Today on the Grave Talks, demonic artifacts.

Can historic artifacts still hold demons conjured up by ancient civilizations?

What power can these entities hold over the living in the present?

From demons, jinges, possession, sinister artifacts, and gruesome archaeological discoveries.

Dr. Heather Lynn has been seeking out answers to these questions for quite some time.

Today on the Grave Talks, we discuss the lore behind real relics,

believed to be the cause of hauntings and demonic possession.

We also discuss the possibility of modern objects holding spirits and a message for the living.

Can the archaeological record prove the existence of demons and malevolent entities?

I am an author, historian, and some call renegade archaeologist.

What I do is I look into alternative sort of fringe topics, things that are outside the mainstream narrative,

anything from paleocontact theory, which some people would call ancient aliens,

to just mythology, folklore, symbolism, consciousness, so many different things that most people would consider a little strange.

My background is that I started actually in community college.

I earned an associate's degree in archaeology and worked in archaeology and continued my studies into anthropology and earned a master's in history.

My thesis actually examined the intersection of class inequality, consumer culture, propaganda, and public education,

and how all of those things sort of met in early modern Europe.

So nothing to outrageous or strange, a pretty, you know, common predictable path of specialization.

I went on to pursue a doctorate in education at the University of New England in that dissertation.

I raised the questions about whether or not digital technologies in museums really benefited anybody or not.

I looked at the way public education in museums was handled and basically, you know, it's actually, it was something close to my heart because

they go to a lot of the museums these days and you want to see artifacts and a lot of times.

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