This Paranormal Life - #036 The Curse of the Pharaohs

Episode Date: November 21, 2017

When a British archaeologist uncovers the lost tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun, a terrible curse is released upon those who defiled his grave. Are these mysterious deaths simply a coincidence? Or has the wrath of the ancient Egyptians come forth to slay the wicked! Find out as Rory and Kit INVESTIGATE.Support us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get access to weekly bonus episodes!Buy Official TPL Merch! - thisparanormallife.com/storeFollow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTubeJoin our Secret Society Facebook CommunityIntro music by www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are shadows actually demonic versions of ourselves? Is Twitter sucking our souls out through our fingertips? All of these questions you can find the answer to on This Paranormal Life. Welcome to the podcast. I am your host for this week's episode, Rory Powers, joined by my paranormal pal and co-investigator, Kit Greer. That's right, folks. Welcome, welcome, welcome. That Twitter one felt very close to home.

It did, yeah, yeah. You know when the Nazi drinks out of the wrong cup in Indiana Jones? I opened the wrong app, and every day it sucks a little more of my life out of my fingertips. On today's podcast, I got an absolute banger for this week. is very strong words i'm so excited you have the gall to say that after the hairy hands it's not a good point by the way if you can't remember a key fact from the last week it was amazing aside from the location right very forgettable in that regard well i can tell you right now you're not going to forget crap about this episode because

it's going to burn itself into your memory. Go on. On today's podcast, I'm going to throw us backwards in history all the way back to the 19th century. Not as far as I was expecting. You were expecting further, weren't you? Especially because you told me the premise of the podcast before we started and it's anyway.

If you could suspend your disbelief for just a second, the 19th century was a great time for growth, for exploration, and the pursuit of knowledge. And during this time, archaeologists from Europe would travel the world, Indiana

Jones style, searching for relics and wonders, and to learn about ancient civilizations. Hell yeah. And well, what civilization was more interesting than the Egyptians? Oh my god, are you kidding me? What child, like, read about the Egyptians and wasn't obsessed? Didn't want to grow up to become a mummy.

That's right. I, for one, begged to be killed the day i read about the egyptians just so i could be buried in a pyramid i grabbed a butter knife off the table and said let me go now i want to have a tomb my mother i stuck up little heathen refused to let me die. You told your mother, Mommy, I want to be a mommy. And she got me a freaking doll for Christmas. And I had to see a freaking psychiatrist. I love the idea of me going to the therapist and talking to my mother,

just like, we're just going to have a word with them and see how bad the problem really is. Rory, could you come in here?'s pharaoh powers oh jesus christ you don't have to walk sideways we're not in a 2d hieroglyphic scene you're you're doing the mummy dance did you shit on that paper? Like the mummies So confused Why is he so obsessed with Egyptian culture When he clearly has zero understanding of it Okay

So at the time And somewhat today Egyptians were a mysterious And incredibly advanced civilization Uh huh So in the 19th century Archaeologists from Europe traveled all the way

to sandy Egypt to examine, in brackets, mostly steel, artifacts from the early Egyptians. They were slightly rude the way they went about it back then.

I note here, you know, as much as we want to thank archaeologists who are as noble as Indiana Jones, most of them are greedy little hoarders. Uh-huh. It was very much

go over there smash down walls grab what you can they were basically little goblins in suits and mustaches to be honest goblins with whips gobliana jones i think we've struck upon something very important today gobliana jones half goblin half half whip, all Tomb Raider. All Lara Croft. If you think now, yes, we have the whole like retrospect of, yeah, it's cool. You know, we know that they buried their dead with all sorts of fantastic jewels. Right. And everything.

And now, you know, we have the intelligence to put it in the British Museum and take our kids there on school trips. Back then, those guys must have thought they found El Dorado. Exactly. They were like, we could just stay here forever. Yeah. We might be able to go to the afterlife ourselves right now. No one wants to put El Dorado in a museum. That's right.

They want to live on the Golden Mountains forever. Mm-hmm. That's just, I can understand it, is what I think we're both trying to say. If there was a tomb right outside my house, we would raid it. Oh my God. We're not saying we're better than these goblin people. I saw you raiding the bin on the way into the house.

