Episode 4763: Dark Enigma - The Strange Biblical Mystery of the James Ossuary an The Mysterious Legendary Well of Souls

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Welcome heathens welcome to the world of the weird and unexplained.  I’m your host, Nicole Delacroix and together, we will be investigating stories about the things that go bump in the night, frighteningly imagined creatures, supernatural beings and even some unsolved mysteries but I promise, all sorts of weirdness.  So, sit back, grab your favorite drink, and prepare to be transported to today's dark Enigma.... 

And on today’s Dark enigma well, we have another Twofer today since they are quick stories!  So, with that said, we will still be playing our drinking game and as you know, the drinking game is only for those of us that are at home and have nowhere else to go tonight.  The choice of libation, as always my darlings, is yours, so choose your poison accordingly… Alright, now for the game part how about every time I say Ossuary that will be a single shot and every time I say Biblical, that will be a double shot.  Now that the business end is out of the way we can jump headfirst into today’s dark enigma… so don your best ancient robes and grab your rosary as we jump into all things Biblical with today’s offering of The Strange Biblical Mystery of the James Ossuary an The Mysterious Legendary Well of Souls – So hang on we’re starting with the James Ossuary story

Some of the most mysterious and sought after historical artifacts of all time hail from the Biblical era of history. Things like the Holy Grail have become some of the most enigmatic items there are, highly sought after but ever evasive, but for all of the well-known objects like the grail and the Ark of the Covenant that remain beyond our grasp, there are other, lesser known yet no less important artifacts that have apparently been found. One of these must certainly be a small, unassuming box which, if it is real, might pose the very first solid archeological evidence for Jesus Christ being an actual real person.

In 2002, an engineer and collector and expert in Israeli antiquities by the name of Oded Golan approached a professor André Lemaire, a Semitic epigrapher at the Sorbonne University, in Paris, with a curious artifact he wanted appraised. The object in question was a limestone box that had apparently come from a cave, measuring 19.9 in × 9.8 in × 12.0 inches in dimension, and which seemed to date back to the 1st century. The box appeared to be what is called an "ossuary," which is a type of box once used as a depository for storing the bones of the dead, usually those of the wealthy elite. The corpse of the dead would be placed in a catacomb for approximately a year, after which the bones would be moved and interred within the box for their final resting place.