Entry Number 15

The cemetery to rest in


When you die you need a quiet place to rest in, this story is about a cemetery where dead people could do anything but rest. One day a man went to visit his wife’ grave but to his surprise she was not there, so he complained to the man in charge of the graves. The unexpected answer was that was very common, that she was not the first to disappear and he must not worry that will come back to her place. The husband was astonished to hear that, so the gravedigger told him what had been happening there since the cemetery was opened. “It is said that the land was a sacred place the native people who lived near, they used to venerate their god and offer human sacrifices. When it was decided to use the land as a cemetery strange things started to happen. Villagers saw lights during the night that came out from there, also children disappeared from their beds and no one saw them again”. The man explained that the people buried there belonged to the spirits of the native people who remained in that place, the bodies acted like zombies and did what they were told to do. The last person buried there is chosen to kidnap a child and offer him or her to their god, this has happened once every ten years. The man could not believe what he was hearing but after a moment, he saw his wife walking towards him without any child. The gravedigger started to run but the man remained very happy to see the love of his life alive. Her face was different she did not have loving eyes like before but he did not realize about that until she was in front of him.
The gravedigger arrived to a local market and told to the man working there that it happened again that the zombie did not find a child, but it still had offer someone in order to be allowed to rest in peace. The coward guesses that the husband was perfect for a sacrifice, and after not hearing anything about the man, he confirmed that the lovely wife had offered her own husband to the spirits of the cemetery.