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Mysterious murders at the Hinterkaifeck farm
In 1922, the mysterious murder of six people committed in the small village of Hinterkaifeck shocked the whole of Germany. And not only because the murders were committed with horrific cruelty.
All the circumstances surrounding this crime were very strange, even mystical, and to this day it remains unsolved.
More than 100 people were questioned during the investigation, but no one was ever arrested. Not a single motive that could somehow explain what happened was identified either.
The maid who worked in the house ran away six months ago, claiming that there were ghosts there. New girl arrived just a few hours before the murder.
Apparently, the intruder had been on the farm for at least several days - someone was feeding the cows and eating in the kitchen. In addition, neighbors saw smoke coming from the chimney over the weekend. The photo shows the body of one of the dead, found in a barn.
Phoenix Lights
The so-called “Phoenix Lights” are several flying objects that were observed by more than 1,000 people on the night of Thursday, March 13, 1997: in the skies over the states of Arizona and Nevada in the United States and over the state of Sonora in Mexico.
Actually, two strange events happened that night: a triangular formation of luminous objects that moved across the sky, and several motionless lights hovering over the city of Phoenix. However, the latest US Air Force recognized the lights from the A-10 Warthog aircraft - it turned out that at that time military exercises were taking place in southwest Arizona.
Astronaut from Solway Firth
In 1964, the family of Briton Jim Templeton was walking near the Solway Firth. The head of the family decided to take a Kodak photograph of his five-year-old daughter. The Templetons assured that there was no one else in these swampy places except them. And when the photographs were developed, one of them revealed a strange figure peeking out from behind the girl’s back. The analysis showed that the photograph had not been subject to any changes.
Falling body
The Cooper family just moved into their new home in Texas. In honor of the housewarming it was laid out festive table, at the same time we decided to take some family photos. And when the photographs were developed, a strange figure was revealed on them - it seemed that someone’s body was either hanging or falling from the ceiling. Of course, the Coopers didn’t see anything like this during filming.
Too many hands
Four guys were fooling around, taking pictures in the yard. When the film was developed, it turned out that out of nowhere one extra hand appeared on it (peeking out from behind the back of a guy in a black T-shirt).
"Battle of Los Angeles"
This photograph was published in the Los Angeles Times on February 26, 1942. To this day, conspiracy theorists and ufologists refer to it as evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations visiting Earth. They claim that the photo clearly shows that the beams of the searchlights are falling on the alien flying ship. However, as it turned out, the photo for publication was heavily retouched - this is a standard procedure that almost all published black and white photographs were subjected to for greater effect.
The incident itself, captured in the photo, was called a “misunderstanding” by authorities. The Americans had just survived the Japanese attack, and in general the tension was incredible. Therefore, the military got excited and opened fire on the object, which, most likely, was a harmless weather balloon.
Lights of Hessdalen
In 1907, a group of teachers, students and scientists set up a scientific camp in Norway to study a mysterious phenomenon called the Hessdalen Lights.
Björn Hauge took this photo one clear night using a shutter speed of 30 seconds. Spectral analysis showed that the object should consist of silicon, iron and scandium. This is the most informative, but far from the only photo of the “Lights of Hessdalen”. Scientists are still scratching their heads as to what it could be.
Time Traveler
This photo was taken in 1941 during the opening ceremony of the South Forks Bridge. The public's attention was attracted by a young man whom many considered a "time traveler" - due to his modern hairstyle, zip-up sweater, printed T-shirt, fashionable glasses and point-and-shoot camera. The whole outfit is clearly not from the 40s. On the left, highlighted in red is a camera that was actually in use at that time.
9/11 attack - South Tower woman
In these two photographs, a woman can be seen standing on the edge of the hole left in the South Tower after a plane crashed into the building. Her name is Edna Clinton and, not surprisingly, she ended up on the list of survivors. How she managed this is beyond comprehension, considering everything that happened in that part of the building.
Skunk monkey
In 2000, a woman who wished to remain anonymous took two photographs of a mysterious creature and sent it to the Sarasota County (Florida) Sheriff. The photographs were accompanied by a letter in which the woman claimed that she had photographed a strange creature in the backyard of her house. The creature came to her house three nights in a row and stole the apples left on the terrace.
