Fancy hearing a story about an obsession that transcended death? Our film-maker friend Ronni Thomas of the Midnight Archive (and Morbid Anatomy) has a Kickstarter campaign underway to create what will be an absolutely fascinating documentary on Carl Von Cosel. Who, and why, you might ask? Ronni explains in the video above (and I highly recommend watching it to better understand the vision he has for this project):
I’d always been aware of the story of Carl Von Cosel. But for some reason I developed an unceasing fascination with his case. It’s one of the strangest true stories I’ve ever researched. In 1930s Key West Florida, Carl Von Cosel dug up the remains of one of his former patients who he’d become obsessed with – Elena Hoyos – and slept with her…for seven years.
The most interesting thing about this story is that what I’ve just told you is the least interesting thing about this story. The story of Von Cosel is a surrealistic melodrama. And it has everything from ghosts to mad scientists to psychic premonitions…on top of having a man who did indeed spend seven years sleeping next to a corpse.
We’ve posted a number of Ronni’s wonderful documentary shorts before here on the Grail (see links below for evidence of the quality of his work), and he’s got some real surprises lined up for the presentation of this story (see the video above). Go check out the Kickstarter page for more information, and make a pledge to help bring this beauty to life (pun not intended, but I went with it!).
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