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Mosin was a strange man to those around him though he was a little peculiar he was still considered by his family and all that knew him to be harmless in 2011 40 5-year-old Anatoli was uh still living with his parents however that was his preference he was quite The Loner he had never dated anybody up until this time he never drank though he never smoked and like I said he lived with his parents alvara and Yuri in their pretty small apartment Anatoli and his parents lived in the fifth largest city in Russia called n navad
Anatoli was a journalist he was a historian he was a published author and a professor he also was fluent in 13 different languages so as you can deduce the guy was smart as hell even though he lived in this small apartment with his parents he did actually travel quite a bit so he did get out of the house quite a bit because he was a journalist so he traveled in order to be a good journalist anatol's secluded life though was not the only reason that people found him a little strange his parents in included anat's
fascination with dolls was a huge part of his life Anatoli had a huge collection of dolls and he wasn't going off and finding them in antique shops and stores he was making them himself there weren't these small little dolls that sat on a shelf either he preferred to make dolls that were rather uh humanized sometimes child size sometimes adult size and again they weren't just for display he would sit them around the house on tables and stacks of clutter and stuff as if they were kind of part of the family but it didn't stop there
his dolls were always dressed in nice bright clothing some of them wearing makeup which was often nail polish he used for makeup and he would put long boots on them their hands and other parts would be wrapped lovingly in cloth he would put wigs on them some of anat's dolls even played music because he would insert little music boxes in them during the creation process anat's parents like we touched on Yuri and Alvira they were both in their 70s they were not a huge fan of their son's large collection of dolls it really creeped them
out the way he painted their waxy faces just gave them a weird feeling sometimes it felt like the dolls were haunted then it got even creepier because his parents would sometimes overhear him or sometimes he would do it with his parents where he would talk to the dolls as if they were people he would sing to them he would put them next to him on the couch and have them watch TV with him he would throw the dolls literal birthday parties like actually make them a cake sing them happy birthday with his parents and stuff
like that he would involve the dolls in their holiday celebrations remember Anatoli was very very lonely and very secluded other than his work he didn't really get out of the house he never did ated he was just so isolated and so to his parents although it creeped them out it made a lot of sense because it was like he was making his own companionship they also just loved their son they knew that it was just a huge passion of his these dolls and so even though again they weren't a huge fan they allowed him to
continue and they allowed him to keep the dolls in their house so Anatoli never goes anywhere seems very isolated to to his parents he doesn't socialize that much he doesn't get out of the house other than to work so imagine Yuri and alvira's surprise when in November 2011 police show up at their door turns out anatol was hiding a very dark secret not only from his parents but from the world police come in and they are searching the apartment and examining the dolls and then to elvar and Yuri's horror suddenly the police take one of
these whack masks that's right it wasn't really the doll but a mask off one of the Dolls under the mask was not a doll face or stuffing or cloth but a human a human face turns out Anatoli was not a dog collector but a corpse collector and a pretty notorious grave robber originally it was reported that police had found 29 dolls slh humans in this family's apartment but this information was later corrected to actually 26 bodies they were all women and girls ranging anywhere from 3 years old to 25 years old one of the corpses
the oldest one anatol had had for 9 years before he was caught Anatoli turns out was desecrating Graves from local cemeteries taking corpses and then mummifying the corpses that he collected with a combination of baking soda and salts he then hid the bodies this would dry them out and mummify them he would then hide them in a safe place close to the cemeteries until they were preserved once they were mummified and ready for lack of a better word he would bring them back to his home and make them into dolls dress them that's why all
their limbs were wrapped up in cloth making them faces out of wax masks sometimes other things putting makeup on them wigs hats and then treating them as if they were his own children hence the birthday parties holidays and spending quality time with them but it only gets even worse than that anat toly later revealed that he had more plans for the dolls he had planned to eventually bring them back to life too so let's back up here for just a moment because obviously there's a story here Anatoli had a pretty interesting childhood he was born
on September 1st 1966 and I cannot confirm this 100% because I could only find One Source that claimed this but Anatoli had allegedly been essayed as a child by a Stranger by a man who he didn't know when he was about eight or nine not a great start his morbid Curiosities and his curiosity in not only death but corpses started in 1979 in 1979 Anatolia was only 13 years old now again there's also no proof that this happened other than anatol's word but but according to one of the articles that he wrote In fact it
