I’m a bit more agnostic on this question after reading Will Storr vs The Supernatural. Great read and interesting conclusions.
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The security staff, who patrol the length and breadth of the 14-acre complex until early morning, carry out many of their duties by torchlight. Scouring the premises for anomalies – water leaks, the smell of gas, an employee trapped in a remote corridor
Wait, what?
I was going to say the article was suggestive of the background for a Tim Powers or China Miéville novel, but this sounds like it would qualify for an SCP post of its own.
Also:
The museum is the most popular tourist attraction in Britain, ahead of Tate Modern and the National Gallery
But the monarchy is sooo important for tourism. Suck it, royalists.
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I think that it is okay unit it becomes, “…the smell of an employee trapped in a remote corner.”
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Ooh that looks good. I’m going to put it on my to-read list. I know the whole “ghosts and spirits” thing makes no logical sense whatsoever, but having experienced things that I really can’t explain, I am somewhat agnostic about the subject as well.
This sounds even more gothic if you read it as if it was in the American dialect.
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It’s all the foreign ghosts demanding that looted artifacts be returned.
The great children’s writer, Edith Nesbit, spent a lot of time at the Museum & put several of its artifacts into her fantasy books, as well as setting scenes there. I’m thinking specifically of the series Five Children & It, The Secret of the Amulet, The Phoenix & the Carpet. She was a scholar, a feminist, a freethinker, & a member of the socialist Fabian Society with George Bernard Shaw, & all of those interests get into the books as well. I believe the books are available online through archive.org
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