If its history and legends are to be believed, the Hope Diamond is not only priceless, but CURSED.
Cursed Jewels: The Hope Diamond
Author: Kate Cherrell
I'm Kate, writer, editor, and creator of Burials and Beyond. By trade, I'm a writer and spooky lecturer-for-hire, but can usually be found lurking in cemeteries, archives, haunted houses, darkened rooms, or antiques shops, getting up to no good.
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