Comments on: Cleopatra’s Needle – London & New York’s Cursed & Haunted Egyptian Obelisks https://www.davidcastleton.net/cleopatras-needle-london-new-york-city-central-park-obelisk-cursed-haunted-ancient-egypt/ David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen Mon, 25 May 2026 10:39:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: David Castleton https://www.davidcastleton.net/cleopatras-needle-london-new-york-city-central-park-obelisk-cursed-haunted-ancient-egypt/#comment-10848 Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:42:13 +0000 https://www.davidcastleton.net/?p=15720#comment-10848 In reply to Laurie Zeno.

Thanks, Laurie – and thanks for the information about Queen Victoria’s portrait buried beneath Cleopatra’s Needle!

]]> By: Laurie Zeno https://www.davidcastleton.net/cleopatras-needle-london-new-york-city-central-park-obelisk-cursed-haunted-ancient-egypt/#comment-10841 Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:38:13 +0000 https://www.davidcastleton.net/?p=15720#comment-10841 Very interesting article. If I may, I have one observation that you may already know. The portrait of Queen Victoria, likely an enamel on porcelain since this was the medium he used that initially impressed the Royal Family, was created by Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince. He was an early pioneer of the motion picture camera. He went missing in September of 1890, just before he was to demonstrate his single lens camera to the public at the Morris-Jumel House (also a very haunted location!). No trace of him has ever been found and since the family could not prove his legacy until he had been missing for seven years, credit for the invention went to Edison in America and to the Lumiere Brothers in France.

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