You won't believe what they found under Rome

Okay, so picture this—you're an archaeologist, right? You're digging around in some ancient Roman necropolis, expecting to find the usual pottery shards and maybe a few coins. Standard stuff. But then, *eii*, you pull up three skeletons, and each one has iron nails driven straight through their chest. Chale, I read that this morning and had to do a double-take. Eighteen hundred years ago, someone was putting nails in bodies in Rome, supposedly to keep their spirits from wandering or, get this, to protect the living from them. Talk about a permanent no-trespassing sign for the afterlife! It’s like something out of a horror movie, but it was real life back then.

Here's what nobody's telling you about stuff like this—it makes you wonder what kind of rituals and beliefs were really going on that we just don't understand today. Imagine trying to explain that to someone walking through German Village on a crisp fall afternoon, admiring the brick streets. We have our own traditions, sure – like painting the entire city scarlet and gray for a Buckeyes game, or the Save The Crew movement that showed how deeply our community fights for what it loves. But nails in the chest to keep spirits down? That’s next level. We’re more about keeping spirits *up* here in Columbus, especially on a Saturday at Ohio Stadium when it feels like the third-largest city in Ohio.

It just goes to show, no matter how much we think we know about history, there's always something wild that pops up and makes you question everything. C-Bus on the wire — we're just getting started.

You know Keith and the crew are gonna have some thoughts on this one this morning — tune in at mornings.live!