Le Van, 55, a Vietnamese man allegedly dug up his wife’s corpse and slept beside it for 5 years. He is from a small town in the central province of Quang Nam and a father of seven children.

According to Vietnamnet.vn, the father of seven revealed that after the dead of his wife in 2003, he would sleep on top of her grave. He said he decided to dig a tunnel into the grave to sleep with her, 20 months later when the rain, wind and cold started bothering him. But his children found out about it and stopped him from returning to the grave. So he dug up his wife’s corpse and took it home one night, in November 2004, where he used clay to mould her remains into the figure of a woman, and then dressed her up and placed her in his bed.

The telegraph quoted him as saying “I’m a person that does things differently. I’m not like normal people”. Le Van said neighbours did not dare to visit the house for several years.