Welcome to One-Minute Dig, your source for quick and fascinating historical facts, presented by Petros Koutoupis of Digging Up The Past.
We tend to think of ghost stories as something that came along much later, but people have been telling creepy stories about the dead for thousands of years. In fact, one of the oldest ghost stories we know about comes from ancient Mesopotamia, and the ghost in this one has a pretty good reason for coming back.
