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- 1:46Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. In eighteen eighty nine, when
- 2:02Speaker 1: Carl Tansler was just twelve years old and living with
- 2:04Speaker 1: his family in Dresden, Germany. He had a very strange dream.
- 2:09Speaker 1: In this dream, he found himself in this black void
- 2:12Speaker 1: wherever where he looked, it was just nothingness. And then
- 2:15Speaker 1: behind him he heard footsteps, and so he whips himself
- 2:17Speaker 1: around and he looks, and there's this woman dressed in
- 2:20Speaker 1: this big, puffy, elegant white dress, walking towards him out
- 2:24Speaker 1: of the darkness.
- 2:25Speaker 2: And when she walks right.
- 2:26Speaker 1: Up in front of him, she comes to a stop
- 2:28Speaker 1: and she introduces herself as Anna Constantia von Brockdorf, who
- 2:32Speaker 1: was a real person in the early seventeen hundreds.
- 2:34Speaker 2: She was a noble woman in.
- 2:35Speaker 1: Germany, and she would tell Carl that she is actually
- 2:38Speaker 1: a distant relative of his, and that she was here
- 2:41Speaker 1: to pass on a very important message. Carl was rooted
- 2:45Speaker 1: to the spot. He didn't know if he should be
- 2:46Speaker 1: afraid of what she was.
- 2:47Speaker 2: Going to say, or excited or nervous.
- 2:50Speaker 1: But before he could decide, Anna had already turned and
- 2:54Speaker 1: was pointing in the direction she had appeared out of.
- 2:56Speaker 1: And so Carl turns and looks in the direction she
- 2:59Speaker 1: was pointing, and out of this blackness, out of this void,
- 3:02Speaker 1: came this woman's face. It was a face detached from
- 3:05Speaker 1: a body that almost looked like a floating picture of
- 3:08Speaker 1: a woman's face. And as this face floated closer and
- 3:11Speaker 1: closer to them, Carl was immediately struck by just how
- 3:14Speaker 1: beautiful this woman was. Her hair was jet black like
- 3:18Speaker 1: a raven's feathers, and her skin was white like porcelain.
- 3:21Speaker 1: But there was something off about this woman, this floating face.
- 3:24Speaker 1: She looked sad and kind of frail. And so as
- 3:27Speaker 1: Carl found himself staring at this face, which was now
- 3:30Speaker 1: right next to them, Anna spoke to him again and
- 3:32Speaker 1: she would tell Carl that this woman, the floating face,
- 3:36Speaker 1: she's going to appear in your life later on, and
- 3:39Speaker 1: it is your mission given by God to save her.
- 3:42Speaker 1: She's going to be very ill, very sick, and you
- 3:45Speaker 1: need to find a way to keep her alive. Then
- 3:47Speaker 1: Carl in real life woke up, and immediately he was
- 3:50Speaker 1: struck by just how visceral that dream had been.
- 3:53Speaker 2: It really felt like that had just happened to him.
- 3:55Speaker 1: But after a few moments, it seemed like, okay, that
- 3:57Speaker 1: was just a dream. But un like other visceral dreams
- 4:01Speaker 1: he had had in the past, this one did not
- 4:04Speaker 1: gradually fade from his memory. Instead, Over the course of
- 4:07Speaker 1: that day, the memory, specifically of the raven haired woman's face,
- 4:12Speaker 1: really seemed to become more clear and more concrete in
- 4:15Speaker 1: his mind, to the point where at the end of
- 4:17Speaker 1: that day he could easily remember exactly what she looked like.
- 4:21Speaker 1: Over the following days and months and years, Karl periodically
- 4:25Speaker 1: would have this same dream, the same vision of his
- 4:28Speaker 1: distant relative Anna, who had come out of the void,
- 4:31Speaker 1: and she would remind him to be on the lookout
- 4:33Speaker 1: for this ravenhaired woman when God sent her to him.
