Dave: Dolls.
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Are you one of those people who think they're cute, or are you
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of the group that thinks they're creepy as fuck?
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Today, we'll talk about a man who thought of them as his
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children Also.
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Stay tuned after the main story for a surprise bonus.
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I'm Dave Jarri, garrett.
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Uh, garrett, where are you, garrett
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WhBoy, I'm Dave Jari, and I'm all by myself for this one.
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And why is that?
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Good question?
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I'll tell you.
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As a lot of you know, I mentioned that shortly after
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coming back from my vacation this summer, I received a
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promotion at work, and with this promotion, I've been given a
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new work schedule.
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Now, after completing about a month's worth training on day
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shift throughout July and August , I've been assigned to a new
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shift that is the total opposite of the shift Garrett Casey and
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I had been working on.
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Now not just opposite hours, opposite days off as well.
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So while Garrett is working, I'm off, and when I'm working,
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garrett is off, so it makes it pretty near impossible for us to
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schedule some time together to get into the studio.
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So what does that mean for Criminal AF?
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You may be wondering.
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Nothing long-term, but it will be a little different for a time
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.
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Not sure what that time frame will be, but I've been told it
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could be anywhere from a month to six months and considering
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I'm now into month two of this new job, it's looking more
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likely the latter.
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But now that my training is done and I'm settling into my
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new role and schedule, I'll be putting out some episodes for
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the time being until we can all get back together on the same
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schedule.
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And we all know Garrett brings a little extra flavor to the
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show.
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I'll do my best to keep that same energy, though it'll never
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be the same without my little gear bear being here.
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So here we are with Criminal AF Presents Fast as fuck boy.
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These episodes will just be me spewing some quick stories about
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some random shit and things I find particularly interesting.
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Some stories may not exactly be true crime, but it'll be
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provoking, to say the least.
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Now I do want to personally apologize to our faithful
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listeners and Patreon members.
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I know we've lost a few of you while this whole transition was
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going on, and you know I can completely understand that.
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Why would you want to financially support a show that
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hasn't put out any new episodes?
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No hard feelings, we get it.
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We wouldn't want to do it either, you know.
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So just know that, gary and I, we love you all the same.
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For those that have stuck around, we fucking love you too,
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and you are all amazing and we all owe you so much.
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With that being said, we are going to make a slight change to
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We will now be offering only two tiers for our amazing
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There will be a $2 general support tier where you can
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whatever else we put out.
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So anyone who is currently in the higher tiers can resubscribe
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to one of the two tiers mentioned.
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So alright, with this being Fast as fuck boy, we're just gonna
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jump right into this fucked up story about a man from Russia
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who took doll collecting to the extreme.
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How extreme, dave.
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Well, so extreme.
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He ended up having 29 total life-size dolls in an apartment
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he shared with his parents.
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He had names for these dolls ages, backstories, you name it,
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you name it.
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So kick off your shoes, sit back, relax, get all snuggled in
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and tell your kids the Tooth Fairy ain't bringing any money,
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unless they go to fuck the bed, because it's time to fuck this
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episode in the mouth.
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So we're going to begin with a man named Anatoly Moskvin.
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He was born in Nizhny Novgorod Say that three times fast it's
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Russia's fifth largest city.
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He was the only child of his parents, elvira and Yurim, and
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he was born on September 1st 1966.
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From a young age, it was apparent that Anatoly was, to
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put it nicely, different.
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He kept to himself, had trouble socializing with other children
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and was often bullied.
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He was also extremely intelligent, earning top grades
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in his class, and many throughout his life considered
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him a genius.
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Those who have studied him believe he was and is on the
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autism spectrum.
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He would spend whatever money he had earned as a child and buy
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himself books and by doing so, taught himself multiple
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languages.
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Around the age of eight, anatoly would experience a traumatic
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incident that is said to have changed him and taught him that
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the world he lived in could become very dark and cold.
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On his way home from school, he was beaten and raped by an
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adult male and came home covered in bruises.
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According to Anatoly, on March 4th 1979, when he was 12, he had
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a strange experience that significantly changed the course
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of his life.
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Anatoly was participating in a school project.
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It was sort of a challenge for the students like who can
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collect the most recycling.
