Stories of a vengeful and killer ghost
spread across the state of Kentucky in 1938. People claimed that the
ghost was causing death and destruction wherever it went, though it
seemed to be centered on a small area of the state.
The story started with Carl Pruitt, who
seemed to be an ordinary man. Ordinary that is until he discovered
his wife cheating on him, and not only that, but cheating with him in
his own bed. In a fit of anger, he grabbed a steel chain and
strangled his wife with it, while the other man ran for his life.
Seeing what he had done, Pruitt killed himself. Considering what he
had done, the wife's family insisted that the two be separated, and
Pruitt was placed across town in a different cemetery.
Pruitt's headstone almost instantly
changed in appearance, and people swore that they could see a chain
wrapped around the stone. It almost looked as if the chain was etched
into the stone, and it continued to grow longer and take up more
space on the headstone. Once the chain stopped growing, some
suggested that the stone be removed, but it never was.
The first death came just a few weeks
after the chain stopped. Several boys rode through the cemetery, and
one tossed rocks at the headstone to prove his bravery. On the way
home that day the boy's bicycle veered out of control and he somehow
ended up being strangled by the chain on his bike. Though his friends
swore that the boy broke the stone with one of his throws, no
evidence of the damage could be found.
A few weeks later the boy's mother went
to the cemetery with vengeance in mind. She attacked the tombstone
with an axe from her farm, destroying it into a pile of rubble. The
next day the lady was hanging clothes outside her house when the
clothesline came loose. Somehow, and no one is quite sure how, the
woman ended up being strangled by the clothesline. Some claim that
once again the tombstone appeared perfectly normal.
Though stories of the deaths continued
to spread, not everyone was afraid of Pruitt. A family driving past
the cemetery witnessed the horrifying death of their father. The man
shot at the headstone, declaring that he thought the whole story was
fake. Right after that, his wagon veered out of control and the man
was strangled to death by a chain on the wagon. Not only did the
tombstone look perfect, but authorities were baffled to how the chain
came loose to kill the man.
Following the last death, people began
to talk. The talk spread to the point where authorities were sent to
the area to examine the tombstone. One of the men laughed at the
tombstone, and it would be one of the last things he ever did. While
leaving the cemetery, his car crashed. A chain in the area broke
through the windshield, wrapped around his neck, and strangled him.
That incident caused people to keep
their distance, but once again there was a man who scoffed at the
stories. He attacked the tombstone with a hammer, and people could
hear the cracking as the tombstone broke in pieces. There was a short
silence before people heard the man screaming.
When people ran to the cemetery, they
found that a heavy chain from the cemetery gate had strangled the
man. It looked as though the man had run right through the gate,
caught his neck on the chain, and hung there until people arrived.
Once again there was no sign of any damage to Pruitt's tombstone.
This was the turning point of the
cemetery. Families began moving their buried to other cemeteries, and
new burials rarely occurred there. The cemetery itself was destroyed
in the 1950's, leaving only the story behind.
Even today people still talk about the
mysterious deaths surrounding this one little tombstone. No
explanation has ever been given, but people still love to tell the
story of what once happened there.
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