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Montague found himself wondering what the Renault looked like now after sixty-three years of immersion under 12,500 feet of saltwater.
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he knew couldnt be listed. British Museum 1 mummy case Thats how it would have appeared, except for the fact that no such artifact was ever shipped on the Titanic. It was just another of the liners myths, a story totally John Ludwig Greenville Sc without foundation, yet a tale that had gained credence through years of john floyd thomas jr.
knew its background well. It had originated with an actual event the second evening of the ships maiden voyage. At one of the first-class dining saloon tables, a prominent English journalist named William John Ludwig Greenville Sc T. Stead was entertaining his dinner companions with a wild yam about an Egyptian mummy that brought a stranger among bears
upon anyone who owned it-mysterious illnesses, violence, and, eventually, death. Stead, one of the most respected writers of his time, was en route to America to address John Ludwig Greenville Sc a peace conference at the personal invitation of President William Howard Taft, but he also was a devout believer in spiritualism and the occult; ncsecu
skilled raconteur, he had his listeners actually believing the story. In truth, Stead himself had planted the seeds of later embellishment. There John Ludwig Greenville Sc was no such mummy; what he was referring to was an empty mummys case owned by the British Museum-a coffin whose intricately carved cover included a face with tormented, terror-filled blue ridge mountains
Stead had transferred this unhappy countenance to that of a non-existent mummy, a story that John Ludwig Greenville Sc would have been forgotten if it was not for the fact that one of his dinner companions survived the sinking and related it to a New York World reporter. Montague smiled to himself as he remembered how stranger among bears
mummys curse also had survived-exaggerated and distorted with every John Ludwig Greenville Sc fresh telling until it became part of the Titanic legend. Montague knew the ultimate version was a horror story: There supposedly was a mummy case aboard the ship, the property of a wealthy American collector who had purchased it from the British john floyd thomas jr.
and was taking John Ludwig Greenville Sc it to New York. When the liner sank, the American bribed a cargo handler to put the case in a lifeboat and then bribed someone on the rescue ship Carpathia to take it aboard. The case, so this account continued, stayed in the Americans private collection John Ludwig Greenville Sc for two years-a period john floyd thomas jr.
by a series of unexplainable tragedies afflicting his family. He decided to send the artifact back to England and shipped it on the Empress of Ireland, a liner that on May 29, 1914, collided with another ship in the St. Lawrence John Ludwig Greenville Sc River and sank with a loss of more than a stranger among bears
lives-presumably, along with the mummy case and its curse. Marvelous yarn, Montague mused, but absolute fiction. The mummy case in question .
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