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So this led to a number of the children traveling outside the
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comfort of their own neighborhoods, including Anatoly
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.
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During one such endeavor, anatoly found himself alone in a
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neighborhood he was unfamiliar with.
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He passed a home and went into the yard to gather up their
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recycling when he stumbled upon a group of 13 people holding
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candles in what appeared to be some sort of ritual.
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In one version of the story they wore suits.
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In another version they wore black robes.
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As he looked closer, he saw a coffin in the center of the
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group.
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It was open, but he couldn't see inside from where he was
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standing.
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The group noticed Anatoly and he turned to run away, but one of
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the adults grabbed him and steered him inside the house.
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This is when he learned the group was holding a funeral for
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11-year-old Natasha Petrova, who had died accidentally from
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being electrocuted in her bathtub.
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The girl's mother approached to frighten Anatoly and urged him
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to kiss the corpse of the young girl.
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His mother approached to frighten Anatoly and urged him
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to kiss the corpse of the young girl, which he refused.
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However, the mother kept insisting and eventually forced
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his face close to Natasha's until he had no choice but to
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kiss her forehead again and again and again.
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By the third time he kissed her , he found that he had actually
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enjoyed the experience, as if in a bizarre fairy tale.
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The mother then produced two brass rings, one of which she
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placed on Anatoly's finger and the other on Natasha's.
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There she proclaimed now you are married.
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He was then made to promise he would not tell anyone of this
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ritual for 40 days, and then was sent away with coins and fruit.
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Now there are countries that practice posthumous marriage
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ceremonies.
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It's known as dichrogyny.
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Although Russia has not won, it's most commonly performed in
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China in the form of ghost marriages, in which one or both
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of the parties is deceased.
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Now, how did this affect Anatoly?
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Well, he later reported that, following this bizarre encounter
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, natasha visited him in his dreams nightly, where she would
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torment him and urge him to return to the cemetery in which
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she was buried and perform black magic rituals.
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Anatoly refused to ever return to that village and night after
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night, for days and weeks on end , natasha would return to his
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dreams, urging him to visit and perform black magic.
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Eventually, anatoly did visit the cemetery again and acted out
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the rituals as Natasha had described in his dreams.
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The dream stopped For a while.
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Anatoly eventually told his parents of the marriage ritual
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and that Natasha would visit him in his dreams nightly.
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Confused and concerned for their son, Elvira and Urim would
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bring Anatoly to a doctor who diagnosed these reoccurring
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dreams as being caused by puberty.
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He was prescribed a sedative to help him sleep and sent back
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home.
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Not long after, the nightly visits returned, with Natasha
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now demanding that Anatoly procure a tooth from another boy
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and place it under his pillow.
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She would then collect it, tooth fairy style, and attach
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herself to the tooth's owner.
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Somehow, anatoly managed to get another boy's tooth, did as he
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was instructed and was finally left in peace by Natasha.
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He still made an annual visit to her gravesite, hoping to keep
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her spirit at rest.
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Following this incident, anatoly developed a macabre
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fascination or obsession with death, burial practices and
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cemeteries that would consume him for the rest of his life.
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He loved strolling through cemeteries, studying the
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gravestones and enjoying the serenity studying the
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gravestones and enjoying the serenity.
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In fact, he coined the term necropolis, meaning expert on
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cemeteries, to refer to himself.
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After secondary school, anatoly enrolled in the Gorky Institute
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of Foreign Languages, where he earned a degree in philology,
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which is the study of languages.
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Anatoly was a polyglot, speaking 13 different languages,
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many of which he had taught himself.
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As an interesting side note, this is the age late teens,
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early to mid-twenties at which symptoms of schizophrenia, such
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as delusions and hallucinations, usually are diagnosed.
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Just keep that in mind.
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Now.
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Anatoly earned a PhD from Moscow State University, specializing
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in Celtic history.
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He was a linguist by profession , writing scholarly articles and
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books, including dictionaries, and teaching languages.
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A nerd's nerd, you could say.
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It was around this time that he took a deeper interest in the
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black magic and the occult and found some like-minded people
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joining a group of Luciferians.
