Several girls were sleeping over at one girl's
home while the parents were away. After the lights were out,
they started talking about the recent burial of an old man in the
nearby cemetery. A rumour was going around that the man had been
buried alive and had been heard trying to claw his way out.
One girl laughed at the idea, so they dared her to go out and visit
the grave. As proof that she had gone, she was to drive a stake
into the earth above the grave.
They sent their friend off on her errand and shut off the lights
again, expecting her to return right away.
But an hour passed, and then another, without any sign of the girl.
The others lay away, gradually growing terrified. Morning came,
and she still hadn't returned.
'Later that day, the girl's parents arrived home, and parents and
friends went together to the cemetery.
They found the girl lying on the grave - dead. When she squatted
down to push the wooden stake into the ground, she drove it through
the hem of her skirt. When she tried to stand up and couldn't,
she thought the dead man had grabbed hold of her - and she died
instantly of fright.
