April 24, 1800

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1800 the Library of Congress was established with a $5,000 allocation. The third book purchased by the library was the ‘Necronomicon’ and it was subsequently transferred in 1943 to a secret vault that was designed by George Bergstrom and built by John McShain that is located many levels beneath the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia. Family folklore has it that after Colonel Leslie Groves died in 1970, he was entombed with full military honors in front of the chamber that houses the book as an undead guard to protect it from outsiders and non-Masons.

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About Joel Byers

Born in North Georgia and educated at some very fine public institutions. Real education started after graduating from college and then getting married and raising two boys. Has the ability to see the funny and absurd in most things and will always remark on it, even if it means getting the stink-eye from his victims.
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