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"I have to finish this, I will finish this, but this story got reeaal dull after a while." — Apr 30, 2026 12:53PM
"I have to finish this, I will finish this, but this story got reeaal dull after a while." — Apr 30, 2026 12:53PM
“One night around 7:30 the phone rang. Now remember, Betty had been in a comatose state for two weeks . . . but here she was on the other end of the line as rational and cheery as she’d been as a healthy young woman. “Hi, Ed, how are you?” And I said, “Who is this?” And she said, “It’s Betty. Betty Chap-man?” Lorraine: “I picked up the other phone when I heard Ed say this because I was shocked. I’d seen Betty only a day ago and she was deep in a coma. Very deep. This couldn’t possibly be her on the phone—and yet it was. She said, ‘I must have been sleeping for the last couple of weeks and now I’m just waking up.”
― Graveyard
― Graveyard
“If you disagreed with him politically, he usually implied that you were a pervert or a foreign agent of some kind. Many of his listeners loved to hear the other callers debased. They were the sort of listeners who spent a lot of time in front of their TVs watching professional wrestling.”
― Graveyard
― Graveyard
“We believe that ghosts draw electromagnetic energy from the plant life, trees, and bushes and that this energy is one of the reasons they often project a brilliant light. Indoors, ghosts draw on human sources for their energy and their glow.”
― Graveyard
― Graveyard
“Only fools accept the obvious and go no further; use your brain, Jilly.”
― The Umbrella Conspiracy
― The Umbrella Conspiracy
“Gottmann—this was at the turn of the century— pointed to the young English girl who predicted the exact day World War I would begin—six years before it began. “In effect, then, [Edna Naylor] was a human banshee,” Gottmann wrote, “warning the entire world of impending catastrophe. Alas, nobody paid her the least attention.”
― Graveyard
― Graveyard
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