Judge Crater, Jimmy Hoffa, and D.B. Cooper were all the same immortal person, who may even now be living among us as a reasonably high-profile celebrity until he gets bored and goes into seclusion again.
J.D. Salinger didn’t write anything. He was used as the public face of a small team of authors, who abandoned him when they realized he wasn’t attractive or well-spoken enough to be a good public face.
William Shakespeare had serious delusions and believed Christopher Marlowe and Francis Bacon wrote his plays. All of the clues to that effect were planted there by his diseased mind.
Queen Elizabeth I did have the heart and stomach of a king. She also had the gonads of one, in that sadly pre-operative era.
Henry Kissinger controlled both sides of the Vietnam War. He wanted to keep it going at least until 1980 to increase his grasp on world power, and punished Nixon severely when ‘Vietnamization’ meant a reduction in his effective control.
William C. Minor is one of the many names listed in the addendum to the 20 volume *Oxford English Dictionary *set.
He was an asylum patient. I go to the college library, stare at the 20 volumes and know that someone (that we know of) was insane who wrote that dictionary.
…in turn, the second-cousin once removed of Major Major Major Major-who looked like Henry Fonda and was ashamed to tell people that he wasn’t Henry Fonda.
Charles Bronson is alive and well and acknowledged to be one of the most violent men in Britain. He once wrote a museum to tell them “Men like me were born to be caged so leave the birds and animals alone or I’ll rip your head clean off your shoulders, OK.”
Drew Barrymore researched her part in “Charlie’s Angels” by becoming a deep cover CIA operative. She killed three Filipino terrorists with a machete before having to return to Hollywood to complete her close-ups for “Never Been Kissed”.