Canadian Woman Returns Pompeii Artifacts, Blaming Mysterious ‘Curse’ for Her Cancer Diagnosis
The remorseful thief, identified only as a Canadian woman named Nicole, sent back a package of looted items which included two parts of an amphora, mosaic tiles, and a piece of ceramic — all snatched from Pompeii.
In her letter, Nicole wrote that she stole the historical artifacts because she wanted to have a piece of history that “nobody could have.” But she grew to regret her theft over the years as she found that the relics had “so much negative energy… linked to that land of destruction.”
Flickr CommonsArchaeological workers extract the mummified bodies of two adults and three children from Pompeii on May 1, 1961.
She went on to state that she had suffered a number of misfortunes over the last decade — including two bouts of breast cancer. She believed her bad luck was a curse brought on by the stolen artifacts.
“I am now 36 and had breast cancer twice. The last time ending in a double mastectomy,” she wrote. “My family and I also had financial problems. We’re good people and I don’t want to pass this curse on to my family or children.”
Nicole went on to note that she had learned her lesson and that she hoped to earn “forgiveness from God.”
“Take them back, please,” she pled in her letter, “they bring bad luck.”
Nicole isn’t the only light-fingered visitor Pompeii has received over the years. Within the same package was a separate set of stones that had been stolen from the site as well. Just like Nicole’s returned loot, the stones also came with a letter of confession, this one sent from a couple also from Canada.
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