My words.

There 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 eyes. Stead had transferred this unhappy countenance to that of a non-existent mummy, a More Page More Page More Page More Page May1st story that would have been forgotten cutco

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 the mummys curse also had survived-exaggerated and distorted More Page More Page More Page More Page May1st with every fresh telling until it became part of the Titanic legend. falconwing square

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 Museum and More Page More Page More Page More Page May1st was taking it to New York. When the liner sank, the American bribed a cargo handler to put battle of marathon

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 More Page More Page More Page More Page May1st collection for two years-a period marked by a series of unexplainable tragedies afflicting his family. He decided to send the artifact back to England big baby davis

shipped it on the Empress of Ireland, a liner that on May 29, 1914, collided with another ship in the St. More Page More Page More Page More Page May1st Lawrence River and sank with a loss of more than a thousand lives-presumably, along with the mummy case and its curse. Marvelous yarn, Montague mused, but absolute fiction. The mummy case big baby davis

question never had left England and was still in the British Museum; he had seen More Page More Page More Page More Page May1st it himself. Yet the instigator of that wonderfully phony story had always intrigued Derek Montague. He wondered why William Stead, a true follower of mysticism, hadnt been one of those people who had dire premonitions about kent whitaker

Titanics voyage. There were plenty of these: a woman passenger More Page More Page More Page More Page May1st who tried to change her booking at the last minute because she had an uneasy feeling something was going to happen to the ship but was talked out of it by a scoffing White Star agent, the wives of several crew members swine diseases

expressed similar fears More Page More Page More Page More Page May1st to their husbands. One of them was the manager of the Titanics à la carte restaurant, Luigi Gatti; his wife had asked him not to go because she had a strange foreboding. Gatti was a survivor, and to his dying day never forgot his wifes More Page More Page More Page More Page May1st warning..

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