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You Can't Get Out
An Oklahoma
Ghost Story
retold by S.
E. Schlosser
One dark,
windy night, the town drunk was meandering his way home after the bar closed.
Somehow,
he got turned around and ended up walking through the churchyard instead of
taking the road home.
The wind
picked up and he thought he could hear a voice calling his name.
Suddenly,
the ground opened up in front of him, and he fell down, down into an open
grave!
He could
hear the voice clearer now, calling to him.
He knew
it was the devil, coming for him just like the preacher said, on account of him
being the town drunk.
The hole
was very deep and inside it was pitch black.
His eyes
adjusted to the darkness after a few moments, and he made out a form sitting in
the darkness with him.
It called
his name, and he scrambled away in fear, trying to climb out of that terrible
grave.
Then the
figure spoke. "You can't get out," it said.
The drunk
gave a shout of pure terror and leapt straight up more than six feet. He caught
the edge of the hole in his hands, scrambled out, and ran for home as fast as
he could go.
Inside
the open grave, his neighbor Charlie sighed in resignation. He'd fallen into
the hole a few minutes before his friend and had thought that together they might
help each other climb out.
Now he
was going to have to wait until morning and get the mortician to bring him a
ladder.
S.E. Schlosser is the author of
the Spooky Series by Globe Pequot Press, as well as
the Ghost Stories deck by Random House. She has been telling stories
since she was a child, when games of "let's pretend" quickly built
themselves into full-length tales acted out with friends. A graduate of both
Houghton College and the Institute of Children's Literature, Sandy received her
MLS from Rutgers University while working as a full-time music teacher and a
freelance author. Read
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