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A Rhode Island Story I Hope Will Truly Scare You
This time of year, around these parts, we tell scary stories. One of them is about Mercy Brown. Mercy Brown was buried in Exeter, Rhode Island, January 1892. Two months later, she was exhumed. Her surviving loved ones dug her up, cut out her heart, burned it on a stone, mixed the ashes with water, …[ read more ]
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Diligence at the Door
“Turn the light on! Turn the light on!” My husband had just come from the porch and crawled into bed. “All right. I’ll turn it on! What’s the problem?” I switched on the light. “That! Where did that come from? It was crawling on me!” He pointed at a black lightning bug escaping from his …[ read more ]