ANST - Supernatural Tale From Alina's Sister

[Alice Harris]

Date: 
          Fri, 24 Apr 98 11:56:00 CST
   From: 
          "Laura M. Stone" <LSTONE01 at EDS1.nhic.slg.eds.com>

Make sure you read the whole thing...


 Of all tales of the supernatural, this one is perhaps the best
 documented, the most disturbing and the most difficult to explain......

 The Princess of Amen-Ra lived some 1,500 years before Christ.   When she
 died,  she was laid in an ornate wooden coffin and buried deep n a vault at
 Luxor, on  the banks of the Nile.

 In the late 1890s, 4 rich young Englishmen visiting the excavations at
 Luxor  were invited to buy an exquisitely fashioned  mummy case containing
the remains  of Princess of Amen-Ra.

They drew lots.  The man who won paid several thousand pounds and had the
coffin  taken to his hotel.  A few hours later, he was seen walking out
towards the  desert.  He never returned.

 The next day, one of the remaining 3 men 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  The 4th guy suffered a severe illness, lost 
his
job and  was  reduced to selling matches in the street.

 Nevertheless, the coffin reached England (causing other misfortunes along
 the  way), where it was bought by a London businessman.   After 3 of his
 family  members had been injured in a road accident and his house damaged 
by
 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 passer-by.  Then as the
casket was  being lifted up the stairs by 2 workmen, 1 fell and broke his 
leg.  The
 other,  apparently in perfect health, died unaccountably two days later.

 Once the Princess was installed in the Egyptian 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
about at night.  One watchman died on duty; causing the other watchmen 
wanting to
quit. Cleaners  refused to go near the Princess 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, 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 mummy case and, when he developed it, the painting on the
coffin was of a  horrifying, human face.  The photographer was said to have 
gone
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 Blavatsky, visited the
 premises.   Upon entry, she was sized with a shivering fit and searched the
house   for  the  source of "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.  "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 that almost 20
 people had  met with misfortune, disaster or death from handling the 
casket,
in barely 10  years, was now well known.

 Eventually, a hard-headed 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 Apr 1912, the new owner escorted its treasure aboard a sparkling, new
 White  Star liner about to make its maiden voyage to New York.  On the 
night
of Apr  14,  amid scenes of unprecedented horror, the Princess of Amen-Ra
accompanied  1,500  passengers to their deaths at the bottom of the 
Atlantic.

 The name of the ship was Titanic.



Alina Mitchell
lg_photo at texas.net
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