 Courage the Cowardly Dog was a show on Cartoon Network when it actually had mostly good shows. It aired from 1999 to 2002. It was cancelled after four seasons, but it's shown on Cartoon Network sporadically. One episode in particular that scared a lot of us was King Rams' curse. But does anyone really know King Rams' backstory? Not really. That's where I come in. About three weeks ago, a friend of mine named Ted sent me a link to a website. It was the Cartoon Network website, but there was something off about it. It was darker than I had last remembered it, and by that I mean dark colors. It had been a while since I'd been on the site, so I figured they remodeled or something. There was a Courage the Cowardly Dog section of the website. I went to it, as it was my favorite show on Cartoon Network, even though it scared the ever-living crap out of me sometimes. One part of the section was learn the real story of King Rams'. I thought it was some history section of the actual King Rams'. Being a history buff, I clicked on it expecting to learn about King Rams' or Rams' as he's called sometimes. I was wrong. It started out like any other history bio, but when it got to Rams' death however, that's where it took a turn for the worse. The website stated that Rams', while alive, slaughtered a million enemies in battle. But when he returned to Egypt, one of the families of his enemies were waiting for him. They beat him with sticks, and then bound him in thorns. The same as what Jesus crowned was made of as he was traveling to Calvary to be crucified. He was taken to what was Persia and the trip there itself was brutal. He was bound by his feet and hands. Tied to two donkeys, he had no protection from the sun as he was naked as well. He wasn't fed very much, so when he got to Persia he had lost half his weight already. But that's when the true torture began. The only mercy his captors granted him was clothing him in a green robe. First, they took a prickly plant and wiped him with it repeatedly. The spines of the plant stuck in him and were barmed. Rams' captors plucked them out with great care to cause as much pain as possible. Next, they took rusty knives and ran them over each of his limbs as carefully as possible as to only cut skin deep. Then they removed his skin. However, Rams' was still alive. His captors then made him eat his own skin as to cause the once great king humiliation. He refused. Subsequently his captors broke both of his elbows. After he had eaten his skin, the captors scraped what meat was left on his head. They painted his skull an orange color for unknown reasons. And then after all that, they continued torturing him. While he was alive, they cut into his body. They removed his intestines, showed them to him and then fed them to wild dogs. Then they removed his stomach, showed it to him, then they threw it into a fire. They did this with each organ, alternating between dogs and fire. Then they got to his heart, Rams' was just barely alive. Before the captors left Egypt, they had taken Rams' prized possession, a slab. Not just any slab, this slab was magical. It had a picture of water, a strange device Rams' had seen in a dream, and locusts. The slab also had a picture of Rams' on it. The Persians had taken the slab to further upset Rams' but they were unaware of one thing. Rams' had power over the slab and with his dying breath, he pierced the slab. The second after he died, the slab's picture of him changed to a frightening mummy. The Persians were frightened by this, but thought it was just a trick. They returned the body and slab to the Egyptians, but they themselves found themselves in a bit of a nightmare of their own. For nights after they killed Rams' and returned his body slash slab, they experienced nightmares of the king. Orange skull, elbows twisting at a natural angles, and the voice of a demon. Most never woke up from these nightmares, and the ones who did committed suicide. Nobody else experienced King Rams' wrath again for a while until the 1940s. 3750 BC. 10 Persian nobles died while sleeping, another 10 committed suicide. 1942. Gettler's Africa cores and covers the tomb of Rams'. One battalion goes missing after making contact with King Rams' after General Rommel removed the slab from his script. Rommel realized that this all happened when he took Rams' slab so he returned it to his tomb. January 19, 1957. A Italian archaeologist uncovered the tomb, he removed the slab from the tomb of King Rams' as he was leaving he triggered a booby trap. He was trapped inside the tomb, while King Rams' himself appeared before him. He summoned locusts which ate the man to the bone, killing him. The locusts then picked up the slab and carried it to the tomb. 1999. Two grave robbers steal the slab and escape the authorities in Egypt. When they returned to the United States, they were chased by the FBI. They buried the slab on a farm in nowhere, Kansas. King Rams' has appeared as they attempted to flee the farm, then killed them after they refused to return the slab. Later, a purple dog named Couragen covered the slab. His owner Eustace threw it out after thinking it was garbage. Later he took it back after learning how much money it is worth. King Rams' returned and his three drawings became plates upon the bag farm. First the house flooded, then horrible music played. Next locusts descended upon the house, eating it whole. Eustace had a change of heart and let Courage give the slab back. However, Eustace changed his mind again and went after it. King Rams' locusts killed him and the slab was returned to Egypt. After I read that, I suddenly had a bit of sympathy for Rams' whenever I watched the episode, but something strange also happened. Parents who read it as well demanded that Cartoon Network will take down the link, which they did. I don't remember the website so I may never get to see it again.