Strange History
Strange deaths and remains: History
Strange History pages that draw on Strange deaths and remains, each with the sources shown. Start with The 1876 plot to steal Lincoln's body, The Dyatlov Pass incident, The 'Hitler skull' in Moscow, The Princes in the Tower.
Events · Strange deaths and remainsThe 1876 plot to steal Lincoln's bodyOn election night in 1876, Chicago counterfeiters broke into Abraham Lincoln's tomb to steal his body and trade it for $200,000 and the release of their jailed engraver.Events · Strange deaths and remainsThe Dyatlov Pass incidentIn 1959 nine experienced hikers in Russia's Ural Mountains cut their way out of their tent at night and fled into deadly cold, and some were found with injuries no one could explain.Objects · Strange deaths and remainsThe 'Hitler skull' in MoscowFor decades Russia displayed a piece of skull with a bullet hole as Adolf Hitler's, until a 2009 DNA test by American scientists said it came from a woman.People · Strange deaths and remainsThe Princes in the TowerIn 1483 the boy king Edward V and his younger brother were taken into the Tower of London and never seen again. Bones found there in 1674 sit in an urn in Westminster Abbey and have never been DNA tested.People · Strange deaths and remainsThe Somerton Man (Tamam Shud case)In 1948 a well-dressed man was found dead on an Australian beach with a scrap of paper in his pocket reading 'Tamam Shud', meaning 'it is ended', torn from a book of Persian poetry.
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