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Fifteen-year-old Jody Randall of Long Beach, California, was in most ways a typical suburban teenager.  The one thing that set her apart was...

Arthur Weigall at the Temple of Edfu I love tales of ancient curses.  I love tales of sinister ghost cats even more.  Show me a story that c...

Via Newspapers.com Door-to-door salespeople can be a pesky lot, but it would be hard to top the one featured in this report in the “St. Loui...

Joseph Lindon Smith, via the Smithsonian Institution While virtually everyone has heard of the alleged “Curse of Tutankhamen's Tomb,” th...

via Newspapers.com An ancient cross which puts a curse on anyone who dares to meddle with it. No, it's not the plot of an M.R. Ja...

Via Newspapers.com I suppose the headline pretty much says it all, but read on. The "Los Angeles Herald," January 21, 1910:...

19th century ivory Ho-tei, via Buddhamuseum.com. Not guaranteed to come with a curse. In 1928, travel writer Charles James Lambert a...

 Via Newspapers.com If "The Raven's Curse" isn't a classic Strange Company topic, I don't know what is. From t...

Dundee Courier, March 29, 1937 A familiar and beloved theme of horror films is "tourists bring home ancient relic they nicked, so...

This medieval-sounding tale of a fatal curse put on a Kentucky doctor appeared in the "St. Louis Republic," October 11,1901: ...