They found *what* in a Roman grave? You gotta see this.

Look— you ever walk through Calvary Cemetery up on West Florissant, or Bellefontaine over by O'Fallon Park, and just think about what folks believed back when those places were new? We got some seriously old graves here in St. Louis, some dating back before the Civil War. But they just unearthed something in Rome, in an old Roman necropolis, that makes our old burial grounds look… normal. They found three skeletons with iron nails on their chests, right? Not like, in a box *with* nails. *On* the chests. The archeologists think it was some kind of ritual to keep "restless spirits" from causing trouble for the living. I'm gonna be real with you— that's some next-level spooky stuff. Forget your ghost stories about the Lemp Mansion; these folks were putting nails on bodies to keep the dead down. Can you imagine if we found something like that in Lafayette Square? People would be talking about it for a hundred years.

I tell you what, it just makes you think. We got our own ways of dealing with things here in St. Louis, our own superstitions. But putting iron nails on a body to keep a spirit from rising? That’s dedication. That’s the Lou — we’re still here and we’re not leaving.

Marcus Jeffries, MiTL Sports Desk.

You know Keith and the crew are gonna have a field day with this on the Morning Wire, catch 'em live over at mornings.live.