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Egyptian statue moves of its own accord

Ancient curse, or basic physics?

The Manchester Museum in England has a Scooby Doo-worthy mystery on its hands. One of the museum's ancient Egyptian statues is moving of its own accord. The movement is captured in this time lapse video. As you can see, the statue only moves during the day. It slowly rotates 180 degrees and then stops moving. (Creepy!)

Haunted Manchester Museum

The 4,000 year old statue is in the likeness of a man named Neb-Senu, and was an offering to Osiris, the Egyptian god of the afterlife.

Some believe the statue is rotating in order to show visitors its back, on which is inscribed a set of instructions for making a sacrifice to Osiris. Others believe that the statue is simply vibrating across the glass display case due to the footsteps of the visitors, in much the same way that a glass will "walk" across the countertop when you run the blender.

Screenshot courtesy YouTube user The Morningstarr

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