A group of young girls were having a slumber party
one night and began to exchange ghost stories.
One girl claimed that the old man who had been
buried earlier that week in the graveyard down
the street had been buried alive. She claimed that
if you tried you could hear him scratching at the
lid of his coffin still. The other girls called her
bluff and told her she was afraid to go there tonight.
She eventually accepted their challenge and took
a stake with her to drive in the ground to prove
she'd been there. She headed off to the gravesite
right away and never returned, the others assumed
she had "chickened out" and went home ashamed.
The next morning as they passed the graveyard they
saw her there at the old man's grave. She had
accidently staked her nightshirt to the ground and
died of fright.