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Perhaps he was influenced by the rituals he had supposedly
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performed at Natasha's behest.
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His beliefs would become increasingly bizarre, prompting
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him to engage in some truly sinister activities.
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After completing his studies at Moscow State University, anatoly
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would work there as a lecturer, but it didn't take long for his
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peers and students to realize his eccentric beliefs and his
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awkward and sometimes uncomfortable demeanor.
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He was very difficult to work with, so he was let go from the
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university.
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Not long after, in 2003, he began a relationship with a
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woman named Yalia.
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They never consummated the relationship as this was against
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Anatoly's oath of celibacy.
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However, they wanted a child together, but Anatoly's parents,
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whom he still lived with, were totally against the idea.
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Anatoly and Yalia went through the necessary steps of adoption
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anyway and they attempted to adopt a baby girl, but because
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of Anatoly's living situation the fact that they weren't
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married and didn't earn enough money they were denied.
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Obviously, the relationship fell apart shortly thereafter.
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This is believed to be the tipping point between reality
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and fantasy for Anatoly.
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Since he couldn't have a child of his own, he would give
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someone else's child another chance at life.
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As we will soon learn, in 2005, anatoly began work with a fellow
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academic to help write a catalog of area cemeteries.
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Countless records were destroyed during the Cold War
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and Anatoly had explored a total of 752 cemeteries in less than
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three years, noting the information on the gravestones.
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Not surprisingly, he loved this job and was as happy as a
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proverbial pig in shit.
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He was quoted as saying I am attracted to cemeteries like a
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magnet.
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He would come to know everyone's names, the dates they
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were born and died and the cause of their deaths, all by
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memory.
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He didn't take any food or water with him during his long
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hours of documenting gravestones , often opting to drink out of
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puddles.
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He even slept in the cemeteries , either on benches, the grass
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or in one case, he was found by a group of gravediggers sleeping
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in a coffin which had been scheduled to be buried.
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He found the accommodation cozy .
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People began noticing this strange man occupying the
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cemeteries at all hours of the night, including by the
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undesirables of the villages.
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Anatoly was beaten and robbed several times while he was
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researching these graveyards To help make ends meet while doing
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this project, anatoly would accept per diem jobs working
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with children as a language tutor.
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He would help these children with any number of the 13
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languages he was fluent in.
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His mother, elvira, said Anatoly was happiest when
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working with children.
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Oddly enough, this love of children would ultimately lead
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to his demise.
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He began developing very macabre habits during this time.
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Perhaps it was something he learned while practicing black
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magic or as a Luciferian.
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Anatoly began sleeping on the graves of children, particularly
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the graves of young girls, and soon, he would later say, the
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children began to talk to him.
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They would visit him in his dreams as he slept on their
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graves, and would only sleep on the graves of children who liked
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him.
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Using his knowledge of local history, he would ask these
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children questions to decipher if they were actual spirits or
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demonic beings acting like children.
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And, of course, the children knew the answers to all of
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Anatoly's questions, probably because he wanted the children
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to be real.
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I mean, let's face it, around 2009, strange occurrences were
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happening around a number of these cemeteries.
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Some visitors noticed that the graves of their loved ones had
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been tampered with, some appeared as though the soil had
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been disturbed, while others found letters or cards placed on
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the graves.
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One night in 2011, police patrolling a cemetery noticed a
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man who appeared to be painting a gravestone.
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They asked for his identification and found that he
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was none other than 43-year-old necropolis extraordinaire
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Anatoly Muskin.
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For one reason or another, anatoly agreed to take police
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back to the apartment he shared with his parents, and what the
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officers found would shock and horrify them.
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Before even entering the apartment, the police were
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assaulted by the sickening smell of human decay.
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Once inside, they found that every surface of the small
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apartment was covered with clothes, newspapers, anatoly's
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collection of 60 books and, most disturbingly, numerous
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life-sized dolls, all female.
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The dolls ranged from toddler size to adult size and were
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clothed in a variety of outfits bonnets, dresses, boots, jackets
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, hats and scarves.
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Some appeared to be wearing makeup.
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They were everywhere perched on the furniture, sitting on the
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floor or lying randomly about.
