Carl tanzler, the man who lived with a corpse for seven years

Published on September 23, Carl Tanzler, a radiologist, had romantic feelings for a teenage patient he was treating for tuberculosis in Tanzler developed a fascination with Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos despite her refusal to reciprocate his love, and this passion persisted even after she passed away in Tanzler sang to Elena's corpse and communicated with her spirit every evening for over a year while seated near the mausoleum he had commissioned for her.

After that, Tanzler excavated her body one evening in April and brought it home with him.

Carl tanzler airship

To keep Elena's body in shape, he put wax in place of her skin, wired her limbs together, and packed her torso with rags. Carl Tanzler slept close to Elena de Hoyos's corpse for the following seven years, treating it as though she was still alive. Tanzler's unsettling acts were discovered by the authorities and Elena's family in Tanzler continued with his strange love affair despite the police taking the corpse and arresting the radiologist.

Growing up in Germany, he experienced dreams about Countess Anna Constantia von Cosel, a deceased ancestor. Tanzler was said to have seen the face of his true love in these visions from von Cosel. Tanzler emigrated to Australia sometime just after the year