UFO in the painting “Madonna with Saint Giovannino”
The painting “Madonna with Saint Giovannino” belongs to the brush of Domenico Ghirlandai (1449-1494) and is currently in the collection of Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. A mysterious flying object and a man watching it are clearly visible above Mary's right shoulder.
Incident at Lake Falcon
Another meeting with a supposed extraterrestrial civilization occurred at Lake Falcon on May 20, 1967.
A certain Stefan Michalak was relaxing in these places and at some point noticed two descending cigar-shaped objects, one of which landed very close. Michalak claims he saw the door open and heard voices coming from inside.
He tried to speak to the aliens in English, but there was no response. Then he tried to get closer, but came across “invisible glass,” which apparently served as protection for the object.
Suddenly, Michalak was surrounded by a cloud of air so hot that his clothes caught fire. The man received serious burns.
Bonus:
This story happened on the evening of February 11, 1988 in the city of Vsevolozhsk. There was a light knock on the window of the house where a woman who was fond of spiritualism lived with her teenage daughter. Looking out, the woman saw no one. I went out onto the porch - no one. And there were no footprints in the snow under the window either.
The woman was surprised, but of great importance didn't give it. And half an hour later there was a bang and part of the glass in the window where the invisible guest was knocking collapsed, forming an almost perfectly round hole.
The next day, at the woman’s request, her Leningrad acquaintance, candidate of technical sciences S.P. Kuzionov, arrived. He examined everything carefully and took several photographs.
When the photograph was developed, the face of a woman appeared on it, peering into the lens. This face seemed unfamiliar to both the housewife and Kuzionov himself.
Experts in the field of archaeologists and ancient cultures who have studied rock paintings in the caves of the Chhota Nagpur plateau in the state of Chattisgarh in Central India, discovered a series of images that led them to make sensational statements and seek help from the Indian Space Research Organisation.
Not far from the villages of Chandeli and Gottitola, images were discovered on the rocks, whose age experts estimate to be approximately 10,000 years old. They captured strange creatures that looked like people, and an object that resembled spacecraft. Archaeologist J.R. Bhagat, a participant in this expedition, states: “The drawings have retained their colors, which, despite their age, have hardly faded. Strange figures are depicted with weapons-like objects in their hands and do not have certain facial features. Some of the drawings appear to show aliens wearing space suits."
Dr. Bhagat is confident that the drawings can serve as confirmation of the so-called paleocontact theory. According to it, in prehistoric times, the Earth was visited by representatives of advanced alien civilizations, who left numerous evidence of their visits. Proponents of the theory of paleocontact were outstanding scientists, for example, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Most of this evidence is not considered modern science seriously. However, the very fact of the existence of such mysterious images is very interesting and deserves research.
As Dr. Bhagat points out, in the state of Chhattisgarh there are legends about ancient people, which descended from the sky on an “oval object”. This folklore is directly related to rock paintings. The literature of ancient Indian authors speaks of vimanas - aircraft that ancient people saw in the sky. And the residents of the villages of Chandeli and Gotitola, near which the drawings were found, have a legend about the “Rohela people” - short creatures who descended from the sky in round flying objects.
Archaeologists think that in ancient images we often see what people might actually have witnessed. It is quite possible that these drawings were made “from life”. Ancient people reflected the appearance of certain mysterious creatures and structures as best they could and as they understood, leaving a series of unresolved mysteries for enlightened descendants.
Periodically in history such mysterious personalities that the interest in them was phenomenal. Legends were made about them, which over time supplanted the truth. People have long forgotten who they really were.
1. Count Dracula
The movie vampire with fangs and a cloak has nothing in common with his prototype. The nickname Dracula was given to the Romanian Count Vlad III by his father, who was a knight of the Order of the Dragon. Translated, Dracul means “Dragon” or “Devil”. Vlad III himself was called Tepes, which translated from Romanian means “Impaler.” 
The Count was known for his cruelty. Rumor has it that he executed en masse, impaled men, women and children, and burned dozens of people alive. In total, he is credited with killing 100 thousand people. It was these legends that inspired the Irish writer Bram Stoker to write a novel about the aristocratic vampire Dracula.
2. Mata Hari
Everyone knows about this spy from the First World War. Almost three dozen films and TV series have been shot about her. However, according to modern assessments, the image of the spy is too romanticized, and in fact, her significance was not as great as we used to think. Most historians believe that the information she actually obtained was not of serious value to one side or another.
