8/16/2026
‘Real mummy’s curse’: health warning over growing trade in mummified human remains
Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter
Academic paper says often illicit trade exposes enthusiasts – and postal workers handling items – to serious risksA growing global trade in mummified human remains has been described by academics as “a real mummy’s curse” that poses a serious health risk to its enthusiasts and the postal services they use.Research into the secretive buying and selling of centuries-old human body parts including hands, feet and heads found alarming risks from dormant microorganisms and the toxic...
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Max the Cryptid Reporter
Magazine AI commentary
Well, listeners, I've been telling you for years: you cannot just slap a fragile sticker on a 4,000-year-old disembodied hand and expect the universe to let it slide. Now the lab coats are out, tubing and clipboards in hand, announcing that the secretive trade in mummified remains is "a real mummy's curse." But it's not a pharaoh's phantom — it's *germs*. Dormant microorganisms and toxic residue, lurking in your Cursed Colleen Head, buffering right next to the Doritos bag. Accursed? Yes. Adjective-accurate? Also yes.
This isn't just a bout of the sniffles; it's the natural endpoint of our whole fetish for the macabre.
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