The Middle Ages are fraught with many mysteries, the answer to which we may never know. Although scientists do not lose hope: after all, scientific research methods are constantly improving.
Mysterious skeleton
At the end of the 19th century, during construction work in the courtyard of the Scottish castle of Dantrune, once belonging to the powerful Campbell clan, a human skeleton was discovered with severed hands. The owner of the castle decided that in front of him was the bagpiper of the enemy Campbells MacDonald clan, who was killed several centuries earlier, because Dantrun Castle was famous for the ghost of a bagpiper walking around it and demanding revenge. They called a priest, served the service, buried the remains with honors. However, the spirit of the piper never found peace and still worries the inhabitants of the castle. Does this mean that the skeleton found belonged to someone else? Or that simple church service cannot quell the ghost's vengeance? Be that as it may, over the castle, which now belongs to the Malcolm family, the sounds of otherworldly bagpipes are still heard.
Headless Runner
Medieval chronicles tell that in 1636 King Ludwig of Bavaria sentenced to death a certain Dietz von Schaunburg with four of his landsknechts for raising a revolt. When the condemned were brought to the place of execution, according to chivalric tradition, Ludwig of Bavaria asked Dietz what his last wish would be. To the king's great surprise, he asked to put them all in one row at a distance of eight steps from each other and cut off his head first. He promised that he would start running headlessly past his landsknechts, and those that he would have time to run past should be pardoned. Diez lined up his comrades in a row, and he himself stood on the edge, knelt down and laid his head on the block. But as soon as the executioner took it down with a blow of the ax, Diez jumped to his feet and rushed past the frozen landsknechts. Only after running past the last of them, he fell dead to the ground. The shocked king fulfilled his promise and pardoned the landsknechts. The history of this pardon has been documented, but it doesn't make it any less strange.
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Lost Princes
In the 15th century in England, a dynastic war for the throne raged between the two branches of the House of Plantagenets: Yorks and Lancaster, known as the War of the Scarlet and White Rose or the War of the Roses. It began with the death of King Edward IV in April 1483. The king left seven children, two of whom were boys and heirs to the throne. However, just two months after Edward's death, all of his children were declared illegal, and the young princes were locked in the Tower of London. And less than a week after that, Edward's younger brother, the humpbacked Richard III, was declared king. Throughout July, the never-crowned 12-year-old Prince Edward V, now contemptuously called Edward the Bastard, and his 9-year-old brother were occasionally seen playing in the courtyard of the Tower. Then, according to the testimony of contemporaries, the children were transferred to remote rooms of the palace-fortress. For some time they showed themselves behind the shuttered windows, and then ceased to appear altogether. Two years passed, and on August 22, 1485, Richard III was killed in a battle with Henry Tudor (Lancaster branch). The victor, becoming king, immediately blamed the murdered cousin for the murder of the princes. This version was adhered to by the official history of England for many years. Recently, however, scientists have begun to believe that Henry himself had much more reason to kill the princes … The main question, the answer to which historians want to know, is when exactly the princes died: before Henry's victory or later? In 1674, during the repair of the Tower, two skeletons were found belonging to boys 12-13 years old and 9-10 years old. Approximately the same number should have been for the princes in the years 1483-1484. However, it was not possible to determine the exact year of their death and who was responsible for this.