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.”
Sarah O'Bannon,
Aww Harold, still polite even to the Undead… such a gentleman!
We need more guys like him!
I’m so smart now GIVE ME CAKE AND COOKIE OR ELSE I’LL MURDER YOU TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
September 17… that’s MY birthday!
Oh wait, no one cares.
Buried 6 months and still alive?…
SEEMS LEGIT, LETS DIG HER UP xD
First of all, Harold good thinkin’, second i would’ve dropped a molotov down the pipe and LIGHT THAT BITCH UP!
Darn, why everyone love to think she’s a zombie rather than it’s mistake day on the gravestone? If she’s zombie, the zombie can’t talk, they can’t even think because they’re nothing but moving death body. And if she’s a spirit, she can fly out the coffin without any help.
Darn you zombie maniacs.
Stupid Harold what did I ever do to you?!
Amazing pasta! Cleverly written, as well as short. Well done! I would have preferred if you left a more personal name so everyone could keep an eye out for more of your pastas, but bravo nonetheless.
This is one of my all-time favorite pastas. It’s short and a great idea. It’s also hilarious if you imagine that maybe they’d gotten the dates mixed up on the gravestone and now she’s going to die from a misunderstanding.
This was a great story. Creeped me out a bit. I mean, what was down there???
But there is just one thing. They only kept the bells attached to the string for a week or so. So six months down the road the bell would have been long removed.
Sorry to nit pick!
Wow… This was made even creepier by the fact that i just so happened to read this on february 19th. Weird.
epic harold
Maybe she was paralyzed and couldn’t speak and she lived off bugs that crawled down the tube and drank rain water.
She was paralyzed but managed to eat bugs and drink rain water? Seems legit.
I liked that Harold wasn’t a typical Pasta character. He was all “Bullshit!” and sorted it before it was a problem!
Nommy pasta! Brava!
(side note; I wish coffins still had these bells and tubes! Would definitely make me fear being buried alive less!)
Release me Harold
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Oooo, rejected. MHMM. *zsnap.
She could have fell into a coma on the supposed day she died.
He is coming the leviathen….
Me: Mrs. O’Bannon…. How old were you at 1830?
O’ Bannon: Er…. 5?
Me: NOT ON MY WATCH, PRE-ALGEBRA!