The curse of the locked room dated back to the year 1680, where Brutus Collins, an unscrupulous and miserly businessman, had discovered his partner, James Forsythe, was having an affair with his wife, Amanda Collins. He murdered them both and kept their mummified bodies in a secret room which could only be accessed from the locked room. Every time someone stayed in the room, they would discover the secret room and the corpses. When they were tricked into touching the corpses, their fate was sealed (1244).