Curses

 The concept of curses is an expressed wish that a misfortune that falls to another person has been around as far back as documented history has existed, for some, they are nothing more than a staff of legends but for others it cost them those that they love. The curses that I will talk of today were documented in their whole, and they not only killed people but left others spooked, the circumstances in which they occurred would make a skeptical person become a believer, you decide for yourself are they mere curses or there's something more to it.

• Aaron Ramsey

  Ramsey, a man known for his eye for goal. His strikes has been associated with celebrity thefts, it was once labelled "the curse of Aaron Ramsey" because each time he scored, a celebrity passed away. Each goal he made, was often followed by the death of the likes of Osama Bin Laden, Steve Jobs, David Bowie, Whitney Houston, Paul Walker and Alan Rickman. His injuries kept him out of the pitch probably saving dozens of life.

Aaron Ramsey Curse

• The 27 Club

  If you're a rock star and you're about to turn 27, you might want to consider taking a year off to avoid membership in "The Club." Trust us: This is an exclusive club that you won't want to join. Take Robert Johnson, for example. Johnson, who Eric Clapton called "the most important blues musician who ever lived," played the guitar so well that some said he must have made a deal with the devil. So when he died at 27, folks said it must have been time to pay up.

Since Johnson, a host of musical geniuses have gone to an early grave at age 27. Brian Jones, founding member of the Rolling Stones, died at age 27 in 1969. Then it was both Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin in 1970, and Jim Morrison the following year. Kurt Cobain joined The Club in 1994, and so did Amy Winehouse in 2011. All 27 years old. Is it a coincidence? A tragic combination of fame, addiction and depression at a young age? Or were these musical geniuses paying debts, too?

27 Club 

• Tecumseh's Curse and the American Presidents

  The curse of Tippecanoe, or Tecumseh's Curse, is a widely spread explanation for why, from 1840 to 1960, every U.S. president elected (or re-elected) every 20th year has died in office. Rumor has it that Native American leader Tecumseh administered the curse when William Henry Harrison's troops defeated his forces at the Battle of Tippecanoe. Check it out:

1. William Henry Harrison was elected president in 1840. He caught a cold during his inauguration, which quickly turned into pneumonia. He died on April 4, 1841, after only one month in office.
2. Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860 and re-elected four years later. Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865, and died the next day.
3. James Garfield was elected president in 1880. Charles Guiteau shot him in July 1881. Garfield died several months later from complications following the gunshot wound.
4. William McKinley was elected president in 1896 and re-elected in 1900. On Sept. 6, 1901, McKinley was shot by Leon F. Czolgosz, who considered the president an "enemy of the people." McKinley died eight days later.
5. Three years after Warren G. Harding was elected president in 1920, he died suddenly of either a heart attack or stroke while traveling in San Francisco.
6. Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president in 1932 and re-elected in 1936, 1940 and 1944. Although his health wasn't great overall, he died rather suddenly in 1945 of a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke.
7. John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960 and assassinated in Dallas three years later.
8. Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, and though he was shot by an assassin in 1981, he did survive. Some say this broke the curse: George W. Bush, who was elected in 2000, escaped and went on to serve for a second term in office.

Tecumseh's Curse

• Super-Man

   The Superman curse alludes to a progression of as far as anyone knows related incidents that have tormented imaginative individuals engaged with adjustments of Superman in different media, especially entertainers who have assumed the job of Superman on film and TV. The "curse" is oftentimes connected with George Reeves, who featured in Adventures of Superman on TV from 1952 to 1958, and kicked the bucket of a gunfire twisted at age 45 under questioned conditions (authoritatively administered a suicide); and Christopher Reeve, who played the hero in four dramatic movies from 1978 to 1987, was incapacitated in a 1995 horseback riding mishap, and passed on nine years after the fact at age 52 from a heart failure. 

The curse is regularly summoned at whatever point setback is experienced by entertainers and other faculty who work on Superman adjustments, to such an extent that some headhunters refer to the curse as the explanation behind the trouble in throwing on-screen characters in the job in no frills highlight films. 

