A Hallowe'en Story

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I saw this somewhere ...can't recalll exactly where.... but I thought it was pretty good, very suspenseful and scary.

A Hallowe’en Story

One windy, rainy night a solitary man was walking home, down a dark, deserted street that went near the local cemetery.
As he passed the gates, he heard a bump in the darkness. Not daring to look back, he quickened his pace. But the bumping noise continued behind him.

Catching his breath, he stopped and turned to see what it was.
Coming down the road was a coffin, standing on end, bumping from side to side - Bump! Bump! Bump!

Frightened nearly out of his wits, the man turned and hurried into the driving rain.
Behind him, the coffin came faster - BUMP! BUMP! BUMP!

He turned the corner onto his street, and ran up the walkway to his home, the coffin close on his heels. BUMP! BUMP! BUMP!

The terrified man dashed into his house and sprinted up the stairs two steps at a time, but the coffin crashed through the front door and followed him up the stairway! BUMP! CLOMP! BUMP! CLOMP!

As he gasped for breath, the man darted into the bathroom, slamming and locking the door.
The coffin threw itself against the door, ONCE! TWICE! and the door splintered and burst asunder! BUMP! BUMP! CRASH!

The coffin lurched menacingly forward! Sobbing hysterically the man backed against the wash basin, and in desperation grabbed the nearest object at hand, a bottle of Vick’s Nyquil, and hurled it at the coffin!
The bottle shattered against the ancient, worm-eaten wood, glass shards and liquid flying everywhere! And then....and then..the coffin stopped.

"Eternity is an awful long time, especially towards the end."

"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing.
It also depends on what sort of person you are.” -- CSL

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