Police: Russian man kept 29 mummified bodies
The Russian historian had always been open about his interest in the dead and eagerly described how he loved to rummage through cemeteries, studying grave stones to uncover the life stories behind them.
What he failed to mention, according to police, was that he had dug up 29 bodies and taken them back to his apartment, where he dressed them in women's clothes scavenged from graves and then put them on display.
A police video of the man's apartment in the Volga River city of Nizhny Novgorod released Monday shows his macabre collection of what look like dolls. Lifesize, they are dressed in bright dresses and headscarves, their hands and faces wrapped in what appears to be cloth. Police said they were mummified remains.
Instructions for doll-making were found in the apartment, police said, and the video showed old-fashioned plastic dolls in frilly dresses lying about.
So not only was he hoarding mummified human remains he'd dug up, he was dressing them up like dolls. The story YKWIA read indicated he was making working joints for them, as well.
It topped the story I'd found about the South Africa couple, engaged and expecting a baby, who found out they were brother and sister. I haven't been able to confirm that one, any way--I'm somewhat dubious of the sources, and no names have been named (which, granted, I understand).
Anyway, there's your odd news for the day.
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