[uglybiker]

... but what lies inside?

Something that should remain buried, perchance?

Archaeologist Tired Of Unearthing Unspeakable Ancient Evils

[ponygirl]

I once freelanced at a museum where they had a lot of really ancient Eastern/Asian artifacts. I'm talking huge, solid gold Buddhas and really extraordinary altar pieces. They were always hosting traveling exhibits and the office where I worked was down the hall from the rooms where they would store the exhibits for packing/unpacking etc.

One day as I was walking past there, I got just a really creepy, skin-crawly feeling that sort of stuck with me the rest of the day. When the woman who ran the department there came in, I asked her (sort of half-seriously) "Any ghosts in this old building?" She spun around and asked, "Why? What did you see?" I told her what I had felt in the hallway. Her response kind of surprised me, because she was a sort of no nonsense type of person. She told me that the building didn't have any ghosts, but that they would get artifacts coming through there that seemed to have energy attached to it. "A lot of people died in really horrible ways over some of these artifacts. We had an exhibit in here last year and people and guests were seeing dark shadows all over the museum, along with accompanying creepy feelings. I was so glad when that exhibit left. I wouldn't stay in the office a minute after 5:00 when that was here."

[bgill]

"It's always, 'I will drink your soul' or 'I will chew the flesh from your bones' with these hellish apparitions,"

Naw, that's just too mamsy pamsy. Mine will say, "May you be cursed with ex-wives stalking your every move."