hey 42 here in 1743 an unusual man was seen in the city of London for the first time he had dark hair looked to be around 45 years of age and was simply but expensively dressed over the following 5 years this stranger would become one of the most talked about people amongst London's high society as for why well that's going to take a bit of explaining for one thing there was the fact that he was a virtuoso violinist and composer then there were the rumors that he could speak every single European language with the fluency
of a native speaker and that he had an encyclopedic knowledge of world history he was also said to have had certain unusual talents like the ability to remove flaws from diamonds and even to turn base Metals into gold as interesting as all those things were there was something even more intriguing about this mysterious Str nobody had any idea who the bloody hell he was people who run in aristocratic circles typically have family histories that date back centuries but this man was different in fact it's no exaggeration to say that before he turned up in London
in 1743 it was almost like he didn't exist at all no matter how much anyone tried and believe me people did try nobody could work out who he was or where he'd come from a history lless nobleman was odd enough to begin with but in this case it was especially strange this man was clearly spectacularly well educated yet nobody knew where he'd studied he played the violin like a concert soloist but nobody knew who taught him and he was also clearly extremely rich but as for where that money came from nobody knows it just didn't
make any sense and here we are almost 300 years later and it still doesn't make any sense at least not unless you're prepared to believe what might just be the greatest tale ever told this is the story of the count of sonon the first human being ever to attain immortality maybe okay so it's getting that time of the year when it starts to get colder and darker outside and many of us might start to feel a little lonlier now some people might think that therapy is only for those with clinical issues like depression or anxiety
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Tusan as he was called back then we know he was born somewhere in what is now Mongolia within a few years of 1160 ad with the count of s Jamon we know basically nothing most sources quote his date of birth as either 1691 or 1712 but according to the man him himself those dates are out by several hundred years some people have claimed they might be out by thousands as for where he was born we quite literally don't even know which country let alone which town or city we don't even know the Man's real name
that level of obscurity in a famous historical figure is unusual to say the least exactly how he came to be in London in 1743 is anyone's guess their records have survived to tell us how he got there or where he came from but despite having apparently apparated out of th air he quickly became an important part of the London scene where to begin with he was mostly known for his prodigious Talent as a musician and composer the count was said to be amongst the very best violinists in Europe at the time capable of bringing audience
members to tears with the beauty of his music he's also credited with composing several songs for a popular London Opera at some point he made the transition from celebrated musician to High Society Dandy becoming one of the most anticipated dinner guests in all of London but despite his growing reputation it's safe to say nobody really knew quite what to make of him one of the first written accounts of his time in England comes to us from writer and politician Harris warpole son of former prime minister Robert warpole and it shows just how much of an
enigma the count really was he sings plays on the violin wonderfully composes is mad and not very sensible he is called an Italian a Spaniard a pole somebody that married a great fortune in Mexico and ran away with her jewels to Constantinople a priest a fiddler a vast nobleman the Prince of Wales has had an unsatiated curiosity about him but in vain in other words even in his own time nobody had a clue exactly who or what the count of son Jamon was which is probably why around 2 years after first arriving on British soil
he was arrested on suspicion of being a spy 1745 was the year of the so-called jackaby Rebellion an attempt by Charles Edward Stewart better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie to seize the British throne for his father James Francis Edward Stewart the details of this surprising aren't too important for our purposes but what is important is that the jackaby rebels had the support of France bearing in mind that the count of son Jon spoke fluent French and seemed to have appeared as if from nowhere two years earlier it's fair to say he seemed to be perfect
spy material he was arrested and taken in for questioning but apparently not even the threat of a bit of good oldfashioned 18th century British Justice could convince him to tell the authorities well anything he wouldn't say who he really was or where he'd come from and he freely admitted that the count of son Jamon was neither a real aristocratic title nor his actual name as far as cover stories go it wasn't great I'd have had him swinging from the nearest Gallows in a heartbeat but the count had two things on his side one during his
time in England he'd made a few friends in very high places and two he was in possession of a natural charm and charisma that would make George Clooney look like a football hooligan with a mouthful of Donna kebab and so despite flatly refusing to cooperate in any capacity the count was eventually freed without charge on his release he went straight back to the kind of high society life he'd been enjoying before he dined with all the great families and attended all the best parties by all accounts he was a dazzling dinner guest able to talk