Oh yeah. You guys throw out the craziest stuff. It's fantastic. You mean the food tombs. Well, during their time in Egypt, they made some amazing discoveries, all right? They explored deep tombs and learned about the lives of the early Egyptians. But that's not only the reason some of them were there.

You see, many of these archaeologists knew that the Egyptian pharaohs, as we said, were buried in lavish tombs surrounded by gold and riches. Discovering an untouched tomb at this time would be life-changing. You'd discover a priceless Egyptian artifact and maybe even a couple souvenirs. If you cash my dick. It's not the turn of phrase. But there's one problem.

The early dynastic period... S***. The early dynastic period... S***. The early dynastic period in Egypt when the early... When the early... S***. This is a tough sentence. The early dynastic period in Egypt when early pharaohs

served started around 3100 BC. Oh my Jesus. And since that time, the great periods The great periods of Egypt Where the rivers ran red With god damn period This is so difficult

And since that time The great pyramids And tombs of Egypt Have been raided by robbers and thieves, leaving nothing of worth behind. But there was a legend, a legend of an almost unknown king whose tomb remained undiscovered and therefore untouched. Let's go. In 1891, a young Englishman named Howard Carter was obsessed with this legend. Sounds like a goblin to me.

Straight up gobliana Jones. He was convinced that this undiscovered tomb not only existed, but that he could find it. Wow. Carter sounds like a bit of a badass. He does. He's ready to take this legend by the horns and wrestle it into submission. Absolutely. So all he needs to do is to find someone who would financially back his bullshit research.

So he approached the very wealthy. I've been dreading saying this guy's name. Okay. Lord Carnarvon. Carny. I will call him Carny. That'll make things so much easier. Wouldn't this be so weird

if you were carter and you go to this insanely rich man who i guess funds all these different projects yeah and you're like i have a proposal for you sir i am going to travel to egypt okay and dig around in the sand uh-huh to find the undiscovered tomb of a pharaoh king that may not exist. It sounds like a shitty idea. Now take a goblin snack and be gone with you. Whatever he said, it worked. Carney agreed to fund his research, and that was all Carter needed. Next stop, Egypt.

Hell yeah, free holiday for this guy. He grabbed his whip, his gun, his grave robbing equipment, and he set sail. So Carter starts his research. For five solid years, he searched in Egypt and found nothing. Oh my god. How much conviction do you have to have? You know whenever you lose like a single sock and then you're kind of looking on your bedroom?

If I don't find that thing within five minutes, and I know it exists. Yeah, exactly. If I don't find it in five minutes, I'm done. Sock's dead to me. I'm moving on to the next thing. I'm going out to work barefoot. Not even that. He's got a telegraph home to carney and explain after five years yeah

so how is the search going for the pharaoh's tomb well it's only been three years so we're only really scratching the surface but i would say it's actually been five carter oh is that so he's got like egyptian babes on his lap smoking fat hookahs out in the desert well it hardly feels like I've been here a minute just like I don't know if you know a lot about sand but after long periods of time it seems to bury objects

quite deeply beneath it so obviously Carney calls him back to England in 1922 to tell him it's bullshit he's cancelling the funding. He's a hack. He's wasted money. He's wasted time. You're going to prison for this, actually. You've robbed me, sir. Not only are you not going to El Dorado, you're going to the opposite of El Dorado. You're going to Rock City for this. He goes to Rock City and discovers the ancient tomb of the Rock Pharaohs. No!

he goes to rock city and discovers the ancient tomb of the rock pharaohs no carney gets no credit but obviously carter still believes the tomb is out there so he sits him down and he's like listen carney you gotta cut me some slack here man give me another year give me one more chance baby i can change send me out there look egypt is sandy as shit it's hard to find stuff there's sand in my eyes there's sand in my ears all i taste is sand it's not even fun so carney decides to give him one last chance oh my god this guy's ridiculous carter returns to egypt this time first class ticket. Yeah. That's right. Stupid mother f***er. I'm still in the room. I'm still in the room, Carter.

