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Speaker 1: Welcome to Unexplained Extra with me Richard mc lean smith.
Speaker 1: For the weeks in between episodes, we look at the
Speaker 1: stories that, for one reason or other, didn't make it
Speaker 1: into the show. In last week's episode, from eternity to hear,
Speaker 1: we ventured into Egypt's Valley of the Kings, where, in
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty two, a team led by Howard Carter and
Speaker 1: George Herbert, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, uncovered the final
Speaker 1: resting place of the long forgotten pharaoh tutank Armoun. The
Speaker 1: apparent fatal consequences of their extraordinary find led many to
Speaker 1: suspect their disturbing of the sacred tomb had in some
Speaker 1: way released a curse on any who dared to come
Speaker 1: near it, though there is little way of ever knowing
Speaker 1: the truth of such a claim. What is little in
Speaker 1: doubt was the impact that Carter's and Carnarvan's rediscovery had
Speaker 1: on the public imagination. The find made Carter and Carnarvin
Speaker 1: overnight celebrities, and with it a kind of Egyptomania took hold,
Speaker 1: influencing everything from architecture and fashion to literature and cinema.
Speaker 1: A perhaps less expected consequence was the spike in the
Speaker 1: number of people suddenly claiming to be the reincarnated spirits
Speaker 1: of ancient Egyptians, with spiritualism proving especially popular in the
Speaker 1: twenties and thirties, so too was the practice of supposed
Speaker 1: past life regression, with no end of people now claiming
Speaker 1: to have lived a previous life, as the newly rediscovered
Speaker 1: pharaoh Tutankhamun, or perhaps as the more widely known Pharaoh
Speaker 1: Rameses the Second. There was one woman, however, who had
Speaker 1: a rather different story to tell. Her incredible claim to
Speaker 1: have once lived before in a long ago and distant
Speaker 1: land was not only linked to a far more obscure name,
Speaker 1: but had been claimed long before Carter and Carnarvan's find.
Speaker 1: The story of the woman formerly known as Dorothy Edy
Speaker 1: has been described by one New York Times reviewer as
Speaker 1: one of the world's most intriguing and convincing modern case
Speaker 1: histories of reincarnation. In nineteen o four, a baby later
Speaker 1: christened Dorothy Edy was born in South London to parents
Speaker 1: Mary and Reuben Edy, a young couple from Ireland. A
Speaker 1: few years later, at the family home in black Heath,
Speaker 1: a three year old Dorothy was playing at the top
Speaker 1: of the stairs when she tripped and fell, hitting her
Speaker 1: head on the floor. By the time her parents found her,
Speaker 1: it was too late. A doctor was called immediately, who
Speaker 1: arrived a short time later only to confirm the terrible
Speaker 1: news their young daughter was dead, and so it was
Speaker 1: with monumental surprise when the doctor returned to the young
Speaker 1: girl's bedroom where he had left her a short time later,
Speaker 1: to find her sitting up, awake and playing happily in bed.
Speaker 1: Not long after, the young girl began exhibiting odd behavior,
Speaker 1: talking with a peculiar accent and speaking of large column
Speaker 1: buildings that she remembered and how she wanted to go home.
Speaker 1: The following year, Dorothy's parents took her to the British Museum, where,
Speaker 1: at the first sight of the Egyptian galleries, she is
Speaker 1: said to have run to the nearest statue and kissed
Speaker 1: its feet, declaring that she was finally home. Pointing to
Speaker 1: one particular photo, a long, heavily eroded, flat topped structure
Speaker 1: fronted by a grand colonnade, the four year old Dorothy
Speaker 1: turned to her parents, stating that it was where she
Speaker 1: used to live. The building was the Temple of Seti,
Speaker 1: the First, a lesser known, though by no means insignificant,
Speaker 1: New Kingdom pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty. It was fair
Speaker 1: to say the young Dorothee had certainly never heard of
Speaker 1: him before. Dorothy's obsession would only intensify as she got older.
