Overview
- Micah Sheldrake of Beaconsfield posted a TikTok (@micahsheldrakee) describing her family’s belief that a curse followed their link to Tutankhamun’s tomb.
- The video has drawn about 2.9 million views, triggering fresh UK coverage and a wave of public responses.
- She cites incidents such as an aunt being robbed at gunpoint, cancers concentrated on Jones’s side of the family, a hitchhiking scare, and her father’s altercation with serial killer Levi Bellfield.
- Sheldrake’s great-great-grandfather, Ernest Harold Jones, is reported to have identified early clues to the tomb’s location and died of tuberculosis in Egypt in 1911.
- Commenters have both praised the family connection and criticised Jones as a “grave robber,” a reaction Sheldrake says has not diminished her pride in the story.