Wait till you leave. That carny b***h will believe anything you goddamn tell him. You know I'm standing right here, Carter. Hmm? Sorry, sand in my ears. It's very sandy. Why are you shouting? So he heads back out to Egypt, allegedly this time with a yellow canary, which I guess is

lucky. He thought would be lucky. I don't think this guy knows shit about birds or Egypt. This is miraculous. This guy's alive. So he begins working again, desperately trying to find some sort of evidence to justify his research funding. But again, he turns up with no results.

That is, until November 4th. As Carter's workmen excavated the ruins of Egypt, they discovered a step randomly placed in the rubble. Hmm, odd, right? So they dug a little deeper, And they stumbled upon a few more steps More steps led to more steps And it wasn't long before they led down to an ancient doorway Oh shit

One that appeared to still be sealed Of course And on that doorway was carved a name The name Tutankhamen. Oh, shit. Here we go, son. This was it. So did anyone know about Tutankhamen at that point?

I think there were mentions of him. Yeah. Just kind of like a lineage or something. Yeah, exactly. That there was a gap of missing pharaoh's ruling. We'll get on to a little bit later, but he did not rule for long. This little pharaoh's ruling because we'll get onto a little bit later but he did not rule for long this little pharaoh king this little boy to say so carter runs home because now he can finally telegram carnie and tell him he's actually found something yeah but when he arrives home

his servant is standing by the doors clutching a handful of yellow feathers with fear in his eyes What? Yeah. Oh my god. I think that worker ate the canary is what I'm saying. He's in the desert. He's hungry as shit. This guy's a hack. He's not paying him a dime.

There's a fresh canary on the list. Exactly. Mr. Servant, your mouth is covered in barbecue sauce uh yeah i ate the snake after it ate the bird it was a revenge eating now this was considered a horrible sign because in history pharaohs would wear golden cobras on their heads called uraeus it would give power to the ruler and protect the pharaoh they even said it would protect them by spitting fire on their enemies jesus christ so don't with cobras that might have been a baby one it's like all those guys there it went for the canary yeah exactly

well can a cobra kill a man yeah can i kill him is? Is a cobra poisonous? I don't know. Will I find out? Yeah. Can a cobra kill a man? I don't know how to respond to that. You coy diva. You little snake. Google search can a cobra kill a man. Okay, I found this on the web for can a cobra kill a mash.

Kill a mash? Okay, I'm going to have to Google it. Kill a mash? Okay, I'm going to have to Google it. The amount of neurotoxin that a king cobra can emit in one bite is enough to kill 20 people or one elephant. Oh my god. Jesus Christ. So this canary must have exploded.

I mean, yeah. The amount of poison injected into it with one bite. Yeah, way to hit a nail with a sledgehammer. Well, look, Carter is a sensible man, and he says to make sure the snake is out of the house, and that's it, really. He doesn't care much. Okay.

But allegedly, the servant, aware of Mr. Carter's excavation, cried out, You must not disturb the tomb! Why are you yelling? This is the first you've said about it all day. Sand in the ears! We all have it!

Roar, roar, roar! Sand in the mouth! Roar, girl! Carter dismisses the warning. He doesn't give a crap. He sends a telegram to Carney telling him he needs to journey to Egypt immediately. He's made a discovery. So it's not long before carney arrives in egypt and they both make their way back to the tomb so carter enters

the first part the outer sections of the tomb you can tell this part had been entered and robbed before oh but by the looks of it it was probably hundreds and hundreds of years ago most likely years after the tomb uh had been sealed so quite recently while egypt was still up and thriving grave robbing knows no age it's timeless it's a timeless activity absolutely they grave robbed when jesus was around we do it all the time now absolutely i mean i don't think we got these microphones you see whenever we pawn the teeth sorry i would just i wanted to make sure that no one got lost i i'm i'm like quite a low level grave robber i mostly just steal the flowers that people leave for their loved ones it's sort of the morally lowest form of grave robbing and also the financial low point of grave robbing also it is

pretty low i would say that i'm i'm a grave robber in training i rob the living now while they're still here uh but one day i'm hoping to make it to graves which is ironically easier i've started on the harder one yeah it's kind of like a victimless crime huh yeah exactly you don't need it where you're going no and do you think a little skeleton in the ground is gonna mace you in the eyes when you try and i mean take its little skeleton it seems to have been a recent macing for you your eyes are bloodshot as all hell no that's the sand i thought we established this it's the sand carter approached the seal to the inner tomb this was the moment he'd been waiting for. All those years of searching.