Speaker 1: As a teenager, she began to experience intense and vivid
Speaker 1: dreams of wandering through grand halls covered in ornate frescoes,
Speaker 1: or stepping into the warmth of a bright desert sun.
Speaker 1: At fifteen, in one night time reverie, she claimed to
Speaker 1: have been visited by the mummified body of Seti the
Speaker 1: First himself. In response to her increasingly bizarre claims and
Speaker 1: sleep disturbances, Dorothy's parents had her admitted to a psychiatric hospital. However,
Speaker 1: doctors were unable to find anything clinically wrong with the
Speaker 1: young woman. After leaving hospital, Edy remained more convinced than
Speaker 1: ever that her spirit belonged in Egypt, and made it
Speaker 1: her lifetime's ambition to move there. She began studying hieroglyphics
Speaker 1: and collecting Egyptian antiquities. She took on a job working
Speaker 1: for an Egyptian culture magazine, which advocated support for an
Speaker 1: independent Egypt, which was governed by Britain at the time.
Speaker 1: In her late twenties, Ed met an Egyptian student named
Speaker 1: Imam Abdul mcguid, and in nineteen thirty one, much to
Speaker 1: EDI's joy, the pair decided to relocate to Egypt. It
Speaker 1: is said that when Edy first stepped foot onto Egyptian soil,
Speaker 1: she kissed the ground, announcing that she was there to stay.
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Speaker 1: marry soon after and give birth to a son, who
Speaker 1: they named Seti, in honor of the man that Dorothy
Speaker 1: had come to feel a strange connection to. She herself
Speaker 1: later adopted the name om Seti, meaning mother of Setti.
Speaker 1: One morning, shortly after her son was born, Omsetti awoke
Speaker 1: to find herself sitting at her desk, a pen in
Speaker 1: her hand and reams of paper in front of her
Speaker 1: covered in short fragments of hieroglyphic script. Later, she would
Speaker 1: allege to have been visited in a dream by an
Speaker 1: entity known as or Rah, who claimed responsibility for the
Speaker 1: words she had apparently written. Over the next twelve months,
Speaker 1: or Rah proceeded to dictate message to her, which she
Speaker 1: would write out while in a trance state, eventually revealing
Speaker 1: the story of her past. She had been known as
Speaker 1: Ben Treshid, a young priestess of humble origins who had
Speaker 1: been assigned to the Temple of Osiris in the small
Speaker 1: town of com El Sultan. At a young age, she
Speaker 1: had met and fallen in love with King Setti. The
Speaker 1: pair had apparently become lovers, resulting in Ben Treshit becoming pregnant,
Speaker 1: as was ever the case ben Tresciit was then said
Speaker 1: to have borne the brunt of the scandal, being forced
Speaker 1: to commit suicide rather than endure an inevitable public flagellation.
Speaker 1: In nineteen thirty five, om Stti separated from her husband
Speaker 1: and took a job working for renowned egyptologist Selim Hassan
Speaker 1: at the Department of Antiquities, becoming the first woman ever
Speaker 1: to work. It was said that when Omsetti first visited
Speaker 1: the Temple of Seti in Abidos, she recognized it instantly,
Speaker 1: and when tested by the Chief Inspector of Antiquities to
Speaker 1: locate elements on the wall paintings inside, she was able
Speaker 1: to do so perfectly, despite the fact that the paintings
Speaker 1: had never been made public and it was pitch black inside.
Speaker 1: Omsetti eventually moved to Abados, where she would remain until
Speaker 1: her death in nineteen eighty one, never wavering in her
Speaker 1: conviction that she had lived a previous life. Omsetti is
Speaker 1: often dismissively described as an eccentric fantasist. However, as greatly
Speaker 1: revered cosmologist Carl Sagan once noted, she was a lively intelligent,
Speaker 1: dedicated woman who made a real contribution to Egyptology. If
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