[4yearlurker]

I think I see a new Sci-Fi Channel movie coming out in a few months.

[BenLurkin]

[Jewbacca]

I’ve seen that movie. Seal it back up and move along.

[Tennessee Nana]

PING

[Seruzawa]

Will the magic nails work on the restless lefties?

[MeganC]

Sorry Romans, try as you might Hillary still walks the earth.

[flamberge]

Perhaps it was a burial for a notorious sorcerer, widely feared by his contemporaries.

Bent nails are a traditional confinement talisman for evil spirits. There might have been a sigil inscribed into the plaster covering as well. And the bricks would have been arranged in a distinctive pattern.

Yes, "Seal it back up and move along".

[lee martell]

Another explanation for the coffins locked and secured from the outside might have been people “mistakenly” buried while comatose or otherwise still alive.

As most know, this was not unheard of during the Victorian era.
Doctors were still perfecting their craft. Sometimes a body would be buried inside a coffin with a little bell attached onto the interior lid.

The idea being if someone were to awaken inside a dark coffin, all they need do is to pull a string, makes the bells ring and let the Mortician know of his unfortunate error.
Thus came the phrase; “Saved By the Bell”. That would make a nice bedtime story for the little ones. Don’t you think?

[njslim]

I aint afraid of no ghosts ..........