was an article he wrote in October a month before he was arrested for having these bodies in his homes where he recounted a story that happened to him when he was 13 anat claims that a group of men in suits approached him while he was walking home from school they were all close to a funeral the men were in suits because they were about to attend the funeral of 11-year-old Natasha Petrova and according to Anatoli these men dragged him to Natasha's coffin and forced him to kiss her corpse multiple times Natasha's mother then put a
wedding ring on both Natasha's finger and anat's finger if this indeed happened now again this is speculation I have no idea but I can only imagine that this is some sort of ritual in whatever religion they practiced where because Natasha was only 11 when she passed away she didn't have a chance to grow into an adult and get get married which I would imagine in their culture was probably important and so they were fulfilling some kind of ritual where they found a young boy who would be about Natasha's age and then uh kind of marrying
them in Natasha's death so that she could still have that part of her life even though she passed before that again I have no idea I can only imagine based on context that that is what is going on here I understand cultural religious practi practices and rituals but not okay to do this to a 13-year-old boy because for most children that would be a traumatizing confusing and likely upsetting event and while I have no doubt that it was traumatizing in a way for Anatoli for him it just made his curiosity in death and dead people
very heightened that's kind of where his obsession started was this event not only that but this incident made made him believe in the ult and Magic after this event in his teen years Anatoli went on to start exploring cemeteries on his own this Fascination and arguably Obsession continued into adulthood as he became the well-known genius and Scholar that his colleagues and family knew and loved he was also exploring every Cemetery in Nish navad in fact between the years 2005 and 2007 Anatoli claimed that he care Yul studied 752 Graves across 40 cemeteries like I said
2005 to 2007 he would have been in his early 40s he claimed that in order to do this he walked upwards of 20 miles every single day he would drink water from puddles and simply sleep on hay bals in order to not go home basically to have more time to do this one night he even slep slept in a person's coffin that he found as their funeral had been scheduled for the next day he did this though not only for his obsession but also under the guise of work as he was a journalist so he
would document his excursions and his explorations through journalism and it even claims that he documented them like it kind of implied that he took video footage but I could not find any of the proof of the video footage so Anatoli is going around obsessed with cemeteries and carefully exploring and studying hundreds and hundreds of graves it was in 2009 a couple years before he was arrested that locals started to report to authorities that their loved ones Graves had been desecrated or sometimes robbed their bodies robbed from their graves altogether the loved one had been buried
very recently so I would imagine they were going to visit the graves still quite frequently so they noticed pretty pretty quickly authorities at first assumed that it must have been the work of extremist groups and for the next 2 years they would try to investigate these grave robberies and try to figure out who was doing this but they came up empty-handed and for the next 2 years until 2011 this all remained a mystery in 2011 one of moscow's airports was the victim of a terrorist attack so police in the N navad area were getting reports
from Muslim families during this time saying that their Muslim loved ones Graves were being vandalized not the body stolen but vandalized they were investigating a cemetery where photos of Muslims on their grave sites had been painted over like their faces were painted over this is where police ran into Anatoli he was at a Muslim Cemetery this part I'm going to be super honest is extremely confusing and I don't have a clear answer for it because I read through quite a few sources and they all either say different things or they're like seemingly purposely vague about
the matter I have no idea if Anatoli was actually the one vandalizing these Muslim Graves like if he was racist and was vandalizing these Muslim Graves or if that was just how police caught him because he the police were in the cemeteries more often and he happened to be in one of the cemeteries when the police were trying to investigate the vandalisms so the sources seem to indicate that he was was originally charged for these and caught vandalizing the Muslim Graves however the charges were then later dropped so to be honest I don't really know
if he was actually doing the vandalizing or not and I don't think it would be fair to say that he absolutely was when the sources are so unclear either way he was acting weird in the cemetery and I believe they were probably just going to arrest anybody who was not grieving a family in the cemetery during this time to try to find the vandals and so Anatoli was arrested on the spot and he was brought back to his home where they starting to investigate and you know the rest police took a video of anat's home
and what they found and the way the dolls were positioned it's only a couple minutes so I'm going to play that clip for you now [Applause] again okay no spee what's up spee so in his apartment police found not only these dolls but they also found other pretty damning evidence they found detailed notes that Anatoli wrote on how to make the dolls they found maps of the cemeteries that were near his home home they also found photos plaques and other pieces that Anatoli had stolen from random grave sites then Footprints near some of the desecrated
