In 1840, 68-year-old William Henry Harrison became the 9th President of the United States. However, he held this high post for only a month. On March 4, 1841, during the inauguration, the lightly dressed president caught a bad cold. But since Garrison was in excellent health for his age, everyone expected that in a few days he would recover and take up his duties.
But suddenly, in mid-March, the cold turned into a severe form of pneumonia, and exactly one month later, on April 4, William Henry Harrison died. And as soon as his ashes were buried, rumors spread that his death was connected with a certain curse of the Indians.
And these conversations were not just speculation. They were based on a very real event that took place in November 1811.
The leader of the Shawnee Tekumse Indian tribe, in order to more effectively protect the territories belonging to the indigenous people, tried to create an alliance of several tribes in Indiana. At the same time, a decision was made according to which all the lands of the American continent should belong to indigenous Indians and no one has the right to sell even a small territory to whites. The tribes that entered the union settled at the confluence of the Tippecano and Wabash rivers.
At this time, Senator Henry Harrison ruled the state of Indiana. It was he who, in 1811, by US President Thomas Jefferson, was instructed to disperse this alliance until it turned into a powerful force and began to wage war with the white population.
A detachment of a thousand, led by Harrison, approached the settlement where the Indian headquarters was located, and stopped a mile away. This was done in order to negotiate with Tekumse.
But unexpectedly on November 7, 1811, when it was getting dark, armed Indians launched an attack on Harrison's camp. A fierce battle began. The victory in this battle was won by the troops of the white Americans: they threw the Indians behind the village, and the settlement itself was completely burned.
After the defeat, an enraged Tekumseh sent a letter to Garrison stating the following: “Garrison will not win this year and become the Great Leader. But he can win next. And if he wins … He will not end his reign. He will die reigning. And when he dies, you will remember the death of my brother Tenskvatava. Do you think he lost his powers after death? The one who caused the eclipse of the Sun, and the one who weaned the Reds off the burning water? Harrison will die. And after him every Great Leader chosen in twenty years will die. And every time the Leader dies, let everyone remember the death of our people …”Subsequently, this message was called the curse of Tekumse. And it received its name, as subsequent events showed, quite deservedly.
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It is known that Henry Harrison was elected president in 1840. However, just a month after the inauguration, which took place on March 4, 1841, he fell ill with pneumonia and died on April 4, 1841. It turns out that, indeed, the death of Henry Harrison was the first in the chain of deaths of the presidents of the United States who were elected to this high post in those years that end at zero.
Indeed, in 1860, 20 years after the death of the 9th President of the United States, the people entrusted Abraham Lincoln to govern the country. But on April 14, 1865, when the president and his family were at the Washington Ford Theater for the play Our American Cousin, actor John Booth burst into the presidential box and shot Lincoln in the head point-blank. At 7.20 a.m. the next morning, Abraham Lincoln passed away.
James Abram Garfield, elected president of the United States in 1880, was the third victim of the Tecumseh curse. On the morning of July 2, 1881, while Garfield was waiting for a train to arrive at the Baltimore railway station in Washington, DC, the mentally abnormal Charles Guito fired a pistol at him.
The bullet hit the president in the back. For three weeks, America's best doctors tried to save the president, but all their efforts were in vain. On September 19, 1881, without ever getting out of bed, from his wounds that led to blood poisoning, Garfield died.
Then it was William McKinley's turn, who was re-elected to a second term in 1900. On September 6, 1901, he was at the Pan American Exhibition. On the way to one of the pavilions, the anarchist Leon Cholgosh fired two shots from a pistol at the president.
One of the bullets fired hit the rib, and the other hit in the stomach. The wounds received by McKinley, at first, did not cause much concern among the doctors. But soon the president's health deteriorated sharply. He underwent surgery. However, it did not bring improvement. And on September 14, McKinley died of gangrene.
In 1920, Warren Harding was elected to the top position in the United States. In the summer of 1923, to improve health, as insisted on by doctors, the president and his wife went on a tour of the western states. On the way, they stopped in San Francisco at the Palace Hotel. And it was there that on July 29, 1923, Harding suffered an apocalyptic blow. And just four days later, on August 2, at the 58th year of his life, the 29th President of the United States passed away.
Although there was no autopsy, the doctor announced that the cause of Harding's death was a vascular blockage. However, there is a completely plausible version that the president was poisoned …
In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt became President of the United States for the third time. And although by this time he was only 58 years old, the president could not boast of good health. This became especially noticeable after the victory in the elections in 1944. For example, he began to appear much less often than before at public events. And by the end of his term, according to the testimony of many, Roosevelt looked sickly and very old.
In order to somehow recuperate, in the early spring of 1945, he went to the then fashionable resort of Warm Springs, Georgia. There, on April 12, 1945, as a result of a brain hemorrhage, Roosevelt died.
The seventh president to be hit by the Tekunse curse is 46-year-old John F. Kennedy, who was elected in 1960. And on November 22, 1963, at 12.30 a.m. in Dallas (Texas), a rifle shot, made, according to official sources, by Lee Harvey Oswald, ended the life of the 35th President of the United States. And although the killer is generally known, nevertheless this crime remains unsolved to this day.
Logically, the next victim of the curse should have been Ronald Reagan, who was elected President of the United States in 1980. Indeed, on March 30, 1981, a certain crazy John Hinckley shot at the president. The bullet pierced Reagan's chest. But thanks to the latest advances in medical science, he was saved.
In fact, Ronald Reagan became the first President of the United States not to be “killed” by the Tekumseh curse.
In general, according to the theory of the seventh tribe, the curse of the leader of the Shawnee tribe operated up to the seventh tribe inclusive. And with the death of Kennedy, it lost its power …
Of course, you can believe or not believe in the existence of curses. But even the few stories above are suggestive. But this is only a small part of the loud curses, the victims of which were famous people. Here you can name the curse of the Onassis family, and the Kennedy family, and the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon …
Parapsychologists who study the phenomenon of the effect of curses are trying to find an acceptable explanation for this phenomenon. For this, several hypotheses have been put forward.
Most scientists believe that common human fear is the cause of the negative effects of curses. There are many people in the world who are so suspicious and superstitious that they can die not only from an erroneous fatal diagnosis made by a doctor, but also from curses.
However, this explanation suffers from incompleteness to be taken as true. The fact is that people who do not believe in mysticism also suffer from curses.
Some parapsychologists suggest that as a result of the magic rituals of the sorcerer, the victim of the curse falls under the strong influence of negative energy that destroys the human biofield. The "wounds" that have appeared in the biofield negatively affect the body, as a result of which a person begins to get sick and even dies.
According to another hypothesis, unkind words, saturated with negative emotions and a large amount of negative energy, can lead to malfunctions even in the human genetic apparatus. It is possible that strong curses are genetically transmitted from the victim to her descendants.
However, it is likely that the mechanisms of curses are much more complex. After all, the proposed hypotheses cannot explain the fact that only those American presidents who were elected to this post only in certain years ended tragically. This means that the effects of curses require more serious and thorough research.
Bernatsky Anatoly