Alexandre Dumas recounted it in “The Vicomte of Bragelonne”, and Leonardo DiCaprio portrayed him – among others – in the movies. We’re talking about the mysterious Man in the Iron Mask, who was imprisoned in the Bastille and other French prisons for over three decades in the second half of the 17th century, and whose […]
Mysteries
The Mysterious Disappearance of Louis Le Prince, the True Inventor of Cinematograph
In the first half of the 1990s, an old photograph appeared in the archives of the Préfecture de Police in Paris. It showed the body of an unidentified drowned person that quickly sparked speculation: could this unfortunate person be Louis Le Prince? Due to a lack of confirmation, we can only recall the story of […]
10 historical characters who mysteriously disappeared
Every day people disappear somewhere in the world. It’s disturbing, but it’s a fact. It is not something that has to do with modern times, it has happened throughout human history. And when the disappeared person is a public, known, or prominent figure, it is recorded for posterity as a mystery. The list of these […]