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In 2011, Russia bore witness to a breaking news story involving a man named Anatoly Muskvin in what was to become

one of the most bizarre cases in the country's criminal history. His was a story of Black

Magic, the occult, and one man's very unusual hobby.

Sensationalised across the English-speaking internet, the true story may not contain necrophilia nor psychopathy but it remains no less

shocking and easily among the darkest stories covered by myself to date. As terrifying as it is tragic. This is dark histories where the facts are

worse than fiction.

Hello and welcome season 2 episode 19 of Dark Histories.

I hope you're all very well. Today we're going to be talking about a

subject which I actually started writing in way way back in season one. At the time I felt it was maybe a little bit I don't know there was just

it was a bit challenging maybe and I put it to one side but I always sort of wanted to retread it and come back to it at some

point and you know we're coming up to Halloween I thought you know we can deal with a little bit of creepiness.

But quite a side of that I actually ended up finding that this had a lot deeper than that.

I still think it might be a little bit divisive and perhaps a little controversial but

got to do these things. Anyway before we start I just want to say thanks to the new patrons

we got Lily Finn Yarnie, Christie, and I really hope I say your name right,

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