The Legend of Bloody Mary

From: jack wilcox ()
Story type: Ghost
Location: 1800's united states
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Tue Jun 17 08:13:48 2008

i know everyone knows the legend of bloody mary. But do you know the truth behind the legend?

in the 1800's a teenage girl named Mary worth lived in a small town with her father and mother. one day Mary fell fately ill. she couldn't move her limbs very well. suddenly one night her mother walked in and found her daughter to be unresponsive. she called for the doctor and a few hours later, Mary was pronounced dead. they buried her almost instantly, afraid of her disease spreading.(The buried her in their backyard.) And, as was custom to those times, they placed a bell above her grave with a string attatched to the girls arm through the ground in case she was alive. (they must of buried a few people alive if they took a precaution) her mother had such high hopes that the bell would ring, she refused to go inside. afraid that his wife would catch cold, the father gave his wife a wife of cloroform. The next day he went for a walk. Upon walking out his door, he noticed the bell had been tipped over from extensive ringing. He then dropped to the ground and started digging with his hands. But he was to late. when he opended the coffin lid, Mary lay there with her eyes wide and a look of sheer horror on her face. But that's not the least of it. Stuck in the lid of the coffin, were all ten of her fingernails, she had tried to claw her way out.

Now this is desturbing enough, right? well here's the worst of it. The doctor they called was Mary's own father, he had pronounced his daughter dead, when really she had just fallen into a light coma from her illness.