The Dutch striptease dancer Margareta Gertrude Zelle is known under the pseudonym Mata Hari (in Malay for “eye of the day”, that is, “sun”). Many influential people became her spectators and then her lovers, for whose connections she was most likely executed.
In 1916, the French suspected him of espionage. Mata Hari was arrested in Paris in 1917 and sentenced to death. The spy was executed at the age of 41.
3. Iron Mask
Under this nickname, a prisoner of the French Bastille during the time of the king went down in history. Louis XIV. There are many versions about his personality. The most popular of them, which became the basis for the movie image, is the one in which the king’s twin brother hides his face under a mask. And in fact, the mask was not iron, but black velvet.
The legend arose from a mysterious nameless prisoner who died in 1703 in the Bastille. Voltaire was the first to describe this prisoner as the Iron Mask, turning him into a symbol of the era of absolutism.
Some historians believe that there was no mysterious prisoner, because at that time it was customary to use a black mask to hide the faces of prisoners who knew state secrets.
4. Nostradamus
Michel de Nostredame was a French pharmacist and medical graduate who was interested in astrology and alchemy. He took mild hallucinogens and meditated, and wrote down the resulting “visions” in quatrains.
His quatrains are devoid of any specifics; they do not contain certain dates, and the information is very vague. Therefore, interpreters famously adjust all events to fit predictions, even if the meaning of the latter can be interpreted with great stretch.
5. Rasputin
This man was an ordinary son of a Siberian coachman, who arrived in St. Petersburg to treat Tsarevich Alexei, and became one of most influential people of its time. Researchers have put forward many assumptions about the life of Rasputin, but no one knows how he managed to achieve such fame.
Many rumors and gossip about him were deliberately spread by anti-monarchists and revolutionaries. They claimed that Rasputin led a very depraved life: he organized orgies, played drunken brawls in restaurants, had connections with prostitutes, and much more.
The family doctor of Nicholas II, Yevgeny Botkin, said that if Rasputin had not existed, the revolutionaries would have created a “demon” out of someone else.
This is how people who once really existed became indestructible authorities for us. Who knows, maybe the same legends will be made about one of us!
"Mystery Man"- essay by Nikolai Leskov, published in 1870 in the newspaper “Birzhevye Vedomosti” (No. 51; 54; 56; 58; 60; 64; 66; 68; 76; 78) without a signature under the title “Mysterious man. Essay on the history of comic time in Rus'". A separate and expanded edition appeared in 1871 under the pseudonym N. S. Leskov-Stebnitsky: “Mysterious man. An episode from the history of comic time in Rus'." With a letter from the author to Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. Republished under the title "The Mysterious Man" in Full meeting works of N. S. Leskov, 1889, vol. 8, pp. 3-127.
Plot
The documentary essay “The Mysterious Man” is written about the biography of Arthur Benny, a Russian revolutionary, journalist and translator, who at the end of his life joined the Garibaldian troops and was mortally wounded in the battle of Rome. Leskov describes Benny's biography sequentially from childhood until his tragic death at the age of twenty-eight. He portrayed Benny based on his personal impressions, since he knew him for four years from 1861 to 1865, as well as from the memoirs and documentary evidence of I. S. Turgenev, P. D. Boborykin and A. N. Jacobi.
History of creation
The writer first turned to the image of Arthur Benny in his early novel “Nowhere” (1864), written in the wake of the Polish uprising of 1863. Arthur Benny is depicted there under the name of the socialist Vasily (Wilhelm) Rainer. The novel is based on romantic story Rainer and revolutionary Lisa Bakhareva (prototype M.N. Koptev), as well as the heroic struggle of the Polish rebels, which ends tragic death Rainer and L. Bakhareva. Rainer's image turned out to be prophetic: three years after the release of the novel, Arthur Benny actually died heroically - in the battle of the Garibaldian troops for Rome at Mentana against the combined detachments of the French and papal troops, he was mortally wounded. This death (1867) was preceded by childhood in Poland, youth in Great Britain, whose subject Arthur Benny became in 1857, acquaintance with Herzen, the desire to take part in the revolutionary reorganization of Russia, the role of Herzen's emissary in St. Petersburg and Moscow in 1861, the history of slanderous libel , when Benny was announced in Russian revolutionary circles as an agent of Section III.