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When Anatoly's parents, who appeared to be oblivious to the
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smell, were asked about the dolls, they replied that their
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son always had an interest in lifelike dolls.
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We knew it was a hobby to make big dolls, said his mother.
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When one officer moved a doll, he heard music and discovered
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that Anatoly had placed a music box inside of it and placed a
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music box inside of it At the same time, police came to the
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realization that these were not dolls but mummified human
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remains.
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At the police station, anatoly spoke freely.
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He said that he had been robbing the graves of newly
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deceased females since 2003, when he got the idea to adopt
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them as his own when his own adoption application was denied,
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he said that he would go to the cemetery in the middle of the
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night where he would dig up the freshly interred corpse and
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begin the preservation or mummification process.
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First, he wrapped them in a mixture of salt and baking soda,
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then stuffed rags inside of them and wrapped nylon tights
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around their heads and legs.
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For their face, he took the plastic or porcelain from an
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actual doll face and fit it carefully over their skull.
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Eyes consisted of paint or buttons, because the girls had
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to be able to see, so that they could watch cartoons with
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Anatoly.
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He made sure to record their vital statistics from the
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headstones so that he could celebrate their birthdays, at
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which they would be presented with gifts.
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He talked to his girls in their own language.
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There was a total of 26 bodies in the apartment, with an
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additional three bodies in the garage, those who had somehow
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fallen out of favor with their creator, like.
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Had they misbehaved?
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Did they stink too much Like?
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Why were they in the garage?
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Now, the human dolls.
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They ranged in age from 3 to 25 .
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The oldest one in terms of seniority had been with Anatoly
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for 9 years.
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Not surprisingly, news of the ghoulish professor and his
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macabre menagerie of human dolls spread quickly.
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Anatoly was given the nickname the Lord of the Mummies and was
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charged with 44 separate criminal counts, including
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desecration of graves.
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In 2012, he was given a psychiatric evaluation and found
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to be unfit to stand trial, having been diagnosed with
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paranoid schizophrenia.
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He has been in a psychiatric facility since that time and, as
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of last report, was not considered well enough to be
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released.
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So you're probably wondering what the fuck is wrong with this
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guy Now.
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Anatoly was diagnosed with schizophrenia, which is defined
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as a serious mental illness marked by being out of touch
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with reality.
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Although it can't be cured, it can be regulated with medication
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.
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Now, looking at his history, we can see that Anatoly exhibited
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many signs of schizophrenia, and it's interesting to note that
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nobody has been able to verify the existence of Natasha Petrova
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, let alone the events of her funeral.
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Was this all a delusion, a figment of Anatoly's imagination
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?
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Probably, never know.
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He reported that he only unearthed bodies who told him
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that they wanted to be rescued and live with him.
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He laid on the ground above their specific grave and if he
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heard a voice saying that they wanted to come out, he would
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oblige.
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Auditory hallucinations or magical thinking.
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Again, no way to know.
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The reason he was not punished by law is that his mental
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disease or defect made him unable to appreciate the
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wrongfulness of his acts.
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He said that while he was aware that grave robbing was illegal,
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he felt the need to rescue the girls from their graves was more
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important.
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He stated that he meant to keep them until he could figure out
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a way to reanimate them, either through magic or science.
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In court, he expressed no remorse, telling the girls'
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families you put them in the ground, I brought them home and
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warmed them up.
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So what are your thoughts on Anatoly and his dolls?
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Do you think he was out of touch with reality?
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Can you imagine his parents sharing an apartment with a
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bunch of decomposing humans and remaining clueless?
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Or did they choose plausible deniability, like they knew, but
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they pretended not to know?
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You know, I don't know.
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If my kids brought home death and I smelt it, I would 100%.
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No, you know, I'd be like what the fuck is that?
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So leave us a comment about your thoughts regarding the
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story on our social media or on Spotify.
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All comments are welcome, even the ones that call us douchebags
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, because, hey, algorithms work the same, it doesn't care if
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it's good or bad.
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A comment is a comment.
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It shows that there's discussion happening, so let's
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hear them Now is a comment.
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It shows that there's discussion happening, so let's
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hear them Now.
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Shout out goes to Debbie from True Crime University for
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writing and sharing this story with me.
