Western Argus 14 Aug 1928 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article34434434
Imagine the scene. There you are in a peaceful graveyard, perhaps laying some flowers at the headstone of a loved one.
There is a noise, as if stone was scraping against stone.
Suddenly, one of the nearby pavers lifts up and men appear, blinking in the light.
I expect that you might well run screaming too!
This article is very Indiana Jones isn’t it? Visiting the catacombs, being separated from the group then losing their way in the labyrinth of dark passages. They should have been pursued by Nazis or something.
Just as well the glow of the outside world could be seen just when they needed it. I wonder how many other unseen glimmers they had stumbled past before the tapers gave out?
I think it is unlikely that the poor woman they terrified while she was tending the grave at the Campo Verano cemetery would ever be able to find peace there again!
