ANST - Supernatural Tale From Alina's Sister
Alice Harris
lg_photo at texas.net
Sat Apr 25 15:03:01 PDT 1998
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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