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She knows how insanely hectic it's been, so I can't express my
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gratitude enough Now.
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I promised a bonus to this episode and since we're on the
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topic of dolls and it's nearly Halloween, let's talk about
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arguably the most haunted doll on the planet.
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No, we're not talking about Annabelle, although she is a
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fucking freak of a doll.
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We're here to talk about Robert .
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Now, a good part of this story comes from the website
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GhostsandGravestonescom, with some added tidbits sprinkled in,
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so go check out that site and many more regarding Robert the
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doll.
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Now, the story of Robert goes like this In the early 1900s,
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when a young boy named Eugene, robert Otto, was given a
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one-of-a-kind handmade doll by a servant that worked for his
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parents in his home, eugene, who everyone called Robert, also
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named the doll Robert and told everyone now my name is Gene,
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I'm Gene, the doll is Robert.
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Now, gene and Robert quickly became attached and were now
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best of friends.
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The home where Eugene lived, now called the Artist's House,
00:20:50
is located at 534 Easton Street.
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It was built between 1890 and 1898.
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It was here that Gene was given Robert the doll and where a
00:21:00
friendship that lasted throughout his lifetime and
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beyond was forged.
00:21:05
While he seemed like an ordinary cloth doll, it wasn't long
00:21:13
before Robert was involved in strange and somewhat terrifying
00:21:14
events.
00:21:14
The first hint that something out of the ordinary was
00:21:16
happening was one night when Gene, who was only ten years old
00:21:18
at the time, awoke to find Robert the doll sitting at the
00:21:21
end of his bed staring at him.
00:21:23
Moments later his mother was awakened by his screams for help
00:21:26
and the sounds of furniture being overturned in her son's
00:21:30
bedroom.
00:21:30
Jean cried for help, begging his mother to rescue him.
00:21:34
When she finally was able to wrench the locked door open, she
00:21:38
saw a poor Jean curled up in fear on his bed, his room in
00:21:41
shambles and Robert the doll sitting at the foot of the bed.
00:21:44
Nobody knows for sure why or how this child's plaything could
00:21:49
actually wreak havoc on a child's bedroom or do anything
00:21:52
at all.
00:21:52
After all, it's just a toy right.
00:21:54
But the weird and inexplicable didn't stop at that one
00:21:59
occurrence.
00:21:59
Gene's parents would often hear their son upstairs talking to
00:22:03
the doll and then hear a response back in a totally
00:22:06
different voice.
00:22:06
They reported seeing the doll speak and witnessing his
00:22:11
expression change, giggling, and sightings of Robert running up
00:22:15
the steps or staring out the upstairs window were also
00:22:18
reported.
00:22:20
Now Robert continued to live with Jean throughout his
00:22:22
lifetime and after Gene's parents died he moved back into
00:22:26
their home with his wife, anne.
00:22:28
Gene decided that the doll needed a room of his own and
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placed him in the upstairs room that had a window overlooking
00:22:35
the street.
00:22:35
Now Anne, you know, she felt uneasy with Robert in the house
00:22:39
and, although she couldn't put her finger on it, she wanted
00:22:42
Gene to lock the doll up in the attic where he could do no harm.
00:22:45
Now Gene conceded and, as one could imagine, robert the doll
00:22:50
was not happy with his new living arrangements.
00:22:52
Soon visitors to the home heard footsteps in the attic, the
00:22:57
sounds of someone pacing back and forth and devilish giggling.
00:23:00
Neighborhood children reported seeing Robert watching them from
00:23:04
the window in the upstairs bedroom and told accounts of the
00:23:07
doll actually mocking them as they walked to school.
00:23:09
When Gene heard this, he immediately went to investigate,
00:23:13
knowing that he had locked Robert in the attic and there
00:23:16
was no way he could be sitting by the window of the upstairs
00:23:18
bedroom.
00:23:19
But to his complete shock, when he opened the door to the
00:23:23
bedroom, there was Robert sitting in a rocking chair by
00:23:26
the window.
00:23:27
Gene locked Robert back up in the attic several times, each
00:23:31
time discovering him again sitting by the window in the
00:23:33
same upstairs bedroom Now Gene Otto.
