Hope Diamond

A beautiful diamond and a dark history.

According to the legend, a curse attends the owner of the Hope diamond. Whether or not you believe in curses, the Hope diamond has intrigued people for centuries.
The history of the stone which was eventually named the Hope Diamond began when the French merchant traveler, Jean Baptiste Tavernier, purchased a 112 3/16-carat diamond from India.
This beautiful diamond was even worn by kings, such as King Louis XIV and Louis XV. after Louis XV died, the crown jewels (including the blue diamond) were taken from the royal. Though most of the crown jewels were soon recovered, the blue diamond was not, and it disappeared.
The large (44 carat) blue diamond resurfaced in London by 1813. Although the gemstone has been around for many years, it’s beauty is the only advantage.
Throughout the years, whoever owned the diamond ended up dying in some form, weither its murder, suicide or natural causes. The Hope Diamond has witness blood, torture, and any other type of death. However, interestingly the diamond seemed to only affect the owners who were men. There has been female owners, but nothing ever happened to them, the ones who died from it were men. Some of the females even used the hope diamond as a good luck charm. Although a female owner isn’t harmed by it, doesn’t mean that female friends or family members of the owner won't get harmed. One case being Evalyn McLean. Her firstborn son, Vinson, died in a car crash when he was only nine. McLean suffered another major loss when her daughter committed suicide at age 25. In addition to all this, McLean's husband was declared insane and confined to a mental institution until his death in 1941.
Though Evalyn McLean had wanted her jewelry to go to her grandchildren when they were older, her jewelry was put up for sale in 1949, two years after her death, in order to settle debts from the estate.

The Hope diamond is currently on display as part of the National Gem and Mineral Collection in the National Museum of Natural History for all to see. In fact, it was the first supernatural thing I saw in person.