18 Popular Celebrities Believed To Have Faked Deaths

“Healing” the Tsar’s ailing son, and going on to have an affair with the queen, Rasputin gained a lot of power and control over the Russian throne. Going around calling himself a “holy man” while gaining the trust and exercising his influence on the governing of Russia, Rasputin ended up locking horns with disgruntled nobles who plotted his assassination. A well-documented account of their attempts to murder him are available, where they poisoned him, shot at him from close range multiple times, threw him into icy river, and finally burned him to death when all aforementioned methods failed to actually kill the man. Such an incredulous tale of Rasputin’s almost seeming invincibility only furthered his myth as some mystical healer even after his death, but the rumours go that that is exactly why this was all staged, that Rasputin was not actually assassinated. This way Rasputin could go underground and govern the Russian state behind the scenes now, and with even more control and influence than before.