Tourist returns rocks taken from Pompeii due to fears over 'curse'

[UM-Bot]

For years, the city of Pompeii has been associated with stories of bad luck inflicted on anyone who removes anything from the site.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/373993/tourist-returns-rocks-taken-from-pompeii-due-to-fears-over-curse

[ShadyGroves]

I did something similar back in the 1990s with two pieces of coal from the Titanic. The official salvage company that owns the rights to recover Titanic artifacts. RMS Titanic LLC as part of fund raising offered recovered Titanic coal from the boilers. At the time you could own a piece of authentic Titanic coal 1x1 inch recovered from the site for a donation of 10 dollars each. Well, I got two. It didn't bother me at all (at that time.) So I kept the pieces in a display case in my bedroom until I could find a proper place to display them. Man oh Man the hellish nightmares I started to have worst of my life. After two and half weeks of them. I had enough. I wrote a Scientific Expedition that was going out to the Titanic and asked them to return them to the Titanic gravesite. They did. Learned my lesson.

[Piney]

6 hours ago, ShadyGroves said:

I did something similar back in the 1990s with two pieces of coal from the Titanic. The official salvage company that owns the rights to recover Titanic artifacts. RMS Titanic LLC as part of fund raising offered recovered Titanic coal from the boilers. At the time you could own a piece of authentic Titanic coal 1x1 inch recovered from the site for a donation of 10 dollars each. Well, I got two. It didn't bother me at all (at that time.) So I kept the pieces in a display case in my bedroom until I could find a proper place to display them. Man oh Man the hellish nightmares I started to have worst of my life. After two and half weeks of them. I had enough. I wrote a Scientific Expedition that was going out to the Titanic and asked them to return them to the Titanic gravesite. They did. Learned my lesson.

 Should've called a Indian. When a Catholic exorcist or newage psychic fails they all call a Indian.

I was a tribal cultural resources specialist who had Native remains all over my house and office and never felt a thing.

So next time get on the phone with your local tribe and one of us will come out and clean your haunted piece of 300 million year old petrified peat moss right up for a fee of one bottle of Mad Dog 2020 and a pack of Newports.

[+susieice]

7 hours ago, ShadyGroves said:

I did something similar back in the 1990s with two pieces of coal from the Titanic. The official salvage company that owns the rights to recover Titanic artifacts. RMS Titanic LLC as part of fund raising offered recovered Titanic coal from the boilers. At the time you could own a piece of authentic Titanic coal 1x1 inch recovered from the site for a donation of 10 dollars each. Well, I got two. It didn't bother me at all (at that time.) So I kept the pieces in a display case in my bedroom until I could find a proper place to display them. Man oh Man the hellish nightmares I started to have worst of my life. After two and half weeks of them. I had enough. I wrote a Scientific Expedition that was going out to the Titanic and asked them to return them to the Titanic gravesite. They did. Learned my lesson.

When I went to the Titanic Exhibition at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, they were also holding a fund raiser. I bought a necklace that has a piece of coal from the debris field in a little cage locket for $25. I've never taken it out of the box and never wore it. I have it put away with some of my other jewelry. I haven't experienced any issues, yet, and it's been about 10-15 years since I got it. 

Thanks for the info Piney! If I need to I'll give you a shout out.

Edited January 22 by susieice

[Piney]

6 hours ago, susieice said:

When I went to the Titanic Exhibition at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, they were also holding a fund raiser. I bought a necklace that has a piece of coal from the debris field in a little cage locket for $25. I've never taken it out of the box and never wore it. I have it put away with some of my other jewelry. I haven't experienced any issues, yet, and it's been about 10-15 years since I got it. 

Thanks for the info Piney! If I need to I'll give you a shout out.

Well, you know I'm right over the Commodore Barry bridge and have a full inventory of red ochre and cedar smudge. People in PA get a 10 percent discount in memory of William Penn.