The Uneasy Dead of Barbados | M.P. Pellicer

Barbados' Christ Church Cemetery has been in existence for well over 200 years, but besides the obvious, which is that all its occupants are deceased, there was one family crypt that for many years suffered from unexplained events that even brought the governor of the island to the cemetery to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Barbados is an island in the Lesser Antilles, and known as a tourist destination. Most are not aware of the mysterious events that took place in Christ Church Cemetery between 1808 and 1819. In those years it was part of the British Empire, and the industries of tobacco, sugar and cotton flourished.

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Evidence of Crucifixions | M.P. Pellicer

In ancient Rome, crucifixion was a painful way to execute criminals and slaves, and to remind the populace the consequences of breaking Roman laws. Rare archaeological evidence has been found through skeletal remains that confirm this type of execution.

Crucifixion did not originate with the Romans. The Assyrians, Phoenicians and Persians practiced this form of execution 1,000 yeas before the birth of Christ. It was introduced into western cultures from the east. Some Greeks used it, mostly the ones who had contact with Phoenicians and Carthaginians. After Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C., crucifixion was used by the Syrians and the Ptolemies who ruled Egypt.

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The Back Door to Hell | M.P. Pellicer

During the summer of 2023, archaeologists made a strange discovery under a Mexican church that proved a local legend was indeed true.

Before the birth of Christ, first the Zapotec and then the Mixtec people flourished in the valley of Tlacolula, which lay Approximately 300 miles south of Mexico City

They built a city and a temple named Mitla (Nahuatl word Mictlan, which means Place of the Dead). In adoration to their "cult of the dead" they built massive tombs filled with grave goods. It functioned as a cemetery for the Zapotec and Mixtec until the late 15th century, when the site was abandoned most probably due to attacks by the Aztec who sacked it in 1494.

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The Mystery of the Paris Supermarket | M.P. Pellicer

Straight out of one of the climatic scenes in the movie Poltergeist, in 2015, underneath the basement of a Paris supermarket, over two hundred skeletal remains which were believed to have been transferred during the 18th century to the Paris Catacombs were in their original resting place.

The initial assessment of the archaeologists is that these were plague victims that died during several times the Black Death came to Paris, however it was during the French Revolution that the bodies should have been moved, and it appears that those who were alive thought it was expedient to just leave them where they were.

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