History tells the story of the world and of our lives.

Sometimes that history goes bump in the night broadcasting from the Central

of Audity and the Supernatural in Central Florida. It's the history goes bump

podcast.

Hello, you spooktacular people. Welcome to this 396th episode of the history

goes bump podcast. Ghost tours for the theater of the mind. I'm your host, Diane. And this

is Kelly. Kelly on this episode we're going across that big pond right next to us. We're

going over to London and we're going to be featuring a location suggested by Leah Barnes

and her sister Liz. And that location is Westminster Abbey. Very cool. I was helping

you weren't talking about just like Luisa because that's just across the street. I want

to go a little further. I mean, that's a little bit smaller than the Atlantic Ocean.

But, you know, well, you did say pond. The really cool thing here too is not only did

Leah and her sister Liz suggest this, but they've actually been there and they've shared

an experience they had, which will have coming up. Awesome. Before we get into that, we want

to welcome into the spooktacular crew, Zach, his mom Laura, Jane, who spells her name

J.A. Y. Annie and Stephen with a V. Thank you for joining us in the spooktacular crew.

And now this moment, not a day. In 2016, archaeologist Sergio Gomez representing Mexico's

National Institute of Anthropology and History found liquid mercury in three chambers of

the feathered serpent pyramid. Liquid mercury is a rare find in tombs. When mercury is found

in Mesoamerican tombs, it is in the form of cinnabar, which is a powdery red pigment.

Mercury in a liquid form would have been rare at this time as the cinnabar needs to be crushed

and heated to a high temperature and then the vapor collected, which is the liquid mercury.

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