The Girl in the Graveyard | Dartmouth Folklore Archive

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Laura Lopac was born in Zagreb, Croatia and is currently 17 years old. She still lives in Zagreb and goes to “X. gimnazija Ivan Supek” high school. She loves theatre and science.

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When Laura was younger, still in primary school, her friends came over for a sleepover. It was a cold winter night and they felt need to share a few scary stories. Although Laura doesn’t remember all of them, this one particularly came to her mind because all the girls who were there got really scared and went straight to bed after hearing it.

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Hello I’m Laura and I collected this story myself when I was 12 years old. It says that some girls and boys were at the party and there was a graveyard down the road and they were talking how scary it was. And one of the boys said: “Don’t ever stand on the grave up that yard because the person inside will grab you, will pull you under and so on”. And then one of the girls said it was all just superstition and she will actually do it right now. So the boy handed her knife and said that she needs to stick it into the ground because that’s how they are going to know that she really went there. So she went there and picked out a grave and stood on it. Then quickly she bends over and puts the knife in the soil and started to leave but she couldn’t get away, couldn’t move, something was holding her back. So when she didn’t come back the others went to look for her and they found only her clothes being pinned to the ground with a knife.

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This is one of the scariest stories from my childhood which I still remember. I think it will stay in my memory for the rest of my life.

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I’ve heard different variations of this story, especially its ending but it is definitely a very interesting story to share with your friends.

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