VIDEO: Mystery As Ancient Egyptian Statue Starts Moving By Itself In Manchester Museum

Talk about creepy…

A 10-inch tall Egyptian statue at the Manchester Museum has sparked a mystery as it has recently started moving by itself.

The statue of Neb Sanu was discovered in a mummy’s tomb and has been with the Museum for 80 years now, but it’s only recently that it began to move, The Telegraph reports. The timelapse video above shows the statue circling by itself.  

Television physicist Professor Brian Cox teaches at the city’s university and claims the movement is due to “differential friction”.

But Manchester Museum's resident Egyptologist Campbell Price thinks it’s something more sinister, an Egyptian curse.

"I noticed one day that it had turned around. I thought it was strange because it is in a case and I am the only one who has a key," he explained in an interview with the Manchester Evening News.

“I put it back but then the next day it had moved again. We set up a time-lapse video and, although the naked eye can’t see it, you can clearly see it rotate on the film. The statuette is something that used to go in the tomb along with the mummy.

“In Ancient Egypt they believed that if the mummy is destroyed then the statuette can act as an alternative vessel for the spirit. Maybe that is what is causing the movement.”.

“Brian thinks it’s differential friction,” he said, “…where two surfaces, the serpentine stone of the statuette and glass shelf it is on, cause a subtle vibration which is making the statuette turn.

“But it has been on those surfaces since we have had it and it has never moved before. And why would it go around in a perfect circle?”