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History loves to keep its secrets... Join us as we uncover the mysterious cases that puzzled experts for decades before finally being solved! From ocean mysteries to royal scandals, these historical enigmas captivated generations until modern science, research, and exploration finally revealed the truth behind the legends. Which revelation surprised you most?
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00:00He ordered the Dei Grazia closer.
00:02He repeatedly hailed the ghostly vessel, but received no reply.
00:07Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at the mysteries and secrets from history
00:11that were revealed and or solved after a long period of time.
00:15After 500 years of controversy, we may finally have solved the mystery of the princes in the tower.
00:24The Shroud of Turin.
00:25We put ourselves in that situation. A corpse has been washed and now needs to be wrapped in a cloth.
00:32How would you do it? You lift the corpse to 90 degrees, pull the cloth underneath, and then lay the body back again.
00:40First documented sometime in the 14th century, the Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth that depicts a faint image of a bearded man.
00:47Purported by Christians, particularly Catholics, to open the burial shroud of Jesus Christ,
00:51the Shroud of Turin has been venerated and debated over for centuries.
00:55It would be interesting to have had more written evidence.
01:00We don't have it, but we do have the Shroud, and the Shroud has a lot of questions
01:05and a lot of intriguing issues that are not resolved by science and by our knowledge.
01:13In 1988, scientists from multiple laboratories performed carbon dating on the Shroud,
01:18which indicated that it in fact dated from between 1260 to 1390 CE, significantly after Jesus' death and shortly before it was first documented.
01:28Granted, those results have, of course, been much debated and criticized in the years since the tests.
01:33I was astounded when we were able to do this, that the brightness surface that you create by the computer
01:42looked, as you can see here, very much like a three-dimensional person.
01:47The bloop.
01:48There were occasionally, rarely, but occasionally there were sounds that we just could not identify.
01:57In 1997, in a remote part of the southern Pacific Ocean, audio sensors 3,000 miles apart all picked up a low frequency, but high amplitude sound.
02:06It sounded essentially like bloop.
02:09However, the massive distance involved led to many speculations, including that the noise was generated by a heretofore unknown massive deep-sea creature.
02:17What the hell is it?
02:20I'll tell you what it's not.
02:23It's not one of ours.
02:24By 2012, though, repeated tests have concluded that the noise was the result of an ice quake or large glaciers cracking.
02:31And with climate change, more bloops are sure to come.
02:34That hasn't stopped cryptid enthusiasts from creating increasingly horrifying monsters to represent the bloop, though.
02:39Is it bothersome that what we put up as a scientific thing has sort of been carried beyond scientific rigor?
02:53Yes and no.
02:54It doesn't bother me.
02:56The identity of the man in the iron mask.
03:01No!
03:03No!
03:04No!
03:06No!
03:07No!
03:07No!
03:08No!
03:09Much has been written, invented, and speculated about this mysterious French prisoner.
03:14Incarcerated during King Louis XIV's reign, this prisoner was forced to wear a cloth, later exaggerated as iron mask.
03:21He has been suggested to have been everything from an Italian diplomat to the king's own twin brother.
03:26Obviously, the person in the mask, without the mask, would be instantly recognizable.
03:32And the only person who would be instantly recognizable in those days was the king.
03:36However, the most commonly accepted answer for the man in the iron mask's identity is that of Ustis Dugia de Cavoy,
03:43a valet to the king's finance minister and the son of several court functionaries.
03:47Dugia was involved in several court scandals and was linked to everything from devil worship to supplying poisons.
03:53While many still propose other identities for the famous prisoner, Dugia does seem the most popular candidate.
03:58Madness!
04:00Nightmares!
04:01Nightmares!
04:03God!
04:06Bring me some sweet dreams.
04:09Sweet dreams, sweet dreams, sweet dreams, sweet dreams.
04:13Pearl Harbor Ghost Plane.
04:14Rumors abound during wartime.
04:28One such rumor about World War II that has persisted long after the fact
04:32is that of the Pearl Harbor ghost plane.
04:34A year after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1942,
04:37a heavily damaged P-40 fire plane was spotted by a pair of pilots
04:41flying from the direction of Japan.
04:43After briefly waving at the pilots,
04:44the plane crashed, only for no trace of the pilot to be found.
04:48If it sounds like something out of fiction, that's because it is.
04:51The persistent ghost story is based on a short story called Ghost Ship,
04:54written by Brigadier General Robert Lee Scott Jr.,
04:57who shot down the claims of its veracity.
04:59The Beast of Gévaudan
05:01During 1760s France,
05:09the populace was up in arms over there being around 200 animal attacks
05:13in the southern province of Gévaudan.
05:15These attacks were purportedly all caused by a single beast,
05:18whose description was that of a large, striped, tough-tailed creature bigger than a wolf.
05:23It's then said that the beast put its paw up to its chest before running off.
05:27Memorials like these are now the only reminder of the terror that once gripped the countryside.
05:32While theories include the beast being everything,
05:34from a supernatural being to escape lions or bears from a menagerie,
05:39historians and animal experts agree the most likely answer
05:41is that it was just a wolf or pack of wolves.
05:44Wolf attacks were very common during the time,
05:46and its description is reminiscent of the Italian wolf,
05:49which can be found in southern France.
06:02The Lost Crew of the Mary Celeste
06:04Somehow, the tether stretching from the boat and the ship parted,
06:08and Mary Celeste sailed off into infamy,
06:11leaving her crew and master to be swallowed up by the seas.
