Are cursed artifacts something of myth or reality? From Kings tuts tombs who saw 7 dead
who desecrated it, to pieces of tile that will haunt you with misfortune, or cursed
voodoo dolls that will cause your body to decay. Sounds unbelievable right? Well hang
in there we will because these and more in todays video.
From a cursed rock that will bring you cancer, to king tuts jewlery which will kill you,
we will be talking about those and more in todays video..
Starting off this countdown we have the stolen artifact of pompeii
This story has been in the news alot lately. So after enduring 15 years of bad luck a canadian
woman returned an artifact that she stole from pompeii. So this woman identified as
nicole apparently stole some mosaic tiles, stones, pieces of plaster and other little
artifacts from the archaeological park of pompeii during her trip there in 2005. 15
years later she mailed the artifacts back with a note explaining that she has experienced
nothing but bad luck after taking the objects. She struggled both financially and physically.
In the letter she wrote that she suffered from breast cancer twice, resulting in a double
mastectomy. She wanted to put an end to the curse, and didnt want her family to suffer
from her actions, so she sent the pieces back. Hey guy and make sure you like comment and
subscribe and stick around until the end of the list because were going to have some bloopers
for you guys. There will definitely be some funny stuff at the end of this video.
But moving on to number 9 we have the lost treasure of the lydians.
This treasure was found back in the 60s and it was seen as one of the best archaeological
discoveries of its time. It was found in Turky and it was said that there were over 300 pieces
of golden wear found. If you were down there you could have been ballin 'out of control,
wearing all of that fancy jewelry and making yourself look like a stud. But you would quickly
be overcome with gold sickness. This is the apparent curse that is attached to these treasures.
Gold sickness is when someone will start to get ill over time but also have an affinity
to collect gold. Its like an uncontrollable urge to stockpile gold like some sort of dragon.
Youll slurp in gold faster then joey chestnut scarfs down ice cream
This curse may have been solidified when in 2006 one of the pieces was being returned
from America to Turkey and it was discovered to be a fake. That means that someone made
a replica and then stole the original. Could the curse have pushed them to make this theft
and now this person is off somewhere hoarding large amounts of gold. Maybe this is why CEOs
will do whatever they can to collect large amounts of wealth they can never spend.
Back in the 1980’s a crew excavated hundreds of roman ballista (buh-list-ah) balls on the
border of israel and syria. these were used as cannon balls during the great revolt. There
were so many of them that one man decided to take 2. I mean surely they wouldnt notice
that 2 were missing. And honestly, he was right, no one noticed. But in 2015 the balls
were returned to the museum's courtyard, along with a note from the thief. The note read
and i quote, i stole them in july 1995, and since then they have brought me nothing but
trouble. Please do not steal antiquities. Voodoo dolls
I mean we should know that these are not to be messed with but for some reason people
dont take cursed objects seriously and they pay the price. A pair of voodoo dolls were
stolen from an occult museum in New Orleans. The owner said that when they noticed this
they didnt feel any sort of anger because they knew that the person who stole them would
feel the fury of the dolls before the sun set on the city. When someone says something
as ominous as that you know that they mean business. She continued to say that the museum
was the dolls home and they will become wicked if they are not returned. Just two days later
a man returned with the dolls. Apparently he was missing teeth, missing finger nails,
had puss coming out of his gums, had sores all over his body and outside of being in
an extreme amount of pain he said that he was haunted by visions of his own death. The
museum owner laughed and told him to go to the hospital and gladly took back the dolls.
Look, i get it. You go on vacation somewhere and you want a souvenir or something to remember
your trip by. But dont steal, instead just go get something from a local gift shop. I
mean thats what gift shops are there for. Now one place in particular that is a hotspot
for thieves is arizona's petrified forest national park. Over the years thousands of
individuals have stolen petrified forest rocks from here. One women in particular stole an
artifact and this is what happened to her. She claims and i quote upon returning home
we first found out that my stepmother had kidney failure, then our dog died . . . I
had a really close call in having a bad auto accident, our truck broke down needing major
repairs, our cat died and last night . . . A gas well blew out a cap causing us to be evacuated
from our home a while. So please take these pieces back before we have any more bad luck.
