People who took the biggest secrets to the grave

Humans have secrets, but not everyone is willing to share them. Even on their deathbeds, many famous personalities didn’t dare or didn’t want to tell the world something they knew in life.

Being a lover of secrets and mysteries, the awesome.club will tell you about 8 famous personalities who took valuable information to the grave.

In the famous trilogy “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, written by Douglas Adams, “the meaning of life, the universe and everything” was answered with the number “42”. But Adams never told the public the reason for his response. It is said that only the author’s close friend, Stephen Fry, knows the truth, but out of respect for his partner, he refuses to tell.

There is also the assumption that the author simply made a joke and wrote the first thing that came to mind. Either way, we’ll never know what the truth is.

Before he died, Albert Einstein said something to the nurse, but he did it in German and she just didn’t understand. Many still argue about which words they were, and one of the versions is: “I have already fulfilled my mission here”.

Edward Leedskalnin was a Latvian immigrant who somehow single-handedly built a multi-ton stone castle in Florida.

It is still unclear how a person who measured 1.60 m and weighed 50 kg learned to move stones weighing up to 30 tons without help. Leedskalnin himself did not reveal his technique in life, but said: “I discovered the secret of the pyramid builders!”

After his death, the creation was called “Coral Castle”. In 1986, when a 9-ton stone door was broken, engineers had to use a huge crane to move it. Scientists believe that Leedskalnin discovered the nature of magnetism and that he used some sort of device to move stones.

One of the most famous illusionists in history, Harry Houdini, before his death, locked an envelope in a safe in which the secrets of his best tricks were described. In his will, he indicated that the safe would not be opened until 100 years after his death.

On April 6, 1974, when the indicated period had expired, the registry office publicly opened the object, but it was found to be empty.

It is said that this was Houdini’s last trick and that the illusionist took the secrets of his actions to the grave.

The library of Ivan the Terrible is the richest and most legendary collection of books and documents in history, whose last owner was the similarly named Tsar.

The collection contained scientific treatises, works by ancient classics and by philosophers of different peoples. It was so valuable that the king ordered it to be hidden, and its location was known only to a small circle of people he trusted.

It was assumed that the library’s secret would be passed down from generation to generation, but with the Tsar’s death all information about the library’s location disappeared.

Popes have the right to appoint cardinals in pectore, that is, in secret. During the 27 years of his papacy, John Paul II secretly appointed 4 people.

The first was Archbishop Gong Pin-mei, who spent 30 years in a Chinese prison. The pope named him a cardinal in 1979 and didn’t say so until 1991. Later, the names of two others were also revealed to the public, but the fourth remains a mystery. John Paul II did not say this during his lifetime or in his will.

That means that somewhere there is a cardinal who doesn’t know what title he has.

After Beethoven’s death, an unsent love letter was found in his personal correspondence. There was no name on the envelope or inside it, so only the great composer knew the truth about who the message was intended for.

Angelo Faticoni was a man who remains a mystery to scientists. He was born in 1859 and in childhood discovered his ability to not sink in water.

One day, Harvard scientists carried out a study of his abilities and threw Faticoni into a pond, tying him to a weight of 9 kg. But he floated for 15 hours and also did not sink while strapped to a bag of cannonballs or sitting in a chair with a heavy load.

Scientists dubbed Faticoni “the cork man”. He died in 1931 without telling the secret of his incredible ability.