The Curse OF Princess Neferet

Some secrets are better left buried. In Egypt, even the darkness listens.

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In 1924, H. P. Lovecraft ghostwrote a strange story for Harry Houdini called Under the Pyramids. Most people assumed it was just fiction.

But what if it wasn’t?
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Only known photograph of the bust of Princess Neferet, taken in 1924 before its mysterious disappearance.

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The excavation began in 1924.
The curse still waits.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle reviewing preliminary reports while visiting Karnak Temple during his journey through Upper Egypt amid growing interest in disturbances reported at the excavation later associated with the tomb of Princess Neferet, 1924.

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Aleister Crowley photographed beside the Colossi of Memnon on the west bank at Thebes during his journey through Upper Egypt following reports connected to the excavation later associated with the tomb of Princess Neferet, 1924.

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New York investigator Rose Mackenberg operating under an assumed identity) photographed at Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo, 1924, while quietly gathering information connected to the growing rumors surrounding the recently reported disturbances near the tomb of Princess Neferet.**

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Supply caravan transporting equipment and provisions across the Theban plain toward the Valley of the Kings during preparations for the excavation later associated with the Tomb of Princess Neferet, Western Thebes, 1924.

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@Noirchick1 I have this still

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@CitizenScreen I thought that was benny hill

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@ForeverLouiseB1 Wow

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New York investigator Rose Mackenberg employed numerous disguises to gain admission to séances while exposing fraudulent mediums.

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Aleister Crowley at Shepheard’s Hotel, Cairo, 1924, invited by Sir Evelyn Ashcroft as an observer of the Neferet investigation.

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@silentmoviegifs Cool forced perspective

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@oldmedia Love this movie saw it at the drive in . It was a rerelease in the 70’s

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Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ends his visit to North America, boarding the RMS Adriatic in New York bound for England.

“After a period of about three days,” Sir Arthur says, “the spirit of President Harding will advise Calvin Coolidge.”

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Lovecraft's Entombed With The Pharaohs in comic book form, starring Harry Houdini.

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Once close friends, the two men stood on opposite shores of belief. Doyle championed spiritualism as proof of life beyond death, while Houdini devoted himself to exposing fraudulent mediums. Their public disagreements would become one of the most famous intellectual clashes