Here we go. He didn't want to wait any longer. Using his tools, he carefully made a hole in the door, just big enough for him to lean into with a candle. Lord Carney asked, Can you see anything? And this is when Carter said his most famous line that he is known for he replied yes wonderful things wow that's a pretty cool line to be known for yeah like when have you ever like

said something like that like that's so so uh genuine like yeah excitable when i pass away it's gonna be rory powers known for such phrases as, don't mace my eyes. That's not your purse. It's her purse, not your purse. So the tomb was opened and inside Carter and his crew discovered a huge store of over 5,000 different treasures, including trumpets, wine. I'm sorry. Is there something funny about that?

I didn't know the gift of music i didn't know the ancient egyptians had jazz yes they did oh have you ever heard of pharaoh sachmo no of course not pharaoh miles davis known for such executive orders as take five they also found wine wow problem with that so they were fine with wine it's trumpets no because people have drinking wine for like literally tens of years I want the Trump how long you think trumpets been around for I don't know ever heard of when the king comes to town isn't a trumpet made of them what no these when the king comes yeah they. Blow a trumpet. There you go.

Egyptians had metal, I guess. Yeah. I mean, they were super advanced. To craft trumpets. One of the things they found in his tomb, which is so cool, is a dagger that people believe was actually carved from the stone of a meteorite. Oh, shit. Yeah, like they understood that. Yeah, they were insanely advanced.

Wow. Also, they had very nice decorative arrows, nice linen underwear, lots of different items. I mean, people may balk at linen underwear, but people that would laugh at that have never worn linen underwear. Yeah. It is the next generation in underwear technology. It is both cool in summer and warm in winter people you get your basic underwear you get your cotton underwear then you get your linen underwear designed for a pharaoh's dick and that stuff is the softest softest material you've ever felt in your life

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carter found a tablet with a curse inscribed on it but he has since denied that it was kind of ruining the buzz of the whole day yeah the curse slab yeah everyone was like um do you want to take a wait there's something i think you should he's like trying on like the pharaoh's helmet trying on his linden underwear i think you should look on t-bagging the mummy i really think you should read this they find lots of amazing things apparently not a curse slab but along with these treasures carter also discovered a giant stone sarcophagus the sarcophagus contained three for sure not for nights three gold coffins nested within each other wow i guess like those russian dolls where it's like the case then the smaller than the smaller yeah so we opened them up and inside the third and final coffin was a milf a milf a mummy i'd like to find the milf of boy king please don't call it that the milf of boy king pharaoh tutankhamen i like i like to think that people tuned out for where

he described that acronym then tuned back in and just spat their coffee everywhere. Carter was floored. The tomb he'd been searching for all of these years was finally found. That's insane. But he noticed on the beautiful golden mask of the Milftuttenkamen was a golden cobra. Much like the cobra that ate his canary the day they found it. He also had a tattoo in his forearm.

F*** canaries. So they work a long time after this, carefully removing all of the artifacts from the tomb. Carter was now responsible for one of mankind's greatest historical discoveries. Can you imagine what's running through your head i get kind of bummed out that these days you know there's not really much that we can explore that's right in this world i mean that being said they did just use

freaking laser beams to find a secret chamber in a pyramid i saw that headline and i didn't read it i mean that's it that's not click. They literally essentially x-rayed a pyramid and found a huge chamber that's never been broken into before. Oh, shit. So I think it's... There might be another goddamn milf? Yeah, there could be a whole cave of milfs.

