9. The Man in the Iron Mask
In 1703, a mysterious man died in the Bastille, a French prison. After four years of being forced to wear an iron mask over his face, this prisoner finally died, leaving a huge mystery behind. Who was he? He was in several different prisons for the last 35 years before that, hidden from the world and gagged to prevent anyone from finding out who he was. The other prisoners claimed he had guards ready to kill him or stop him if he ever tried to remove his mask. The man was referred to in official documentation as a number and nothing more. AlthoughLeonardo DiCaprio played him in a fictional movie about one of the many theories of who he was, no one really knows why the real man in the iron mask’s identity was so completely secret.
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