once again we're going to take a look at some of the mysteries conspiracy scandals
and creepy tales from the rich history of another nation today's agenda france
number 10. the death of an artist at first the story of jean-marie leclaire was one
of great success born in lyon in 1697 he initially apprenticed as a lace maker before
studying dance then he turned to music and proved to be one of the most talented violinists of his
era even being celebrated as the french carelli by the time he was in his 50s leclair was a composer
of renown who often performed for european royals his life took a turn in 1758 his second marriage
ended and for some reason leclair decided to move into a small house located in a sketchy
part of paris this was unusual because the composer could definitely afford much better
living quarters his life ended abruptly on the evening of october 22nd 1764. leclaire was stabbed
three times as he arrived home and died in his vestibule he was discovered by the gardener the
next morning and even though the parisian police conducted an investigation into leclaire's death
they never found out who did it his nephew was a popular suspect as was leclair's ex-wife or
maybe it was even just a random attack but the true identity of the murderer remains a mystery
9. the chateau de chambord the chateau de chambord in the loia valley is one of the
most stunning and distinctive examples of french renaissance architecture although the identity of
the person who designed it is an enigma no records no building plans or even contemporary texts about
its construction have survived although some have theorized that the architect might be none other
than leonardo da vinci from a chronological perspective the timelines line up in 1516
an aging leonardo accepted an invitation from the king of france francis the first to move into his
court and become the premier painter architect and engineer of the king he then died in 1519 the same
year that the construction began on chateau de chambord those who have studied the works of the
italian polymath have no doubt that they see his influence in many elements of the castle such as
the ornamental facades and the grid style layouts but especially in the castle's most iconic feature
its staircase at the time the design for the staircase was unique in french architecture a
double spiral that allowed two people to go down or up the stairs without running into one another
people couldn't help but notice that it greatly resembled the double helix design which appears in
numerous sketches by leonardo could the designs for the castle be da vinci's final masterpiece
number eight the disappearance of the father of cinematography supporters of louis prince argue
that the french inventor is the person who should be regarded as the true father of cinematography
even though people like thomas edison and the lumiere brothers usually get the credit
they say that la prince shot the first film in history in leeds back in 1888 but that he
mysteriously disappeared before showing it to the general public it seems that lula prince might
have been a victim of his own ambition because at the time when there was a pattern race between
various inventors he wanted to take it slow in order to perfect his creation even though he made
his first film in 1888 he waited two years before he decided that it was ready for public exhibition
the show was scheduled to take place in september 1890 in new york blueprints had
been staying in dijon with his brother albert following their mother's death he boarded a
train for paris containing all of the materials and patents that he needed for the showcase but
he never made it to the french capital his friends were waiting embarrassed to pick him up but
they could find no trace of him several juicy theories popped up following his disappearance
but none were ever substantiated one said that alberta prince killed his brother over their
inheritance and that louis in fact never made it onto the train others allege that le prince killed
himself by drowning or that he vanished on purpose in order to start a new life somewhere else
but by far the most salacious idea was that the inventor's disappearance and subsequent death
were arranged by none other than thomas edison who wanted to ensure his monopoly over the new
and revolutionary invention 7. the encounter of marius dewald one of france's strangest
ufo stories occurred on the night of september 10th 1954 in the northern commune of querabil
where a local railway worker named marist wilde claimed to have received a visit from two aliens
as reported by the new york times a cigar-shaped ufo landed near the wild garden gate and out
came two small creatures wearing spacesuits that resembled divers costumes the alien ship then shot
a paralyzing beam of light edoar which prevented him from moving in closer to investigate and by
the time he recovered the extraterrestrials were already getting ready to take off again apparently
the authorities investigated the encounter and found unusual marks on the railway tracks but
unsurprisingly there was no definitive proof of alien visitation as strange as it is that's not
where the story ends because word of the world's experience spread far and wide including to the
wine producing village of chattanooga pub hundreds of miles south of cuadra ball keen
to protect their constituency and vineyards from possible alien invaders the local mayor and the
town council passed a municipal degree banning all ufos stating that the overflight and landing and
the takeoff of aircraft known as flying saucers or flying cigars whatever the nationality is
are prohibited on the territory of the community 6. hemingway's stolen suitcase nowadays ernest
hemingway is remembered as one of america's greatest novelists but that was not always
the case in the early 1920s he was a struggling writer who had yet to publish any work of fiction
hemingway had moved to paris with his first wife hadley richardson where he was writing
as a foreign correspondent by day and working on his novels by night in 1922 the 23 year old
journalist was sent on temporary assignment to lesson switzerland where it looked like he might
finally get his big break an editor told him that he liked his writing and wanted to see more so
hemingway told his wife to pack up his manuscripts and come to switzerland since hadley was not sure
what her husband needed she packed everything manuscripts notes drafts even the carbon copies
almost every word of fiction ernest hemingway had written up until that point was in that suitcase
and then the suitcase was stolen at the paris train station hemingway lost several short stories
and most notably the draft for his first novel a story hit in world war one which for whatever
reason he never attempted to rewrite whatever happened to the stolen suitcase is a mystery
but it remains sort of a holy grail for literary buffs who are still holding out hope that it might
be found someday in a dusty attic number 5. the dupou de lingon case one of the most heinous and
shocking crimes in the modern history of france occurred in april of 2011 when the bodies of the
