1. Count Saint-Germain
The mysterious Earl of Saint-Germain, or the Marquis of Monfera, or the Knight of Xiuning? In fact, this mysterious invader of18th century European society has many names, and this is just the beginning.
He claims to be over 500 years old. Obviously, he is a well-educated man. 1750 or so appeared in the French court. As a highly skilled philosopher, composer and writer, he traveled all over the courts of Europe, leaving a deep impression on everyone he met, but he was always indifferent.
Legend has it that Saint-Germain has made some achievements in alchemy, a mysterious "scientific" art, which strives to control elements and create the stone of sages. It is said that the Earl of Saint-Germain discovered the secret of alchemy.
People who have seen him are impressed by his many abilities and characteristics:
He can play the violin as well as the violin.
He is an excellent painter.
Wherever he went, he set up a complex laboratory, probably for alchemy.
He seems to be a very rich man, but he doesn't know any bank accounts.
He often eats with friends, but seldom eats in public. It is said that he lives on oats.
He likes jewelry, and most of his clothes, including his shoes, are embedded in jewelry.
He claimed that he could fuse several small diamonds into one big diamond. He also said that he could make pearls incredible.
He is associated with several secret societies, including the Rose Cross, the Society of * * *, the Knights of Light, the Illuminati and the Knights Templar.
Throughout the18th century, the Earl of Saint-Germain was active in the political and social movements of European elites:
1In the 1940s, he became a trusted diplomat in the court of King Louis XV of France and carried out secret missions for him in Britain.
1760, he met his lover giacomo Girolamo Casanova in The Hague. Casanova later said to Saint-Germain: "This extraordinary man ... will easily and confidently say that he has a history of 300 years. He knows the secrets of cosmic medicine, he is proficient in nature, he can melt diamonds ... He said that all these are just trivial things for him. "
1762, he went to Russia. It is said that he was involved in the plot to murder Catherine the Great. Later, he made suggestions to the commander of the Turkish imperial army.
1774, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette ascended the throne, and he returned to France. It is said that he warned them about the future revolution.
Saint-Germain died on1February 27th, 784, which will be the end of the story for any ordinary person. But not for the Earl of Saint-Germain.
1785, he met the pioneer hypnotist Anton mesmer in Germany.
* * * According to the official records of the Economic Association, they chose Saint-Germain as their representative at a meeting in 1785.
1789 After the French Revolution captured the Bastille, Countess Adema said that she had a long talk with Count Saint-Germain. It is said that he told her about the near future of France, as if he knew what would happen. In 182 1, she wrote: "I saw Saint-Germain again, which surprised me every time. The day after the death of the Duke, the Queen [Antoinette] was murdered in brumel in 18. " The last time she saw him was1820-every time he looked like a man under 40.
182 1 year later, Saint-Germain may adopt another identity. Albert Vandam wrote in his memoirs that he met a man who was strikingly similar to the Earl of Saint-Germain, but his name was Major Fraser. Vandam wrote:
"He calls himself Major Fraser, lives alone, never mentions his family, and he is rich. Although the source of his wealth is a mystery to everyone, he has an extraordinary understanding of all European countries at any time. His memory is absolutely incredible, and strangely, he often lets the audience know what he has learned from other places instead of learning from books. He told me a lot with a weird smile. He is convinced that he knows Nero, talked to Dante, and so on. "
Major Frazier disappeared without a trace.
From 1880 to 1900, the name of Saint-Germain stands out again. At that time, Helena Blavatsky, a member of Mystic Association, claimed that he was still alive and tried to realize the "spirit of western development". There is even a real photo allegedly taken with Saint-Germain. 1897, Emma Calve, a famous French singer, dedicated her autographed portrait to Saint-Germain.
So who is the Earl of Saint-Germain? He is a successful alchemist. Did he discover the secret of eternal life? Is he a time traveler? Or is he a very clever liar?
However, for obvious reasons, this is unlikely: the real "Earl" died almost penniless in 1784.
2. Caspar Hauser
1828 On May 26th, Nuremberg, Germany, a teenager was found wandering in the street, holding a letter saying that he was from the Bavarian border. He is in good health and seems to know the basic knowledge of German society, such as how to buy bread. But as for why he came to Nuremberg, he didn't know.
He claimed to remember living in a dark cell, but he had no other useful memories to help the authorities determine who he was. He started a new life in Nuremberg. Six years after he was discovered, he was stabbed to death by an unidentified attacker for unknown reasons.
