Name: 20 Historical Secrets That Were Finally REVEALED
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He repeatedly hailed the ghostly vessel, but received no reply.

And today we're looking at the mysteries and secrets from history that were revealed and or solved after a long period of time.

After 500 years of controversy, we may finally have solved the mystery of the Princes in the tower.

A corpse has been washed and now needs to be wrapped in a cloth.

You lift the corpse to 90 degrees, pull the cloth underneath, and then lay the body back again.

First documented Sometime in the 14th century, the shroud of Turin is a linen cloth that depicts a faint image of a bearded man, purported by Christians, particularly Catholics, to have been the burial shroud of Jesus Christ.

The Shroud of Turin has been venerated and debated over for centuries.

It would be interesting to have had more written evidence.

We don't have it, but we do have the Shroud.

And the Shroud has a lot of questions and a lot of intriguing issues that are not resolved by science and by our knowledge.

In 1988, scientists from multiple laboratories performed carbon dating on the Shroud, which indicated that it in fact dated from between 1260 to 1390 CE, significantly after Jesus death and shortly before it was first documented.

Granted, those results have of course been much debated and criticized in the years since the tests.

I was astounded when we were able to do this, that the brightness surface that you create by the computer looked, as you can see here, very much like a three dimensional person.

There were occasionally, rarely, but occasionally there were sounds that we just could not identify.

In 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.

However, the massive distance involved led to many speculations, including that the noise was generated by a heretofore unknown massive deep sea creature.

By 2012, though, repeated tests have concluded that the noise was the result of an ice quake or large glaciers cracking.

And with climate change, more bloops are sure to come.

That hasn't stopped cryptid enthusiasts from creating increasingly horrifying monsters to represent the bloop, though.

Is it bothersome that what we put up as a scientific thing has sort of been carried beyond scientific rigor?

The identity of the man in the iron mask.

Much has been written, invented and speculated about this mysterious French prisoner.

Incarcerated During King Louis XIV's reign, this prisoner was forced to wear a cloth later exaggerated as Iron Mask.

He has been suggested to have been everything from an Italian diplomat to the king's own twin brother.

Obviously, the person in the mask without the mask would be instantly recognizable, and

the only person who would be instantly recognizable in those days was the king.

However, the most commonly accepted answer for the man in the Iron Mask's identity is is that of Eustace Duja de Cavoy, a valet to the King's finance minister and the son of several court functionaries.

Duja was involved in several court scandals and was linked to everything from devil worship to supplying poisons.

While many still propose other identities for the famous prisoner, Duja does seem the most popular candidate.

Madness, Nightmares, Nightmares God, Bring me some.

One such rumor about World War II that has persisted long after the fact is that of the Pearl harbor ghost plane.

A year after the attack on Pearl harbor in 1942, a heavily damaged P40 fireplane was spotted by a pair of pilots flying from the direction of Japan.

After briefly waving at the pilots, the plane crashed only for no trace of the pilot to be found.

If it sounds like something out of fiction, that's because it is.

The persistent ghost story is based on a short story called Ghost Ship, written by Brigadier General Robert Lee Scott Jr.

Who shot down the claims of its veracity.

During 1760s France, the populace was up in arms over there, being around 200 animal attacks in the southern province of Gevaudan.

These attacks were purportedly all caused by a single beast whose description was that of a large, striped, tough tailed creature bigger than a wolf.

It's then said that the beast put his paw up to his chest and before running off.

Memorials like these are now the only reminder of the terror that once gripped the countryside.

While theories include the beast being everything from a supernatural being to escaped lions or bears from a menagerie, historians and animal experts agree the most likely answer is that it was just a wolf or pack of wolves.

Wolf attacks were very common during the time and its description is reminiscent of the Italian wolf which can be found in southern France.

Somehow the tether stretching from the boat and the ship parted and Mary Celeste sailed off into infamy, leaving her crew and master to be swallowed up by the seas.

The Mary Celeste was a merchant ship discovered abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872.

While the ship had obviously encountered rough weather and there was water in the hull, the there didn't appear to be any obvious reason for the vessel's abandonment.

Wild stories about this ghost ship have persisted for over a century, and

yet several simple explanations have been offered.

Initially, he doggedly pursued the theory that the crew had gotten at the alcohol and in a fit of drunkenness, murdered the captain and his family.

The most likely reasons include the crew fearing a potential explosion owing to the large amount of alcohol below decks, or else the sailors not accounting for the ship remaining buoyant with the water it took on during a storm.

Did Buckingham's greed compel Richard to seize the crown?

Was it the only way he could protect himself from a Woodville backlash?

The dethroned 12 year old Edward V of England and his younger brother Richard were imprisoned in the Tower of London by their regent uncle, future King Richard iii.

At some point during their captivity, the duo disappeared, never to be seen again.

Only now he was King Richard, he had motive and opportunity for getting rid of the boy.

It has long been assumed that Richard III had them murdered to prevent any challenge to his rule, although other theories about the pair's survival have also remained.

However, circumstantial evidence, such as several small, still unidentified skeletons found in the Tower, as well as a will, including Edward V's gold chain of office given to the Capel family by Ser James Tyrell, the alleged murderer, seems very damning.

Richard almost definitely had them killed.

It's possible if it is a blood stain, that it was produced by a blow to the face.

Now, 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.

Grigory Rasputin is among the most fascinating figures in history.

The faith healer and mystic wielded uncommon influence in the last days of Tsarist Russia.

He his mysterious reputation is only further enhanced by the legends surrounding his death.

Rasputin was supposedly poisoned multiple times by cake and wine laced with cyanide, shot several times, and

even drowned before he was finally killed by his assassins.

I thought a streak of lightning seemed to run through my body.

However, according to Rasputin's Daughter the faith healer.

And the autopsy revealed no signs of drowning or poisons, merely a bullet to the head.

Still, when someone larger than life dies, people expected his death to be equally so.

But with all seven Romanov remains now accounted for and identified through mitochondrial DNA testing, the possibility of Anastasia's escape comes to an end.

Speaking of Tsarist Russia, Anastasia, youngest daughter of Nicholas ii, the last Tsar, has long been the subject of theories about her possible survival.

Rumor had it that the young Grand Duchess outlived her family after they were killed.