Case file · High strangeness
'Pyramid power'
In the 1930s the Frenchman Antoine Bovis claimed that small animals left in the Great Pyramid's King's Chamber had mummified without decaying, launching the 'pyramid power' craze.
1930 CE · 29.98, 31.13 · status: explained
The account
The idea was taken up by a Czech radio engineer who patented a pyramid razor-blade sharpener, and in the 1970s by a wave of popular books.
The sceptical view
Controlled tests, including one on the TV show MythBusters, found no effect beyond ordinary drying.