Rumor has it that he is actually the hereditary Prince Baden. It is said that Hauser was replaced when he was a baby, and the succession to the throne became his uncle. Then he was smuggled out of the castle and will come back one day to take back his title. However, no conclusive evidence was found to explain his true identity.
Caspar Hauser was buried in the cemetery of ansbach City on February 20th, 1833+65438. Its inscription is Latin:
"Hic Jacet Caspar us Hauser a Enigma Sui Tempor is Ignota Nativita Occulta Mors MD CCCXXXIII ("Caspar Hauser was buried here, life is unknown and mysterious, and died in 1833 ")."
Soon a monument was erected, also in Latin:
" HIC occulture occulture to occius EST XIV。 Decision MDCCCXXXIII
("This mysterious man was assassinated on 1833") "
3. Formosa people
At 170 1 or 1702, people found a stranger who was a mercenary in Europe. He has a puzzling story. This man claimed to have been kidnapped by avignon, an evil Jesuit missionary, and brought to Europe to convert him to Catholicism. The man claimed to be from Formosa, which is now Taiwan Province Province.
The authorities immediately doubted his statement. On the one hand, this blond man can speak fluent Latin with Dutch accent. However, Formosa is a remote and mysterious island, and many people who know nothing about the Far East believe his story.
An Anglican priest took him in and named him George samana Zall. He was welcomed by English society, where he pleased his master by talking nonsense and eating raw meat. He wrote a book about the language, customs and people of Taiwan Province Province, which turned out to be completely wrong.
4. Fulcanelli
Fulcanelli, a French alchemist in the early 20th century? I know it through his students' publications and descriptions.
His most famous student is Eugene Park Jung-soo. It is said that this man turned lead into gold, which is a skill he learned from his teacher. Another student, Sovag, witnessed Cance Park Jung Su turning lead into gold.
After Fulcanelli disappeared, his student Cance Park Jung Su was responsible for publishing his book The Mystery of the Cathedral. Some people think that physicists? Jules viollet is four cats. Unfortunately, there is no reliable evidence to support this theory. It was added to the legend only because the information of this mysterious man left a lot of blanks.
5. dolores barrios
Yes 1954. 1947 after the Roswell incident, the United States fell into a UFO craze. Hundreds of UFO reports followed. That year, believers gathered at a convention on the top of Paloma Mountain in California. Many people there believe that they have met aliens.
Accompanied by two mysterious men, a tall and thin woman walked through the crowd with obvious facial features: wide forehead and big eyes. Three people have fair skin, and the woman has golden bobheads and dark and fierce eyes.
George adamski, a famous UFO researcher, once gave a speech about Venusians, and this lady seems to be completely consistent with his description.
Someone approached the girl and asked her a question directly: "Are you from Venus?" She didn't deny it, and said that they held the meeting because "they are particularly interested in the problems here".
They also asked her if there were aliens coming to earth from Venus, and the lady's answer was straightforward: "Yes, most of them came from that planet." Therefore, Joao Martins, a Brazilian journalist who came from Rio de Janeiro to attend the meeting, decided to go further and interview these three strangers.
During the conversation, he learned that the woman's name was dolores barrios, who claimed to be a fashion designer from new york. These two men are his friends, Donald Moran and Bill Jack Matt, musicians in Manhattan Beach, California.
The next day, Brazilian reporters approached the three men again and took some photos they didn't like. After the impromptu photo shoot, dolores barrios and her two companions left in the direction of the forest around the headquarters where the UFO conference was held. No one has seen them since.
From 1954 to 10, Martins published the whole story in the Brazilian weekly O Cruzeiro. The so-called "Venusians" and their bizarre escape made good sales.
At the same time, I don't know why, only Martins took pictures of these three strangers at the press conference, although many people who came to the press conference had cameras.
In addition, adamski, the organizer of the conference, didn't like the spread of this story, because he thought that the three men deliberately participated in his activities to "impersonate Venusians" and damaged his reputation as an expert on extraterrestrial life.
However, UFO investigators have been trying to uncover the truth about barrios for years, but they have failed to find them in new york, California or any other state in the United States.
6. Mr. Ciochini
Mr. Gioccini is an anonymous mysterious Jewish teacher. His students include Eli Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning writer.