00:23:36
He died in 1974, and when a new owner moved into the house on
00:23:40
Eaton Street, their 10-year-old daughter was delighted to find
00:23:44
Robert the doll in the attic.
00:23:45
But her delight soon ended when she claimed that Robert was
00:23:49
alive and that the doll wanted to hurt her.
00:23:50
She awoke, often in the middle of the night, screaming in fear,
00:23:54
and told her parents that Robert had moved about in the
00:23:57
room.
00:23:58
Solaris Hale's newspaper reporter, malcolm Ross, visited
00:24:02
Robert at the artist's house and had a very eerie experience
00:24:05
with the doll.
00:24:06
When Malcolm and a friend entered the room with the doll,
00:24:10
robert's face had an expression of concern, as if to ask who are
00:24:14
these people and why are they here Now?
00:24:17
The friend told Malcolm Robert's backstory and pointed
00:24:20
out the children's furniture that had been purchased by Jean.
00:24:22
It was at this moment that Malcolm noticed a change in the
00:24:26
doll's expression, as if he was following the conversation.
00:24:29
One of the men in the room made a comment about what an old
00:24:32
fool Gene Otto must have been to build all this furniture for a
00:24:35
doll.
00:24:35
Again, robert's expression changed, this time to one of
00:24:41
anger, as Malcolm later stated there was some kind of
00:24:46
intelligence there.
00:24:47
The doll was listening to us.
00:24:52
Now Myrtle Reuter, the woman who bought the artist's house after
00:24:55
Gene Otto had passed, kept Robert for 20 years, even taking
00:24:58
him to her next home in 1980.
00:25:01
But she grew tired of his antics.
00:25:04
She donated Robert to the Fort East Martello Museum in 1994,
00:25:14
and Myrtle died a few months after donating him.
00:25:15
But Robert still continues on to this day.
00:25:16
Many believe that the origin of Robert's evil lies in the one
00:25:19
who originally gave him to Gene Otto, the servant who worked for
00:25:22
Gene's parents.
00:25:23
This woman was supposedly mistreated by her bosses and to
00:25:27
punish them, it is believed that she cursed the doll with voodoo
00:25:30
and black magic.
00:25:30
That might explain the many mysterious and frightening
00:25:34
experiences people have had with Robert the doll, but if so,
00:25:40
wouldn't the haunting end when the owners died?
00:25:41
Nobody really knows for sure.
00:25:42
But one thing remains Robert Dadaal continues to taunt and
00:25:47
scare those who come to view him , especially guests at a Fort
00:25:50
East Martello museum who attempt to take his photo without
00:25:53
express permission.
00:25:55
Many have reported their cameras becoming inoperable when they
00:25:58
try to take a picture of Robert, only to begin working again
00:26:02
when they left the museum, and others experienced life-altering
00:26:04
hardships after leaving Robert de Dahl, like divorces, loss of
00:26:13
employment and even deaths.
00:26:14
This led to people writing letters or returning to the
00:26:16
museum to ask for Robert's forgiveness for taking his
00:26:17
picture without his consent.
00:26:18
Now this is an actual real thing.
00:26:20
People really write letters to this Robert de Dahl, and one
00:26:24
such letter reads Dear Robert, I just want to apologize for
00:26:27
taking a photo of you before I ask permission.
00:26:29
I must not have heard the instructions correctly before I
00:26:32
photographed you.
00:26:34
Since our meeting, I've suffered a series of heartbreaking
00:26:37
misfortune.
00:26:37
Please forgive me Again.
00:26:40
Please accept my sincere apologies and, if you see fit to
00:26:43
forgive and end the bad luck, I would appreciate it, as would
00:26:46
my family.
00:26:46
Thank you, your friend and admirer, james.
00:26:49
Now Robert the doll still sits inside a glass case and you can
00:26:54
still see him today, but the glass doesn't seem to stop him
00:26:58
from inflicting fear and discomfort to museum staff and
00:27:01
visitors.
00:27:01
So be warned if you do go to visit Robert at the Fort East
00:27:05
Motel Museum, please afford Robert the respect he requires
00:27:09
and ask him for permission to take his photo.
00:27:11
You could be in for some very hard times if you don't.
00:27:17
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