Case file 041Culture & Legends
The Priestess of Death
A painted coffin lid in the British Museum was blamed for deaths, ruin and even the Titanic, though its curse was largely made up in London drawing rooms.
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Culture & Legends
Strange stories from art, film, music, literature, sport and video games.
Case file 031Culture & Legends
Alternative 3 - Hoax or Reality?
A television drama about Britain’s scientists escaping to Mars was always fiction, but the hoax outlived every attempt to explain it.
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Case file 017Culture & Legends
Turn Me On Dead Man
A rumour that Paul McCartney had died and been replaced turned Beatles albums into puzzles, with fans scouring lyrics and sleeves for clues.
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Case file 010Culture & Legends
The Play That Fooled London
Shakespeare’s supposed lost papers made a young law clerk the talk of literary London, until his newly discovered play faced an audience.
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