06:15The Mary Celeste was a merchant ship discovered abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872.
06:20While the ship had obviously encountered rough weather,
06:22and there was water in the hull,
06:23there didn't appear to be any obvious reason for the vessel's abandonment.
06:27Wild stories about this ghost ship have persisted for over a century,
06:30and yet, several simple explanations have been offered.
06:33Initially, he doggedly pursued the theory that the crew had gotten at the alcohol,
06:38and in a fit of drunkenness, murdered the captain and his family.
06:42The most likely reasons include the crew fearing a potential explosion,
06:45owing to the large amount of alcohol below decks,
06:48or else the sailor is not accounting for the ship remaining buoyant,
06:51with the water it took on during a storm.
06:53Hmm, never finish this letter.
06:57Never ate the chicken.
07:00Looks like they left in a hurry.
07:01The Prince is in the Tower.
07:03Did Buckingham's greed compel Richard to seize the crown?
07:08Was it the only way he could protect himself from a Woodville backlash?
07:13Or was he lusting for power all along?
07:17The dethroned 12-year-old Edward V of England and his younger brother Richard
07:21were imprisoned in the Tower of London by their regent uncle,
07:24future King Richard III.
07:25At some point during their captivity, the duo disappeared, never to be seen again.
07:31What happens after they disappear?
07:33Richard does become King of England.
07:35That's Uncle Richard.
07:37Only now, he was King Richard.
07:39He had motive and opportunity for getting rid of the boys.
07:43It has long been assumed that Richard III had them murdered,
07:46to prevent any challenge to his rule,
07:48although other theories about the pair's survival have also remained for centuries.
07:51However, circumstantial evidence, such as several small, still unidentified skeletons found in the Tower,
07:57as well as a will including Edward V's gold chain of office given to the Capel family by Sir James Tyrell,
08:03the alleged murderer, seems very damning.
08:06Richard almost definitely had them killed.
08:08It's possible, if it is a bloodstain, that it was produced by a blow to the face.
08:13Now, the only way we're going to be able to tell is if we were allowed to get these bones out of the abbey and examine them properly.
08:21Rasputin's Death
08:22Grigoy Rasputin is among the most fascinating figures in history.
08:30The faith healer and mystic wielded uncommon influence in the last days of Tsarist Russia.
08:35His mysterious reputation is only further enhanced by the legends surrounding his death.
08:40Rasputin was supposedly poisoned multiple times by cake and wine laced with cyanide,
08:45shot several times, and even drowned before he was finally killed by his assassins.
08:49God give me strength to end it all, I thought.
08:52A streak of lightning seemed to run through my body.
08:57However, according to Rasputin's daughter,
08:59the faith healer for when sweet foods like cakes,
09:02and the autopsy revealed no signs of drowning or poisons,
09:05merely a bullet to the head.
09:07Still, when someone larger than life dies,
09:09people expected his death to be equally so.
09:11The fate of Anastasia
09:20But with all seven Romanov remains now accounted for
09:23and identified through mitochondrial DNA testing,
09:26the possibility of Anastasia's escape comes to an end.
09:30Speaking of Tsarist Russia,
09:32Anastasia, youngest daughter of Nicholas II,
09:34the last Tsar,
09:35has long been the subject of theories about her possible survival.
09:38Rumor had it that the young grand duchess outlived her family after they were killed,
09:43with several imposters claiming to be her over the years,
09:45and the story even being popular enough to get an animated film.
09:48Oh, I couldn't have said it better myself!
09:51Unfortunately, this legend of a lost duchess was put to an end
09:54when further remains of the executed Romanov family were uncovered,
09:58and DNA testing confirmed that Anastasia died with the rest of them.
10:02Yes, Your Majesty, there is no one there.
10:04No one.
10:05Well, perhaps she went to her room.
10:06Oh, quick, send somebody.
10:07You won't find her.
10:08It's a waste of time.
10:09They've both gone.
10:10Both?
10:11She and your friend Bunyan.
10:12Bunyan?
10:13That's why I don't understand.
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10:29The Lost Franklin Expedition
10:32The expedition would have already broken all records for deaths in marine exploration.
10:38Why then, even before the final desperate march to the mainland,
10:42were Franklin's losses so heavy?
10:44Captained by Sir John Franklin,
10:46this expedition set out to explore the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic in 1845.
10:51However, during the following several years,
10:54the crews of both the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were stranded on the polar ice.
10:59Groups of six carry any wounded back to the ships to eat the ice.
11:03I want every man accounted for.
11:04Cool.
11:05With all of them apparently vanishing without a trace.
11:08Numerous expeditions to find them were launched over the next century and a half,
11:11but it was only in 2014 that the Erebus was found again,
11:14and the Terror soon after in 2016.
11:17Evidence from the remains reveals that the theories about the men dying of exposure,
11:21hypothermia, and starvation,
11:23as well as that some resorted to cannibalism, were true.
11:26It took over 160 years, but they were found at last.
11:30Most died of starvation after they abandoned their ships and tried to walk south.
11:36Now, for the first time, we might get to know in detail
11:39how they found themselves trapped in the ice,
11:42and how they endured months, even years, in the Arctic.
11:47Is there a historical secret revelation you wish we revealed?
11:50Unmask your favorites in the comments.
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