Tag: #UnsolvedMysteries
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Maybe The Voynich Manuscript Was Never Meant to Be Solved
Six Hundred Gold Ducats for a Book No One Could Read Rudolf II kept his most prized possessions close. Astrolabes. Alchemical texts. A menagerie of exotic animals most of Europe had never seen. Sometime during Rudolf II’s reign, according to a letter written decades later, he added something stranger to the collection: a manuscript written…
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Arsenic or a Witch?
How Memory Turned a Death into a Legend In 1820, John Bell died near what is now Adams, Tennessee, a small rural town just north of Nashville. The descriptions of his final weeks are unsettling but not, at least on their face, supernatural. Accounts recorded later describe facial paralysis, difficulty swallowing, and episodes of weakness…