I'm packing to relocate to sunny California, but not
in so industrious a way that I can't stop to gawk today
at the "Curse of Otzi." The CURSE OF OTZI?
Jeez, why does that story sound so blatantly
pulp-fiction obvious? When's the feature film?
Remember, folks, you disinter frozen Neolithic
shamans at your own personal risk.
"Curse of ÷tzi?
"The same ÷tztal Alps were fatal to Helmut Simon, whose body was found trapped in ice last October just like his famous find. (!?!?) Simon's death strengthened the legend of a '÷tzi curse', according to the German magazine Die Zeit.
"Three other people who had a direct contact with the mummy died under mysterious circumstances in the past years.
"The first one was Guenter Henn, the forensic pathologist who picked the mummy from the snow with naked hands. A year later, Henn died in a head-on collision while on his way to present 'sensational findings' on the mummy at a conference.
"Shortly after, it was the time of Kurt Fritz, the mountain guide who dug into the ice to bring to light the mummy's face. Fritz was the only one out of a group of climbers killed in an avalanche on a slope he was very familiar with.
"The third victim, who died of a brain tumor, was Rainer Hoelzl, the only journalist allowed to film the removal of the mummy from the ice for a TV documentary.
"As if that wasn't enough, Dieter Warnecke, head of the rescue service who found Simon's frozen body, died of a heart attack an hour after Simon's funeral."
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050103/oetzi.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,2763,1334765,00.html
