Chaplin, Gogol and other famous people abducted after the death of

Sometimes the thieves would dare to kidnapping the contents of the graves. The causes can be many: sometimes fans don't stop stalking their idols even after their death, someone is trying to capitalize on the ashes of celebrities, others want to save the remains from destruction.

Remember the most high-profile kidnapping great people after death. Many bodies never found.

Saint Mark

Yaroslav The Wise

According to one version, the remains of Yaroslav the Wise could take out from the Saint Sophia Cathedral, the representatives of the UGCC, taking them together with the icon of Nikoly Wet in 1943. The icon, incidentally, found in 1973 in Holy Trinity Church, located in new York.

Dante Alighieri

Fortunately, the ashes of Dante was found. It happened by chance during restoration work in the Church of San Francesco, where is buried the great poet. In the wall was discovered a box of plate, from which it was clear that the remains of Dante were placed there in 1677 Antonio Santi.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

As you know, the writer was terrified of being buried alive, in the so-called lethargy: "my Body is not to bury until then, until obvious signs of decomposition". The strangeness continued after death, when, during the reburial of Gogol in 1931 in a coffin have not found the skull of a writer!

Today there are many different versions of who is it that has encroached on the remains of Gogol, but the head of Nikolai and resides in an unknown place. Literary critics believe that the story of the skull of Gogol reflected in the work of Bulgakov "the Master and Margarita" in the scene with the death of Berlioz.

Charlie Chaplin

Kurt Cobain

Cobain's ashes were found several months later by the German artist Natalya Stellmach, who said that he had purchased the remains of Kurt in order to smoke them on the closure of its art exhibitions and of freeing the soul of a musician from "information circus".

Sigmund Freud

But criminals obviously something scared, and they hurried away from the scene with empty hands, however, badly damaged the ancient Greek urn that contains the ashes of Freud and his wife Martha. The crime still remains unsolved.