The Cursed Iceman
In 1991 Oetzi, or as he is better known– The Iceman a 5,300-year old mummified hunter was discovered in the Alps between Austria and Italy. Over the next 13 years, seven people connected to this discovery died. Four of these deaths were violent.
The first victim of this curse was taken in 1992, shortly after the discovery. Ranier Henn, the pathologist, who put Oetzi in a body bag with his bare hands was killed in a car crash on his way to a conference to discuss the Iceman.
Next, the mountain guide who lead Henn to Oetzi and who was the first to uncover his face died in an avalanche.
The third man filmed the recovery of the body. He died of a brain tumor.
Helmut Simon and his wife were the two who initially found Oetzi. Helmut went missing in 2004, an experienced climber, he was found dead face down in a stream. He had fallen off a 300-foot cliff.
Dieter Warnecke, who helped with the excavation Helmut’s body, dropped dead of a heart attack at Helmut’s funeral.
Konrad Spindler died of a disease that he had lived with for some time, after making this statement, “the curse is a load of rubbish, it is all media hype. The next thing you will be announcing is that I will be next.”
The seventh death occurred in 2005. Tom Loy, who discovered human blood on Oetz’s clothes and weapons, died of a blood disease that he was not diagnosed with until the year he began to study the Iceman.
It was determined that the Iceman had died because he was murdered. An arrow pierced him and then his skull was crushed.
