[ChrisMarshallNY]

This whole thing brings to mind stuff like Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, where people dig into a Cretaceous-era ruin that should best be left alone.

There's lots of stories about buried evil. In Glen Cook's The Chronicles of the Black Company, we have The Barrowland, which is basically undone by assisted climate change.

There's also a bunch of brownfields in Western Europe, where buried WWI gas munitions are still causing havoc.

[ben_w]

> There's also a bunch of brownfields in Western Europe, where buried WWI gas munitions are still causing havoc.

When I was considering land for a new-build near Berlin, some of the advice was specifically "don't bother with Oranienburg, there's a high chance the builder will find an unexploded WW2 bomb in the ground". It wasn't this specific article, but close enough: https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/unexploded-wwii...