12. Crystal skull in Memphis Pyramid:
The Memphis Pyramid is a building located on a Native American sacred site in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, United States. The Pyramid was the home of the University of Memphis Tigers basketball team and hosted various professional wrestling matches, arena football games, and other events. The tourist attraction was set up by occultists John & Isaac Tigrett. Tigrett worships โ€œsecret swamiโ€ and he has publicly acknowledged that Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba โ€œgave him a crystal skull at an interview where the object just appeared in Sai Babaโ€™s handsโ€. Priddy also notes that Tigrett โ€œbelieves in the supernatural power of this skull and that cosmic balance depends on it and that it carries a cosmic curse which can destroy the Earth.โ€ During the construction of the Pyramid, Tigrett secreted away a crystal skull and other items in a metal box which was welded at the apex of the Pyramid. The box was opened with great ceremony in a conference room at the bottom of The Pyramid. Later, a water pipe burst in a bathroom on opening night and flooded the pyramid floor. Memphis residents began calling The Pyramid the "Tomb of Doomโ€, as the building turned out to be cursed.