- 4:36Speaker 1: But despite these constant reminders in his dreams, and Karl
- 4:40Speaker 1: being ever vigilant to look for this ravenhaired woman in
- 4:44Speaker 1: real life, he never actually found her. He never met
- 4:47Speaker 1: this woman he was supposed to save. Fast forward to
- 4:49Speaker 1: nineteen twenty six. Karl was thirty nine years old. By
- 4:53Speaker 1: this point, he had gotten married not to the ravenhaired woman,
- 4:56Speaker 1: but instead to a local woman in Dresden, and the
- 4:59Speaker 1: pair had had two daughters together, and they lived a
- 5:01Speaker 1: simple life. And you know, by and large, Carl seemed
- 5:04Speaker 1: rather content and happy with his life.
- 5:06Speaker 2: However, secretly he.
- 5:08Speaker 1: Was a little disappointed that these dreams, these visions that
- 5:12Speaker 1: he was having of Anna and the ravenhaired woman that
- 5:15Speaker 1: they had not come true, that it really had just
- 5:17Speaker 1: been a dream. That year, due to an economic downturn
- 5:21Speaker 1: in Germany, Karl and his family left Germany and emigrated
- 5:24Speaker 1: to the United States, where they believed there would be
- 5:26Speaker 1: better opportunities for them. And when they arrived in the
- 5:29Speaker 1: United States, they settled in Central Florida. But within a year,
- 5:33Speaker 1: Carl and his wife had a severe falling out and
- 5:35Speaker 1: they split up, and so Carl would leave the family
- 5:38Speaker 1: home in central Florida and he would resettle several hundred
- 5:42Speaker 1: miles south in southern Florida in a town.
- 5:44Speaker 2: Called key West.
- 5:45Speaker 1: And it would be in key West that Carl would
- 5:47Speaker 1: get a job as an X ray technician at a
- 5:49Speaker 1: local hospital, and it would also be in key West
- 5:52Speaker 1: that Carl's life would change forever. Less than a year
- 5:55Speaker 1: after settling in key West, Carl was at the hospital
- 5:58Speaker 1: going about his day when an older woman walked into
- 6:01Speaker 1: the office and she said to Carl that she was
- 6:03Speaker 1: there to get her daughter, her twenty one year old daughter,
- 6:06Speaker 1: an X ray of her chest because her daughter apparently
- 6:08Speaker 1: couldn't stop coughing and they were concerned about it, and
- 6:11Speaker 1: so Carl began doing the paperwork with the mother when
- 6:13Speaker 1: suddenly the daughter came into the office, and as soon
- 6:17Speaker 1: as Carl saw her, he knew immediately.
- 6:19Speaker 2: That she was the ravenhaired woman from his dreams.
- 6:22Speaker 1: She walked in and she sat down in a chair,
- 6:24Speaker 1: and Carl just stopped what he was doing and stared
- 6:27Speaker 1: at the daughter, and then he kind of broke out
- 6:29Speaker 1: of it and turned his attention back to the mother
- 6:31Speaker 1: and he said to her, ma'am, don't worry. I will
- 6:33Speaker 1: do everything in my power to save your daughter's life. Now,
- 6:37Speaker 1: the mother didn't know what was wrong with her daughter,
- 6:40Speaker 1: and so this was both really helpful that this man
- 6:43Speaker 1: she was talking to was so willing to help, and
- 6:45Speaker 1: also kind of ominous that he was already insinuating that
- 6:48Speaker 1: she could be dying. But either way, the mother said,
- 6:50Speaker 1: thank you very much. You know, we really appreciate that.
- 6:53Speaker 1: And so Carl and the mother they finished their paperwork,
- 6:55Speaker 1: and then Carl quickly left from behind his desk and
- 6:58Speaker 1: hustled over to the daughter, and he introduced himself and
- 7:01Speaker 1: he reiterated that she was in good hands. And the
- 7:04Speaker 1: daughter was a little bit weirded out by this, but
- 7:06Speaker 1: she was polite and said thank you, and she said
- 7:08Speaker 1: her name was Elena, And so Carl would take Elena
- 7:10Speaker 1: and bring her back and give her the X ray,
- 7:13Speaker 1: and unfortunately he would discover through this X ray that
- 7:16Speaker 1: she had tuberculosis. Today, that disease is easily curable, but.