de ponte luang family were found buried in the garden of their house in knot agnes de pointe de
leon and her four children have been shot in the back of the head with a 22 caliber long rifle but
missing from this morbid lineup was the head of the family xavier dupont lagoon obviously
he became the prime suspect in the murders and the more the investigation went on the more evidence
was found against him de pondellon had a 22 rifle which he had inherited from his father and went
to shooting ranges in the months leading up to the crimes to learn how to use it he also made
some suspicious purchases such as bags of chalk lime and cement as well as bullets garbage bags
a spade and a trolley lastly he also wrote to his children's schools and told them that the
family was moving to australia so they wouldn't be suspicious when the kids didn't show up for class
all signs pointed to xavier de pondellon carrying out the premeditated murders of his family but by
the time the police found their bodies which happened a few weeks after their death xavier
was a ghost even though he left an obvious trail as he traveled to the southwest of france once
he reached a commune named rock brunso arjen he simply vanished some believed that he went
into the nearby mountains and committed suicide but no body was ever found despite an extensive
search number 4. the ghost of paul marie a city like paris has a long and bloody history so it's
no surprise that it also comes with more than its fair share of ghost stories one of the most
intriguing comes from a short but turbulent period known as vichy france during world war
ii france was divided into one part was directly occupied by the germans while the other was vichy
france which although technically independent was merely a puppet state of the nazis but this period
of hardship also saw many people rise up and fight for their country as part of the french resistance
one of them was an unnamed brisian lady who was married to a resistance fighter she began an
affair with an ss officer so she could collect information and deliver it to the resistance
one cold win tonight she was supposed to meet her husband on ponte marie a bridge that crosses the
sen but he never showed up knowing that he would never miss their appointment unless something bad
had happened the woman began crying and refused to leave she kept waiting through the night and
by morning she had frozen to death ever since then people crossing the palmery have reported seeing
her ghost especially on cold nights still crying and wailing for her husband to show up 3. the
praslin affair at first glance the scandal which became known as the prasan affair seemed like a
straightforward case husband and wife mary husband has affair with nanny husband kill's wife it
sounds like a familiar scenario but in this particular case the aftermath was far greater
than anyone could have ever predicted it proved to be one bourgeois scandal too many for the
common people of france who once again took to the streets to riot we're not saying that the
press and affair was solely responsible but it was one of the events that directly led to the 1848
revolution which saw the abdication of king louis philippe the first of france and the abolishment
of the monarchy so what exactly happened well what we know is that august the 17th 1847 francois
duchess chaucer praslin was found stabbed to death in her bedroom her husband charles de chauxelle
prasadan was armed with a gun and showed the signs of a fight he claimed that an intruder broke into
the home and attacked them killing his wife before he could retrieve his pistol the duke was soon
arrested everyone thought that he did it because they suspected him of having an affair with the
governess the duke committed suicide before his trial began still proclaiming his innocence on his
deathbed however once he was dead the prosecution dropped the case and the police stopped the
investigation so they never established with any certainty whether praslin was guilty of
his wife's murder or not number two the beast of govardhan it wasn't safe to roam the province of
govardhan alone back in the mid-18th century that is because a vicious creature was on the
prowl and it had a taste for human flesh known as the beast of govardhan it was described as being
like a wolf yet not a wolf and was considered responsible for hundreds of attacks resulting in
100 deaths and over 300 injuries the first victim was recorded in june 1764 when the beast attacked
a 14 year old shepherdess named jean boulay and ripped her throat out over the next few years the
attacks kept coming as the beast mostly preyed on lone women and children although nobody was truly
safe from the monster as the number of victims kept climbing the regional government offered a
large reward for whoever killed the beast tens of thousands of men took up the challenge but
the creature eluded them then in early 1765 a ten-year-old boy named jacques portafey became a
hero after protecting his friends during an attack and driving the beast away armed only with sticks
once the story spread throughout france the king sent his royal hunters to slay the beast of gobert
all one of them shot a large wolf and claimed the reward thinking that the beast was dead
but the attacks continued it wasn't until june 1767 that a farmer named jean chastel seemingly
ended the monster's reign of terror once he heard that the beast was in his neck of the woods he
headed into the mountains alone allegedly armed with silver bullets he killed the beast when it
tried to attack him and then took the body to the king who looked at it once and then ordered it to
be destroyed number one legrell we're going to end today's video with something a bit different the
mystery surrounding one of france's most notorious serial killers of modern times known simply as
legrell or the pot marked man after committing multiple rapes and murders during the 80s and 90s
he disappeared and his identity remained a secret for 35 years until early october 2021 when he was
finally identified legrell was a former jean-dorne named francois verov who had committed suicide
shortly before being publicly named he had been recently called in for questioning and was due to
give a dna sample to compare it to traces left at the scene so it's likely that he realized that it
was only a matter of time before he was discovered betrothed left behind a written confession and his
dna was subsequently matched samples from the murders thus confirming that he was the
infamously grilled now the only mystery still left to untangle belongs to the paris police as
they try to piece together lagrell's crime spree to see if there are more victims we wanted to show
that all mysteries have answers that can be found eventually as long as the police keep looking for
them it might take weeks months years or in this case three and a half decades but they are out
there waiting to be discovered so i really hope you found this video interesting had lots of crime
in it if you're into that sort of stuff i have a true crime show it's called the casual criminalist
it's both a podcast and a youtube channel i shall link to it below and thank you for watching