Sarah O’Bannon
Coffins used to be built with holes in them, attached to six feet of copper tubing and a bell. The tubing would allow air for victims buried under the mistaken impression they were dead. Harold, the Oakdale gravedigger, upon hearing a bell, went to go see if it was children pretending to be spirits. Sometimes it was also the wind. This time it wasn’t either. A voice from below begged, pleaded to be unburied.
“You Sarah O’Bannon?” Yes! the voice assured.
“You were born on September 17, 1827?”
“Yes!”
“The gravestone here says you died on February 19?”
“No I’m alive, it was a mistake! Dig me up, set me free!”
“Sorry about this, ma’am,” Harold said, stepping on the bell to silence it and plugging up the copper tube with dirt. “But this is August. Whatever you is down there, you ain’t alive no more, and you ain’t comin’ up.”
Posted in Beings & Entities
May 19th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
She could’ve been in a coma all that time… But it’s said that the only spirits that need to ask for permission to join you are evil spirits, too…
June 6th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Even people in comas need to eat. Today we use feeding tubes. That bitch dead.
June 9th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
That tricky fucking whore. Not on Harold’s watch, bitch.
June 17th, 2008 at 2:28 am
Poor zombie ;_;
June 20th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
These ones make me laugh really, really hard.
I have no idea why.
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Holy shit, a smart guy in a scary story.
It’s a sign of the end.
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:07 pm
How could he tell if she was a spirit/zombie if she was BORN september 17, 1827 and died febuary.it makes perfect sence. she was born and they thought she died, so how is he smart? that means he’s murderer.
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 pm
@Daniel O’Briant:
He asked if she was born Sept. 17, 1827 to confirm that it was the one they had placed in the ground (The parents would know their daughter/husband would know his wife).
He cites the date she was buried because it’s been half a year since she was buried. She’s obviously died in that time if she were buried alive.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:19 am
@Aphia
okay, then it was a simple misunderstanding. still a good short short story.
July 1st, 2008 at 10:37 am
I can’t believe I didn’t get this one for two months.
July 2nd, 2008 at 5:13 am
Hey…hey…/win.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
FUCK YEAH! Harold taught that bitch a lesson.
July 10th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
i still dont get it…
July 15th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
YOU GO HAROLD.
come on she was under there for like more than a year.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:57 am
The way Harold tells the bitch to die brings a smile to my face.
Ah, quainte old words!
July 18th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
HAROLD ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Having people in these stories not be so stupid is really refreshing.
July 18th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
What a badass.
July 24th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
I sure taught that bitch, amirite guys?
July 24th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
hoo-rah
*gives harold a cookie* :3
July 26th, 2008 at 4:32 am
harold you lunatic let me out of here!
July 27th, 2008 at 12:07 am
No means no, ma’am.
July 27th, 2008 at 1:32 am
all the internetz are belong to Harold
July 27th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Harold…
Did you ever know that your my Hero? And everything i would like to be? i can fly higher than an eagle. ‘Cause you are the wind beneath my wings
July 29th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Sounds like Harold knows how to lay down the law.
July 29th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Hey Harold, would you mind if I had your babies?
You don’t have a choice in the matter anyways.
Kudos for screwing the bitch over.
August 1st, 2008 at 4:59 am
Dayum dat guy awmost gat ded by that ghost lade but he smart liek me and saw grave!
August 2nd, 2008 at 5:28 am
Harold is the new Chuck Norris.
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:05 am
So what’s the big fuss? A little common sense put to use was never meant to be equivalent to an act of heroism.
I just told the bitch, “i don’t believe you’re alive. Enjoy your unrest in the grave.”
August 2nd, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Harold, in this day in age, an act of common sense and it is equivalent to an act of heroism.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:30 am
i wish i could be chuck norris
but the story was good too
August 5th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
The wierd thing about this, is that the person on the surface could be lying to her… We’ll never know, I guess. No bri/x/ were shat.
