Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the Top 10 Egyptian Urban
Legends.
Ancient Egypt gets a lot of air time, but what about legends that more modern and prevalent
today!
While the rich history of Egypt definitely still impacts the modern day and cant be avoided
in this list, but there are also so many new stories that we may never have heard of!
Let’s do this.
Before we get into this list, I want to ask you guys to let me know what the coolest country
you have visited is?
I have been to Egypt – that was pretty cool !
- 10 - Man with a Burnt Leg
The man with a burnt leg is basically the Egyptian boogie man.
He is a horror character created to scare naughty children and is often mentioned by
parents to kids when they are acting up.
The legend says that he takes children away to eat and cook them… which is pretty stressful.
Although why the burned leg?
Well apparently his burns come from he misbehaving as a child himself – he was disobedient
to his parents.
This is basically all I got from the transaltion… but maybe he was captured by a previous boogieman
but escaped only to continue the legacy.
9 - The Ghost of the White Desert The Farafra Desert is regularly called the
White Desert because of its large chalk rocks amid the sand.
The Desert is located between Dakhla and Bahariya and is a popular spot for tourism.
Those who have visited the desert often have more to report on than its beauty.
It is said that the ghost of the disgraced Pharaoh Akhenaten wanders the desert as a
lost soul – sightings of the 1300 BC king have been reported by many people.
It seems that Akhenaten tried to abolish belief in the many Egyptian gods, trying to encourage
a focus on just the god of the sun.
A lot of people were very unhappy with this and it seems on his death his statues and
monuments were destroyed or hidden.
Worse than that, though , it seems that priests cursed him to an eternity of wandering the
dessert aimlessly.
8 - Dashour Military Training Base The Dashour is one of the largest military
bases in the Middle East and is well known for being a grueling training ground for soldiers.
While a lot of secrets are kept surrounding the facility, it is said that the ground is
haunted by soldiers who have either died there or imprinted on the facility.
Some soldiers have said they have heard shouts or gun shots in the middle of the night - have
woken up prepared thinking it is some kind of military drill, only to find that there
is no one around.
Some evne say they have seen the ghost of a dead army general doing push ups.
7 - El Naddaha El Naddaha is a beautiful woman who lures
men into the river Nile to their deaths.
She is some kind of Genie or Siren and is described as being light skinned with long,
flowing light hair.
She wears a long, semi transparent dress and calls to men in a soft by very audible voice.
El Naddaha became a popular urban legend in the 1950s when children would play by the
banks of the river and young men would chat there later into the evening.
The genie has often been sighted by men in pairs – both claiming to have been placed
in a trance but eventually managing to get away…perhaps the men on their own have been
one of the many bodies washed up later on the banks of the river.
Others say she doesn’t simply drown men, but devours them too.
Local lore in rural areas along the Nile says that once a man has spotted El Naddaha, he
is doomed to die.
6 - Djinn The Djinn are elemental spirits that live
in the Egyptian deserts.
They can be anything from cheeky dust devils or the eyes of raging storms.
They often appear as sand storms, small tornados or snakes and their primary aim seems to bring
misery and chaos on to humans!
The desert Djinn can control the elements and mess with landmarks so that people get
lost when wandering through the barren land.
5 - The City of the Dead In Cairo, the truth is that half a million
people are now living in a slum built on an ancient cemetery, hence the name the City
of the Dead.
The el- Arafa graves date back to the seventh century and a lot of the graves are small
elaborate buildings, which now some people have made their homes.
Aside from that, shanty houses have been put up among the graves, and kids play on the
tombstones as if nothing is happening.
Despite the new choice of city location seeming like a good idea for space saving, a lot of
residents have reported ghostly aspirations passing by or the feeling of being watched
when no one is around.
4 – Howard Carter’s Ghost Famous Egyptologist, Howard Carter, who discovered
the tomb of King Tutankhamun, didn’t die until 17 years after the notorious dig, but
his ghost is said to haunt the valley of the kings.
Howard Carter was born in the UK and lived in Norfolk until he became involved in Egyptology
age just 17.
British born by with Egypt in the heart, perhaps it makes sense that his ghost would haunt
the spot he made the most important archeological finding of the century…let alone his career.
Which leads me to….
3 The Curse of the Pharaohs This is an enduring urban legend in Egypt.
While in ancient Egypt, many superstitions were observed during burial process and people
believed in the Gods wrath, in the early 1900s, in an age of enlightenment, a lot of people
were not so phased by legendary curses.
Indeed, Western archeologists and historians decided that they wanted to prize open the
pyramids, which had been sealed for thousands of years.
Big mistake.
When King Tutankhamun’s tomb was opened up in 1922, the legendary curse of the Pharaohs
was a main topic of conversation – with world wide renewed belief in legend.
The team that excavated the tomb was quickly dogged by a number of untimely deaths.
. On the day Carter entered the tomb, a cobra got into his pet canary’s cage, with the
bird dead in its mouth.
The cobra is the symbol of the Egyptian monarchy and the symbolism wasn’t lost on locals
who began to panic.
Lord Carnarvon, the financial backer of the excavation project, died shortly after the
tomb was first breached as a result of an infected mosquito bite.
The bite possible matched a healed legion found on King Tut’s cheek during his autopsy.
Two of Carnarvon’s half brothers died shortly after excavation, one of the doctors who worked
on King Tut’s body, Radiologist Sir Archibald Douglas Reid – died a year later, as did
2 others members of the excavation team, all within a few years of the tombs opening.
His ghost isn’t alone….
How’s about this at number * 2 The Fiery Chariot of The Valley of The Kings
A lot of people have reported seeing the ghost of an Egyptian Pharaoh haunting the valley
of the kings, and in some ways I am not surprised after all the curse talk.
Tourists and staff at the Valley of the Kings have reported seeing a flaming chariot manned
by a figure wearing pharaoh style clothing being pulled by black phantom horses.
The most common sightings are at night and many people hear horses or the sound of a
thundering chariot.
Baron Empain's Palace – Haunted
Baron Empain’s Palace is situated in Heliopolis, but is modelled in the Hindu temples of India
and Cambodia.
The palace was built in the 19th century by a Belgian millionaire, Baron Empain who fell
in love with a beautiful young Egyptian girl.
Building a mansion on the outskirts of Cairo, the Baron and his wife had children.
Unfortunately from the very beginning they were met with misfortune in that house.
Their daughter was insular and suffered from terrible moods.
She was found dead in the houses basement shortly after her mothers untimely death.
The Baron suffered with Epilepsy and died in 1929, and his playboy son fritted away
the rest of his money.
The Egyptian government eventually came into possession of the house in 2005.
It was opened to the public for 2 months but closed without explanation.
Rumours that the palace is haunted have been rife for decades, and now that the property
sits abandoned, these have only increased.
Locals say that the palace is a hotspot for satanic ritual and that it is host not only
to ghosts, but also illicit orgies.
Crikey.
Okay, how random is this but I checked my Instagram halfway through scripting this video
and one of my friends had uploaded a picture of Howard Carter’s gravestone at Putney
Vale Cemetery….
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