Okay, so they put nails in dead people's chests in ancient Rome?
Okay, so get this: archaeologists in Rome found these 1,800-year-old burials with iron nails hammered into the chests of three skeletons. Like, straight-up impaled. And the theory isn't, "Oh, they died in some super dramatic accident." Nah, fam, it's that they were trying to, quote, "protect" both the living and the dead by preventing restless spirits from wandering around. So this used to be a necropolis, right? And now it's just a regular old part of Rome, probably with some espresso bar or an Airbnb right next to it, and underneath all that, people were basically trying to keep zombies from rising by nailing them down. Wild.
You know, the City has its own ways of dealing with spirits, but it’s usually more along the lines of a house blessing in the Richmond or maybe some incense burning in Chinatown. We don't go around nailing people to their coffins to keep them from haunting the Presidio, thank god. Can you imagine trying to get that approved by the city planning department? "Yeah, we need a permit for a historic nail-in-chest ritual to prevent spectral hauntings." They'd probably just tell you to put a tech startup in the crypt instead. That's the City, fam — fog, hills, and all.
Vivian Leung, MiTL Sports Desk.
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