The Strange Tale of the Snail that 'Rose from the Dead'
There are more than a few repulsion stories and film about the breakthrough of some unusual , presumptively lifeless artifact that springtime to life sentence , usually to work mayhem ( see : The Relic , The Thing , The Mummy ) . Something like this actually fall out once in the veridical world — except it did n’t turn into a bloodshed and was actually passably adorable . In 1846 , a lawyer donate a clustering of snail shells he had hoard in Egypt and Greece to the British Museum in London ....