America's Most Cursed: The Hope Diamond

If Indiana Jones taught us anything, it's that you should never steal anything from a sacred temple! Too bad Indy wasn't around to school Jean-Baptist Tavernier on that, otherwise a beautiful blue terror might not have been unleashed into the world. Some believe that the curse of the Hope Diamond is just hooey, but after you hear all its been through over the last 350+ years, I think you'll disagree!

Sources:

The French Blue, by Richard Wise

The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved, by Colin Wilson and Damon Wilson

https://www.documentarytube.com/articles/five-lesser-known-victims-of-the-hope-diamond-curse

https://www.si.edu/spotlight/hope-diamond/history

https://www.capetowndiamondmuseum.org/blog/2019/09/5988/#:~:text=After%20King%20Louis%20XIV's%20death,of%20the%20Hope%20Diamond's%20curse.

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/hope-diamond-curse/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/black-mass

https://www.regencyhistory.net/2020/09/

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Thomas_Hope_(banker,_born_1769)

https://prabook.com/web/francis.francis_hope_pelham-clinton-hope/2343464#:~:text=One%20journal%20wrote%3A%20%22Pecuniary%20troubles,to%20England%20with%20Lord%20Francis%22.

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