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item 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 without foundation, yet a tale More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Brooke Elliott that had gained credence through years elaine alden

retelling. Montague 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 T. Stead was entertaining his More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Brooke Elliott dinner companions with a wild yam about an Egyptian mummy that brought elaine alden

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a skilled raconteur, he had his listeners actually believing the story. In truth, Stead himself had planted the seeds of later embellishment. There was no such mummy; what More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Brooke Elliott 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, elaine alden

eyes. Stead had transferred this unhappy countenance to that of a non-existent mummy, a story that would have been forgotten if More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Brooke Elliott 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 b 50 bomber

the mummys curse also had survived-exaggerated and distorted with every fresh telling until it became More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Brooke Elliott 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 elaine alden

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period marked by More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Brooke Elliott 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 River and sank with a More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Brooke Elliott loss of more than metro pcs

thousand lives-presumably, along with the mummy case and its curse. Marvelous yarn, Montague mused, but absolute fiction. The mummy case in question never had left England and was still in the British Museum; he had seen it himself. Yet the instigator of More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Brooke Elliott that wonderfully phony story had always intrigued Derek Montague. He brilliant earth

why William Stead, a true follower of mysticism, hadnt been one of those people who had dire premonitions about the Titanics voyage. There were plenty of these: a woman passenger who tried to change her booking More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page More Page Brooke Elliott at the last minu.

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