An increasingly trite clarification for the affirmed 'curse' is that given the high number of individuals associated with the numerous adjustments and medications of the Superman story throughout the years, various noteworthy hardships would unavoidably happen, as they would do in any considerable testing of arbitrary people.

Some of the victims connected to the curse include Kirk Alyn, Bud Collyer, Lee Quigley, Marlon Brando, Margot Killer, Dana Reeve and many others.

Superman Curse

• The Madden Curse

  This modern curse claims that every player who graces the front cover of the EMA NFL themed video game "Madden" has gone on to either have their worst NFL season ever or been rocked by a huge personal scandal. So far this "curse" has claimed Michael Vick, Donavan McNabb, Troy Polomalu, and Brett Favre.

Madden

• "My Way Killings"

The My Way killings are a social wonder in the Philippines, alluding to various lethal questions which emerged because of the singing of the melody "My Way", advanced by Frank Sinatra ,in karaoke bars. A New York Times article appraises the quantity of killings to be around six up to 2010. Another source appraises in any event 12 somewhere in the range of 2002 and 2012. Conclusions vary about whether the conceivable association is because of the fortuitous event that the tune was basically as often as possible sung in the midst of the country's karaoke bars where savagery is normal or to the forceful verses of the tune itself.

In the decade up to 2010, about a half-dozen incidents occurred in the Philippines in connection with strenuous complaints over the singing of the song, prompting Filipino newspapers to name the phenomenon the " 'My Way' killings".

On May 29, 2007, a 29-year-old karaoke artist of My Way at a bar in San Mateo, Rizal, was shot dead as he sang the tune, supposedly by the bar's security monitor, who was captured after the occurrence. As indicated by reports, the gatekeeper griped that the young fellow's interpretation was off-key, and when the unfortunate casualty wouldn't quit singing, the watchman hauled out a 38-gauge gun and shot the man dead.

Some Filipinos, even those who love the song, will not sing it in public in order to avoid trouble. As of 2007, the song reportedly had been taken off of the playlists of karaoke machines in many bars in Manila after complaints about out-of-tune renditions of the song resulted in fights and deaths.

My Way Album Cover

• "Not in a 100 years"

The Bela Guttmann curse is over 50 years old, but we will never know exactly what the great Hungarian coach once said.

The classic, most popular version claims that he decreed upon his acrimonious departure in 1962: "Not in 100 years from now will Benfica win a European Cup." The accuracy of that statement, however, is far from certain.

The reason for Guttmann’s abrupt exit from Lisbon was all about the Benfica management’s refusal to pay him a bonus for winning the European Cup twice in a row. 

Whichever account you choose to believe, all Guttmann’s predictions - real or fictional- have come true. The debt was never paid and European success has deserted the club ever since. The Eagles have reached the European Cup final on five occasions since Guttmann’s famous words and lost every time.

AC Milan dethroned them in 1963, Inter got the upper hand two years later, Matt Busby’s Manchester United won the famous Wembley final in extra-time in 1968, PSV took the title on penalties in 1988 and, finally, Milan were 1-0 winners in 1990.

That historic final took place in Vienna, where Guttmann - who died 33 years ago last month - is buried, and the great Eusebio went to pray on his grave beforehand, asking for the curse to be removed. It didn’t help.

Last season Benfica reached the final of the Europa League at the Amsterdam ArenA only to fall at the final hurdle, with Chelsea lifting the trophy after Branislav Ivanovic's injury-time winner sealed a 2-1 success.

Guttman and the Trophies

Eusebio (Left) Bela Guttman (Right)

• Michael Ballack 

How can a man with 5 league titles be cursed? 

 In 2000, Bayer Leverkusen needed only a draw against minnows SpVgg Unterhaching to win the Bundesliga title, but an own goal by Ballack helped send the team to a crushing 0–2 defeat, while Bayern Munich clinched the title with a 3–1 victory over Werder Bremen.

