South Africa's famous diamond tycoon Hobeika is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Although Hobeika is a businessman, he loves collecting art and owns a showroom that displays art treasures he has acquired from all over the world.
In mid-February 2004, Hubeika learned that a valuable violin would be auctioned at an antique auction in Johannesburg. The violin was made by Antonio Stradivari, a famous Italian violin maker from the 17th to 18th century. This outstanding work has a magical and beautiful sound quality and is very precious. The starting price of the auction is 1.5 million US dollars. Hu Beika was immediately attracted by this violin full of elegance and nobility. He sold it with a jaw-dropping 800 US dollars. Soon after, a newspaper in Johannesburg published a letter from an anonymous man who claimed that the violin was a magic violin that would bring bloodshed to whoever owned it. The author tells the history of the violin in great detail: In the early 20th century, the violin fell into the hands of a woman named Morissa. She fell in love with a Venetian man, but the man cheated her of her violin and then left. It took Morissa six years to track the man down. She secretly poisoned him to death and took back her heirloom. Later, Morisa lived in seclusion in a village in southern Italy and fell in love with a music teacher. But the music teacher deceived Morisa and After taking the violin, he abandoned her and ran away. Morissa failed to find the violin and died of depression. She learned witchcraft in her childhood and cast a spell before she died. Whoever possessed the violin would die! After his death, the violin traveled to several countries and regions and appeared three times. Every time it appeared, someone related to the violin died mysteriously. This is the fourth time the violin has appeared…
Hobeika didn't believe in witchcraft or ghosts at all. However, in late April, the disaster finally happened. One of Hobeika's bodyguards named Mark and four other bodyguards were playing the exciting game of "Russian Roulette". When he was about to leave, he somehow shot a bullet from the revolver into his temple and died on the spot. Although Mark had moved the box containing the violin, Hubeika insisted that Mark died accidentally. I believe Mark's death was related to the violin.
But just half a month later, another strange incident happened. When Hubeika's mistress, Charis, was driving home, her car lost control and rolled off a cliff, killing both the driver and the driver. The night of the incident was bright with moonlight. There were no obstacles on the road where the accident happened. After the police autopsy, it was found that Charissa had not drunk alcohol or taken any illegal anesthetic drugs.
The only thing that puzzled the police was that within an hour before the accident, Charis called Hubeika twice while driving and said that she saw a woman with a bloody face and strange clothes playing the violin. He appeared in the middle of the road, his eyes staring at her, which made her feel creepy.
Hu Beika still didn't believe that Charlie's death was really related to the violin. He thought that Charlie was inspired by the horror story and had hallucinations due to extreme mental stress when driving alone in the dark wilderness, which eventually led to the death of Charlie. The car lost control and fell off a cliff.
Since Charis was the only person besides Hubeka who had tried to play the music on the valuable violin, her death caused terrible speculation. Everyone who had touched the violin began to worry. I became uneasy, worried that bad luck would suddenly befall me one day. Even more bizarre was that one night, a sad violin piece "Tears of the Goddess" suddenly came from near Hubeika's collection showroom. The music was like a tearful As reported, when the security guards heard the sound and ran over, the piano music suddenly disappeared. The entire surveillance also showed that when the piano music started, there was no one in the collection display room, but the recording device in the display room clearly Recorded the piano sound.
Hubeika took the recorded sound to a musical instrument expert for identification, and the result proved that it was the unique sound of a violin made by Stradivari, a famous Italian violinist. Could it be that the violin lying in the showroom really has a ghost attached to it and can automatically produce ghostly music?
Just when Hubeika was still skeptical, one night in June, his 13-year-old granddaughter Diya was strangled to death in her room. The murder weapon was a violin string that did not leave any fingerprints. The police received a clue from a good friend of Diya. On the night of Diya's murder, he and her were chatting online. Suddenly, he received a text message from Diya: "I saw a woman with a violin pointing at my The girl came to the room with blood in her eyes and a very strange smile. I was very scared, but I didn't dare to shout, "Can you save me?" After sending the text message, she disappeared from the Internet. He thought Diya I thought it was a joke, so I didn't take it seriously. But the next day I found out that she was really dead.
Hu Beika clearly remembered that on the day she bought the valuable violin, Diya touched the strings out of curiosity. Could this careless touch be the kiss of death? The death of a Stradivarius violin and the police's lack of progress in solving the case terrified Hubeika. He wanted to destroy the violin, but he was reluctant to do so because of its high value. After all, a Stradivarius violin would cost a fortune. There are only a handful of them left in the world now!
When Hobeika was getting anxious, one of his bodyguards named Kumar suggested that he go hunting in the Isantan jungle in northern South Africa to relax. Hobeika thought this was a good idea, so in early July 2004, he arranged for He packed up his luggage and set off by helicopter with four bodyguards and several close associates.
The Isantan jungle is the habitat of the indigenous Zulu people of South Africa. Hubeika hunted in the jungle for several days. At night, he did not stay in a hotel, but in a tree nest hotel built by the Zulu people. , four bodyguards took turns guarding under the tree.
