Aubrey HerbertВ was born with a degenerative eye condition and became totally blind late in life. It's said that Lord Carnarvon's half-brother suffered from King Tut's curse merely by being related to him. He never really recovered and died ofВ pneumonia a few months later. Gould was a wealthy American financier and railroad executive who visited the tomb of TutankhamenВ in 1923 and fell sick almost immediately afterward. When he tried to rebuild, it was hit with a flood. The paperweight appropriately (or perhaps quite inappropriately) consisted of a mummified hand wearing a bracelet that was supposedly inscribed with the phrase, 'Cursed be he who moves my body.' Ingham did not die from the mummy's curse, though his house burned to the ground not long after receiving the gift. Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered the tomb, gave a paperweight to his friend Bruce Ingham as a gift. Legend has it that when Lord Carnarvon died, all the lights in his house - or, according to some accounts, the lights in all of Cairo - mysteriously went out. This occurred a few months after the tomb was opened and a mere six weeks after the press started reporting on the ' mummy's curse,' which was thought to afflict anyone associated with disturbing the mummy. Lord Carnarvon accidentally tore open a mosquito bite while shaving and ended up dying of blood poisoning shortly thereafter. The man who financed the excavation of King Tut's tomb was the first to succumb to the supposed curse.

Here are nine people who might make you believe in such things, and one who should have been a direct recipient of Tut's wrath but got off with nary a scratch. Like any urban legend or media sensation, the alleged ' curse of the pharaohs' grew to epic proportions over the years. When King Tut's tomb itself was discovered on Novemafter more than 3,000 years of uninterrupted repose - some believed the pharaoh unleashed a powerful curse of death and destructionВ upon all who dared disturb his eternal slumber. On November 4, 1922, a team of archaeologists led by Howard Carter discovered a step that marked the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb. This story originally appeared on Mental Floss.

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