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00:00These weird tales may seem anything but true, but historical records say they are.
00:05Here are a few totally real unsolved mysteries that'll give you chills.
00:10Museum dioramas are the creepy stuff of nightmares. In 2017, Pittsburgh's Tribune
00:15Review reported on a discovery from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History that proves just how
00:19disturbing they can be. The museum has an exhibit called Lion Attacking Andromedary.
00:24While the museum has known for a long time that the camel-riding man has some disturbingly real
00:28teeth, it was only when they dismantled the display for restoration that they found the
00:33frightening truth. The mannequin didn't just have real teeth, it had a real human skull.
00:38That's cool. That's not creepy.
00:41The diorama is actually surprisingly old, and it was first displayed in Paris in 1867.
00:46It was eventually bought by Andrew Carnegie and ended up in the museum that bears his name,
00:50but no one knows where the skull came from. We do know that the whole thing was made by the
00:55Boré brothers, who were known to have created at least one other taxidermy person, and,
01:00unfortunately, they were exceedingly bad record-keepers. It's possible they might
01:04have just swiped the skull from the Paris catacombs, but the original owner of this
01:08incredibly lifelike face remains a mystery. You may know the story of the Man in the Iron
01:13Mask, written by Alexandre Dumas in the 19th century. But while the book was fiction,
01:17the story also had a basis in reality. According to The Times Literary Supplements,
01:22the real man was just as much a mystery as his fictional counterpart.
01:25Benin de Saint-Mars was one of the king's men put in charge of governing the prisons.
01:30As Saint-Mars was transferred from prison to prison, a mysterious, unidentified prisoner
01:34stayed with him the whole time, allegedly masked in iron, whenever he was in public.
01:38The mystery man died at the Bastille in 1703, and the name Marquioli was recorded in the death
01:43register. No one really believes the name was real, and attempts to figure out who the prisoner
01:48was have uncovered more than 50 different possibilities, ranging from a 12-year-old
01:53who punched the Dauphin to an illegitimate son of Charles II. We still don't know who the real
01:58Man in the Iron Mask may have been. TV crime dramas don't have anything on the
02:02bodies of Miguel José Viana and Manuel Parreira da Cruz, two Brazilian electrical engineers who
02:08went out in the most spectacularly bizarre way possible. When the bodies of these men were found
02:13on August 20, 1966, they were laying side by side, dressed in suits, waterproof coats,
02:19and lead masks. With them, they had a pair of towels, an empty water bottle,
02:23and a notebook that contained an entry that translated to,
02:26"'1630. Be at agreed place. 1830. Swallow capsules. After effect, protect metals. Wait
02:32for mask signal.'" And that's pretty much it. No one has the foggiest idea with the
02:37story behind their mysterious death cities. Since no toxicology reports were ever done,
02:42no one even knows what it was the two took, if anything. As for what they were waiting for and
02:47the metals that needed protecting? No clue there, either. While the case will likely never be solved,
02:52theories about the deaths range from foul play to a drug overdose to, of course, aliens.
02:58This sounds absolutely insane, and I'm aware of how this sounds. But you could potentially come
03:06to the same conclusion." The saying,
03:08you shouldn't take candy from strangers, comes from the very real and still unsolved kidnapping
03:13case of Charlie Ross. The story was published in 1876 in Christian Ross' The Father's Story of
03:18Charlie Ross. In June of 1874, a man in a wagon was handing out candy to kids in the Germantown
03:24area of Philadelphia. Charlie's brother, Walter, revealed that Charlie's abductors had offered to
03:29take the boys to a store to buy some firecrackers. Walter was eventually left by the side of the
03:33road to find his way home, and a manhunt for Charlie began. In 2013, a librarian stumbled
03:39across the ransom notes for Charlie Ross, the first ransom notes ever known to be sent in
03:44America. The kidnappers demanded $20,000 for the four-year-old's return. Over the next five months,
03:49Charlie's family received 23 letters from the kidnappers and investigated more than
03:53600 children who might have been Charlie. He was never found.
03:57On May 26, 1828, a man named Caspar Hauser was found wandering in a town square in Nuremberg.
04:04When he was questioned, he knew strangely little apart from his name. Later, when curiosity about
04:09the stranger kicked into high gear, he would claim that he had been kept in a dark room by
04:13people he never saw, which sort of explained why he had no manners to speak of and a preference
04:18for bread and water. It only gets weirder, because over the next few years, there were at least three
04:23attempts on his life. No one ever saw any attackers, and Hauser was thought to be alone
04:27when they happened. In 1833, he was said to have been killed in one of these mysterious attacks.
04:33There are tons of theories about just who he was and what really happened to him,
04:36and they range from the possibility that he was a complete fraud to the theory that he
04:40had mental and emotional issues stemming from childhood abuse. One of the stranger theories
04:45is that he was an illegitimate claimant to the throne of Baden, and that someone in the region
04:49wanted him out of the way, but we'll likely never really know.
04:53This weird story begins in the 1930s, when Ecuador decided to open the remote Galapagos
04:57Islands to colonists. Little Charles Island gained three families, one of which consisted
05:02of an Austrian woman named Eloise de Wagner-Bosquet and her two lovers, Robert Philipson
05:07and Rudolf Lorenz. Nicknamed the Baroness, Wagner-Bosquet and her partners lived a
05:12bigger-than-life, free-love lifestyle, becoming such darlings of the media that they even starred
05:17in a short movie filmed on the island. But the bliss didn't last.
05:21Neither of us could have imagined the strange and sinister drama
05:25that would be unleashed upon us all."
05:28On March 27, 1934, the Baroness and Philipson disappeared. Lorenz told their neighbors that
05:34the pair had left the island for America after being picked up by a yacht belonging to friends.
05:38Not long after, Lorenz himself decided to leave the island and boarded a small boat
05:42manned by a Norwegian fisherman. None of them were ever seen alive again.
05:47Lorenz and the fisherman's bodies were found months later. The two died of dehydration after
05:51being marooned on an island with no fresh water — an island that mysteriously was nowhere near
05:56their planned path of travel. As for the Baroness and Philipson, no sign of them was ever found.
06:01It's possible they safely arrived in America and lived out their lives in anonymity,
06:05but most believe Lorenz murdered the pair and fled to escape justice.