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Opened in 1840, London’s Brompton Cemetery is one of Britain’s oldest garden cemeteries, sprawled out over 40 acres of stately grounds and holding tens of thousands of graves for people from rich to poor, marked with everything from ivy and weed choked old headstones to elaborate gothic mausoleums, as well as monuments and statues. Yet among all of these graves and tombs, one stands out among them. Here there looms an odd and imposing structure unlike anything else in the cemetery. It is an elaborate mausoleum, indeed the most elaborate in the whole cemetery, 20 feet high and built with solid polished granite in a unique Egyptian design with a pyramid peak, it sports a massive bronze door and is decked out with hieroglyphics and cryptic carvings that only add to its mystique. Looking at this particular mausoleum there is a certain sense of grandeur and mystery, making it understandable that it has drawn many legends to it, and one of these is that it conceals within it a fully fu