I remember watching a video a while back about this guy called Carl Tanzler. Basically he was a Radiologist who dealt with Tuberculosis patients. One day, whilst working, he encountered this woman called Maria Hoyos. He'd previously had a vision where an angel had come down from heaven to visit him, and Maria looked just like that angel. Needless to say, he fell deeply in love with her. Before he could express his feelings to her, however, she died from Tuberculosis. She was laid to rest above ground in a mausoleum-type thing (I can't remember the name exactly). Now here's where things start to get weird: Tanzler would break into the mausoleum at night in order to spend time with Maria's corpse, often sleeping with it. As time went on, Maria's body began to decay. Wanting to prevent this, Tanzler stole her body, and took it back to his home. To offset the decomposition process, he began to replace her body parts with various substitutes. He replaced her hair with a wig and her skin with wax, creating this horrifying patchwork doll of sorts. He wasn't caught until months later, when Maria's sister came to check out the house. She'd been alerted after neighbours had noticed Tanzler entering his house with an unusual amount of female care and beauty products. When she arrived, she asked to see her sister. Carl took her up to his bedroom, where, outfitted in a wedding dress, lay Maria's corpse in bed. Her sister alerted the police and Tanzler was arrested. Strangely enough, Maria's body was put on display for the general public to see for about a month before a full autopsy was performed, revealing other disturbing additions Tanzler had made to her body (including a tube he inserted, allowing him to perform sexual intercourse with her). After the autopsy was performed, her body was laid to rest in an undisclosed location in the hopes nobody could tamper with it again. As for Tanzler, I'm fairly certain he committed suicide a few years later. His body was found next to a life-size effigy of Maria made out of various household items. For those of you morbidly curious enough to look into this further, just google either Maria Hoyos or Carl Tanzler. You can find photos of Maria's body and I think there's even footage of her autopsy as well. Personally I find the photos of her body when it was found to be pure nightmare fuel. There's something really unsettling about them and the fact that you know that there's a decaying corpse underneath all that wax make it even worse. I think it has something to do with the whole Uncanny Valley thing.