Unlucky Mummy Who Made Titanic Sink
The Titanic carried a cursed Mummy which is still on display in the British Museum.
History’s best documented, most disturbing, and very complicated ghost story involves none other than the famous RMS Titanic and a Cursed Mummy.
The RMS Titanic was built to be unsinkable, with incredible buoyancy and an insane space for luxury and comfort, it was an unprecedented creation. All may have gone well and good had it not been carrying a certain cursed artifact.
The Curse of The Mummy
The Egyptian Princess of Amen-Ra lived some 1,500 years before the birth of Christ. On her death, an ornate wooden coffin was fashioned for her and she was buried deep in a vault at Luxor, on the banks of the Nile.
Sometime in the 1890s, 4 wealthy young Englishmen touring the excavations at Luxor decided to purchase a painfully beautiful mummy coffin containing what remained of the Princess of Amen-Ra.
An auction took place, and the winner, a man who paid several thousand pounds for the coffin, excitedly took it back to his hotel. Strangely, a few hours later people saw him walking out towards the desert only to never return.
The following day, one of the Englishmen was shot in the arm by an Egyptian servant by accident. The injury was so severe that it required amputation.
Fate was not kind to the remaining men, and one of them on returning home found that he had lost all his savings. The last guy fell fatally ill, and his illness consumed so much of his life that he eventually became a match seller on the streets.
Nevertheless, the coffin completed its journey to England, causing several other unlucky incidents on its way. In London, the coffin was bought by a businessman.
Misfortune befell the poor man and his family got severely injured in a road accident, so he decided it was best to donate the cursed artefact to the British museum. But as the coffin was being unloaded, the truck reversed and injured a passerby. The workers carrying the artefact also got severely injured in the process, and one died only a few days later.
The Mummy continued to be a horror story for everyone at the museum, with watchmen, cleaners, and the supervising staff all being injured and some even dying during its stay. The nightwatchmen swore they could hear the wailing of a woman from the coffin, and eventually when the media heard of the news, everyone clambered to get a glance. But after one of the journalists committed suicide, the museum decided to get rid of the mummy. It was sold to a private collector, who quickly banished it to his attic.
The collector was desperate to have the mummy sold, but the fact that around 20 people had met with injury, and death from being around the coffin, in hardly 10 years, steered anyone from buying it. Luck struck when an American archaeologist decided to pay a handsome amount for the casket.
Soon the mummy was boarding to go to the land of dreams, New York, and the ship carrying its cargo was none other than the RMS Titanic. The sparkling, new White Star Crusier was making its maiden voyage to New York and was the center of the world’s attention and envy.
But as we all know, on the night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic against all odds, sunk to its grave at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. The Cursed Mummy took with her the lives of almost 1500 people and the hopes and dreams of many others. Most of the survivors of the Titanic lived with survivor’s guilt and did not ever have a normal life after the incident.
How much grain of Truth is in this story?
Unfortunately not, as great as the story of the cursed Mummy, the truth is in all of the cargo listings of the RMS Titanic, nowhere is the Mummy mentioned.
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The second seed of doubt comes from the persistent inconsistencies of the story, even before boarding the Titanic. It is believed that the tale started when one of the passengers who survived mentioned the ghost story being narrated on board.
The narrator of the story, William Stead ended up dying during the sinking too, which further left room for assumptions and speculations. From there, rumours began claiming that the Mummy was in fact on board the cursed ship and was the reason the unsinkable ship took the fall.
Where is the Cursed Mummy today?
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The coffin lid is still on display at the British Museum, if you are interested and have some time to spare, do visit the Egyptian Room and have a look at the fascinating exhibit.
This Titanic-Mummy story remains valid whenever the topic of Titanic wreckage surfaces around the world. Alongside remaining a disputed tale, the superstitious community of people relates highly to it’s curse till date. Along with so many other reasons, can this be one of the sinking causes?
What do you think?
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