[lqet]

> The apartment was fully settled in 1980. A year later, an 18-year-old woman who lived there suddenly died. In 1982, her 16-year-old brother followed, and then their mother. [All from leukemia]. [...] A new family moved into the apartment, and their son died from leukemia as well.

> A child's bed was located directly next to the wall containing the capsule.

[I-M-S]

Naturally occurring radiation might play a part in human tendency to regard certain places as haunted.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

Actually "haunted" locations are often linked to carbon monoxide and infrasound, IIRC. We generally don't blame ghosts for mysterious burns or other signs of radiation sickness.

[undersuit]

We don't, but a society that doesn't know about radiation or even elementary particles may.

The village doctor in the 1500s diagnosing radiation sickness would be even more of a quack than the one that doesn't apply enough leeches.

[BaculumMeumEst]

i'm pretty sure superstition about haunted locations doesn't come from people repeatedly getting leukemia

[heywhatupboys]

lmao, this is the most HN comment

[sh4rks]

I wonder what happened to that child

[Arch-TK]

It's possible that the apartment came furnished and that the bed being referred to was not a specific child's but rather a bed made for a child in which supposedly multiple children slept in before dying.