with great Authority and insight on almost any subject especially world history in fact he had an uncanny ability of describing important historical events in such detail it was almost as though he'd witnessed them with his own eyes the count of son Jamon was the archetypal international Man of Mystery but you can't be an international Man of Mystery without being well International and so in 1748 he he relocated to France as was the case in England despite his deep and murky Roots the French aristocracy welcomed him into their midst with open arms in fact if anything
they were even more obsessed with the count than the Brits had been during his time in Paris he rubbed shoulders with some of the most famous people of the age notorious Italian Adventurer jakimo Casanova was somewhat randomly in Paris setting up one of the world's first national lotteries and frequently found himself seated at dinner tables along with the count kasanova is famous for having been the greatest lover in history and yet even he was impressed by the Count's RZ yeah I'm too old to use that word aren't I anyway in his Memoirs kasanova referred to
the count as being both good-looking and the perfect ladies man that's a bit like being called the god of football by Lionel Messi another famous face frequenting France's fabulous Capital at the time was celebrated writer and philosopher Vol and it's he who gives us perhaps the most famous description of the count he dubbed the count of son Jamon the Wonderman a man who does not die and knows everything again that's some pretty serious praise this time from one of History's great intellectuals but it also leads me neatly onto the most controversial part of the Count's
story when volter called him the man who doesn't die he wasn't just spinning a fancy phrase you see the count was a keen Alchemist and one of the central Pursuits of alchemy is a search for the secret of eternal life well our man the count claims to have found it by the time he arrived in Paris he claimed to be over 300 years old a fact he would openly share with anyone who asked now I know what you're thinking but bear with me for a minut it because as crazy as all this may sound there's
actually some fairly compelling evidence that he was telling the truth as we've already seen the C of son Jamon was no ordinary man he spoke dozens of languages fluently played the violin and could speak on almost any subject as though he was an expert is it really feasible that one man could have achieved such Mastery in just one lifetime if you've ever seen the film groundhog day you'll know that Bill Murray character Phil Connor gets so bored of living out the same day over and over again he starts randomly mastering a bunch of new skills
including playing the piano speaking French and making ice sculptures could something similar explain the Count's extraordinary abilities I mean polyglots aren't unheard of but speaking every single European language to fluency is a rare perhaps even a unique skill and that was just one of the count many talents then there was his almost freakish knowledge of European history those who heard him talk of events long past often remarked that it almost seemed as though he' lived through them well what if he had an artificially extended life would also help explain the Count's mysterious Origins if his
family died hundreds of years earlier then it was little wonder nobody could figure out who they were or where they came from okay so I don't blame you of you're not convinced at this point but there's still more evidence to come that he might have been telling the truth considering the tsunami sized waves the count was making in French High Society it was only a matter of time before the rising tide took him all the way to the very top and waiting for him there was Louis the 15th King of France and His official Chief
mistress apparently that was a thing Madame the pador during his time in France the count gained the trust of both he convinced the king that he knew of some kind of secret coloring technique that would revolutionize the French textile industry and the King clearly believed him because he set the count up in his own purpose built Factory to produce Dy considering his knowledge of world affairs and the wide range of languages he spoke the count was tailor made for the world of diplomacy and in 1760 King Louie sent him to Amsterdam to negotiate peace between
the French and the British in the Seven Years War he would spend just two months in the Dutch Republic but that was apparently enough time for him to demonstrate yet another string of his frankly absurdly Decked Out bow when he helped set up a porcelain Factory he worked there as a furnace and color specialist and if that isn't an I'm Immortal and I'm running out of new things to do kind of job then I don't know what is as had been the case in London the count had enjoyed a truly meteoric rise to the very
top of French Society but success of that kind of scale will always breed resentment and it was whilst away on diplomatic business in the Dutch Republic that that resentment produced real consequences for the first time several powerful people in the French Court were concerned about the level of influence the count appeared to have gained over the king one of them was ettien franois D toel the French foreign minister as it became clear that the Count's peace Mission wasn't going to be a success theisel began and sewing seeds of doubt in the king's mind perhaps this
