There
is a sinister legend that Superman is a cursed role. Blood chills at the thought
of it. Has every actor associated with the character of Superman, in addition to
various performers and artists associated with The Man of Steel, suffered some
strange disastrous fate after completing his or her work? Let's examine the
evidence. Most tragic is the case of George Reeves, the beloved Superman of '50s
television who was the victim of a bizarre and unexpected suicide (or was it
murder?). More recently we find Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder. In 1995,
Reeve was paralyzed in a freak equestrian accident which eventually led to his
early death, and Kidder, by some sensational accounts, went mad.
Was it the curse? Less
well-known is the unfortunate case of the first live-action Superman, Kirk Alyn.
The legend goes that after a promising start, Alyn's career spiraled downhill
almost immediately after appearing as filmdom's first Superman. His only role of
note following this was a brief cameo in Superman: The Movie, some 30
years later. Did playing the Man of Steel make his subsequent career a
super-washout? Some claim that Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
were cursed with hardships after selling their billion-dollar concept to DC
Comics for a mere $130. Does a heinous curse, perhaps associated with man's
hubris or unnatural "worship" of false gods known as superheroes befall those
who attempt to mock the natural order by playing the role of Superman?Not
really. Among all of the actors who have played Superman over the years, (nearly
a dozen by my count), only two, Reeves and Reeve, encountered serious
misfortune. And it must be said that Christopher Reeve turned his misfortune
into an act of heroism that has been an inspiration to millions. This was an
unforeseen obstacle that was met with true bravery and grace...
There
is a sinister legend that Superman is a cursed role. Blood chills at the thought
of it. Has every actor associated with the character of Superman, in addition to
various performers and artists associated with The Man of Steel, suffered some
strange disastrous fate after completing his or her work? Let's examine the
evidence. Most tragic is the case of George Reeves, the beloved Superman of '50s
television who was the victim of a bizarre and unexpected suicide (or was it
murder?). More recently we find Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder. In 1995,
Reeve was paralyzed in a freak equestrian accident which eventually led to his
early death, and Kidder, by some sensational accounts, went mad.
Was it the curse? Less
well-known is the unfortunate case of the first live-action Superman, Kirk Alyn.
The legend goes that after a promising start, Alyn's career spiraled downhill
almost immediately after appearing as filmdom's first Superman. His only role of
note following this was a brief cameo in Superman: The Movie, some 30
years later. Did playing the Man of Steel make his subsequent career a
super-washout? Some claim that Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
were cursed with hardships after selling their billion-dollar concept to DC
Comics for a mere $130. Does a heinous curse, perhaps associated with man's
hubris or unnatural "worship" of false gods known as superheroes befall those
who attempt to mock the natural order by playing the role of Superman?Not
really. Among all of the actors who have played Superman over the years, (nearly
a dozen by my count), only two, Reeves and Reeve, encountered serious
misfortune. And it must be said that Christopher Reeve turned his misfortune
into an act of heroism that has been an inspiration to millions. This was an
unforeseen obstacle that was met with true bravery and grace...
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When I first saw the story of the curse of the Egyptian Princess of Amen-Ra
and why the Titanic really sunk, I thought that it was just a funny story and an
obvious hoax.I have since put considerable time and research into this and have discovered
that, far from a hoax, this is a story which describes actual historical events,
which really happened.
In the first place, this story is not the concoction of some Internet crazed
cyber-freak. The story has existed since the day the first survivors of the
Titanic arrived ashore. It was told by Frederic Kimber Seward and other
surviving passengers. They vividly described how a passenger named William T.
Stead had told them the story of the curse of the Egyptian mummy, on the
night before the Titanic sank.
They also told how William T. Stead had gone down with the ship. He had just
sat quietly reading a book in the First Class Smoking Room as the ocean liner
sank. In my research, I have found several errors in the most popular version of
this story, which I have now corrected.The popular version states that the coffin of the Egyptian Princess was first
purchased in the late 1890s. However, this cannot be, because Madame Helena Blavatsky, who is said to
have personally encountered the mummy, died in 1891.
In reality, the coffin arrived in the British Museum in
1889. Thus, it is clear that the story of the coffin dates from the 1880s, not
from the late 1890s.Another error is that the story says that the princess lived in 1500 BC. The
British Museum, however, gives the date of her death as 1050 BC, which is 450
years later.
