The Graveyard Wager

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by mjburleson

by mjburleson

--I do NOT own this story--

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, was buried alive. She claimed that if you tried, you could hear him scratching at the lid of his coffin. The other girls called her bluff and told her she was afraid to go there that night. She, eventually, accepted their challenge and took a stake with her to drive in the ground to prove that she had been there. She headed off to the gravesite right away and never returned, the others assumed she had "chickened out" and went 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 into the ground and had died of fright...