A milf chamber. Mummies I'd like to find in the chamber. I know what you mean. And because back then no one had any goddamn manners there's gobliana jones running around yeah messing up the place these days you can't just like sail across the world with a whip and a bag for loot exactly just start killing around at customs absolutely you can't get a whip on an airplane i've tried

i was duct tape a bunch of extension cords together to fasten a whip they didn't even let me through freaking gatwick it's ridiculous sitting in a mcdonald's trying to fashion a whip out of straws you know when you nip them and put them together into a big straw yeah except i try to swing across a canyon with that shit not as sturdy as the whip when you inevitably fall in the river below it's good for like a scuba makeshift yeah a quick oxygen retrieval device carter was now responsible for one of mankind's greatest historical discoveries and lord carney had funded it we got two very happy dudes here that's crazy that's a crazy roi you know he all his fat cat friends that are like squirreling

money away and in little ices and like savings accounts and he's like bitch i invested in a goddamn milf next time he goes to one of his like gentleman's club meetups where they go and sit around drink whiskeys wearing a golden mask with a cobra on the top lord carter i really don't think pharaoh carter it doesn't make you a pharaoh make you a pharaoh that's milf carter to you boy definitely not a milf so around several weeks or so after the tomb was entered, Lord Carney was shaving when he accidentally cut a mosquito bite on his neck. No big deal. No biggie. Well, soon his health worsened. What?

And worsened until one morning they found him dead. Shut up. What? Carney died. Of the cut or the mosquito bite? I think it was the bite that got cut by the razor that then became infected and eventually led to his death interesting or the curse of the milf it's still up for debate one or the other one or the other i mean this is what we're going to be investigating in this

podcast i watched a movie the other day that was set around like this like the early 1900s documentary and someone yes was it i'm not talking about the same story you don't have to be so defensive and the mummies were real in the in your show no mummies to be fine it was about explorers actually right and yeah someone got a cut in the wilderness and it was like the big thing was like it's this is like a life or death situation you've got a cut and you're in the freaking jungle like you might die. And I had to look up when was like penicillin. Like you just figure you can rub antiseptic on it or whatever.

Yeah. Like when were like antibiotics invented? They were only invented in like the twenties or something like that. Yeah. It's like back then there was like shit all medicine. Action movies are very misleading. Yes. I,

you know, I would think if I go out into the jungle and i get a cut in the rainforest i can rambo style take off my headband uh tie it around my arm pull the cork out of a bottle of whiskey and like pour it on the wound and be like have a couple swigs yeah maybe even take out a lighter like light the wound on fire like light the whiskey yeah burn up the wound reality is i'm dead i burnt my arm with the lighter you started crying got dehydrated i mean yeah like like shows like game of thrones like supposed to be set like in medieval times the first unprotected sex they had they got syphilis and died okay i mean i don't even like whiskey if i I'm out there, I'm going to be pouring a Bud Light on an open wound.

Praying to God it makes it go away. Pouring a freaking WKD Blue over a paper cut. Turns out the lime in my Corona actually stung like shit. Really hurt. Especially because it was only a paper cut. You're pouring salt on a wound, licking it, and taking a shot of tequila. So confused. Well, Lord Carney's death kicks off a media frenzy.

Outlets all over the world are reporting that a curse was found in the king's tomb. Absolutely a curse. Now, Carter, as you can imagine, is pissed off. You spend all these years searching for this hidden tomb you finally discover it and everyone's afraid of it now right because of the milf curse which is ridiculous so he ensures everyone that this pharaoh's curse is a load of baloney and he just continues his work in egypt i mean there's a lot to be done here you gotta like categorize and move all of these artifacts out of the tomb. It's a big project.

To prove to you, good people of Britain, that the curse is nothing but codswallop, I am going to place my testicles inside the mummy's mouth repeatedly. He's taking it so far. He's just really disrespecting Egyptian culture just everyone's booing just like awful crowd like oh oh she's one small down then up then down his jaws been severed by the bagging to prove to you no such curse of the Pharaohs exists I shall now dance naked in this Cobra pit with dead mice littered around my body.

Please do not be seduced. This is a purely educational dance. He's just doing the, like, stereotypical Egyptian dance. They're like, this is so offensive. The cobra bites are many, but the curses are few. If such a curse existed, I would be dying right now. But as you can see, I'm alive and well. Turning purple.

