Our History's Mysteries

Boston Corbett was the man that killed John Wilkes Booth...however...

April 14th, 1865. The day that history would be changed forever when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by the infamous John Wilkes booth. Accompanying him was Union Major Henry Rathbone and his wife Clara. Henry was not able to save Lincoln and was tormented by the event for more than two decades until the unthinkable happened...

The infamous bandit, Jesse James has 2 graves. The first in Kearney, Missouri and the later one in Granbury, Texas. A man named Frank J. Dalton came out at the age of 101 and claimed to be Jesse James...The people of Granbury believed his story and when he died, they had Jesse James engraved on his headstone....Years later, DNA confirmed that the body of the real Jesse James was the one buried in Kearney, Missouri but some people from Granbury still reject the evidence to this day.

madame curie, the mother of radioactive rEsearch, died from radiation poisoning after pursuing her life's work. She had to be buried in a lead coffin...even to this day, her notebooks are still radioactive and are also kept in a lead box.

The flesh eating syphilis outbreakof 1494 left hoards of people disfigured. Some had flesh rotted down to the bone on some parts of their body. Some even lost hands or feet and walked through the streets wailing and crying out in pain. Today, this would look just like the zombie apocalypse.

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Bloodletting was a medical treatment dating back to ancient times that consisted of draining blood from the patient, believing that it would cure ailments. George Washington even swore by the procedure and it was used on him when he became ill shortly before he died of what is suspected to be from blood loss.

Before the days of alarm clocks and wake up calls, there was a job called "knocker-ups" that would use long sticks to tap on windows to wake sleeping citizens.

Conspiracy theories have been a part of American culture for decades upon decades, some of these conspiracy theories do, however, turn out to be true. Here are 5 of the most shocking government conspiracy theories, that turned out to be true. Follow me on BITCHUTE https://www.bitchute.com/historysmysteries Follow me on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbhmEHak7PReKskubCa2_5Q

In the early 90s, Pepsi owned 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer. They had a deal with the Soviet Union in which they exchanged soda for military equipment.

CONTRARY to popular belief, no one was actually burned at the stake during the Salem witch trials. the majority Of victims were executed by hanging, with one person being stoned to death.

Following his presidency, George Washington opened a whiskey distillery that became the largest in the country and produced 11,000 gallons of un-aged whiskey.

Vladimir Pravik was a first responder to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the 1986 meltdown. The radiation was so strong that it changed his eye color from brown to blue. Tragically, he died from radiation poisoning only 15 days later.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died just hours apart on the same day...that day was the 50th anniversary of independence day.

Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin Look-a-Like contest. He came in 20th place.

In 1943, all copper was utilized for wartime efforts and ammo so pennies were minted in steel. Only a handful of 1943 pennies were minted in copper and are worth an average of $85,000 today.

Hungarian Countess, Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed. was accused of torturing and killing over 650 young women. Most of them were between the ages of 10 and 14. Making her the most prolific serial killer in history.

Our history is more than just a timeline, it is a web of connected events that carry us to our present day.