Top 17 Unusual Wills from History

The reading of the will of a recently deceased person is a staple in mystery novels and films as well as in comedies. Typically, a person will inherit a vast estate after performing some bizarre or challenging action. Along with being a plot device when read, they have served a similar role when missing, or when challenged, or when some poor unfortunate failed to receive what he or she believed was her just due. The descendants gathering around in a gloomy room to hear an executor read the decisions of a recently deceased person has almost become a cliché in films and television productions, sometimes launching the story about to unfold, or to serve as the denouement of the tale being told. Such productions are, for the most part, fiction.

Here are some of the stranger last wills and testaments which have been left behind in history, and in some cases their impacts on the living.

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