- 7:20Speaker 2: At the time that was a death sentence.
- 7:22Speaker 1: When Karl saw this, though in a weird way, it
- 7:25Speaker 1: almost made him happy because this was another indication that
- 7:28Speaker 1: this really was the raven haired woman from his dreams.
- 7:32Speaker 1: Not only did she look the part, but she also
- 7:34Speaker 1: had arrived in desperate need of help, and so.
- 7:37Speaker 2: Now Carl needed to find a way to save her.
- 7:40Speaker 1: Even though he was just an X ray technician, he
- 7:42Speaker 1: was not a doctor, and so he had no clue
- 7:45Speaker 1: how to begin to treat tuberculosis.
- 7:48Speaker 2: But that didn't stop Karl.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Over the next year, Carl would be in touch with
- 7:51Speaker 1: Elena and her family on a near daily basis, updating
- 7:55Speaker 1: them on all of the new techniques to fight tuberculosis
- 7:58Speaker 1: that he was doing all this research on, and to
- 8:00Speaker 1: tell them about experimental procedures and drugs they could try,
- 8:03Speaker 1: even sometimes paying out of pocket for them to go
- 8:05Speaker 1: try them. He would also bring Elena into the office
- 8:08Speaker 1: as often as he possibly could, to X ray her
- 8:11Speaker 1: again and again and again to see if perhaps she
- 8:14Speaker 1: was making good progress. But unfortunately, over the course of
- 8:17Speaker 1: that year, where he was doing everything he could, it
- 8:19Speaker 1: just didn't work. The disease ravaged Elena's body, and on
- 8:23Speaker 1: October thirty first, nineteen thirty one, so roughly a year
- 8:27Speaker 1: after Karl had first met Elena, Elena would unfortunately pass away.
- 8:31Speaker 1: Elena's family was devastated by this, but their grief didn't
- 8:35Speaker 1: even compare to Carl's grief. It was like Carl had
- 8:38Speaker 1: lost his life too. He couldn't believe he had failed
- 8:41Speaker 1: his mission and let the raven haired woman die. When
- 8:45Speaker 1: it came time to bury Elena, Carl said, let me
- 8:48Speaker 1: pay for the most elaborate grave site we can possibly make.
- 8:51Speaker 1: Let me set up a mausoleum for her. A mausoleum
- 8:54Speaker 1: is an external building that sits in a cemetery that
- 8:57Speaker 1: effectively serves as a kind of shrine to the.
- 9:00Speaker 2: Deceased, and so her family.
- 9:01Speaker 1: They understood that Carl had become very very close with Elena,
- 9:05Speaker 1: although they didn't fully understand the relationship, but they did
- 9:08Speaker 1: understand she meant a lot to him, and so they
- 9:10Speaker 1: agreed to let him do this. After Elena was buried
- 9:13Speaker 1: inside of this small temple that Carl had built for her,
- 9:16Speaker 1: Carl began spending virtually all of his time kneeling inside
- 9:19Speaker 1: of it, crying and begging.
- 9:21Speaker 2: For Elena's forgiveness.
- 9:22Speaker 1: Elena's family was well aware that Carl was doing this,
- 9:25Speaker 1: and at first they kind of just let it happen.
- 9:27Speaker 1: But you know, after several months, they began to tell Carl,
- 9:30Speaker 1: you know, you really need to let her go, you
- 9:32Speaker 1: need to begin to move on, but Carl refused. In fact,
- 9:35Speaker 1: over time he only became more and more obsessed with Elena. Finally,
- 9:40Speaker 1: after seven years of Carl doing this, Elena's family decided,
- 9:44Speaker 1: you know, enough is enough. He really needs to stop
- 9:47Speaker 1: making her loss all about him. It's not his loss,
- 9:50Speaker 1: it's our loss. We're her family. And so the family
- 9:53Speaker 1: decided the only way to kind of get Carl to
- 9:56Speaker 1: stop doing what he was doing is to demand he
- 9:59Speaker 1: give the key that gave him access into the small
- 10:02Speaker 1: area inside of the mausoleum. So one night, Elena's sister,
- 10:06Speaker 1: whose name was Florinda, decided to go over to Carl's
- 10:10Speaker 1: house unannounced and confront him and get the key back
- 10:13Speaker 1: from him, and so she hopped in her car and
- 10:14Speaker 1: she drove over to his property. His house was kind
- 10:17Speaker 1: of set back off the road behind some trees, and
- 10:19Speaker 1: so she had to drive down this kind.
