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The Graveyard
Wager
A group of young girls
were having a slumber party one night and began to exchange ghost
stories. One girl claimed that the old man who had been buried
earlier that week in the graveyard down the street had been buried
alive. She claimed that if you tried, you could hear him still
scratching at the lid of his coffin. The other girls called her
bluff and told her that she wouldn’t do it. They said she was too
afraid to go down there to the grave that very night. They continued
to challenge her and eventually she gave into the peer pressure and
accepted their challenge. Since she was going to go alone, she
needed to prove to the others that she actually followed through
with the task. She was supposed to take a stake with her and drive
it into the ground so the next day the girls would know that she had
been to the grave.
She headed off to the
gravesite, stake in hand, and never returned. The other girls
assumed she had "chickened out" and had just gone home ashamed.
The next morning as they
passed the graveyard they saw her there at the old man's grave. She
had accidentally staked her nightshirt to the ground and when she
tried to run from the grave and couldn’t, she died of fright.
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