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The ancient city of Pompeii near Naples, Italy, hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. It one of Italy's top tourist destinations. Most tourists the 2,000-year-old site with happy memories, photos and souvenirs. However, some visitors more. They take historic relics from the city – things like small statues, stones or mosaic tiles. However, many of these people are now their actions. They say the relics are cursed and have their lives with bad luck since bringing them home. A senior official at Pompeii said he has hundreds of packages from across the world from people returning what they had . Many people and stories about their bad luck.

The senior official, Massimo Osanna, reporters about some of the stories he had . One man from Latin America that his life was full of traumas after he home from Italy with a small tile he had in his pocket. A person from Spain five packages containing stolen items, including a bronze statue that missing in 1987. The writer complained that the statue had put, "a curse on his entire family". Mr Osanna is about setting up an exhibition of all the letters he has received. He explained that the letters might more interesting than the relics. He said: "It's not that the stolen pieces highly interesting or valuable. It's more the letters."

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