- 10:21Speaker 2: Of winding driveway to get to it.
- 10:23Speaker 1: And so Florinda turned onto his driveway and she began driving,
- 10:26Speaker 1: and when his house came into view, the first thing
- 10:28Speaker 1: she noticed was a number of the windows on the
- 10:31Speaker 1: first floor were all lit up. Clearly Carl was home.
- 10:34Speaker 1: And as she's driving towards the house, she's just looking
- 10:36Speaker 1: in these windows, and for a second she sees Carl
- 10:39Speaker 1: and he's very elegantly dressed in a suit or a tuxedo,
- 10:42Speaker 1: and he's ballroom dancing with this woman who's also very
- 10:45Speaker 1: elegantly dressed as well. And for a second Florinda considered
- 10:48Speaker 1: turning around and not disturbing him, but then she thought,
- 10:51Speaker 1: you know what, this has been.
- 10:52Speaker 2: Going on for so long.
- 10:53Speaker 1: I just need to get this over with, And so
- 10:55Speaker 1: she drove her car and stopped in front of Carl's house.
- 10:57Speaker 2: She hopped out, she walked up onto his porch, and
- 11:00Speaker 2: she knocked on his front door.
- 11:01Speaker 1: Inside, she could hear music was clearly playing but just
- 11:05Speaker 1: a few seconds after.
- 11:06Speaker 2: She had knocked, the music was cut off.
- 11:08Speaker 1: And then no one came to the door, and so
- 11:10Speaker 1: Florinda knows there's people inside this house, and so she
- 11:13Speaker 1: knocks again, but again there's no movement in the house.
- 11:16Speaker 1: It's just silent, as if the people inside are pretending
- 11:19Speaker 1: not to be there. And so, finally, frustrated, Florinda knocks
- 11:22Speaker 1: on the door a third time and says, Carl, I
- 11:25Speaker 1: know you're in there.
- 11:25Speaker 2: I have to talk to you about my sister. Please
- 11:28Speaker 2: come out here.
- 11:28Speaker 1: And so finally she heard the shuffling of feet and
- 11:31Speaker 1: then she heard the sound of the door unlocking and
- 11:33Speaker 1: it opened up just a crack, and through this crack
- 11:36Speaker 1: Carl looked through and he looked out at Florinda very suspiciously,
- 11:40Speaker 1: and he said to her, what do you want? And
- 11:42Speaker 1: Florinda would say, look, I'm here to talk to you
- 11:43Speaker 1: about my sister. Can I please come inside for a
- 11:45Speaker 1: second or can you come out here and talk to me?
- 11:48Speaker 1: But Carl pretty much immediately said no, and then he
- 11:51Speaker 1: shut the door. However, before he shut the door, Carl
- 11:55Speaker 1: had very briefly stepped out of the way, allowing Florinda
- 11:58Speaker 1: to see through that game into the house, so before
- 12:01Speaker 1: the door actually shut, she got to see who and
- 12:05Speaker 1: what was inside that house. And what she saw was
- 12:08Speaker 1: the woman Carl had been dancing with. And the woman
- 12:10Speaker 1: was seated in a chair maybe halfway through the house,
- 12:13Speaker 1: and she was facing the door, and Florinda knew immediately
- 12:16Speaker 1: it was her sister.
- 12:17Speaker 2: And so she's standing on the porch, having.
