Curse of the Deadly Telephone Number
I knew I was right in hating telephones! ;-)
This Telegraph article reads a bit like the story of a Japanese horror movie.
"A mobile phone company has suspended the number 0888 888 888 – after every single person assigned to it died in the last 10 years.
The first owner Vladimir Grashnov – the former CEO of Bulgarian mobile phone company Mobitel which issued the number – died of cancer in 2001 aged just 48.
Despite a spotless business record there were persistent rumours that his cancer had been caused by a business rival using radioactive poisoning.
The number then passed to Bulgarian mafia boss, Konstantin Dimitrov, who was gunned down in 2003 by a lone assassin in the Netherlands during a trip to inspect his £500 million drug smuggling empire.
Dimitrov, who died aged 31, had the mobile with him when he was shot while eating out with a model. Russian mafia bosses – jealous of his drug smuggling operation – were said to have been behind the killing.
The phone number then passed to Konstantin Dishliev, a crooked businessman, who was gunned down outside an Indian restaurant in Bulgaria's capital Sofia after taking over the jinxed line. Dishliev, an estate agent, had secretly been running a massive cocaine trafficking operation before his assassination in 2005. He died after £130 million of the drug was intercepted by police on its way into the country from Colombia.
Since then, the number is understood to have been dormant while police maintained an open file on Dishliev's killing and his smuggling ring. Now phone bosses are said to have suspended the number for good."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7763578/Mobile-phone-number-suspended-after-three-users-die-in-10-years.html
Granted, that number belonged to people who probably brought their own deaths about by their choice of lifestyle (maybe excluding the first one) but the idea of a curse is a much better story...
It is interesting that the number 8 also figures prominently in the Curse of the Olympic mascots. Actually, 8 is considered a very lucky number in China, but...
"The day that saw the heaviest snowfall in decades, paralyzing China’s transport and electricity networks, was 25 January (2+5+1 = 8); the Tibetan riots broke out on 14 March (1+4+3 = 8); the Sichuan earthquake occurred on 12 May (1+2+5 = 8). There’s that number again, only now it doesn’t seem nearly so favourable. But hang on; let’s not neglect the fact that the number 8 is divisible by 4, the Chinese number of death. And what year is it? It’s 2008, and 2 goes into 8 a total of 4 times. And so it continues… "
http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/1350/the_curse_of_the_fuwa.html
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a telephone company in Bulgaria has a phone number now permanently disabled after all owners have died in the last 10 years.
The first owner was the former company executive, who died in 2001 of cancer. There were rumors he was poisoned by a rival radioactive.
The number went to a Mafia boss who was shot in 2003 of a "business trip" in the Netherlands. Again, a bomb attack is suspected.
The next owner was a businessman who acted the way with drugs and was shot in 2005 in Sofia. The police have the number still operate for a while, to his business contacts to get on the track and now it has been permanently shut down.
course, just the last two owners belong to a breed of people who constantly lives with the risk of unnatural death, but the headline still reads like a Japanese horror film ... :-)
also interesting in passing that the phone number is 888 0888 just 888th The eight appeared again and again that is also in the Curse of the Fuwa. In Chinese numerology, although the 8 is a lucky number, but on the other hand also of 2x the 4, the absolute number of accidents and death ...
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