On the morning of July 9, the sun had already risen above the treetops, but Hobeika, who was used to getting up early, had not yet opened the door of the tree nest and walked down. His secretary, Theron, felt something was wrong, so he climbed up the ladder. They knocked on the door, but it wouldn't open for a long time. Upon hearing the news, several bodyguards immediately broke the door open. They were shocked to find Hu Beika lying on the bed, his body covered in bruises, his pupils dilated, and his heart had stopped beating long ago.
The police arrived at the scene quickly and after a careful inspection, they found only a poisonous snake, which the locals call a tree snake. This kind of snake is very sensitive to heat sources and will actively attack if it senses the body temperature of a person or animal. After identification, it was found that there was a tiny tooth mark on Hubeika's thigh, which was caused by a snake bite. If a person bitten by this tree snake does not receive timely treatment within a quarter of an hour, he will die. Could it be another Did the death curse on the violin come true? Radebe, who was in charge of the case, was an experienced detective. He was not affected by the curse on the violin, but carefully studied the crawling of the murderer, the tree snake. route.
He consulted zoologists and learned that wherever animals crawl, they will leave traces of varying depths, just as humans leave footprints. After inspecting the tree, no signs of reptiles were found on the trunk and branches, which means that the tree snake that killed the man did not climb up the tree by itself, but was most likely thrown into the tree by someone. .
After another trace test on the tree snake, Radebe finally extracted several fingerprints left by humans from the snake. Since the tree snake had been hiding in a corner before the police arrived, no one had discovered it, so the possibility of human involvement was ruled out. It is possible that someone accidentally left fingerprints on it after the crime. After comparing the fingerprints, Radebe found that the fingerprints belonged to Kumaro, the bodyguard of Hubeika on the night of the crime. The police's secret investigation also showed that Kumaro Luo's bank account suddenly increased by $500,000 in March 2004, and the day after Hobeika's death, he sent a message using his mobile phone to a number in Johannesburg saying "The work has been completed, please pay me." After receiving a text message from a bank, $200,000 was transferred into his account. All signs showed that Kumalo was a major suspect. At the end of July, the police arrested Kumalo. After a fierce battle of wits and psychology, Kumar's psychological defenses collapsed completely, and he confessed his crimes. At the same time, Fish, the mastermind behind the whole incident, also surfaced.
It turned out that 13 years ago, on his 40th birthday, Hubeika unfortunately hit and killed a young girl named McCarrie because of drunk driving. McCarrie was a beautiful singer who had just debuted and came from a poor family. She secretly fell in love with a rich boy named Fish from Johannesburg.
Fish was still in college at the time, and because he was worried that his parents would stop him from dating McCarrie, the two agreed to wait until he graduated from college before making their relationship public. However, before their dream of love came true, McCarrie died. Hubeika was killed in a car accident. Thanks to his strong financial resources, he was lucky enough to find a scapegoat to take his place in jail.
After learning the verdict, Fish, who lost his lover, secretly vowed that he would make Hubeika pay with blood in the future! In the following ten years, although Fish married and had children, he did not give up the idea of revenge. By chance, Fish got the valuable violin and learned about the horror story of the violin. So he decided to use it to lure and kill Hubeika, who loved collecting musical instruments. Hubeika was fooled and bought it at a high price. Fish then used $500,000 to buy off Kumaro, the bodyguard of Hubeika, and through him, he used the ghost of the merchant who stole the revolver while playing the Russian roulette game to start the first round of killings. "Verify" the horrible curse; the car accident that killed Hubeika's mistress, Charis, was also a conspiracy planned by Fish. He bribed two women to dress up in strange ways, holding violins and standing in the road that Charis must drive by. Unexpectedly, she was too timid, lost control of her mind, and drove the car off the cliff.
The violin music that sounded automatically in the collection display room was played by a tape with a remote control device that Kumar had buried nearby. Of course, the music was indeed played by the violin, but the time of the performance was at Fishton. Before the auction of the violin; As for the death of Hubeika's granddaughter Diya, it was also Kumaro's fault. He sneaked into Diya's room and forced her to send the distress message to netizens according to his instructions, so as to divert everyone's attention. The murderer was identified as a mysterious ghost on the violin.
Finally, it was Kumaro who urged Hubeika to go hunting, and when he was on duty alone at night, he quietly threw a poisonous tree snake that he had prepared in advance into the tree nest where Hubeika was sleeping. The snake will quickly flee after biting someone, but he just neglected one thing: the tree where the tree nest is located is all coated with some medicine to prevent reptiles from invading. Tree snakes are very taboo about this medicine, so they dare not leave after biting someone. The snake had to hide in a tree nest until it was caught by Inspector Radebe, who used the fingerprints left by Kumalo on the snake as a breakthrough and solved this bizarre case.
Soon, Fish and other suspects were arrested, but something strange happened again. On August 4, the violin that was originally in the Hubeika Collection Showroom mysteriously disappeared. After the police investigation, , the surveillance cameras in the showroom went blind for two hours on August 4, and then strangely returned to normal.
It was during these two hours that the violin disappeared.
Although the police have solved the mystery of the so-called curse, which is nothing more than a murder plot deliberately planned by the criminals, many people prefer to believe in the legend of the curse. They think that it was the violin that was cast with a vicious curse that brought These disasters, and Hu Beika, Fish and others are all victims of the curse!