strange Foreigner couldn't be trusted perhaps he'd been working against France's interests all along the chazelle's Greer worm Tong impression seems to have done the trick because soon enough King Lou the 15th issued a warrant for the Count's arrest but the count used all that legendary charm of his to convince the Dutch authorities he was being set up and they seemed to believe him because rather than extradite him back to France they allowed him to set sail for England in secret but this time the count didn't stay in the land of tea and biscuits for long
instead he spent the following 20 years or so traveling the length and bread of Europe tracking his movements during this period is difficult not least because the count seems to have adopted a different identity almost everywhere he went in one city he was count bellamare in the next night shaing and another graph Zari he used at least half a dozen different aliases and they are just the ones we know about whether he was trying to stay one step ahead of the French or he simply enjoyed taking on new personas we have no way of knowing
what we do know is that in 1779 he turned up in the Dutchy of svik today on the border between Denmark and Germany as always he wasted no time whatsoever in Waltzing right to the very top of the local aristocracy striking up a close friendship with Prince Charles of Hessa Castle the prince was a student of a cult and so a man of mystery just like the count all his talk of alchemy and eternal life was Simply Irresistible the count spent the following 5 years living in the prince's Castle working out a purpose-built lab where
he carried out various alchemical experiments rumor has it he pulled off several seemingly impossible Feats there such as removing flaws from diamonds and creating large gemstones by somehow combining smaller ones I believe you can do that with T tape the prince thought of the count as something akin to an Oracle and considered him to be one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived but on the 27th of February 1784 something entirely unexpected happened the count of son Jamon died now I know what you're thinking that doesn't sound very bloody Immortal but here's the thing I'm
not actually finished yet a year after his untimely demise the count is said to have attended a masonic convention in Paris under the name of EE eer and a year after that he turned up in Russia for an audience with Catherine the Great and it seems as though this zombie count was only just getting started over 230 years have passed since then but during this time there have been literally dozens of different sightings of the count all over the world from India to Czech Republic American Author guy Ballard claims to have met the count whilst
hiking on Mount shter in 1930 according to ballad the two became fast friends and the count dictated a series of books to ballad that eventually went on to form the basis of a religious movement known as I am at its height it had over 1 million followers I am isn't the only religious movement to have been influenced by the apparently dead count in fact in fact he's considered an important figure in philosophy and a whole series of other New Age movements many of which view him as a so-called ascended Master alongside the likes of guatam
Buddha Jesus Christ confucious and the Archangel Michael that's quite some company followers of phiosophy have also linked the count of several important historical figures throughout the ages claiming that the likes of Francis Bacon and Christopher Columbus amongst many others were in fact the counts alter egos okay I think it's probably about time for the million dooll question is any of this actually true well the short answer is yes at least the basics the counter sanjon was absolutely a real person and many of the events of his fascinating life that we've talked about today are well
documented as for the rest of it is it possible that he founds The Secret of eternal life that he's been subtly guiding Humanity from IA and that he might still be out there somewhere even today nah there's no denying that he was a truly mysterious figure even today historians don't know for sure who he was or where he came from still some of the seemingly strange elements of his story can be explained easily enough one of the key pieces of evidence regarding the Count's immortality is his sheer Mastery of so many different fields the music
the languages his knowledge on such a wide range of subjects his secret techniques regarding dyes and gemstones but the truth is there is nothing Supernatural about any of it we know he was a talented musician and composer but there's no indication he was anything out of the ordinary in that regard at first it might seem a little odd that we don't know where he trained but since we don't know where he came from in the first place that's to be expected as for his other abilities in most cases they were either exaggerated or made up
Al together usually by the count himself there's no evidence that his supposedly revolutionary dies ever revolutionized anything in the French textile industry and the Ceramics Factory he worked in in the Dutch Republic went out of business not long afterwards his so-called abilities with gemstones were almost certainly bogus too when removing floors from a diamond he would keep the stone for several weeks and the fixed version he produced at the end of it would often be of a slightly different size or cut his near miraculous ability with languages is admittedly a little harder to explain or
