Questions about The Curse of the Dark Pharaoh (R.E.) Expansion

By Formulita, in Arkham Horror Second Edition

Hello, recently i started to play with this expansion and i got some questions that i can't find a definitive answer:

1) If an investigator enters a street with the Ancient Whispers marker and one or more monsters, what happen? He must evade or fight all the monsters before take the exhibit encounter card or he can choose what to do first, or ignore the monsters and just take the encounter card?

2) An investigator that have a curse, fall unconscious because of the Dark Pharaoh Herald hability "Blood Will Boil" (At the start of the Upkeep Phase, before rolling to get rid of Curses, each Cursed investigator loses 1 Stamina) He discards half the items and also drop the curse? If not, and he can't roll a 1 or purchase a stamina refill the next upkeep will fall unconscious again ?

That is all for now, sure i will have more questions in the future, i have already ordered the Dunwich Horror expantion…

Thanks in advance.

1) Exhibit Encounters occur during the Arkham Encounters phase (not movement), so the monsters would be handled first, as normal.

2) He keeps the curse. It's a hard life.