believed to be haunted by demons and evil spirits because it harbored the remains of the most barbarous man who ever walked the earth nero. in the twelfth century anyone entering the eternal city from the via flammini or would have caught sight of the family tomb of the don't need to be near as family. and it was here that nero lived on in the imagination of the people of rome long after the fall of the empire the ravens roosting in a walnut tree on the side of his remains were said to be demon sin the service of nero. out of fear that nero him self could rise as. demon from al opus god the second had the tree cut down the tomb opened and nero sarcophagus removed then a church was built over nero's family muscly of.