The house of zombie dolls: Inside house where bodysnatcher who dug up dead girls lived with their corpses after turning them into horrifying playthings wearing lipstick and knee-length boots [Video]

04:06 EDT 28 Apr 2024, updated 04:26 EDT 28 Apr 2024

Just over a decade ago, a well-educated Russian historian was captured by authorities when they stumbled upon his grisly collection of hand-made human dolls scattered throughout his apartment.

Once a respected figure in his field, horrific truths began surfacing in 2011 about Anatoly Moskvin, 57, that revealed he was digging up dead females and turning them into dolls. It was believed that by the end of his two-decade-long span of graverobbing, he had desecrated around 150 in total.

Dumped among the mounds of clutter within the home of Moskvin, from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, were 26 mummified bodies of girls and women aged between three and 29. 

The scholar-turned-bodysnatcher had unearthed the dead girls and lived with their corpses in his house of horrors after turning them into ghoulish playthings and adorning them with lipstick, makeup, and knee-length boots.

He dug up the bodies of the girls before dragging them …