Watch This When You're High - Why Do People Say This Ancient Egyptian Statue Is Alive? And Why Does The Vatican Have So Many Of Them?

I saw this video last month on twitter and emailed it to myself to do a WTWYH blog because I had never heard of this statue, or goddess before. 

I completely forgot about it until this weekend when the algorithm threw me another video about just how vast and expansive the secret Vatican archives really are. (A future WTWYH blog). And that jogged my memory about this. 

According to Wikipedia, Sekhmet is the lion-headed Egyptian deity of war, vengeance, plague, and healing.

And deep inside Egypt’s Karnak Temple Complex, past the tourists with cargo shorts and camel selfies, there’s a statue of Sekhmet locked behind a steel gate, in a dark stone chamber that most people don’t even know exists.

People swear this statue is alive. Not metaphorically, literally.

This isn’t some art installation or museum piece. To the ancient Egyptians, statues were activated through rituals. They believed they were opening the deity’s senses through them. We’re talking its mouth, eyes, ears, so it could see, speak, breathe, and take offerings. 

That’s not poetic either. That was engineering the divine by ancient standards.

But what’s wild is that in 2025, people who enter that locked room in Karnak still come out of it claiming - 

- The statue was “watching” them.

- Their heart started racing or they felt short of breath.

- Their phones stopped working. Their watch glitched. Their EMF meter spiked (because yes, ghost hunters have been here).

- It vibrated. Or breathed. Or shifted form, like the eyes moved or the face softened depending on your intent.

Truly wild shit.

Now according to experts and scientists, these anomalies can be explained by the statue being carved from diorite or black granite, which is rich in quartz, (which is “a piezoelectric mineral”). 

That means “it stores and emits energy when under pressure or vibration.”

If you believe in “ancient energy grids,” the Karnak Temple sits on one of the world’s supposed “ley lines”, which would make Sekhmet’s little stone prison a geological battery that’s been charging for 3,500 years.

There are also claims that the room has architectural alignments that let a single beam of light hit her face on solstices, which is either brilliant stonework or a divine motion sensor.

And the really creepy part is some people say she reacts to your intent. If you go in respectfully, you feel calm and warm. 

If you go in like a cocky jackass, they say that you feel sick or panicked, like she’s telling you to get the hell out.

Now here’s where it goes from “weird” to a full Dan Brown/Indiana Jones hybrid.

Why does the Vatican own dozens of these fuckin Sekhmet statues? 

They legit have them locked in their private archives and underground vaults. 

Advertisement

Why though?

The leading theories I’ve read that make sense involve the fact that the Vatican has a long, weird history of collecting symbols from other religions, especially the ones they feared or couldn’t fully kill off. 

Sekhmet is divine feminine rage personified. 

She’s destruction and healing. Way too powerful for the boys’ club in Rome. So what do you do? You take the pieces off the board. You lock her ass up.

There’s another theory that the Sekhmet statues were taken not as trophies, but as “spiritual containment units”. 

Some were reportedly chained, buried, or sealed beneath altars in European churches. These things weren’t “display pieces”, they were bombs with gods inside, wrapped in incense and Latin prayers to keep them quiet.

As the crazy conspiracy theorist guy, I am crossing neither of theories off the list of possibilities. 

I’m going to get these going again regularly. So keep the suggestions coming. Keep them classy. No butt stuff