Bizarre Mysteries That Remain Unsolved to This Day

William Shakespeare

While you've certainly heard of William Shakespeare, it might be surprising to find that he may not have existed. Scholars have yet to figure out how a glover's son from the countryside managed to enter the literary world. Theorists suppose that he may have been a ghostwriter, Francis Bacon, or Christopher Marlowe, an essayist and a playwright from the same era.

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