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Ghosts In The Museum

Inexplicable noises, spectral sightings, glowing orbs - something very strange is going on at the British Museum. But what? That is exactly the question investigative reporters are asking themselves as piles and piles of ghostly sightings appear on their desks. But what is all the commotion? No-one really knows...

When the heavy, bolted gates of the museum are shut, after the last members of  the public have left, the British Museum undergoes a swift change. This grand place is the most popular tourist attraction in the whole of Britain, and without a constant stream of people coming in, the huge, glass dome fades to a whisper. A thick silence fills the cavernous galleries and corridors that surround it.

By night, most of the lights have been extinguished, as the security guards carry out most of their duties by torchlight. So, ghosts are free to roam about.

To go around the entire museum, you have to open and close 3,000 doors. Some of them are really heavy and hard to open. But one night, after bolting shut a particularly heavy door, a security guard found later that it had reopened by itself!

On another night, a guard was passing through the African galleries when he saw a statue of a two-headed dog. He had a sudden urge to point at it, and when he did, all the fire alarms went off.


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