He is disheveled and looks like a beggar, which is often mentioned in his life account. Vizer wrote that Gioccini was "dirty" and "hairy" and "looked like a clown playing a tramp", while according to another student, Lithuanian-born French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas, "his appearance was very unpleasant and even offensive." But he can be called a master of philosophy, mathematics and Talmud. They both think that he is one of the most influential teachers they have ever met.
Little is known about other information about Joe Qiu Chen. Shortly after the end of World War II, he lived in Paris from 1947 to 1952, then disappeared for several years, and suddenly appeared in Israel for a while. Then he wandered around Paris for a while. Finally, he moved to South America at some point, where he lived until his death. In addition, what we really know about this person is that he was born in 1895, and we don't even know the specific location.
So is his real name. Qiao Qiuchen is considered as a nickname, which may be a pun; Chouchani is the devil's name of a man from the biblical city of Shushan (which is now located in modern Iran). But no one knows why he is called by this name.
What we do know is that Giovanni died in 1968 and was buried in Montevideo, Uruguay. Wiezell paid for his tombstone and wrote his epitaph: his birthday and his life are a mystery. "
7. Unknown woman in the Seine
/kloc-At the end of 0/9, an unknown female corpse was salvaged from the Seine River in France. According to the BBC, they showed her in the Paris morgue, hoping that someone would recognize her. Although no one knew her in the end, the mortuary staff made her a plaster mask.
This mask, which some people call "ignorance", has become a cultural phenomenon, inspiring artists, poets and novelists, as well as specific toy manufacturers.
A Norwegian toy manufacturer specializing in soft plastics has created the first CPR mannequin-using the face of this unknown woman. The toy manufacturer got inspiration from the mask hanging in his parents' house. According to the BBC, his creation has become the standard doll model of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
8. Roger Ti hepburn
Betty hepburn is a very rich family with a title and owns land in Hampshire. Roger Charles de hepburn was born in Paris on 1829. His uncle is the eighth baronet, and his English has a strong French accent.
When Roger was 20 years old, he joined the Sixth Dragon Guard in Dublin. 1853, his father became the ninth baron after the death of his two brothers, and Roger went to South America in the same year.
/kloc-in 0/854, he set sail for new york on the Bella, but within a week, the Bella disappeared at sea. Roger was pronounced dead on 1855.
When Roger's father died in 1862, the title of Baron Tichborne passed to Roger's younger brother Alfred. Alfred died only four years later, and his son succeeded to the title at 1866.
When Alfred was still alive, Roger's mother, Madame Henrietta Di hepburn, refused to believe that Roger was drowned. It is said that some passengers and crew survived the shipwreck and were rescued by a ship bound for Melbourne.
She conducts surveys all over the world, including? The Sydney Morning Herald published a reward notice to try to find out the whereabouts of her son.
1865165438+1October, Australian lawyer William Gibbs wrote to Mrs. hepburn, claiming that someone claimed to be her son. This man is a butcher from Voga Voga named Tom Castro.
He is taller than Sir Roger, with light hair, can't speak French and has no French accent, but this doesn't bother Mrs. hepburn-she hasn't seen her son for 10 years, and anything can happen at this time. She sent someone to find Castro, who arrived in London on February 1866.
Castro visited the family manor and met people who knew Sir Roger. A few weeks later, he went to France to meet Mrs hepburn. Soon convinced her that this was her son's resurrection from the dead. Other family members also welcomed him back.
Mrs hepburn settled Castro in England and gave him enough living expenses. By getting along with his family and asking their opinions, Castro managed to thoroughly study Sir Roger's life and continued to deceive people.
Others don't think so Through their agents in Australia, they found that Tom Castro was actually Arthur Orton, who was born in London.
He went to Australia, but jumped off the boat for a while and stayed in Chile for a while-because he had been to South America, he was able to talk about it with Mrs. hepburn very convincingly.
1868 After the death of Mrs. Tickborn, some family members took Orton to court. In the end, he was convicted of two counts of perjury and sentenced to 14 years of hard labor. Orton served his sentence in prison 10, 1884.
Strangely, after Orton died in London on 1898, he was officially recognized as Sir Roger Ti hepburn: his death certificate and coffin board were printed with this name. London Daily Mail? Say:
"It took the judges of the High Court two years to determine that hepburn alive was Orton. The Registrar of Life and Death confirmed within two minutes that the deceased Orton was hepburn. "