You'll never guess what they found in Rome, n'at

So listen—you know how we sometimes joke about the weird stuff they dig up dahntahn, like those old streetcar tracks under the Boulevard of the Allies, or when they found all those bones whenever they were building the Convention Center? Well, get a load of this. Over in Rome, these archaeologists are digging around in an old Roman graveyard, right? And they find three skeletons. Nothing too wild there, I guess, for Rome. But each of these poor souls has *iron nails* hammered into their chest. Not like, next to 'em, but *on* their chests.

Can yinz even imagine? The experts are all like, "Oh, it's to keep the restless spirits from comin' back," or "Maybe to protect the living from the dead, n'at." I'm thinkin', if you're puttin' nails in someone's chest after they're gone, you must've *really* not wanted 'em to come back. We got plenty of old cemeteries here in Pittsburgh, especially up on the North Side and out in Homestead. Can you picture some of our nebby Pittsburghers back in the day, if they thought someone was gonna haunt 'em, tryin' to nail 'em down? I bet some of my pap's old neighbors on the South Side would've tried somethin' like this after a particularly bad poker game. They didn't mess around, them fellas.

That's the Burgh, yinz — steel town heart, no matter what.

Keith and the whole crew talk about stuff like this every mornin', you gotta check it out live at mornings.live.