HOODOO DEFINITION:
someone or something believed to bring bad luck,
such as a jinx, hex or curse.
This is the story of how a hoodoo that afflicted the Chicago Cubs
for more than one hundred years was revealed and ultimately—we
believe—exorcized by Cubs fans around the world through a series of
discoveries, rituals, and hoodoo-cleansing events.
It is a story of goats, black cats, Red Sox and White Sox, superstitions, at least
one incredible account of voodoo, countless hoodoos, artifacts, history foretold
by Nostradamus, and coincidence, uncovered in an archeological dig through
one-hundred-year-old yellowed newsprint.
Ultimately it�s about one man�s carelessness, and how loose lips and arrogance
initiated a hoodoo of epic proportions, an act so utterly egregious that it
trumped a remarkable World Series run, and for one hundred years thereafter
forbade another.
As we have found (and you will see) everything that has happened to the
Chicago Cubs—from their 1945 World Series failure to their 1969 collapse, to
the infamous foul ball in the 2003 playoffs—reverts to a single source in 1908,
Hoodoo Ground Zero for Cubs fans near and far.