Arthur Benny (left) and Nikolai Leskov, 1861-1862
Leskov tells how Benny did not despair and was not disillusioned with Russia, despite all the adversities (“trial 32” of “persons accused of having relations with London propagandists”, lack of money and debtor’s prison, deportation from the country), he compassionately shows selflessness , the nobility and sincerity of the aspirations of the young revolutionary, while simultaneously depicting in dark colors the images of Russian pseudo-revolutionaries surrounding him, primarily Andrei Nichiporenko (in the novel “Nowhere” - Parkhomenko), who, according to Leskov’s version, was the source of cruel gossip about espionage that darkened life of an English youth. The writer shows the path of a publicist and translator - Arthur Benny became a journalist already in Russia. Leskov portrays Benny's naive faith in the Russian peasant community, which should become the embryo of the future socialist system according to the socialist.
Benny's faith in Russia, in a country that, in his opinion, could be the first to get rid of exploitation and the proletariat, did not collapse even after Benny was expelled from the country. He appealed to the Russian government to allow him to become a full citizen of the country, but did not receive consent from the chief of gendarmes P. A. Shuvalov, and three months later he died. The Russian newspapers that published Benny's obituary recalled previous rumors about Arthur's service as an agent. I. S. Turgenev first came to his defense. Following him, Nikolai Leskov also decided to express his opinion about good name tragically deceased socialist. From a letter to A.P. Milyukov: “Sometimes I knew in St. Petersburg a certain “unsolved man” Arthur Benny. He was killed at Mentana, and his most interesting story, which I described at one time, can be announced. This thing is spicy and zesty and seems to be very interesting. She can cause a lot of noise.". In another letter he said: “I am fighting to strike a blow and restore the good name of a slandered person.” .
Reaction
The reaction of contemporaries to this essay was negative. A work called “Spy. An Episode from the History of Comic Time in Rus',” written in 1869, the author tried to publish in the conservative magazine “Russian Messenger” by M. N. Katkov, but was refused. V. P. Burenin, A. S. Suvorin, V. I. Kelsiev called N. S. Leskov’s pamphlet slander on the movement of the sixties, accused of misunderstanding the essence revolutionary movement, the caricature of its prominent figures, the hostility and tendentiousness of individual characteristics. Kelsiev, as one of the characters in the book, rebelled against the epithet of “comic time” as a characteristic of the early 1860s, emphasizing the seriousness of the aspirations of its leading representatives, which deserved a more respectful attitude and a less mocking tone. In subsequent reprints, Leskov was forced to remove his subtitle “An Episode from the History of Comic Time in Rus',” but at the same time he retained the bias of other characteristics, the sharpness of the pamphlet and the polemical tendentiousness.
Notes
Links
- Leskov N. S. - “The Mysterious Man.”
| Works by Nikolai Semenovich Leskov | |
|---|---|
| Novels | A seedy family On knives Nowhere Bypassed Islanders Cathedrals Devil's dolls |
| Stories | Warrior Childhood Life of a Woman Mystery man Imprinted Angel Hare Harness Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk At the End of the World Unbaptized Priest Offended Neteta Enchanted Wanderer Pechersk Antiques Midnight Offices Laughter and Sorrow Old Years in the Village of Plodomasovo |
| Stories | Administrative grace Antuka White eagle Shameless Inspired vagabonds Sovereign court Robbery Lady and fefela Fool Spirit of Mrs. Zhanlis Iron will Pearl Necklace Jewish Somersault Collegium Corral Notes of the Unknown Beast Winter Day Improvisers Unmercenary Engineers Cadet Monastery Kolyvan Husband Kotin Doilets and Platonida Small Mistake Unvalued Services Unchangeable Ruble Non-lethal Golovan Deception Muskox Odnodum Selected grain Peacock Pygmy Fiery patriot The story of a godly woodcutter Offended at Christmas Ghosts in the Engineering Castle Product of nature Scarecrow Idle Dancers Journey with a nihilist Robber Rakushan melamed Russian democrat in Poland Russian secrecy Siberian pictures of the 18th century Synodal philosopher Descent into hell A just man Old genius Languishment of the spirit Stupid artist Figure Man on the clock Chertogon Sheramur Darner Yudol The caustic |
| Tales and legends |
Ascalonian villain Bramadata and Radovan Mountain Lion of Elder Gerasim Lefty Legends of the conscientious Danil Leon the butler's son Malanya - the head of a ram Innocent Prudentius The Beautiful Aza The legend of Fedor the Christian and his friend Abram the Jew Buffoon Pamphalon Christ visiting a peasant The Hour of God's Will |
| Journalism | Bishop's tours Jew in Russia Diocesan court Cartoon ideal Legendary characters Trifles of bishop's life About Russian icon painting Russian public notes Senichkin's poison |
| Dramaturgy | Waster |
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MYSTERIOUS- MYSTERIOUS, enigmatic, enigmatic; mysterious, enigmatic, enigmatic. 1. Requiring a solution. Mysterious picture. 2. Incomprehensible, mysterious. Mysterious man. Mysterious phenomenon. Mysterious nature. Dictionary Ushakova. D.N. Ushakov. 1935... ... Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary
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Today you need to try hard to make data about yourself inaccessible to the public. After all, you just need to type a few words in a search engine - and secrets are revealed, and secrets come out...
