Creepy but cool

[Nevada]

Ancient Egyptian shabti - funerary figures that represent servants in the afterlife - are causing unease for those working at Bergen Museum. Professor Henrik von Achen says colleagues don't like working there at night, and the figures appear to be moving in their glass cases, newspaper Bergens Tidende reports.

BT reporters toured the museum one dark evening and found the Egyptian exhibit disguised a few creepy tales.

"They have behaved strangely since we took them up out of the cellar in 2001," said museum guard Richard Saure. He was the first to notice that small stone figurines, whose job was to work for the dead, were not like other relics.

"They were neatly packed in a case when we brought them up. When we came to work the day after, they were lying all over the place, except for two - two false shabtis," Saure said.

"The exhibition opened in May 2001. Since then these small figurines have moved. Some of them have turned 90 degrees. They stand in glass cases that are sealed and locked but you can see it in the trails in the dust," Saure said.

"I'm a skeptic, but I have to believe what I see. I don't understand this. If it is because of vibrations in the floor, like some claim, why don't other objects move?" the guard wondered.

Professor von Achen has nothing to add to dampen the mystery.

"Someone has made them and laid them in a grave. Now they are out of the grave's darkness. What do they bring? If we ask, maybe they answer, that is the magic of the museum," von Achen said.

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I know that this will sound really creeoy!! but I wiould love to work there just to see all of these going on!!

[KatieMac]

Ooooh! Creepy! I love it! I used to live a couple of blocks from the BM, and hung out in the Egyptian rooms all the time. But this is very cool! I'm dying to know if someone is pulling a fast one, or if the shabtis are taking midnight strolls... :)

Katie

[Ysobelle]

Ooooh! Creepy! I love it! I used to live a couple of blocks from the BM, and hung out in the Egyptian rooms all the time. But this is very cool! I'm dying to know if someone is pulling a fast one, or if the shabtis are taking midnight strolls... :)

Katie

You did? Where??? I used to live half a block from the Natural History Museum!

[purple stars]

Oh Man I wish I lived close to a musmem!! that would be so cool. And to make it even more cooler would to live by one with lots of egypt stuff in them, Man I would never leave I would stay there forever.

[KatieMac]

You did? Where??? I used to live half a block from the Natural History Museum!

A fellow ex-Londoner! I lived between Russell Square and King's Cross when I was in London, lo those many years ago. Worked at Harrods, which was an experience unto itself. I absolutely adore London, which is a good reason why I set so many of my books there. :)

I think I only went to the NHM once, though. Was that the museum that was near the V&A?

The National Gallery, BM, and London Museum were my favorite stops.

Man, I miss London!

Katie

[Ysobelle]

You did? Where??? I used to live half a block from the Natural History Museum!

A fellow ex-Londoner! I lived between Russell Square and King's Cross when I was in London, lo those many years ago. Worked at Harrods, which was an experience unto itself. I absolutely adore London, which is a good reason why I set so many of my books there. :)

I think I only went to the NHM once, though. Was that the museum that was near the V&A?

The National Gallery, BM, and London Museum were my favorite stops.

Man, I miss London!

Katie

You worked in Harrod's? My G-d, I'm jealous. Where? I only remember the hat section. To an American, a hat department was just so very British. Oh, that and the Food Court.

I lived on Queensberry Court, in South Ken. I was there a dozen years ago, and I miss it like crazy-- what an amazing city. Just the sense of so very many things happening there over such a length of time, the amazing folks who lived there, the voices, the cultures, and oh, man, the architecture! And the clubs! And the fashions! And the food! And-- oy! I wanna go back NOW!

I didn't get to the museums as often as I'd've liked to. I'm kicking myself that I only visited the V&A (yes, nearish the NHM) costume collection once or twice. And while I remember some of the BM's Egyptian collection, this story would make such a marvellous excuse to go back.

Think we can get a Wench Travel Discount?

[Nevada]

mmmmm Harrods...spent most of a day in there once...the perfume section was awesome...the ceilings and paintings wow....and the bridal section had me speechless ....so was the fist fight over a dress while I was there....I was there for the January sale....that was impressive..

[KatieMac]

You worked in Harrod's? My G-d, I'm jealous. Where? I only remember the hat section. To an American, a hat department was just so very British. Oh, that and the Food Court.

Oh, man, the Food Court! Wasn't that a glorious place to be? I used to trot down to it every day during lunch to pick up stuff I'd never in a million years try (like oxtail soup).

I worked in the toy department (immense fun), and later the linens (not so fun, although I now know how to properly fold a towel).

The really cool thing I found about Harrods was that it was a celebrity magnet. I personally helped the Crown Prince of Norway pick out a doll for his daughter. I trailed John Cleese through the book department. I watched Princess Diana buy a big silver thing (yes, OK, my Harrods days were twenty years ago). Saw lots of movie stars, but my fave was a huge guy named Dave Prowse, who was the friend of the floor manager. Dave is the guy inside the Darth Vader suit. Very nice man.

Think we can get a Wench Travel Discount?

I think we ought to start our own tour company, that's what I think! :)

Katie

[Kaptain Sven-Ole Svensen]

Hi
I just wanted to let you both know
Being a Native of Bergen Norway
They are referring to the Bergens musem Håkon Sheteligs plass. 10. Bergen Norway
It is a beautiful Museum that has two branches Kulturs (cultural)museum
and the Naturisk Historie (natural History)museum both affiliated with the University of Bergen.
I hope this helps
Sven