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Dig deep for facts and anecdotes. The next accursed jewel will be a doozy.

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Shari Lewis wore it when she wrote "The Song that Doesnt End". She also had her hand up lamb chops bum at the time.

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When in possession of the Eye of Cheops, watch out for those moments when you walk into a room and forget why. That’s your brain letting go of precious memories as it rots inside out.

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Can’t find much so far. But I love that you keep cursed objects. Family members often give me their dead relatives trinkets or baubles so I can remember them. I have a whole curio cabinet filled with them. Dunno if any of them are cursed but I like to think a piece of them is imbued in the objects and if I had the right magic I could revive their souls for questioning and advice.

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Is this for real? How deep do we need to dig? A quick google search doesn’t seem to be pulling anything up on the eye of cheops. Or anything connecting Mansfield, Entwhistle, or Short.

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Prior to being locked away in the LAPD vault, rumour has it that Isadora Duncan was too drawn to the ruby gem. Feeling it would be the perfect accompaniment for her fine silk scarf.

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Who? What? Where? When?

Huh?

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Been absent here a bit (life stuff), come back to it and get immediately sucked into this rabbit-hole. All I've found is that Jayne Mansfield had a house I'm very envious of.....

https://flashbak.com/inside-jayne-mansfields-pink-palace-the-graceland-of-hollywood-428153/

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In the first edition of the Bible, the story goes that Abel has found this stone and Cain envied it, so he killed Abel and took the stone giving it the first red tint. Later, Cain gave the stone to Cheops who named it Eye of Cheops and then Cain slept with Cheops's wife, but Cheops killed them both with the Eye of Cheops.

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I’m torn here. I want to win a cursed jewel, but I get freaked out walking through Egyptian exhibits in museums. I’ll do some digging, though. The google hole is familiar ground...

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Coming back from our honeymoon, my husband and I stopped for a quick glance at the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, where some of The Shawshank Redemption was filmed. (Spooky!!!) Driving around the area, could have been West Virginia even, we happened upon a Museum of Cursed Things. No Thanks, with a capital NO! Haha! Hit the gas and never looked back. I'm more of a lucky charm collector myself. :)

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I found an anonymous post on the darknet indicating the Eye is responsible for a total of 23 deaths thus far, one for each season of Law and Order: SVU. Clearly, Jayne's daughter learned some of its secrets.

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