3. Gone fishing?
Grover Cleveland was our 22nd and 24th president. He didn’t die in office, but what happened in June 1893 is one of the most eerie presidential mysteries.
The story starts a little bit like this: Cleveland decided to go fishing one day, as every man does from time to time. A basic activity that is not really interesting, right? Somebody goes fishing. But here is the catch: In reality, he didn’t go fishing. He had a tumor in his palate, and because of this, he went to get oral surgery.
And as with any bizarre story, it leaked later that summer. But obviously, Cleveland denied it. Cleveland’s doctor confirmed the procedure in 1908, but he was evasive about the diagnosis following Cleveland’s death from a heart attack. When Cleveland’s palate tissue was reexamined in 1980, it was discovered that he had a non-fatal type of cancer.