Lord Carney would not be the only victim of the curse of the pharaohs. Oh, shit. One year later, his half-brother, Aubrey Herbert, died of blood poisoning. Blood poisoning again? A simple coincidence? Maybe not. That very same year, George J.orge j gold a visitor to the tomb died after he developed a fever following his trip as two more people mysteriously dying after being linked that's pretty crazy the tomb of the milf tootin

common a year after that one of the radiologists who x-rayed Tutankhamen's mummy died from a mysterious illness. The deaths keep coming. Wow. What's going on here? I don't know. And then later on, another one of Carnie's half-brothers dies from pneumonia. Jesus. Both of his half-brothers dead.

That's only six of the many, many deaths attributed to the curse of the pharaohs. That one's weird because it isn't like arsenic is I mean, I know arsenic is fine. Mummy blood. Yeah. No, that's a populist scientific note. That's milfenic. For milf blood. Milf blood

sounds like the worst seediest bar imaginable. It's like, hey okay we think we're getting a drink after work at a milf blood blood oh jesus they have a great happy hour now carter until his death entirely denied that the curse existed however in his diary on may 1926 which of course was around the time he was working in the tomb he said one day he saw jackals in the wild for the first time in over 30 years of working in the desert now these jackals are the same type as anubis who is known in egyptian culture as the guardian of the dead that's pretty

creepy that's weird isn't it after 30 years of working in egypt and you've uncovered this tomb and you see jackals out in the wild that's pretty creepy i think that's anubis telling you to piss off yeah because you're doing some stuff here you shouldn't have done i mean sure it's weird you're seeing the dogs at this point years after you've entered the tomb but day one a cobra ate your bird i mean that should be warning enough right but it's tough whenever you're raised you know in a secular you know supposedly scientific rational world it's like you've been handed all this money to go out to that and you've put so many years into it also if a cobra you know eats your canary like do you just go i have a bad feeling about this guys i'm going back to yorkshire

yeah yeah yeah do you call the whole thing off the the jackal's omen is very disturbing but it's also kind of funny because uh this is part of the problem people have with ancient gods because you read these old books and scriptures and it's like you know one day someone took the name of anubis in vain and he struck them down with lightning and five plagues yeah but then in our day and age it's like i guess i saw some wild jackals and now i think anubis might be pissed yeah it kind of reigned it in over time it's not as black and white as the olden days. Yes. If the cobra ate the bird and then turned around and had the face of Tutankhamen and said, stay the f*** away from my bed. Piss off. That would be a bit more black and white.

So look, as I said, there were more deaths attributed to the curse. But personally, I think they're a little bit of a stretch. Okay. I figured I'd read them out anyway. Okay. You know, we like to stay open-minded and present both sides to the curse but personally i think they're a little bit of a stretch okay i figured i'd read them out anyway okay you know we like to stay open-minded and present both sides of the case of course so here's just a couple of the other ones attributed to the curse of the pharaohs sir lee stack governor general of sudan died on the 19th of november 1924 he was assassinated while driving through cairo okay i feel like there's probably a lot

of murders happening cairo yeah but he uh i guess went to the tomb or who knows he was assassinated captain richard bethel carter's personal secretary died in 1929 in bed the victim of a suspected smothering i don't know by a jackal or some shit carter guy isn't so great some people even say that howard carter's death was part of the pharaoh's curse even though he died over a decade later skeptics have pointed out that many others who visited the tomb or helped to discover it lived long and happy healthy lives a study showed that of these 58 people who were present when the tomb and sarcophagus were opened only eight died within a dozen years yeah yeah i didn't want to read that bit out but again and i might cut it in the edit i think i'll cut it in the edit i think i'll dub

over it with some more jackal talk i mentioned the size of the jackals they were horses uh yeah that's interesting that last bit i think we experience this with the curse of the ice mummy which was covered many episodes ago exactly that i think people often make that claim with curses. Statisticians will say, look, people die. There is nothing particularly odd about the number of people that died. Yeah. But what do you think about the rumors of Carter finding a curse slab in the Pharaoh's tomb? I think that's pretty believable. Yeah.

