They buried people with nails on their chests in Rome
So look—you ever just hear something, and it just… *stops* you? You're scrolling, maybe sipping some coffee from a Muggsy's on Fountain Square, and then BAM. This headline hits different. They're digging around in an old Roman necropolis, right? Ostiense, they call it. And they find three skeletons, old as dirt, like 1,800 years old. But here’s the kicker, the detail that makes you put your Goetta sandwich down: each one had *iron nails* on their chests. Not like, next to them. *On* them. Archeologists are saying it was maybe to "protect" folks, both living and dead, from restless spirits. Can you even imagine? Like, "Nah, you ain't comin' back to haunt anyone, buddy. Here's some nails for good measure."
Lemme paint the picture: we got our own ghosts in Cincinnati, please? They say Music Hall is practically a haunted house with all the spirits from the old orphanage and hospital that used to be there. But nobody’s out here burying our ancestors with construction hardware, are they? We just put a nice headstone up in Spring Grove and call it a day. This Roman thing? It’s a whole other level of "make sure they stay down." It just makes you wonder what folks were *really* scared of back then to go to such lengths. Makes our Reds losing streaks feel a little less spooky, honestly.
Nati on the wire — if you know, you know.
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