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It was just another of the liners myths, a story totally without foundation, yet a tale that had gained credence through years of retelling. Montague knew its background well. It had originated with an actual event the second evening of the ships maiden voyage. At one More Page More Page Today Show of the first-class dining saloon tables, keith ellison

prominent English journalist named William T. Stead was entertaining his dinner companions with a wild yam about an Egyptian mummy that brought a curse upon anyone who owned it-mysterious illnesses, violence, and, eventually, death. Stead, one of the most More Page More Page Today Show respected writers of his time, was en route to America to address madison square garden

peace conference at the personal invitation of President William Howard Taft, but he also was a devout believer in spiritualism and the occult; a skilled raconteur, he had his listeners actually believing the More Page More Page Today Show story. In truth, Stead himself had planted the seeds of later embellishment. There was no such mummy; what he louis caldera

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 More Page More Page Today Show this unhappy countenance to that of a non-existent mummy, a story that would have been forgotten if it was not for the fact that capital city half marathon

of his dinner companions survived the sinking and related it to a New York World reporter. Montague smiled to himself as he More Page More Page Today Show remembered how the mummys curse also had survived-exaggerated and distorted with every fresh telling until it became part of the Titanic legend. Montague knew the ultimate version was a horror louis caldera

There supposedly was a mummy case aboard the ship, the property of a wealthy American More Page More Page Today Show collector who had purchased it from the British Museum and was taking it to New York. When the liner sank, the American bribed a cargo handler to put the case in a lifeboat and then bribed keith ellison

on the rescue ship Carpathia to take it aboard. The More Page More Page Today Show case, so this account continued, stayed in the Americans private collection for two years-a period marked by a series of unexplainable traged.

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