- 12:19Speaker 1: No idea what to make of what she's just discovered,
- 12:22Speaker 1: and so feeling kind of overwhelmed, she just kind of
- 12:24Speaker 1: staggered off the front porch. She turned around, she ran
- 12:27Speaker 1: into her car, and she drove off to tell the police.
- 12:29Speaker 1: When the police came back, they knocked on the front
- 12:32Speaker 1: door and they demanded that Carl let them see the
- 12:34Speaker 1: woman he was there with. And so at this point
- 12:36Speaker 1: Carl knew the gig was up, and so he opened
- 12:39Speaker 1: the door and he allowed them to come inside. And
- 12:40Speaker 1: when the police went inside, they saw the woman he
- 12:43Speaker 1: was with, and sure enough, it was Elena. However, Elena
- 12:47Speaker 1: was deceased and had been for seven years. After her death,
- 12:51Speaker 1: Carl said he was able to talk to her inside
- 12:53Speaker 1: of her mausoleum, and so that was why he was
- 12:55Speaker 1: going back there every single night because he and Elena
- 12:58Speaker 1: were spending time together. And then at some point in
- 13:01Speaker 1: nineteen thirty three, so two years after Elena has been
- 13:04Speaker 1: dead and buried, Carl would say she told him while
- 13:07Speaker 1: he was visiting her mausoleum that she didn't like being
- 13:10Speaker 1: in the mausoleum and that she wanted to come back
- 13:12Speaker 1: with him and.
- 13:12Speaker 2: Stay at his house.
- 13:13Speaker 1: And so the following day, Carl had shown up with
- 13:16Speaker 1: a child's wagon and he pulled her out of her coffin,
- 13:19Speaker 1: pulled her out of the mausoleum, put her corpse in
- 13:21Speaker 1: this wagon, and wheeled her back to his house. He
- 13:24Speaker 1: had continued to go to the mausoleum every night for
- 13:27Speaker 1: the next five years, just to keep up appearances, but
- 13:30Speaker 1: Elena's body never went back inside of it. She would
- 13:32Speaker 1: stay at his house, where he painstakingly attempted to restore
- 13:37Speaker 1: Elena's very badly decomposed body to its original form. He
- 13:41Speaker 1: strung piano wire through her entire body, connecting all of
- 13:44Speaker 1: her bones together to keep her skeleton intact. He replaced
- 13:48Speaker 1: her eyes with glass eyes, and he began rubbing the
- 13:51Speaker 1: special wax all over her skin. He also stuffed her
- 13:54Speaker 1: insides full of rags in order to give her a
- 13:56Speaker 1: full natural look, and he constantly sprayed her with fume
- 14:00Speaker 1: to reduce the smell. Once she was in his eyes
- 14:03Speaker 1: back to normal, he began spending as much time with
- 14:06Speaker 1: her as he possibly could. He would change her outfits constantly.
- 14:09Speaker 1: He would put on makeup, and he would give her a.
- 14:11Speaker 2: New jewelry, and he would talk to her about the
- 14:13Speaker 2: ups and downs of life.
- 14:14Speaker 1: He would laugh with her, he would cry with her,
- 14:16Speaker 1: he would sleep with her. Karl would admit that ultimately
- 14:20Speaker 1: his goal with keeping Elena in his home was to
- 14:23Speaker 1: eventually still save her life. He believed if he could
- 14:27Speaker 1: somehow get her body up into the stratosphere that the
- 14:31Speaker 1: radiation up there would bring her back to life, and
- 14:34Speaker 1: if he could do that, he would be fulfilling his
- 14:36Speaker 1: god given mission to protect her.
- 14:38Speaker 2: But Carl never got a chance to launch her into
- 14:41Speaker 2: the stratosphere.
- 14:42Speaker 1: Instead, he was charged with wanton lee and maliciously destroying
- 14:46Speaker 1: a grave and removing a body without authorization. However, these
- 14:50Speaker 1: charges would be dropped and Carl would be set free.
- 14:53Speaker 1: As for Elena, her body was returned to her family
- 14:55Speaker 1: and they would bury her in Key West.
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