![]() ![]() Was there a particular item that you read about or encountered that really got your attention? The Hope Diamond and King Tut's tomb both come to mind when most of us think about big-time curses. ![]() But along with that history are these tales of tragedy and the supernatural that it might've caused too. That thing has a 700-year history, starting in the mines in India, then going to French royalty, then making its way to England and then to the United States. I always start with the Hope Diamond, as an example. Then there are the paranormal stories that run parallel to that. Most of them have legit histories behind them, and the ones that are in museums are actual cultural artifacts, too. Cursed objects are pretty amazing because they have two types of stories to them, which other objects don't have. I've always been interested in artifacts and in anything weird and physical, like a memorial or a historical site. What made you switch your focus from creepy places to cursed objects? VICE: In your previous books, you've toured Edgar Allan Poe's homes and covered Salem, Massachusetts' whole haunted vibe. Ocker covers the backstories and the tragedies associated with several dozen of them, and they range from the infamous (like the tomb of Tutankhamen) to the previously unknown (like the chest of drawers that might've quietly offed 15 members of the same family).īecause 2020 is definitely the year when we'd accidentally buy a cursed ring at an estate sale, VICE called Ocker to talk about what makes these objects so dangerous, why they're not 'haunted,' and what to do if we think we might have, for example, a particularly fucked up Philosopher Kings CD in the house. "A cursed object is an object that gathers stories to itself-and more specifically, tragedies," he writes. ![]() In Cursed Objects : Strange But True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items, the Edgar Award-winning author turns his attention to some of the historical artifacts, jewelry, paintings and sometimes innocuous-looking home furnishings that have brought bad luck and misery to the people who encountered them-assuming that those cursed things didn't just kill them first. I hadn't thought about that record in years, not until I read J.W. After the second crash, I was too freaked out to listen to it again, anywhere. ![]()
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