Curse of the pharaohs<\/a>” and the media theme of cursed mummies, claims have been made that \u00d6tzi is\u00a0cursed.<\/p>\nRainer Henn\u00a0had the honour of placing \u00d6tzi’s frozen remains into a body bag. In 1992, Rainer was travelling to a convention where he planned to talk about \u00d6tzi. Tragically, he got into a deadly accident\u00a0and never reached his destination. This happened one year after \u00d6tzi was uncovered, making Rainer the\u00a0first potential victim\u00a0of the Iceman’s curse.<\/p>\n
Kurt Fritz took his place in history by leading researchers to \u00d6tzi’s body. An avalanche ended up claiming his life in 1993 when he was 52. Fritz was the only member of his expedition group who\u00a0died during the avalanche.<\/p>\n
Helmut Simon and his wife, Erika, discovered \u00d6tzi. Unfortunately, in October 2004, Helmut Simon who was an experienced hiker disappeared in the Alps. Due to snowy conditions, it took searchers eight days to discover his body. Simon had fallen more than 300 feet to his death.<\/p>\n
When Helmut Simon disappeared in the Alps in 2004, Dieter Warnecke led a search team. They ultimately recovered Simon’s body eight days after he went missing. Mere\u00a0hours\u00a0after Simon’s funeral, the 45-year-old Warnecke\u00a0had a heart attack\u00a0and died.<\/p>\n
The world’s leading expert on \u00d6tzi, Konrad Spindler, didn’t believe in the curse. He even joked about it during an interview, saying, “I think it’s a load of rubbish. It is all a media hype. The next thing you will be saying I will be next.” Indeed, Spindler was the next person associated with \u00d6tzi\u00a0to die. He passed in 2005 due to complications from\u00a0multiple sclerosis.<\/p>\n
Rainer H\u00f6lz was the only person allowed to film the recovery of \u00d6tzi’s body, and he later turned his footage into an hour-long documentary. H\u00f6lz died from a brain tumour shortly after finishing the film.<\/p>\n
Tom Loy was the first researcher to discover extremely important evidence on \u00d6tzi’s clothing. His findings indicated that the Iceman had died during a violent conflict, due to the presence of multiple types of blood on the fabric and tools. Ironically, Loy ultimately died due to a hereditary blood disease \u2013\u00a0one that\u00a0wasn’t diagnosed\u00a0until after Loy began studying \u00d6tzi’s remains.<\/p>\n
Final words<\/h4>\n
As of 2017, seven deaths have been linked to the discovery of\u00a0\u00d6tzi. It seems like a high number, until you consider the\u00a0hundreds of people\u00a0who have been involved with \u00d6tzi research projects over the years. Everyone from reconstruction artists and DNA experts to the museum’s ticket booth salespeople has a connection to the ancient Iceman. In other words, if there really is a curse, there should be many more deaths.<\/p>\n
Perhaps \u00d6tzi only went after individuals related to the original discovery of his body. Or perhaps these tragedies are nothing more than deeply unfortunate coincidences.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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