Frightened to Death! | Grandma’s Stories

Oct 30th Frightened to Death!

Would you have enough nerve to go to the cemetery around midnight and walk at least 500 paces and then start to dig a hole and bury a small box? When you are a young college girl, and you are seeking membership into a secret group, you are willing to go along with their “Initiation Ritual” – you will prove to this organization you are a worthy prospect. You are a willing player and it is important to you, you will do anything – just give me the chance of a “Life-time” to show what I can do!

So, at midnight, a group of young girls, went to the “Cemetery in North Saint Louis, Missouri.” Each, “new Pl edger” takes a separate path into the Cemetery, dig their hole, deposit their box in hole, and run out as fast as possible, to the agreed meeting place! But, the girl that we are reading about in the “Newspaper,” never came out of the Cemetery! “WHY?” “Frightened to Death” – tracking the story – speculating that the young girl, while digging the hole – the wind blowing – her long skirt blowing in the wind – caught under her shovel – she tried to pull away, but the shovel having her pinned down to the ground – she may have thought a “Hand from the Grave” was pulling her? We can only surmise at the amount of her “FEAR” – “Fright” as she “Dropped Dead!”