Opening up an ancient tomb is one excellent path to Gothic horror.
Case in point: Vatican officials cracked open not one, but two burial sites within the Holy See. Then things got strange.
First, the true crime/horror angle:
Experts probed a burial ground inside the Holy See walls looking for the remains of Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican clerk's daughter who's been missing since 1983. This morning they opened two tombs to see if her body was hidden there. But both tombs were entirely empty.
Which is disappointing.
But notice this bit: "They did not even contain the remains of two 19th century princesses supposed to be buried there." So one possible body was missing, as well as two very likely sets of remains. Gothic possibilities abound: grave robbing? The walking dead? Vampires? Buried alive and walked away in the 1800s?
Now, continuing in the Gothic vein, another surprise appeared: "Adding to the mystery, one of the tombs led to a large underground room." Curiously, the story doesn't follow up that line of inquiry. How large was it? What was found within the room?
(thanks to Ed "I was upstairs at the time" Webb)
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