Long ago, there was a man who was born who cheated the gods. No one knows how or why, but it was just a old story from ancient times.

As punishment he was turned into a gorgon and turns those who look at him into stone.

You are a college student on a field trip to a museum to study monsters from different cultures. At one point you get to a exhibit that had statues of people in fear, they looked very lifelike. At least until you see one that was hidden behind a bush, it looked like a guard for the museum with the same terrified look