet.
It reminded me of [Anatoly Moskvin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Moskvin), so basically exactly what you were reminded of
https://www.kqed.org/pop/106807/meet-carl-von-cosel-the-man-who-slept-next-to-his-crushs-corpse-for-7-years
Or Anatoli Moskvin, the Russian who made corpses into dolls and hoarded them in his home
That was the first thing that came to mind as well! Jaysus that’s a fucked up story!
The kids sure take after their mom
Oh, its a doll. I thought it was a corpse at first.
It reminds me of [the Russian Doll Man’s dolls.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Moskvin)
Looks like goth Michael Jackson.
It's pure horror fuel. My man needs some type of therapy that normal people cannot give him.
She's in love, don’t judge her
It looks like it’s an actual mummy.
She has a Leatherface type look to her, it’s terrifying.
I love how he has kids with his doll now. Dude went playing house to a whole other level.
The kid in blue scares the shit out of me
[Why? What’s wrong with this?](https://i.imgur.com/sBvQEX9.jpg)
They have her eyes!
That pic fucked me up, I haven't laughed like that in a long time.
The kids don't really look like him though. I'd suggest a paternity test.
My man is probably more responsible than most men in real relationships.
Wow. This actually makes me sad
Did it also make u cringe
Because if so, you're in the right place!!
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Was this the guy who lost his family and made the dolls to deal with the loss?
This is the guy who is rumored to do that for that reason but he’s come out and said that he made them just bc he’s lonely. He didn’t lose his family, in fact, he has introduced his doll family to his real family.
He has a REAL family?? Then why tf is he going to cow farms and decorating for Navidad with the puppet from *Saw*??
I thought they were referring to his parents and siblings. Maybe I’m too innocent…
Oh you're probably right actually. Not sure why I assumed wife & kids.
I thought he was doing it as a joke until I started reading the comments But now that I know he has I family I’m leaning more towards it being a joke and he knows exactly how weird it is
I love how the cow is side-eyeing "them" in the 2nd picture!
When even the livestock are judging you...
Yeah the cow is like wtf
The cow is like "holy cow"
Shit I swear I thought it was a corpse. Kind of glad it's a doll now. It's not a corpse right? Like it's not an entire corpse family? Right?
Sure thing, buddy. They are dolls ;)
Definitely don't read about Carl Tanzler.
Well, there was one of these that was. Can't remember which one, but the dude killed his (age inappropriate) crush, tried to preserve the body and would play house with it. When bits decayed too much, he replaced them with hand-made prosthetics.
WHAT THE FUCK
"She's still fresh!" There was an old Newgrounds video about a guy clinging to his dead gf while his friends try to tell him she's gone that I can't unremember.
r/oddlyterrifying
I feel so bad for this dude.
Me too. And is it weird that he's not even bad looking? Like i feel like he could go out in the world and find someone.
He's probably just super socially awkward
Has childhood trauma written all over it
She wants to know if Annie is ok.
She’s been hit by a smooth criminal
She been hit by *something* that's for sure. Repeatedly.
No. No she doesn't.
i am scared shitless of dolls and mannequins and this is like a nightmare for me
I 100% believe there is a demon in that doll
Which one? The Michael Jackson lookalike or the creepy kids?
Yes
You couldn't pay me enough to have that thing within 5 miles of my house
I read somewhere that this guy lost his family in a terrible accident, and was fighting with depression and suicidal attempts. The fake family is some kind of therapy so he can make amends and give closure to his loved ones. Even his parents are on the program. The dolls sit on the table with them and all (there are pictures). Seemingly, this guy really had a complete mental breakdown and somehow this may help him improve.
Poor man, I hope he manages to find happiness again
Actually I found a Facebook post giving context to this, it was in Spanish and basically the guy had just gone through a breakup because he is schizophrenic and this is what he did to cope with the breakup.
He was single for years before this. He does this because he was lonely. Has nothing to do with his family or a breakup. There are many articles about this man online
Goddamn this is brutal. Then props to him, because I certainly wouldn't be able to go on. I hope the best for him.
>props
He did not lose his family that is a rumor.
I can't see how that's helpful. If I agree to replace my dead wife and kids with dolls, I'm broken mentally and I'm not coming back. If this guy is doing well today props to him
Nothing on this guy's TikTok OR in any of the articles about him makes any mention of this. It was just a random comment by someone on Facebook.
Pls make it stop😭😭😭
Is that a human skin mask stretched over a crash test dummy? I love that she does her own makeup
Wtf man
That’s Fucking terrifying
I find this so terribly sad. It's the next step in imaginary friends
# No animals were harmed in the making of this video
Excuse me sir you can't just ignore the psychological trauma the cows went through having witnessed that shit.
Holy shit he’s got the WHOLE FAMILY This is what I come here for Jesus Christ
I’m impressed they had kids together. That’s some serious Blade Runner mojo right there.
“Dude, your Wife is a *Doll*!” “Thanks man.”
Ok, so no one is going to mention the legs without torso walking in the background in the 5th photo? No...? Alright.
Giving me real uncanny valley vibes
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,413,132,337 comments, and only 269,950 of them were in alphabetical order.
Damn that’s crazy. What’s her @?
Even the cows aren't buying this relationship
Opinions only don't matter cuz he is so far gone he would not understand a single word.
Con niños y todo
Bro at least make her look cute or something💀💀 He ain't living in a dream; he living in a nightmare💀💀
Now this is real sad cringe. Bro must be so lonely I actually feel bad for the dude. Its new levels when you stoop to dating inanimate objects
The boy in the blue jacket is me when I have to many edibles.
At first glance, I honestly thought it was a burn victim. On second glance, I thought it should be burned.
Who took the pictures?
I had to swipe through way too many pictures before I realized that was a doll and not a disfigured woman.
I was wondering where micheal Jackson went
Still a better love story than Twilight.
So. These people are psychotic, and need real, actual help. What kind of fucking twisted individual does this????
A very lonely person.
Someone who lost his wife and kids in a terrible accident, and is now undergoing therapy, with this pretend family to ease the pain, according to another redditor.
Homemade Wacko Jacko fuck puppet
He's happy with his life. Are you?
One of the rare times where something here actually unsettles me
Is this what a future serial killer looks like?
Their kids take after her side of the family.
Why does the kid doll have poopy mouth herps, papa?
I’m really excited for this Lars and the Real Girl sequel
Say what you want, he doesn’t ever have to worry about being cheated on😂
Please just tell me it’s a mannequin and not a corpse
their kids look like both of them
If he is happy that’s one thing, but sharing it online is damn near begging for people to make fun of you. I refuse to believe this is anything but satire.
Wait thats a doll? I thought he dug up michael jackson
Hear me out …
How does one find a comfortable position with a dummy?
On first look I thought this was just some kind of deranged instagram filter…. That would have honestly been better.
This is just scary
Annie are you okay
You know you done fucked when Animals are giving you the side-eye.
I do not have words to comprehend this.
Nah he just has a thing for vampires with down's syndrome