Never mind a thousand miles away; what about Roman officials in the very same neighbourhood? Wouldn't someone have written something, even if they were only reporting some story of risen dead walking about that might have been doing the rounds at the time, whether they themselves believed it or not?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'