The Old Farmhouse
 

This is a long fictitious tale and any similarities to any real events, people or times is purely coincidental::

One evening at an old farmhouse a man, Tom Marsh, sat down at his kitchen table to eat dinner. For reasons unbeknownst to friends and family Tom and his wife had been having marital troubles.

Just before Tom had the chance to heap his plate full of the wonderful meal his wife prepared, she came up behind him with a rifle and shot him right in the back. Tom, fully shocked over the blow, slumped over the table filling his empty plate with his blood. He gathered up his energy and staggered out of the room and out the front door onto the porch.

His wife, apparently still distraught, dropped the rifle and grabbed a big kitchen knife. She went outside to where he was and proceeded to repeatedly stab him until he eventually crawled into their field and died.

Mrs Marsh was apprehended and executed on the spot. The old farmhouse stood exactly the way it was the night Mrs Marsh murdered her husband. It stood the same way for several years.

While some local logging crews were in the area, one logger was walking in the same vicinity as the old farmhouse. He had heard a gunshot and decided to investigate what was going on. He looked around the outside and then attempted to walk inside. He was taken aback when what he saw was a plate on the kitchen table filled with fresh blood. Upon further investigation, there was no one else in the house except for himself.

When the logger informed his crew of what he saw, they returned with him to the farmhouse. All they saw was a plate full of dried up blood. Everyone thought the logger had lost his marbles until they figured out it had been exactly 10 years to the day that Mr Marsh was murdered.

People have to come to believe that every year on the anniversary of his death that Tom Marsh gets murdered again and again.

I don't understand why Tom Marsh gets murdered again and again? :hmm:

Then why is it in "Tilted Paranoia" :)

The logger saw the fresh blood soon after the gunshot was heard. When the other loggers came back, all they saw was dried up blood. After research, it had been exactly 10 years since the day Tom Marsh was killed. Every year up until this point and after the incident happens over and over again. So in speculation, his ghost gets murdered over and over again.

"Tilted Paranoia--Conspiracies, ghost stories, oddities."

I was under the impression this was the right spot to tell stories?

i enjoyed the story, at least. i always liked the idea of a violent/traumatic death causing the spirit to linger.

shouldn't this be in Tilted Lit?

No mods or admins have moved it yet so my guess is no? Who knew that posting a story would cause so much confusion.

Thanks bacon for enjoying the story :)

To clear up any confusion, Literature is for fiction, Paranoia is for true or "true" ghost stories.

Then why is it still here "Super Moderator" ;):lol:

I enjoyed the story too, but It could have been a bit longer. there was a story posted on here a while back called "Ted's Caving Story" now that was a great piece of work! Anyone remember reading that?