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Your Cleveland grandma would never believe these Roman nails

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You will not believe what they found in Rome

Okay real quick— so this is the thing. Archaeologists, right? They're always digging up something crazy. But get this, they just found these three Roman skeletons in Ostiense necropolis, and they all had *iron nails* on their chests. Yeah, actual nails. The theory is it was some kind of ritual to keep restless spirits from, like, haunting the living. Can you imagine? Some poor Roman family, all like, "Okay, Aunt Mildred's being a real pain, let's nail her down just in case."

No yeah, this would *never* fly in Cleveland. We got enough ghosts down in the Flats from all the old bars, we don't need any more restless spirits roaming around the West Side Market because someone didn't nail them right. My grandma, God rest her soul, she'd just tell you to light a candle and say a novena. Much less dramatic than actual nails, you know? And probably more effective. Although, I guess if you’re a Roman and you’ve got to deal with the December wind off Lake Erie, maybe you *would* consider nails. That wind could bring anyone back from the dead.

Cleveland on the wire — we've been here the whole time.

Keith and the gang talk about wild stuff like this every single morning, you gotta tune in live at mornings.live.

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