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Welcome to Unexplained Extra with me Richard mc lean smith. For the weeks in between episodes, we look at the stories that, for one reason or other, didn't make it into the show. In last week's episode, from eternity to hear, we ventured into Egypt's Valley of the Kings, where, in nineteen twenty two, a team led by Howard Carter and George Herbert, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, uncovered the final
resting place of the long forgotten pharaoh tutank Armoun. The apparent fatal consequences of their extraordinary find led many to suspect their disturbing of the sacred tomb had in some way released a curse on any who dared to come near it, though there is little way of ever knowing the truth of such a claim. What is little in doubt was the impact that Carter's and Carnarvan's rediscovery had
on the public imagination. The find made Carter and Carnarvin overnight celebrities, and with it a kind of Egyptomania took hold, influencing everything from architecture and fashion to literature and cinema.
A perhaps less expected consequence was the spike in the number of people suddenly claiming to be the reincarnated spirits of ancient Egyptians, with spiritualism proving especially popular in the twenties and thirties, so too was the practice of supposed past life regression, with no end of people now claiming to have lived a previous life, as the newly rediscovered pharaoh Tutankhamun, or perhaps as the more widely known Pharaoh Rameses the Second. There was one woman, however, who had
a rather different story to tell. Her incredible claim to have once lived before in a long ago and distant land was not only linked to a far more obscure name, but had been claimed long before Carter and Carnarvan's find. The story of the woman formerly known as Dorothy Edy has been described by one New York Times reviewer as one of the world's most intriguing and convincing modern case
histories of reincarnation. In nineteen o four, a baby later christened Dorothy Edy was born in South London to parents Mary and Reuben Edy, a young couple from Ireland. A few years later, at the family home in black Heath, a three year old Dorothy was playing at the top of the stairs when she tripped and fell, hitting her head on the floor. By the time her parents found her,
it was too late. A doctor was called immediately, who arrived a short time later only to confirm the terrible news their young daughter was dead, and so it was with monumental surprise when the doctor returned to the young girl's bedroom where he had left her a short time later, to find her sitting up, awake and playing happily in bed.
Not long after, the young girl began exhibiting odd behavior, talking with a peculiar accent and speaking of large column buildings that she remembered and how she wanted to go home. The following year, Dorothy's parents took her to the British Museum, where, at the first sight of the Egyptian galleries, she is said to have run to the nearest statue and kissed
its feet, declaring that she was finally home. Pointing to one particular photo, a long, heavily eroded, flat topped structure fronted by a grand colonnade, the four year old Dorothy turned to her parents, stating that it was where she used to live. The building was the Temple of Seti, the First, a lesser known, though by no means insignificant, New Kingdom pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty. It was fair to say the young Dorothee had certainly never heard of
him before. Dorothy's obsession would only intensify as she got older. As a teenager, she began to experience intense and vivid dreams of wandering through grand halls covered in ornate frescoes, or stepping into the warmth of a bright desert sun. At fifteen, in one night time reverie, she claimed to have been visited by the mummified body of Seti the First himself. In response to her increasingly bizarre claims and
sleep disturbances, Dorothy's parents had her admitted to a psychiatric hospital. However, doctors were unable to find anything clinically wrong with the young woman. After leaving hospital, Edy remained more convinced than ever that her spirit belonged in Egypt, and made it her lifetime's ambition to move there. She began studying hieroglyphics
and collecting Egyptian antiquities. She took on a job working for an Egyptian culture magazine, which advocated support for an independent Egypt, which was governed by Britain at the time. In her late twenties, Ed met an Egyptian student named Imam Abdul mcguid, and in nineteen thirty one, much to EDI's joy, the pair decided to relocate to Egypt. It is said that when Edy first stepped foot onto Egyptian soil, she kissed the ground, announcing that she was there to stay.
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DC dot com slash unexplained. Podcast Edi and mcgwid would marry soon after and give birth to a son, who they named Seti, in honor of the man that Dorothy had come to feel a strange connection to. She herself later adopted the name om Seti, meaning mother of Setti. One morning, shortly after her son was born, Omsetti awoke to find herself sitting at her desk, a pen in her hand and reams of paper in front of her
covered in short fragments of hieroglyphic script. Later, she would allege to have been visited in a dream by an entity known as or Rah, who claimed responsibility for the words she had apparently written. Over the next twelve months, or Rah proceeded to dictate message to her, which she would write out while in a trance state, eventually revealing
the story of her past. She had been known as Ben Treshid, a young priestess of humble origins who had been assigned to the Temple of Osiris in the small town of com El Sultan. At a young age, she had met and fallen in love with King Setti. The pair had apparently become lovers, resulting in Ben Treshit becoming pregnant, as was ever the case ben Tresciit was then said to have borne the brunt of the scandal, being forced to commit suicide rather than endure an inevitable public flagellation.
In nineteen thirty five, om Stti separated from her husband and took a job working for renowned egyptologist Selim Hassan at the Department of Antiquities, becoming the first woman ever
to work. It was said that when Omsetti first visited the Temple of Seti in Abidos, she recognized it instantly, and when tested by the Chief Inspector of Antiquities to locate elements on the wall paintings inside, she was able to do so perfectly, despite the fact that the paintings had never been made public and it was pitch black inside. Omsetti eventually moved to Abados, where she would remain until her death in nineteen eighty one, never wavering in her
conviction that she had lived a previous life. Omsetti is often dismissively described as an eccentric fantasist. However, as greatly revered cosmologist Carl Sagan once noted, she was a lively intelligent, dedicated woman who made a real contribution to Egyptology. If you enjoy listening to Unexplained and would like to help supporters, you can now go to Unexplained podcast dot com forward slash support. All donations, no matter how large or small,
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