Today you need to try hard to make data about yourself inaccessible to the public. After all, you just need to type a few words in a search engine - and secrets are revealed, and mysteries come to the surface. With the development of science and the improvement of technology, the game of hide and seek becomes more and more difficult. It was, of course, easier before. And there are many examples in history when it was impossible to find out what kind of person he was and where he came from. Here are a few such mysterious cases.
Kaspar Hauser
May 26, Nuremberg, Germany. 1828 A teenager of about seventeen wanders aimlessly through the streets, clutching a letter addressed to Commander von Wessenig. The letter states that the boy was taken in for training in 1812, taught to read and write, but was never allowed to "take one step out of the door." It was also said that the boy should become a "cavalryman like his father" and the commander could either accept him or hang him.
After meticulous questioning, we were able to find out that his name was Kaspar Hauser and he spent his entire life in a “darkened cage” 2 meters long, 1 meter wide and 1.5 meters high, in which there were only an armful of straw and three toys carved from wood (two horses and dog). A hole was made in the floor of the cell so he could relieve himself. The foundling hardly spoke, could not eat anything except water and black bread, called all people boys, and all animals horses. The police tried to find out where he came from and who the criminal was that made a savage out of the boy, but they could not find out. Over the next few years, he was cared for by one person or another, taking him into their homes and caring for him. Until December 14, 1833, Kaspar was found with stabbed breasts A purple silk wallet was found nearby, and inside it was a note made in such a way that it could only be read in a mirror image. It read:
“Hauser will be able to describe to you exactly what I look like and where I came from. In order not to bother Hauser, I want to tell you myself where I come from _ _ I came from _ _ the Bavarian border _ _ on the river _ _ I’ll even tell you my name: M. L. O.”
Green Children of Woolpit
Imagine that you live in the 12th century in the small village of Woolpit in the English county of Suffolk. While harvesting in a field, you find two children huddled in an empty wolf's hole. The children speak an incomprehensible language, are dressed in indescribable clothes, but the most interesting thing is that their skin is green. You take them to your home where they refuse to eat anything other than green beans.
After a while, these children - brother and sister - begin to speak a little English, eat more than just beans, and their skin gradually loses its green tint. The boy gets sick and dies. The surviving girl explains that they came from the "Land of St. Martin", an underground "world of darkness" where they looked after their father's cattle, and then heard a noise and found themselves in wolf's den. The inhabitants of the underworld are green and dark all the time. There were two versions: either it was a fairy tale, or the children escaped from the copper mines.
The Man from Somerton
On December 1, 1948, police discovered the body of a man on Somerton Beach in Glenelg (a suburb of Adelaide) in Australia. All the tags on his clothes were cut off, he had no documents or wallet, and his face was clean shaven. Even the teeth could not be identified. That is, there was not a single clue at all.
After the autopsy, the pathologist concluded that “death could not have occurred due to natural causes” and assumed poisoning, although no traces of toxic substances were found in the body. Apart from this hypothesis, the doctor could not guess anything more about the cause of death. Perhaps the most mysterious thing in this whole story was that a piece of paper was found on the deceased, torn from a very rare edition of Omar Khayyam, on which only two words were written - Tamam Shud (“Tamam Shud”). These words are translated from Persian as “finished” or “completed”. The victim remained unidentified.
