5 People Whose Weird Hobbies Would Terrify A Serial Killer

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Etanis Gonzalez Is A Different Kind Of Doll Collector

Every doll collection is a little bit weird. We're sure your grandma is a lovely person, but no one should have that many dead eyes surveying their living room. So if you really want to stand out in this subculture, you need to go out of your way to build a deep, lingering sense of unease. Enter Etanis Gonzalez, a Venezuelan artist who said, "To hell with displaying our grim homunculi in dainty, teacup-laden environments. Let's go full horror!"

Zoomin.TV Deutschland/YouTubeInstead he displays his collection in your imagination in the cold, terrifying dead of night.

Gonzalez is so proud of his legions of decapitated terrors that he hangs them from his balcony like battered plastic gargoyles. According to the clean explanation which he shared with the press (you know, the one where he leaves out all the stuff about summoning rituals), this all started after he took some dolls from his daughter's room. Rather than accept that his daughter was growing up before his eyes, he decided to haunt his entire Caracas neighborhood for decades to come. Although to be fair, Caracas is one of the planet's most violent cities, and would you mess with a house that looked like this?

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It only gets worse as you get closer.

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Zoomin.TV Deutschland/YouTube“The dolls are fun, but my real passion is depressing property values."

Just look at those frozen, dusty smiles. It's like he gave them a soul right before dismembering them. Gonzalez says he's merely expressing himself, but some of his neighbors assumed he worshiped Satan and nicknamed his lair "The Balcony of a Thousand Heads." Rob Zombie is no doubt frantically working to acquire the film rights.

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Kittiwat Unarrom Is A Baker With Troubling Appetites

When you work with food, the last impression you want to give is that you might secretly be a cannibal. Thailand's Kittiwat Unarrom was apparently sick the day they taught that lesson at culinary school.

You're about to look at bread. Our word processor did not autocorrect "head" -- that's actually bread. We're developing a theory that Unarrom is suppressing a desire to kill, like Dexter crossed with Gordon Ramsay, but the official story is that he worked at his family-owned bakery from childhood, left to study fine arts, then returned to combine his two loves of bread and body horror. His business, called The Body Bakery, makes edible Walking Dead props using little more than dough, raisins, nuts, chocolate, and maybe the odd mysteriously vanished orphan. The results can be eerily convincing.

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Enrique Gomez de Molina Is Hell's Own Taxidermist

"Playing God" generally has negative connotations, but taxidermist Enrique Gomez de Molina has managed to make a terrifying living from it. Behold creations that would make Dr. Moreau nervously look around for the nearest exit:

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Enrique Gomez de MolinaAnd there are so many places in the home where you could display this! Like, for example, a lit fireplace while keeping a shotgun trained on it just in case.

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Adalberto Meneses Makes Everything Out Of Human Bones

Adalberto Meneses is a Peruvian dentist, and owner of his own personal Human Bone Museum, making him terrifying in both his personal and professional lives.

He also worked as a professor for years, and was so beloved by his students that many of them expressed their gratitude via gifts of, uh, bones. You know, that they had kicking around. And alright, fine, everyone knows that doctors are used to seeing and touching corpses and skeletons. But most doctors don't like them as much as Meneses, who's turned them into all sorts of decorations, toys, and appliances.

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A Father/Son Team Preserved Human Pelts

When it comes to building strong bonds with your children, few things help more than a shared hobby. Tokyo doctors Masaichi and Katsunari Fukushi are a remarkable example of that axiom. They had the same profession, the same skills, and above all, the same calling: preserving a vast collection of tattooed human bodysuits.

Dr. Fukushi MasaichiAnd we don’t mean bodysuits for humans.

The elder Fukushi started studying tattoos out of an interest in their medical side effects, but he soon became fascinated by the art form. This was in the 1920s, when Japanese society was even more prejudiced against tattooed people than they are now. That didn't discourage the doctor's diligent attempts to mingle with tattoo artists and other marginalized people. He even offered financial help to several unfortunate men who couldn't afford the completion of their ambitious skin murals ... after bringing forth a Faustian deal that would allow him to collect their skin after their deaths.

Dr. Fukushi MasaichiYes, that’s a before and after.