The Tree, The Rock and the Room

From: Anonymous
Story type: Ghost
Location: Jerusalem, Isral
Source: Form Submission

A few years ago I was in Jerusalem Israel with some friends, we heard about this room in the old city right near the armeanian quarter that strange things have happend since (well always). I went the library @hebrew university and began to research this room. I found out the following historical data;

1) the bulding was built right before the reign of solomon by a merchant named yosef-ben-abraham, who entire family was killed or forced into salvery
2)to date 45 people have either been killed or dissappeared from this room in the last 1500 years. during the Jordanian occupation of the old city, 8 Jordanian soldiers fell ill while staying in this room 5 of them died w/in the year.
after we learned this we said why not and we went to this room. we stayed there for about 3 hours and nothing happend. We were sort of bored so someone suggested we pry a loose rock up and see if anything is under the stone floor. Well there was. We found a passage that led about 50 feet to the east and led out to an opening right below a cliff. The opening was coverved by an old tree, On the top of this tree was tied a rock with some carvings on it secued by metal and wood. I grasped the rock in my hands and the entire tree fell and we just ran out of there.

Postcript: out of 10 of us 5 of our party were injured in bus crash about 4 hours later.

The cave was examined by Israeli archeologists and the findings were never released

Anon