Graves were also found and they matched the shoes in anatoli's apartment so it was of course pretty obvious who had done this anatoli's motives later he said were pretty uh clear he was very honest about his motives he said that the reason he did this was mostly out of sheer loneliness he denies to this day that he treated any of the dolls or had any sexual feelings for the dolls he claimed that the primary motive was that he wanted to be a dad he wanted a child someday but he had never dated so that never
came into fruition and so he had these dolls because he wanted he saw them as his children specifically as his daughters at one point he even tried to adopt a real child on his own but as you saw in the video he kind of had a hoarding situation his place was small not really fit for a child and he just had low income as well and so Russian authorities denied his application to adopt and then I think his parents while they you know put up with his stuff I don't think his parents were perfect either
I think I'm kind of inferring this based on what I've heard and read I don't know for sure but in my opinion they were not always the kindest and they were kind of like a little too happy that he got rejected for this I can understand why they wouldn't want him adop to adopt a child and bring it into their home but um it just seemed a little bit cruel that they were reportedly very happy that he got denied so anyway Anatoli is very sad and lonely and then on top of that he has an
interest in the ult and he also was an expert in Celtic cultures which in Celtic culture there was ancient Druids that slept on the graves of loved ones in order to communicate with the loved ones so it turns out Anatoli was researching recently deceased children and young adults that were close to him and he would read through their obituaries and then he would choose his next victim based on if the obituary particularly spoke to him he would then go to the cemetery he would then sleep on that child or woman's grave in order to communicate
with the victim and find out if they wanted to come with him to be brought back to life he claimed that he only ever took a corpse if after sleeping on their grave they told him through their spirit that they wanted to be taken eventually it was hard to sleep on the ground so he would have to stop this part of the ritual but many times he did do this so that's why he needed to mummify and preserve them them and then put them in pretty masks not only to hide them but he wanted to
give them like pretty faces and bodies and everything while they were waiting for him to learn the right occult rituals and spells and stuff like that so that he could eventually bring them back to life Anatoli claimed that he knew that what he was doing was technically against the law but he just couldn't help it because he believed he was truly rescuing these children and he felt that the good of what he had intended was more important than the law now if it hasn't become clear by now and this will not be a shocker to
most of you but anatol after being arrested was diagnosed with a form of paranoid schizophrenia now I am not a mental health professional by any stretch of the imagination mind you but it seems implied that this was the reason he truly believed that these corpses could speak to him and it would also make sense because they didn't let him go to trial they found him not mentally fit for trial so the court decided that he needed psychiatric help not prison Anatoli was put into a mental health facility and he's been held there ever since in
September 2018 his doctors did try to petition for him to be released they said that he was getting better and they wanted to release him from the hospital so that he would have to continue his psychiatric treatment but he could do it outpatient meaning he could do it from home by going to appointments and stuff like that not having to be held in the psychiatric hospital however in February 2019 they revoked it they decided that he actually was not ready after another evaluation and the hospital said never mind he has to stay here and as
far as I could find Anatoli has been in the psychiatric hospital ever since and to be honest I feel like probably that's the best right now because again I agree with the court that he was not fit for trial that he was very much struggling with mental health issues and that psychiatric help was probably the best way to go now I do want to be very clear that just because I don't want to make it sound like I'm super sympathetic to him because he had a lot of victims in this and while his mental health
diagnosis and all that are not his fault as we've discussed and many people discuss your mental health struggles are never your fault but they are your responsibility and he instead of getting help and instead of his I mean I would argue instead of his parents getting him help like I'm sure he was showing some symptoms he did not get the help and instead he did something that harmed a lot of families and hurt a lot of people while he did not kill anyone all these families had lost their very young loved one and shortly after
putting them to rest their bodies disappeared and they didn't know what happened to them that would be so devastating in itself but then to learn that the person taking their loved ones from their Eternal resting place was making them into objects and playing with them as if their dolls would be Beyond devastating 10-year-old Natalia shardi MO excuse my pronunciation was the first victim of Anatoli she was you know just 10-year-old baby was stolen by Anatoli and she was the one who was with Anatoli for nine whole years almost as long as her mother got her
before she passed and her mother believes that Anatoli should spend life in prison for what he did while I don't agree I do recognize that I have never been in this position and I can totally understand where she's coming from I do think he needed psychiatric help I don't think he would have been fit for trial but if I was a mom and that happened to me I think I would feel the same way so I can totally understand where she's coming from and that is going to do it for today's video I it was
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