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Myths and Rumors about the Sinking of Titanic

Many of these facts came from Titanic Buff's Homepage.

Mummy's Curse Sinks Ship

Many people decided to come up with reasons for the sinking of the Titanic, and one of the most absurb was a rumor started by New York newspapers. They claimed that the sinking was linked to an ancient curse placed on an ancient Egyptian mummy. The mummy was being shipped to the USA to be given to a collector. When the Titanic began to sink (supposedly because of this curse), the owner of the relic convinced the crew to put the mummy on a lifeboat for safe-keeping. The mummy made it to America, and then was shipped back to Europe because it caused too much ill fate to the new owner. The ship it was taken back on, the Empress, also sank, but the mummy managed to make it back to England. The owner decided to get rid of it once and for all, so he shipped it back to Egypt on the Lusitania, which was torpedoed by a German submarine. Is this story true? Of course not, but it satisfied those who wanted a concrete reason for an "unsinkable" ship to flounder.

Cowardly Man Sneaks into Lifeboat

It was also said that a man by the name of William Sloper had been determined to survive, and decided to dress in drag to try to get in one of the lifeboats that were for women and children only. In reality, poor William had only refused an interview about the sinking, and journalists sought revenge by printing this disgraceful story.

Another Nostradomus

It seems as though Morgan Robertson had the ability to predict the future. In 1898 (14 years before Titanic sunk) Morgan published a book entitled Futility. This told the story of an ocean liner on her maiden voyage who hit an iceburg and sank. The boat, which just so happened to be called the Titan, didn't have enough lifeboats for all of the passengers, and many of them died.
He also wrote a book that predicted World War II. It opened with the Japanese attacking Hawaii, ending with aircraft that brought entire city-destroying "sun bombs" down on Japan.