The Secret of Elena's Tomb: The Confessions of Carl Von Cosel

These are the confessions of Carl Tanzler Von Cosel, who fell in love with a beautiful tuberculosis patient named Elena Hoyos, in 1930's Key West, Florida. After her death in 1931, Von Cosel, moved her body from its resting place in the Key West Cemetery to his secret laboratory. There, for almost eight years, he attempted to resurrect Elena with his many inventions and experimental treatments. He kept her body in a condition eerily close to that which it was in life, and when he was found out in 1938, this macabre story of love's transcendence of death began to unfold on a national stage. This bizarre, twisted tale is his version of what happened and the aftermath, once he was discovered. This story is graphic and recommended for mature audiences only.