Maybe it’s the curse of the pharaohs.
A 10-inch statue made to honor Osiris, the Egyptian god of the dead, has been mysteriously rotating on its own in a display case at the Manchester Museum in England, according to reports.
Shocked curators who are unable to explain how an inanimate object is moving by itself have suggested that a spirit is inhabiting the relic, which was found in an Egyptian tomb within a pyramid.
“I noticed one day that it had turned around,” museum curator Campbell Price, 29, told the Daily Mail.
“I thought it was strange because it is in a case and I am the only one who has a key. I put it back but then the next day it had moved again.”
The haunted statuette has been observed by museum cameras turning 180 degrees. It remains still at night but turns very slowly during the day until its back is facing visitors. “And why would it go around in a perfect circle?”
Some say it’s the “curse of the Pharaohs” moving the object. It was believed that a Pharaoh’s spirit would attack anyone who steals from his tomb. In the 1920s, Egyptian scientists who explored ancient tombs were said to have been cursed.
“In Ancient Egypt they believed that if the mummy is destroyed then the statuette can act as an alternative vessel for the spirit,” Price said.
“Maybe that is what is causing the movement.”
Others say vibrations from people walking around the exhibit are moving the statue which has been sitting still in the museum for 80 years.
“It has been on those surfaces since we have had it and it has never moved before,” Price said.