Hundreds of tourists have descended on the ancient city of Petra in Jordan this week, eager to stand in the rough vicinity of an enormous, two-thousand-year-old facade that, according to historical sources, Harrison Ford “probably let one rip near” during the filming of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1988.
The site, known to locals as Al-Khazneh and to tourists as “the Indiana Jones place where Harrison Ford definitely farted,” has seen a 400% increase in foot traffic since Garbage Opinion broke the story earlier this morning, after a single Reddit comment.
“I came all this way and I felt nothing. I demand a refund.” — A tourist
“It’s a sacred place,” said one visitor, who flew in from Akron, Ohio specifically for the occasion. “You can almost imagine him there. The hat. The whip. The breeze of an off-screen fart, drifting away into the desert wind. It’s why we travel.”
Petra was carved into rose-pink sandstone by the Nabataeans in the 1st century BC and remains one of the most significant archaeological sites in the world. Garbage Opinion’s coverage of the site will focus exclusively on Harrison Ford’s bowel activity during the 1988 production, because that is what the people want.
A spokesperson for the Jordanian Ministry of Tourism declined to comment, but was visibly tired.