It just seems like this was all so shady back then. They were definitely not forthcoming with all of the information definitely not and people were sufficiently freaked out about this that it might have impacted his expedition yeah if people were substantially scared that's a good point even if he did find a curse slab you're gonna deny it because you don't want to frighten people out of your own work and your own discoveries yeah it's worth noting so uh right i think it was right before lord carney died he was the first one to go of the mosquito shaving incident i think it was a popular sherlock holmes author wrote a story of essentially quote unquote the mummy's curse of course and he dramatized it so then as soon as that death happened you know that just kicked off a whole line of rumors and all this stuff

which i think you know like all these stories they get exaggerated over time because they're cool yeah it's cool to say there's a mummy's curse exactly yeah and now like popular fiction has fed into it a lot i mean did you come across anything about like evidence no i was beating around the bush but thanks for clarifying that but did anyone propose any biological like pathogen models because i know people have said in the past could it be in the same way when european settlers arrived in the new world of north america right they just instantly killed like 80 of the population through smallpox and other diseases is it possible that they unearthed some sort of ancient disease super bug yeah it was talked about and like put forward as a hypothesis to maybe why

one or two people have died yeah but also the people that died from this curse allegedly all died from different things it's not died from this curse allegedly all died from different things it's not like 20 of them just dropped dead from a mysterious illness one guy got sick from a mysterious illness but he was traveling to egypt from a foreign country i'm gonna go ahead assume in those days half the people made it back yeah i know yeah because like think of all the injections you got to get now to go to a country like Egypt if you're from the UK. I don't like any injections. That's why I stay here where I belong, injection free.

I make the mummies come to me. Why don't you give the mummy an injection? Reanimate that milf, send him over here, and I'll have a look at him. That's the tagline. That's the soundbite preview for this podcast okay reanimating the milf so i think i can kind of tell from the tone of your voice but what do you make of this curse okay i think it's fun i think it's cool in terms of this the curse of the mummy i mean the more i read up about it curses were even quite rare in the tombs of pharaohs interesting like it's it's something now that's been popularized in fiction and you think that every tomb had a curse that was like to ye he breaks

this curse like not a lot of them had that at all and ones that did have it uh would be directed towards people in existing in the egyptian times basically saying don't come don't break into this building yeah you know don't not saying from thousand years from now don't rob this tomb yeah i mean that was like og security yeah like you couldn't hire someone's security to stand there all day long so you just put on like a little like no trespassing. Which is kind of cool. I wish, like, more places just did that instead of CCTV curses. Absolutely.

So instead of, like, a corner shop on the booze aisle, there's just a sign that's just like, doth thou feel tempted by the liquor of the dead? Kids are just walking out with bottles and bottles don't even look at it may you be struck down she's like yeah yeah sure sure sure they get two blocks down the street and the owner just releases a horde of jackals chase them down rip some part i i investigated this a lot i investigated a lot about the curse i think personally for me it's fun but it's coming down on

a no i think that's fair where do you lie on this what are your feelings i think i'm on the same page i think ancient egyptians were actually pretty clued in i think they were actually on to something at some point with the whole sand i love it i love it the whole sand thing pretty cool yeah fantastic amazing technology so advanced and ahead of their time. And I mean, I think we've probably got lots more ancient Egyptian stuff to cover on this podcast. For sure. But to the specific case of the curse of Tutankhamun,

I'm chalking it up to a no. That's a double no, unfortunately, for this episode. But hey, it was a fun ride right any podcast where I get to go visit the hometown of the half bird

half man god rah is a good podcast on my in my books hell yeah so unfortunately

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Yeah, someone actually cursed me. Someone went into a forest and cursed Rory. Matt. What I'm saying is, it doesn't seem to have went into a forest and cursed Rory. Matt. What I'm saying is, it doesn't seem to have done shit. No, it doesn't. So bring it on, mummy milf motherfuckers. Since the curse, I've lost five bets. I usually lose 10, 15 min a week.

So I'm walking on sunshine. Down 20k. down 20k. I'm walking on sunshine. This week I'm up eight houses down 16. Okay. I play for high stakes and I lose high stakes.

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