Man those objects are extremely cursed. So far they have had 1 thousand 200 antiques
returned back to them all sent with letters saying they were cursed with bad luck.
Little Bastard This is one of the most famous cursed items
of all time. This was the car driven by James Dean and would end up being his doom. But
he didnt steal this cursed vehicle but there were some people who definity tried. After
the accident that took the life of the famous movie star the car was taken to a body shop
where they started to strip it for parts. One night a group of thieves came in to take
off with some of the parts from this car. Now people dont know if they targeted this
body shop or if they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Well one of the thieves
tried to strip a part of the engine and the whole thing came crashing down on top of him
and killed him. The other two men got away swiftly but that was just one of the many
deaths connected the porsche 550 spyder 4- in our fourth spot we have king tuts cobra
staff So of course you all probably have heard the
urban legend surround king tut and his curse. Basically its said that king tuts tomb and
all the artifacts that were inside are cursed. And this might indeed be true. After the expedition
of king tuts tomb, several men mysteriously died. Well rumour has it that this happened
all because one of the men stole king tuts cobra staff. Archaeologist howard carter claimed
that when they found king tuts tomb, that it was already robbed. But this may have been
a cover up. Its thought that him and his team took a couple of artifacts as souvenirs. In
particular the cobra staff. In fact, one of carters team members, james henry breasted,
returned home to find his pet canary eaten by a cobra, and the cobra was still occupying
the cage. Hmm… cobra staff goes missing, and a cobra is found in his home? Coincidence?
I think not! 3- Timurs body
When you take a dude out of his tomb is that stealing, I think so. During world war 2 Joseph
Stalin had the bright idea that he would mess around with some dark magic during a pivotal
part in the war. I dont know if he was a superstitious man but I think he should have been because
maybe he could have prevented this. Timur was one of the most ruthless conquerors in
history. Its said 17 million people died because of this dude. He was at the helm of one of
the largest empires in history. On his tomb it said he who disturbs me shall unleash an
enemy more ruthless than I. And the day that Stalin dug up Timure Hitler did his surprise
attack on The Soviets. Bad movie stalin, sounds like you really dropped the ball on this one.
Well I think stalin is a stubborn dude and didnt want to bury him again but eventually
he broke and decided that the curse was real so he buried Timure again and then the Soviets
had their first victory against the german. In our second spot we have the egyptian hieroglyphs.
Back in 2004 an unnamed german man stole an ancient egyptian artifact displaying hieroglyphic
text. A couple of months later the artifact was sent back to egypt, by the mans son. The
man had died. Apparently shortly after returning home from his trip, the man’s health randomly
started to decline. He got unexplained paralysis, and fevers. Shortly after he developed cancer
and died. The mans son believed that his father was subjected to the pharaohs curse, and sent
the artifact back in hopes to end it. The Most Evil Car In America
The 1964 Dodge 330. This vehicle will go down in history as one of the most horrific four
wheelers to ever meet the black top. This thing has a ton of spooky events that have
been tied to it. It started off as a police cruiser, you think something that had the
purpose of serving up justice would have a noble heart, well if you had that opinion
about this car you would be dead wrong. There were three officers who had the misfortune
of driving the 330 and each one of them would die in a murder sucidie. The eventually worked
its way into the public and the first owner said the car seemed like it was constantly
trying to kill her as the doors would fly open and the steering would jam while out
on the highway. Eventually a church group caught wind of the devil's chariot and they
went to vandalize it so no one could drive it again. Every last person involved in this
mission died. Some of them were decapitated and others were struck by lightning. Eventually
the car was stolen and taken to a chop shop where it was broken down into parts and the
parts were separate so the car could never harm anyone again.
Lindsay - so moral of the story here…. Dont steal artifacts. You know what? dont steal
in general. Learn from all these peoples mistakes.