 The 2001–02 season was a disappointing one for Bayer Leverkusen. In the Bundesliga, the team surrendered a five-point lead at the top of the table over the last three games of the season to finish second behind Borussia Dortmund; lost the UEFA Champions League final 2–1 to Real Madrid; and lost the DFB-Pokal final 4–2 to Schalke 04.

 These three runner-up finishes were dubbed a "Treble Horror": Bayer Leverkusen was dubbed "Bayer Neverkusen" in English, while the German nickname became Vizekusen. Ballack and Leverkusen teammates Bernd Schneider, Carsten Ramelow and Oliver Neuville were also beaten finalists with Germany in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, although Ballack was suspended for the final itself.

 Ballack joined Chelsea on the 15th of May 2006 and brought the shadows of his past with him. The 2007-08 season ended on a low note for Ballack as Chelsea finished runners-up in the League Cup, Premier League and Champions League. This completed another treble horror for Ballack and his club. On 29 June 2008, Germany, captained by Ballack, lost to Spain 1–0 in the final of UEFA Euro 2008. This became the second season in Ballack's career after 2002 that he was runner-up for four major trophies.

Micheal Ballack

Bayer Leverkusen Runner Up

• The Kennedy Curse

  Edward Kennedy may have lived to the age of 77 – escaping the so-called Kennedy curse that stalked his family – but his life was still marked by loss, scandal and tragedy. In 1941 his elder sister, Rosemary Kennedy, who was born with developmental problems, underwent a lobotomy that resulted in her spending the rest of her life in institutions. She died in 2005.

  Three years later his eldest brother, Joseph Kennedy Jr, died in a plane crash while on a bombing mission over the Channel during the second world war. In 1948 another plane crash – this time in France – killed his sister, Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish. She was 28.

  The Kennedys' fortunes appeared to have improved with the election of John F Kennedy as president in 1960. But in 1963 he was assassinated with his wife at his side as the presidential motorcade rolled through Dallas, Texas. A year later, Edward Kennedy narrowly escaped death when a plane crashed in an apple orchard in Massachusetts. The pilot and one of Kennedy's aides died and the senator spent six months in hospital, emerging with chronic back pain that would plague him for the rest of his life.

  In 1968 Kennedy lost another brother to an assassin's gun when Robert Kennedy was murdered in Los Angeles, just after his victory in California's Democratic presidential primary election. He was 42. Thirteen months later came yet another terrible and defining moment in Edward Kennedy's personal and political life. While driving back from a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts with an aide, Mary Jo Kopechne, Kennedy drove off a bridge and his car ended up in the water. Kennedy managed to get out but Kopechne did not.

  Kennedy said he tried again and again to save her. But his failure to report the accident for more than 10 hours was viewed by many as callous at best and deeply suspicious at worst. The incident left a stain on his political career that could never be removed. In 1984 David Kennedy, one of Robert Kennedy's 11 children, died at the age of 28 of an overdose of cocaine and other drugs. Thirteen years after that, Michael, another of Robert's sons, was killed when he hit a tree while skiing in Aspen, Colorado.

  In 1999 another of Edward Kennedy's nephews, John Kennedy Jr, the son of JFK, died with his wife and sister-in-law when the small aeroplane he was flying crashed into the Atlantic off Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.

The Kennedy Family

• Curse of the Dragon

  Bruce Lee was deemed one of the best when it comes to martial arts, his final movie Enter the Dragon predicted Bruce's son Brandon, in the film Bruce's character is killed when a prop gun is substituted with a real one and his character is killed, when his son was filming The Crow a prop gun is misfired and he was killed.

  Two months before Brandon's death a movie was made named "Dragon" The Bruce Lee story, in the film Bruce battles a metaphorical demon which haunts his family, during the final confrontation with the demon, it loses interest in Bruce and begins targeting his son, Brandon was still alive when the scene was shot, 2 months later Brandon was killed. The film Director believed Brandon's death was faded to happen.

Bruce Lee

  These events happens to be somewhat questionable. One way or the other, they all happened. I would love to know your thoughts on any of these events and if you have experienced or witnessed such events, feel free to drop your comments in the box...