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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: simondjuk on June 24, 2013, 08:03:18 PM

Title: Mysterious moving statue
Post by: simondjuk on June 24, 2013, 08:03:18 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23029507?ocid=socialflow_facebook_bbcnews (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23029507?ocid=socialflow_facebook_bbcnews)

Seems very odd but I bet the explanation is simple

Title: Re: Mysterious moving statue
Post by: Fly on June 24, 2013, 08:21:17 PM

One of the floor joists is wearing over time. The rotation is caused by vibration from the loosened floor boards.

Simples  8)

Title: Re: Mysterious moving statue
Post by: Pete on June 24, 2013, 08:42:10 PM

What a load of tripe - suggesting "supernatural" forces. She's just said that to get the visitor figures up...

Title: Re: Mysterious moving statue
Post by: Old Cruser on June 24, 2013, 09:12:11 PM

Interesting - but I agree with you a stone statue can't just turn on it's own. I can't imagine condesation would get under it making it slippy on the glass shelving. I notice it was cracked at the bottom adjoining the base?

One of the places I have always wanted to visit was The Valley of the Kings. I will never go though as the spores and many steps would affect my ashtma  :(

Title: Re: Mysterious moving statue
Post by: Pete on June 24, 2013, 10:12:35 PM

Also, why is that the only object in the cabinet that moves?

Title: Re: Mysterious moving statue
Post by: Stuart on June 25, 2013, 01:04:52 AM

Quote from: Pete on June 24, 2013, 10:12:35 PM

Also, why is that the only object in the cabinet that moves?

High concentration of magnetite, and someone with a magnet, I'd guess.

The museum says it installed a stop-motion camera after reports the carving had started changing position, despite apparently not being moved by human hands for 80 years.

That's some statute, that can leap into its rather-less-then-80-year-old cabinet without a human touching it.