Man from Taured
In 1954, in Japan, at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, thousands of passengers were rushing about their business. However, one passenger seemed to be taking no part in it. For some reason, this outwardly completely normal man in a business suit attracted the attention of airport security, they stopped him and started asking questions. The man answered in French, but was also fluent in several other languages. His passport contained stamps from many countries, including Japan. But this man claimed that he came from a country called Taured, located between France and Spain. The problem was that none of the maps offered to him showed any Taured in this place - Andorra was located there. This fact greatly saddened the man. He said that his country had existed for centuries and that he even had its stamps in his passport.
Discouraged airport staff left the man in hotel room with two armed guards outside the door, while they tried to find more information about this man. They didn't find anything. When they returned to the hotel for him, it turned out that the man had disappeared without a trace. The door did not open, the guards did not hear any noise or movement in the room, and he could not leave through the window - it was too high. Moreover, all of this passenger’s belongings disappeared from the airport security premises.
The man, simply put, dived into the abyss and did not return.
Lady Grandmother
The 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy has given rise to many conspiracy theories, and one of the most mystical details of this event is the presence in photographs of a certain woman who was dubbed Lady Granny. This woman in a coat and sunglasses was in a bunch of pictures, moreover, they show that she had a camera and was filming what was happening.
The FBI tried to find her and establish her identity, but to no avail. The FBI later called on her to turn over her videotape as evidence, but no one ever came. Just think: this woman, in daylight, in full view of at least 32 witnesses (photographed and videoed by her), witnessed and videotaped a murder, and yet no one, not even the FBI, could identify her. It remained a secret.
D. B. Cooper
This happened on November 24, 1971 in international airport Portland, where a man who had bought a ticket using documents in the name of Dan Cooper boarded a plane bound for Seattle, clutching a black briefcase in his hands. After takeoff, Cooper gave the flight attendant a note saying that he had a bomb in his briefcase and his demands were $200,000 and four parachutes. The flight attendant notified the pilot, who contacted authorities.
After landing at Seattle Airport, all passengers were released, Cooper's demands were met and the exchange was made, after which the plane took off again. As he flew over Reno, Nevada, the calm Cooper ordered all personnel on board to remain seated as he opened the passenger door and jumped into the night sky. Despite large number“Cooper” was never found to have any witnesses who could identify him. Only a small portion of the money was found in a river in Vancouver, Washington.
21-faced monster
In May 1984, a Japanese food corporation called Ezaki Glico faced a problem. Its president, Katsuhiza Yezaki, was kidnapped for ransom from his home and held for some time in an abandoned warehouse, but then managed to escape. A little later, the company received a letter stating that the products were poisoned with potassium cyanide and there would be casualties if all products were not immediately recalled from food warehouses and stores. The company's losses amounted to $21 million, 450 people lost their jobs. The Unknowns - a group of people who took the name "21-faced monster" - sent mocking letters to the police, who could not find them, and even gave hints. The next message said that they “forgave” Glico, and the persecution stopped.
Not content with playing with one large corporation, the Monster organization has its eyes on others: Morinaga and several other food companies. They acted according to the same scenario - they threatened to poison the food, but this time they demanded money. During a botched money exchange operation, a police officer almost managed to capture one of the criminals, but still let him go. Superintendent Yamamoto, who was responsible for investigating this case, could not bear the shame and committed suicide by self-immolation.
Soon after this, "Monster" sent his last message in the media, mocking the death of a police officer and ending with the words: “We are the bad guys. This means we have other things to do than harass companies. Being bad is fun. Monster with 21 faces." And nothing more was heard about them.
The Man in the Iron Mask
The “man in the iron mask” had the number 64389000, as follows from prison archives. In 1669, the minister of Louis XIV sent a letter to the governor of the prison in the French city of Pignerol, in which he announced the imminent arrival of a special prisoner. The minister ordered the construction of a cell with several doors to prevent eavesdropping, to provide for this prisoner's every basic need, and finally, if the prisoner ever spoke of anything other than this, to kill him without hesitation.
This prison was known for incarcerating "black sheep" from noble families and the government. It is noteworthy that the "mask" received special treatment: his cell was well furnished, unlike the rest of the prison cells, and two soldiers were on duty at the door of his cell, who were ordered to kill the prisoner if he removed his iron mask. The imprisonment lasted until the prisoner's death in 1703. The same fate befell the things he used: the furniture and clothes were destroyed, the walls of the cell were scraped and washed, and the iron mask was melted down.
Many historians have since fiercely debated the identity of the prisoner in an attempt to find out whether he was a relative of Louis XIV and for what reasons he was destined for such an unenviable fate.