The Count of Saint-Germain: the man who seemed centuries old and never denied it
Versailles, Eckernförde and other European courts, 1784 Under debate
Shadowy figures
Alchemists, impostors, prophets and people who vanished without a trace: real people whose stories outgrew the records.
Kaspar Hauser: the boy who came out of nowhere and was stabbed before he could tell his story
Nuremberg and Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany, 1828 Under debate
Rasputin: what the secret Russian files revealed and what they still hide
St. Petersburg, Russia, 1916 Partly explained
Nikola Tesla: the experiments the US government seized and what really happened to his papers
Hotel New Yorker, Manhattan, New York, United States, 1943 Partly explained
The Man in the Iron Mask: an identity hidden for 34 years
Pignerol, Sainte-Marguerite, and the Bastille (Paris), France, 1669 Under debate
Cagliostro: the alchemist who fooled kings, or the man who knew things he should not have known
Europe, from Palermo to San Leo (Italy), 1791 Under debate
D.B. Cooper: the only unsolved hijacking in American history and the hijacker who vanished into thin air
Southwestern Washington State, United States, 1971 Open
Nicolas Flamel: the medieval scribe who grew too rich and left a testament no one can explain
Paris, France, 1382 Partly explained
Anastasia: the DNA that solved the mystery and the questions it left behind
Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 1918 Partly explained
The Isdal Woman: found dead in a Norwegian valley with no identity, no past and suitcases full of false leads
Isdalen Valley, Bergen, Norway, 1970 Open
Mitar Tarabich: the illiterate peasant who supposedly foresaw humanity's future
Kremna, Zlatibor, Serbia, 1899 Under debate