The Curse of Amen-Ra...

Of all the tales of the supernatural, this one is perhaps the best documented, the most disturbing and the most difficult to explain. The Princess or Priestess (no record of a Princess though) of Amen-Ra lived some 1,050 years Before Christ. When she died, she was laid in an ornate wooden coffin and buried deep in a vault at Luxor, on the banks of the Nile.
In the late 1880s, 4 rich young Englishmen, visiting the excavations at the Luxor were invited to buy an exquisitely fashioned mummy case containing the remains of Princess (or Priestess) of Amen-Ra. They drew lots. They paid several thousand pounds and had the coffin taken to their hotel. A few hours later, one of the 4 men was seen walking out towards the desert. He never returned. The next day, the 2nd man was shot by an Egyptian servant accidentally. His arm was so severely wounded it had to be amputated. The 3rd man in the foursome found on his return home, that the bank holding his entire savings had failed. He committed suicide later. The 4th guy suffered a severe illness, lost his job and was reduced to selling matches on the street.
Nerveless, the coffin reached England (causing other misfortunes along the way), where a London businessman bought it. After 3 of his family members had been injured in a road accident and his house burnt down by a fire, the businessman donated it to the British Museum. As the coffin was being unloaded from a truck in the museum courtyard, the truck suddenly went into reverse and trapped a passerby. Then as 2 workmen were lifting the casket up the stairs, one of them fell and broke his leg. The other, apparently in perfect health, died unaccountably 2 days later. Once the Princess (or Priestess) was installed in the Egyptians Room, trouble really started.
The museum’s night watchmen frequently heard frantic hammering and sobbing from the coffin. Other exhibits in the room were also often hurled around at night. One watchmen died on duty; causing the other one to quit. Cleaners refused to go near the coffin too. When a visitor derisively flicked a dust cloth at the face painted on the coffin, his child died of measles soon afterwards.
Finally, the authorities had the mummy carried down to the basement. Figuring it could not do any harm down there. Within a week later, one of the helpers was seriously ill, and the supervisor of the move was found dead on his desk. By now, the papers had heard of it. A journalist photographer took a picture of the mummies case and when he development it, the painting on the coffin was of a horrifying human’s face. The photographer was said to go home then, locked his bedroom door and shot himself. Soon afterwards, the museum sold the mummy to a private collector.


After continual misfortune and deaths, the owner banished it to the attic.
A well-known authority on the occult, Madame Helena Blavastsky, visited the premises. Upon entry, she was sized with a shivering fit and searched the houses for “An Evil influence of incredible intensity”. She finally came to the attic and found the mummy case. “Can you exorcise this evil spirit?” asked the owner. She only said this one thing: “There is no such thing as exorcism. Evil remains evil forever. Nothing can be done about it..I implore you to get rid of this evil as soon as possible”.

But no British museum would take the mummy; the fact the almost 40 people had met with misfortune, disaster or death from handling the casket, in barely 10 years, was now well known. Eventually, a hardheaded American archaeologist, who dismissed the happenings as quirks of circumstance, paid a handsome price for the mummy and arranged for its removal to New York. In April 1912, the new owner escorted its teaser aboard a sparkling new White Star liner about to make it maiden voyage to New York. On the night of April 14, amid scenes of unprecedented horror, the Princess (or Priestess) of Amen-Ra accompanied 1,500 passengers to their deaths at the bottom of the Atlantic. The name of the ship was none other than: Titanic.
Did you ever wonder: If the Titanic was unsinkable, why did it sink? I did, I always wondered that even with those special doors that would close off places so water couldn’t get through…it failed and the ship sank..!!
Surviving passengers vividly described how a passenger named William T. Stead had told them the story of the curse of the mummy, on the night before the Titanic sank. They also told how William T. Stead had gone down with the ship. He had just sat there quietly reading a book in the First Class Smoking Room as the ocean liner sank.
Usually the story ends here with the mummy lost at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. However, sometimes it is expanded upon to blame the mummy for more maritime disasters.

However, the collector had bribed a crewman to place the mummy in a lifeboat and she made it safely to America. The curse continued to play havoc in America and she was shipped off on another ocean liner, the RMS Empress of Ireland. The Empress was struck by the Norwegian coal Freighter SS Storstad on the St Lawrence River on 29 May 1914 and sank with the loss of 1024 lives. Amen-Ra survived yet again.

In a final bid to evade the curse she was yet again placed on another ocean liner and began her journey back to Egypt. This liner was the RMS Lusitania and she sank off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland on 7 May 1915 after being hit by a torpedo fired from a German World War I submarine. Nearly 1200 people lost their lives. It is believed that Amen-Ra went down with the ship…

Can all these incidents be a Coincidence..or was it truly the Curse of Amen-Ra..?? Well this explains it all to me, but what do you think about this curse…??