He had lain in his icy tomb on an Alpine glacier in northern Italy for 5,300 years, a perfectly preserved Stone Age warrior, complete with fur robes, leather shoes and bow and arrow. But since being found 14 years ago, five of the people who came in close contact with Oetzi the Iceman have died, leading to the inevitable question: is the mummy cursed? Konrad Spindler, head of the Iceman investigation team at Innsbruck University, died on Monday, apparently from complications arising from multiple sclerosis. But that has not stopped his name being linked to a string of strange deaths related to the mummy. He had spent years studying the remains of the frozen warrior, who was discovered in the melting Similaun glacier, on the border between Italy and Austria in 1991. The 66-year-old scientist had been aware of curse theories, built around the supposition that the Iceman was angry at having been disturbed after 53 centuries, and used to joke: "The next victim could be me." The other "victims" of the mummy include the forensic expert Dr Rainer Henn, who placed the cadaver in a body bag with his bare hands, and who died in a road accident on his way to a conference to discuss his famous subject.

The Alpine guide Kurt Fritz organised the transportation by helicopter of the mummified remains, and was killed by a snowslide in an accident in the mountains, in an area he knew well. He was the only one of a party of climbers to die. Then there was journalist Rainer Hoelz, who filmed the recovery of the Iceman, and who died of a brain tumour. The fourth death was that of Helmut Simon, the German tourist who spotted the Iceman in 1991 while on a walking trip with his wife. He became bitter that he was not recognised or financially compensated for his discovery.

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Creepy...

Did anyone watch the Nova program about Oetzi the iceman? It was a good program. I hadn't heard of all the people dying that had something to do with the finding of him. Coincidence or curse? I don't know quite what to think.

i'm sure more than 5 people i've come in contact with have died, does that make me cursed?

lol

Let's hope not!

Just unlucky and unfortunate but not a curse... they said something similar about Tutankamun in fact was one of the Mummies recovered also on the Titanic? it was being shipped to the USA.

i can understand King Tut having a curse on his mortal remains, being a King and all. But the Iceman was killed in a fight, and i don't believe he was of high importance. So, why would he have placed a curse on whomever disturbed him? i think it is creepy, but just coincidence.

Well my former history teacher was an archaeologist and her team discovered and dug up a tomb and every single one of them has dies except her! And supposedly there was an actual curse on that tomb.
Very interesting indeed............

I don't believe in curses