On April 15th, 1912, four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City, the Titanic – the unsinkable ship – sank In the North Atlantic Ocean.
The ship hit as iceberg at 11:40pm on Sunday, April 14th and by 2:20am the following day, she was gone.
More than 1,500 people lost their lives whilst the survivors were eventually picked up and taken to America, where their stories were published in local and national press.
But on May 12th 1912, less than a month after the Titanic sank, the Washington Post ran this peculiar headline: “Ghost of the Titanic. Vengeance of Hoodoo Mummy Followed Man Who Wrote Its History.”
The associated article starts by asking:: “Was the avenging spirit of an Egyptian priestess who died in the holy city of Thebes 1,600 years before the birth of Christ present upon the Titanic, pursuing with immortal malevolence those who had desecrated her tomb and her memory?”
It's a bizarre claim in a major newspaper less than a month after the disaster, a claim that has been exaggerated and elaborated more and more over the past century.
In this video we will uncover the truth behind the legend and find out if there was cursed mummy on board the Titanic.