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The museum guard in Roswell kept watching me instead of the exhibit, and I get why now
I stopped at the UFO museum in Roswell last month on a road trip and spent about 40 minutes in the back room reading old newspaper clippings from 1947. There were 3 guys in there taking photos of the fake alien autopsy table and asking each other loud questions, and the guard never once looked at them. He stared at me the whole time I was squinting at the clippings, and when I asked him why, he just said most folks who read the archives stay under 10 minutes. I don't think he was hiding anything, I think he was honestly surprised someone cared about the boring paper part. Has anyone else been to one of these spots and noticed the staff acting way different toward people who read the source stuff instead of the props?
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scott.shane4d ago
Reading the source stuff makes you a weirdo to them, and I don't mean that in a bad way. Staff at those places spend all day watching people snap selfies next to the same three props, then someone actually reads the clippings and they don't know what to do with it. The guard wasn't hiding anything, he was just thrown off by a person who cared about the paper parts nobody touches. Ten minutes is probably the record most days, so forty minutes makes you a rare bird. Same thing happens at small town historical spots, the workers light up when you ask about the actual records instead of the gift shop. They're not used to it, plain and simple.
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