at least it would be if it was actually true almost every retelling of the counts tale mentions his incredible knowledge of languages but like so many other things about his story it's all a little bit of Truth wrapped up in a whole lot of hyperbole I've already mentioned one horris wall Poole letter in this video but he wrote several about the count here's an EXC from another he spoke Italian and French with the greatest faculty though it was evident that nether was his language he understood polish and soon learned to understand English and talk it
a little he wrote an English song in 1748 but Spanish or Portuguese seemed his natural language the count had some serious language skills I'm not denying that but he clearly didn't speak every European language with the fluency of a native speaker he was simply well traveled and well educated the fact he spoke multiple languages is impressive but it in no way proves or even suggests he was IM mortal as for his remarkable knowledge of world history and many other subjects that's hard to judge from our vantage point over 200 years in the future several sources
do specifically mention his impressive bread and depth of knowledge but we have no way of testing just how impressive it really was as far as I'm concerned it seems more likely the count was simply an extremely intelligent and well-educated man rather than an immortal demigod with magical powers but hey perhaps I'm just a cynic finally there are all those sightings of the counts that occurred after his death again it's essentially impossible to either verify or disprove them but I did notice something interesting about all the people who claim to have bumped into the count over
the last 100 years or so they are almost exclusively involved in one New Age movie movement or another usually philosophy in other words the people that claim to have met the count were already Believers if you happen to be a theosophist yourself then that will probably make perfect sense who else would the count reveal himself to other than his followers if you aren't a theosophist well it'll probably make perfect sense to you as well who else would be crazy enough to claim they' bumped into an immortal wizard except someone who already already believes in Immortal
Wizards I'm not the only one who's skeptical about the counts of mortal wizardy credentials either by the way earlier in the video I mentioned a couple of quotes from volter and kasanova but it turns out neither man was entirely taken in by the count volz's reference to the count as a Wonderman that knew everything and never died is generally thought to have been satirical and whilst kasanova really did compliment the Count's RZ his skill with the ladies he also openly considered the counts to be both a liar and a fraud and as a notorious liar
and fraud himself kasanova probably knew what he was talking about in that department in fact I think it's another kasanova quote that sums up the count of sanjam man best in his Memoirs he wrote I have never seen a more intellectual or amusing charlatan than he and I think that's exactly what the count was not some kind of immortal wizard but a simple conman actually not a simple con man one of the greatest conmen ever to have lived I mean think about it in an era when where you came from and who you knew was
everything this nameless nobody somehow managed to infiltrate the upper echelons of the aristocracy on sheia balls and wit alone he befriended Kings dined with some of the most famous faces in history and convinced half the world he was some kind of immortal Mystic he was basically a C rest butin and if he'd managed to pull that trick off once it would have been impressive but to do it at least half a dozen times all over Europe was downn right remarkable but hang on a second if the count of sanjon really was just an ordinary meat
and bones man like the rest of us who the hell was he he should have a traceable family line a home a paper trail something anything and it turns out maybe he did according to Prince Charles of Hessa Castle the count gave up a few final secrets on his deathbed among them he claimed that he was 88 years old when he arrived in SV and that he was a son of Francis II rosi a Hungarian nobleman rosi was the leader of a war of independence against the notorious Habsburg Dynasty and fearing his eldest son Leopold
might become a Target in the conflict he faked a child's death when he was just 4 years old issuing a false birth certificate according to the theory that child would grow up in secret eventually becoming the count of sjal in many ways that would make a lot of sense neatly explaining both the mystery surrounding the Count's past and also his high level of education but before we call this case closed there is still some room for doubt for one thing the time lines are a little odd if the count was indeed 88 when he arrived
in slig that would mean he was born in 1691 when his father was 15 years old that's certainly possible but it would have been fairly unusual more importantly there's a simple fact that the man who called himself the count of son Jamon spent almost his entire life lying about who and what he was like the boy who cried wolf how can we be certain he was telling the truth that final time the simple answer is that we can't and given how much time has passed we will likely never know for certain just who he really
was ultimately it doesn't really matter whichever way you look at it the C of sonon was a remarkable individual and whether or not you believe he was truly Immortal one thing's for sure the legend he created certainly [Music] is thanks for watching just a quick word to say that I couldn't make these videos without the support of my patreon members consider joining the exclusive 42 Discord Community by supporting me on patreon it's a great place to discuss my videos with like-minded individuals and myself the Link's in the description but if you don't want to or
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