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When you think about curses sooner or later
Egypt will probably pop into your mind, and possibly the tombs of the pharaoh's.
Perhaps the most famous of these curses involved the discovery of Tutankhamen in
1923.
The expedition was headed by Egyptologist Lord
Canarvon and archaeologist Howard Carter. As they entered the tomb both knew
about the curse which had protected the treasures within from those who would
have robbed the grave since 1352 B.C when the boy Pharaoh was entombed. Canarvon
had even consulted a mystic and some mediums before beginning the expedition and
every single one of them told him not to open the tomb, advice he ignored at his
peril. Within two months 57 year old Canarvon was dead, the victim of an
infected mosquito bite. The date of his death was the 5th of April 1923. This
date is remembered by the Continental Hotel of Cairo since simultaneously their
electricity failed for no apparent reason and back in England Carnarvon's
faithful dog was heard to bark once before dropping dead. Two days after his
death when examining the face of Tutankhamen it was noted he bore a mark on his
left cheek, identical to that of the mosquito bite upon Carnarvon's corpse.
Perhaps this was nothing more than coincidence they concluded. That was until
the other deaths began. An archaeologist by the name of Arthur Mace who had
participated in opening the tomb dropped into a coma at the same hotel which had
experienced the power failure and died. Doctors were unable to identity the
illness which had resulted in his death. George Gould, a close friend of
Canarvon went to Egypt to look at the tomb and was mysteriously found dead two
days afterwards.
Radiologist Archibald Reid who examined the corpse of the
Pharaoh died soon after this, as did Carnarvon's secretary Richard Bethell. By
1936, 33 people present during the opening of the tomb had met with unexpected
deaths. Mohammed Ibraham, the man who agreed to send the tomb's treasures to
Paris for an exhibition was run over and killed in 1966. Howard Carter died of
supposed natural causes in 1939. So, by 1969, Richard Adamson was the sole
surviving member of the 1923 expedition. He was quoted on saying that the curse
was nothing but "mumbo, jumbo," but he changed his view after his wife died
within a day of his public denouncement of his curse. He spoke out again at a
later date and within days he had broken his back in a freak accident. Ken
Parkinson the flight engineer suffered a heart attack every year on the
anniversary of the flight from Egypt until the final one on 1978 which killed
him. The flight lieutenant Rick Laurie died of heart failure two years before
that, though he had been healthy before this. Anorher member of the flight crew
suffered two heart attacks, another left the RAF due to unixplicable illness and
the last lost his house in a fire.
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The curse of the mummy began when
many terrible events occurred after the discovery of King Tut's tomb. Legend has
it that anyone who dared to open the tomb would suffer the wrath of the mummy.
Because mummies have been associated with many magical powers throughout
history, some of the mummies found from Egypt were ground into a fine powder and
sold as this mystical mummy powder. It's believed the powder had magical healing
powers and it wasn't until the discovery of King Tut and the hype of the media
that things would change forever.
The hype began when Lord Carnarvon, the person who funded the discovery of King
Tut?s Tomb, died shortly after the discovery. His death began in the spring of
1923 he was bitten on the cheek by a mosquito. During his morning shaving
routine, he further aggravated the mosquito bite. It soon became infected and
Lord Carnarvon found himself ill. He suffered a high fever and chills. A doctor
was sent to examine him but medical attention arrived too late and Lord
Carnarvon died. At that exact moment, the lights in Cairo mysteriously went out.
Once Carnarvon died the media went
wild. They claimed King Tut wanted vengeance and announced a mummy's curse
targeting those who had entered the tomb. Not only did the death of Carnarvon
get all the people in an uproar, but other stories began to surface as well. Of
the stories that surfaced, two remain prominent. One of those stories is that a
cobra killed Howard Carter's pet canary after the discovery of King Tut's tomb.
The other story is Lord Carnarvon's dog howled and dropped dead at two in the
morning when Carnarvon died. What is interesting is that Howard
Carter, the explorer who actually discovered the tomb, lived a decade after this
major discovery. So, what happened to Howard Carter during all this hype? Howard
Carter spent his last years logging and recording every artifact found in the
tomb. Why didn't he suffer the curse of the mummy? He was, after all, the first
to enter the tomb...
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