Achieving immortality may sound like the stuff of fiction, but this is the startling claim of a mysterious real-life historical figure called the Count of Saint-Germain.

His existence has been recorded in numerous accounts throughout history, as recently as the 1970s, yet he never seemed to age and sometimes took on alternate identities.

He was sometimes known as Der Wunderman, or The Wonder Man,

and has been considered a prophet, a charlatan, a healer, a spy, and a visionary,

but who was the immortal count, and could he really live forever?

You're listening. You're listening. You're listening.

You're listening.

You're be amazed.

There is only one engraving, created by Nicola Thomas in 1783, is one of the only known images we have of the Count of San Germain. It was apparently based on a

lost painting once owned by the Marquis D'Urfé, one of the richest and most eccentric women in France.

Although it would probably be best to start this tale at the very beginning, the origin story of this

mysterious count is murky to say the least.

Exactly when the man who went or goes by the name the Count of Saint-Germain was born is unknown,

most accounts suggest it was sometime around the 1690s. In fact, a genealogy compiled by

Ani Bassant for her book Count of Saint-Germain, The Secret of Kings asserts that he was

born the son of Francis Roccoz II, Prince of Transylvania, in 1690. Meanwhile, various other

claims state that he was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna of Falsneuberg, the widow of Charles

II of Spain, or even the son of the King of Portugal, presumably

John V.

Although we may not know for sure he seems to have been at least some degree of royalty

who was too removed by lineage to be able to assume a throne.

Other rumors, taken less seriously, suggests that he was actually around during the time of Christ and even

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