Hello everyone and welcome to Scary Interesting.

In this video we're going to look at three stories that happened thousands of years ago.

What's most surprising about each of them is just how much we've been able to learn despite

how long ago they occurred.

With that said, that doesn't make them any less mysterious or gruesome, so as always,

viewer discretion strongly advised.

You might have seen a picture that's circulated a few times since it first hit the

internet in 2018. In the picture there is a skeleton laid flat out on the ground

on its back. Where the head of the skeleton should be, there is a giant stone block sticking

almost straight up. This picture, or the man in the picture at least, has been dubbed the

unluckiest man of all time, or the unluckiest man in Pompeii. I wasn't able to get the

licensing to show the picture here, but if you want to see it, a quick Google search will get you there.

Initially when this skeleton was found or unearthed, it was thought that this was a man who

was incredibly unlucky and happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time as Mount

Vesuvius erupted.

The volcanic explosion sent hundreds of tons of rock into the air, and this man was struck

by some of the debris, killing him where he stood and leaving him to be found almost 2,000 years later.

Unfortunately, although this makes for a great story, recently the man's skull was found intact

in the vicinity, indicating that he probably died first and then was struck by the stone

after or that the remains moved around from their original position and only appeared to

have been hit by the stone. At the

same time, this doesn't really make what probably happened any less horrifying. In the year 79,

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