You won't believe what they found in Roman graves

Good morning from the Lakehead — the Giant's still sleeping, but we're not. Let's get at it.

You know, out here, we’re pretty practical people. If someone passes on, we bury them proper, maybe have a good Finnish sauna to remember them by, and that's that. But down in Rome, they're digging up old graves, like 1,800 years old, and what they found… well, it’s a little much. Skeletons with iron nails stuck right into their chests. Not like, just on the coffin, but on the *body*. Archaeologists are saying it was to keep restless spirits from causing trouble, to "protect" both the living and the dead. Can you imagine? Trying to hold someone down even after they’ve gone. Up here, we figure if someone’s spirit is restless, maybe they just need to go for a good long ski on the Current River trails, clear their head. Or a Persian. That'll calm anyone down.

It makes you wonder, doesn't it? What kind of trouble did those Roman spirits cause that they needed to be pinned down like that? Up here, we’ve got enough sisu to handle whatever comes, living or dead. But I gotta say, nails in the chest? That’s some commitment to keeping things quiet. We just tell our ghosts to go bother Winnipeg.

Mikko Virtanen-Bryce, MiTL Sports Desk, Thunder Bay.

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