Coffins used to be built with holes in them, attached to six feet of copper tubing and a bell. The tubing would allow air for victims buried under the mistaken impression they were dead. In a certain small town, Harold, the local gravedigger, upon hearing a bell one night, went to go see if it was children pretending to be spirits. Sometimes it was also the wind. This time, it wasn't either. A voice from below begged and pleaded to be unburied.
"Are you Sarah O'Bannon?" Harold asked.
"Yes!" The muffled voice asserted.
"You were born on September 17, 1827?"
"Yes!"
"The gravestone here says you died on February 20, 1857."
"No, I'm alive, it was a mistake! Dig me up, set me free!"
"Sorry about this, ma'am," Harold said, stepping on the bell to silence it and plugging up the copper tube with dirt.
"But this is August. Whatever you are down there, you sure as Hell ain't alive no more, and you ain't comin' up."
I couldn't understand what Harold said last. What does it mean?
ReplyDeleteGood question Masa. It is a bit confusing.
ReplyDelete"But this is August. Whatever you are down there, you sure as Hell ain't alive no more, and you ain't comin' up."
It is now August in the story, and the grave stone says the lady died in February. This means she has been dead for about 6 months. If she is talking now she must be a zombie or vampire!
I see. Thanks. And one more, what's pasta mean? I'm sure it isn't food.
ReplyDeleteThe website I get many of these stories from is called creepypasta. It is a horror story site where anyone can post a story and others will vote on how scary it is. The name creepypasta came from the nick name for these short horror stories "copy paster" because they would often be copied and pasted. Over time it became creepy paster and eventually creepypasta.
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