Your Monday …Crazy? | Vol. 3 / No. 8.1

A big, copper, Lord of the Rings job | Photo: morebyless, CC BY 2.0
A big, copper, Lord of the Rings job | Photo: morebyless, CC BY 2.0

So the Independent is reporting that there are two men who are trying to raise money. They’re doing it to get a new key made for a tomb in a cemetery in Brompton, which is in London. One of them wants the key because his great-great grandmother is buried there.

The other wants the key because he thinks the mausoleum is a time machine.

Mr Coates hopes to be whisked back to ancient Egypt or – and this is his preferred option – to emerge from the tomb as a younger version of himself.

I genuinely can’t tell if he’s serious or if this is all some next-level Poe’s Law trolling, but either way it’s a great way to start your week. Go give it a read.

Happy Monday, everyone.

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Richard Ford Burley is a writer and doctoral candidate at Boston College, as well as an editor at Ledger, the first academic journal devoted to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In his spare time he writes about science, skepticism, feminism, and futurism here at This Week In Tomorrow.