August 6th, 2008 at 10:19 am
If I were Harold, I’d pour acid down the tube, just to be safe ^_^ .
August 6th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Harold + shovel = fuck yeah!
and is it wierd that i’m listening to living dead girl by rob zombie while reading this?
August 6th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
OH NOES!!! TALKING ZOMBEHZ!!! THE ZOMPOCALYPSE IS UPON US!!! PREPARE YOUR WEAPONS AND FIND SAFE GROUND!!!!!!!!!
August 14th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Hey, the cemetery on the other side of my small town is called Oakdale…
I should look for her.
A fave, for sure. GO HAROLD!
August 14th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
hey harold, does this happen alot where you live?
August 14th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Jeez, Im really thinking of changing my ‘name’. -.-”
Harold has to be the ONLY intelligent person in a creepy pasta, ever.
I love this one!
August 16th, 2008 at 11:04 am
lulz.
i pawned her behind.
Harold pawned you noobzor!
>_>
August 16th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Harold, you magnificent bastard!
THAT’S how we deal with the undead in Oakdale, bitch!
August 19th, 2008 at 3:13 am
Harold is an hero.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
whats a ‘chuck norris’ LOL
this one scarey me, i dont like zombies
August 20th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
DAMN RIGHT, HAROLD. No zombie bitches on YOUR watch!
August 21st, 2008 at 5:35 am
>>1
*facepalm*
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:07 am
This is my favourite storyy
August 25th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
@ anon 1: Even if you’re in a coma, you still need AIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRR. Whatever’s down there ain’t breathing.
August 26th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
i probably would have been the dumbass who let’s her out.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I did it for the lulz.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
ok ok, i loved this story but the comments were fucking bril!
harold basically rocks my socks and i salute u!
at sarah o’bannon…pwned bitch! i say let her out and let chuck norris give her a swift roundhouse kick to her undead face!
ye, i enjoyed this A+ for entertainment fer suuuure!
August 27th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
she said she did it for the lulz
August 31st, 2008 at 2:55 pm
stuuupid
August 31st, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Chuck Norris wears Harold pjs to bed! Go Harold! It’s nice to see smart people in these stories.
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:59 am
PISS IN THE TUBE TO THE GRAVE THEN FART IN IT THEN SHIT INTO IT.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:06 am
i agree with just a girl,thank god someone in a scary story has a brain cell!
September 7th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Harold sounds hot.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I guess its true. Common sense really is so rare, it’s a fucking super power. Harold is now a superhero with his amazing abilities to think logically.
GO HAROLD!!
September 13th, 2008 at 7:54 am
In the event of a zombie apocalypse, everyone go to Harold the Oakdale Gravedigger. He is qualified to be Moses. He will save us all. In Harold, and God, we trust.
That is all.
September 14th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Even if it really was Sarah O’Bannon, clinging to her mortal body long after its demise, and she was quite innocent and pleading, the life she would return to is not one to be enjoyed.
September 17th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
@ Anon #45
“The tubing would allow air for victims buried under the mistaken impression they were dead.”
September 20th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
それを沈黙させる鐘の「残念なこれについて、夫人」、ハロルドは言った、歩み、土が付いている銅管の上で差し込むこと。 「しかしこれは8月である。 であるそこにものは何でも、これ以上生きていないし、上がっていない」。
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:50 pm
WHO WAS BELL?!
September 24th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
WHO WAS COFFIN?!
September 25th, 2008 at 4:08 am
Oh hell yes. Brilliant story. XD
September 26th, 2008 at 11:50 am
@18 fuc kyeahs you did harold,septs,you could put like,tnt down the tube first
extra long cord
fucking booked it
fuckin jsut
BROOLMSHK
September 27th, 2008 at 2:51 am
lol at 56.
Man I may have to travel if that happens. No Oakdale around my area.
Love this story by the way.