Ya see the same nonsense on TV everyday, but I bet that you still watch TV!

Total superstition not dangerous to the people there who handle it

Superstitious nonsense, given credence by people who believe in the supernatural, but there are many other recorded instances of people having a belief that certain objects have been cursed. Is it due to religion or just a natural human desire to explain unexpected deaths or disasters? I think I would suggest that it’s the latter.

The same happens to Lottery Prizes...the Curse of the Lottery prize!

I think perhaps belief is borne in the believer. My mom had a small cheap religious plastic plaque. She attributed miraculous miracles to this thing. I doubt it was any message from a god. But she believed in it fervently. She spoke of seeing, hearing dead relatives, strange noises. I just rolled my eyes. Then I saw the dead relatives too. This has nothing to do with god or religion for me. Just left over energy. She was one who believed if she prayed and something good happened, it was because she prayed. If something bad happened it was just gods will. Never got the logic. I think that if people say they have faith, it is a belief in something unknown that just happens because they pray or believed. I can’t knock their fantastical beliefs. But I envy it sometimes. Takes the science out of the equation. It was gods will. I don’t believe in god, prayer and healing. That god would be way too cruel to choose one despot who is saved by a prayer over a n innocent child dying of cancer whose had a whole church, town or whoever praying for them. That’s pure rubbish. Life is fate, it is random. That one bad day you park your car in a great spot and a tree falls on you and kills you. Life and death are random acts of circumstance. Just my thoughts.

I watched that program, too. As with all "cursed" objects, haunted dolls, etc., they are seen and handled by thousands and yet the stories of tragedy connected to them are few enough that they can be listed and related in a matter of minutes. I have things in my own knick-knack cabinet that can be connected to a string of family deaths and tragedies. I call them "heirlooms."

su·per·nat·u·ral

(of a manifestation or event) attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature.

Going by the pure definition of supernatural... There are definitely supernatural events in the universe! (And, perhaps, on our own planet!) We do not have a grasp yet on the totality of science...Or nature for that matter. There is much we do not yet understand. So yes... There are supernatural things and events.

Supernatural does not mean superstitious. They are two different meanings altogether!

That said... Do I attribute anything supernatural to the Hope Diamond? No... It's a chunk of carbon!

I kinda hope to have a diamond of that value! Yep I would spend much of the money and my fortune would eventually be spent by my children or grandchildren. Gosh I could handle that kind of misfortune!

People who amass a great deal of wealth are obsessive people who are driven to do whatever is necessary to get that wealth, not well off or comfortable but rich enough that they would be able to buy something like that diamond as a symbol of their wealth and prestige. You make a lot of enemies when you are that sort of person and eventually your luck runs out.
Giant diamonds and giant fortunes go hand in hand, misfortune is the inevitable result of the behavior necessary to amass giant fortunes.

Just stories made up by humans who love to tell stories. And we all love to hear them. And that is what the bible is/
Stories made up by humans.

I think in actuality you may find that a lot of the curse stories were embellishments to give the stone more intrigue

Years ago, I found a big worthless agate. They are common in the Oregon foothills.
It was about a large as cowpie.
So, years from now, if no one lost it, it would have lots of stories to go with it. But you will never hear them because the agate is worthless.
I gave it away because I had it for thirty years and it wasn't going to go away on its own.

The buyers of the diamond were not the average people. These are the extreme wealthy and along with their wealth comes extreme behavior and risk taking.
So, you would have to look at the others in that risk group.
Beside that, it's just a shiny rock.

Can’t beat a good curse. Not forget you need a Hand Of Fatima to repel the Evil Eye!

It was stolen on 11 September 1792!

Curses only have power over those who believe in them.
It is easier to blame the curse for the accident that befalls you than your own clumsiness or ineptitude.

I agree . Many decades ago , I did see it at the Smithsonian . I recall hearing that Jacqualine Kennedy had borrowed it . I'm not sure , but I think she wore it for one of the parties after John F Kennedy's swearing in .

Well, don't stop there! Take it to its endpoint. We are the source of all these stories. We empower The Stone or The Nailed God or the Sitting Buddha with their stories, their mystique, their power over us. We are the source and the receiver. Don't fret. Enjoy. We must tell more stories. We just cannot believe them.