Inanimate sweetheart: a dark love story of a strange doctor (11 photos)

Their love began with her death.





In a naval hospital in Florida, a girl who was only 21 years old, in 1930 she brought her mother. Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos was very sick, the girl's strength was fading, they were undermined by tuberculosis.



Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos

Dr. Dancer, after the arrival of the patient, also fell ill. fell ill love for a charming white-skinned beauty with pitch hair.



Georg Karl Tanzler

Georg Karl Tanzler was born in 1877 in Dresden. After graduating from medical university, he lived in Australia, and after the war decided to move with his family - his wife and two children to Florida, where he lived George's sister.

In 1927, the doctor mastered a new profession for that time, He began working as an X-ray technician in the US Air Force. Worked great because was fond of designing and even dreamed of becoming an inventor.



At work, the man was in good standing, so for some his strangeness leadership turned a blind eye. The fact is that From childhood, the dancer fancied himself a descendant of Countess Anna Constance von Kozel. The woman was the favorite of the Saxon king Augustus the Strong. He even told that the ghost of the countess helps him, gives him worldly advice and prophecy. It was the fictional pseudo-relative who “showed” to him the image of a dark-haired girl - his true love.



When the Dancer saw the patient, the man seemed to be struck current: here she is, the beauty from the prophecy. The doctor was in his 50s shared a lifetime with Maria Elena. But the man immediately divorced, began to care for a young beauty, showering flowers, compliments, gifts. I did my best to heal my muse: prepared tinctures, irradiated in an X-ray machine. But no miracle happened, and in the autumn of 1931 the girl died.

In spite of death



Maria was beautiful during her lifetime

The Dancer seemed to be inconsolable. But he still took himself in hands and devoted time to the construction of a luxurious crypt for his muse. He visited the deceased every day.

But visits to the cemetery abruptly stopped two years later. after Maria's death and dismissal from the hospital. Is the man resigned? Did you find the strength to carry on?

Unexpected denouement



And after death became this

After 7 years, the sister of the deceased Mary came to the doctor's house. She also fell ill with tuberculosis and wanted to consult about treatment. The dancer was not in the house, but the woman stumbled upon unexpected discovery, which explained the fact that the doctor stopped walk to the cemetery.

Probably love has grown into a painful attachment, and the medic stole the body from the crypt, brought it home and created something based on it a cross between a doll and a mummy. Replaced the skin with silk cloth soaked in wax, put in glass eyes, filled the remains with a mixture perfume and formaldehyde to mask the smell of decomposition.



After an unexpected discovery, the case became public, and the madman arrested. He did not deny anything, kept talking about love and even designed a plane to fly away with your beloved far, far away.



Unexpectedly, the public supported Dancer, considering him crazy romantic. After all, not everyone can keep such feelings years after the death of the object of passion.

From the point of view of the law, he was charged only with desecration burial, but the statute of limitations has already expired. Relatives took the body and buried him in an unknown grave in order to avoid a repetition of follies inadequate elderly lover.



A few years later, the Dancer returned to the city where he lived ex-wife and children. He was not shy about his past and gladly gave interview journalists. In the last years of his life, he became interested in music and earned money by repairing musical instruments.

Certainly unknownhonestly, true or not, but the people discussed that until his death he kept a wax doll in the house, imitating Mary, in whose arms he died in 1952.