A Shocking Return from the Grave

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Selection varies by location, excludes Alaska Hawai On the night of september eleventh, eighteen ninety nine A twenty three year old student named Alice Knott sat in her bedroom in the Washington DC boarding house where she lived, doing what she did every single night, which was to study So Alice rarely left her room She'd spent the last few months preparing to take this really important civil service exam which she had to pass if she wanted to land the stable government job that she desperately wanted. But studying was not the only reason that Alice seemingly never went out Alice was also sort of naturally a recluse, in part because she had a lot of health issues like a weak heart and poor circulation and she just generally got sick a lot being out in the world was really tiring for her and also sort of scary And it was just easier and safer to stay inside Now it was getting late in the night and there was some Cold air coming in through our open bedroom window And it was actually unusually cold outside tonight. And since she got sick pretty easily, she didn't want to risk this draft coming in, giving her a cold or something So she said her work down for a moment And she went up to close the window And then on her way back to her desk, she smiled at the other very important reason that she spent so much time in her room Loved pet parrot, Polly. Pauly was sitting on his typical perch one of the room's light fixtures. and as he saw Alice approaching, he got really excited and began squawking really loudly. Now Alice knew that basically any minute now, she was very likely going to hear a loud knock at her door about the loud noise, because most of the people who lived in this boarding house with her hated Polly and Polly admittedly was kind of a mean bird Not only was he really loud, but he bit people and made really threatening noises and handsome bad, disruptive habits that pretty much drove everybody who lived in the building crazy. Like right now, Pally, in addition to squawking really loudly, was also pecking the metal frame of the light fixture that it was on, which not only made additional noise, but it also damaged the light fixture Which you know, to most people in the building, they didn't care so much about the light fixture, but the landlord did And so it was just this general consensus that Polly is sort of nasty and loud and and also damages stuff. So like nobody liked Pouly and they really told Alice that she needed to get rid of Paullly and soon because he has a real problem But Alice would not get rid of Polly She loved Paul And Paolly loved Alice. He wasn't mean to Alice. He followed her around everywhere and was very sweet to her. and so Alice just, she felt very attached to the bird In fact, in many ways, she viewed Polly as being sort of like her only family You know, the only reason she was in this boarding house to begin with is because her brother and both her parents had passed away And so a lot of time it was just Alice and Polly in this room together. And so it was just A very important relationship. It was like the only relationship that Alice really had And so Alice just walked over to Polly, who was still squawking loudly and pecking at this light fixture And she just told him to stop what he was doing And he listened, he went completely quiet and you know, she pet him for a second. and then a moment later, she was back at her desk, back to studying. and for the next few hours, that's what she did until her eyes got too tired to stay open and she went to bed Hours later, in the middle of the night, Alice suddenly stirred awake and she sat up in her bed And she had no idea what caused her to wake up what she did know is something just felt wrong. chest felt incredibly tight and she actually felt kind of dizzy And so she got out of bed and she stumbled her way over to the door to get help But she didn't get there After taking only a few steps, her legs suddenly gave out from under her and she fell to the ground The next day, just before one PM The landlord of the boarding house bustled around the kitchen, putting some lunch on the table. And then when he was done and all the food was laid out for his guests He called out to the house to let everybody know that lunch was ready and to come on down And a few moments later, all the guests appeared at the table for Alice. The landlord immediately noticed this, and it did bother them. I mean, they hadn't seen Alice all morning However, you know, they did know that Alice typically stayed up late studying, so it wasn't all that unusual for her to sleep in Even by her standards, one PM was very late. And so the landlord decided they would just go up to her room and make sure she was okay And so the landlord went down the hallway to the last door, which was Alice's, and they knocked There was no answer So after trying a few more times and still not getting an answer, reach down, turn the knob, it was unlocked and they open the door Immediately as soon as that door opens The landlord began to gag So there were a lot of things about Alice's pet parerot Polly that really concerned people And Alice who loved her bird and considered it the only thing saving her from total awful loneliness sort of looked the other way when it came to all those concerns. However, there was one thing that Alice should not have ignored And that was her parents' drug problem. So in eighteen ninety nine Interior lighting inside of homes was almost exclusively Open flames and those flames were powered by gas. And it would turn out Holly regularly liked to inhale that gas. He would basically get high When he was pecking at the light fixture, he wasn't doing it just to make noise or to damage it. He was doing it to turn the valve in order to suck on this gas until he basically passed out. Now Alice did know Poullly did this But she would typically stop him while he was in the process of trying to get high. and just kind of keep him from doing it, or After he had turned the valve and passed out, she would just move her parrot and then close the valve or she would keep her window open to ensure that the gas wouldn't get trapped in a room And this night, it was so cold outside, she shut the window. and then she fell asleep because she was so exhausted from all the studying and it was after she had fallen asleep Polly Pcked the valve open, got high on the gas, passed out. room continued to fill with this poisonous gas. 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It was like she couldn't fully escape fromom this nightmare. And as she's just kind of sitting there with these horrible thoughts in her mind She began to realize that this was no ordinary dream This was a premonition So Linda was a doctor. She was an obstetrician and gynecologist who worked at a hospital in Stoneham, Massachusetts. And by all accounts, she was excellent at her job just because she was smart and experienced, but also because she was just naturally intuitive and had this sort of like sixth sense when it came to her work. In a lot of cases, trusting her gut and going off of her intuition had actually saved the lives of her patients and their babies. And so she had sort of developed a reputation for being this way and it had led to many patients actually traveling to her from all over the region to have their babies or just to see her in general because it just sort of seemed like She was the person who could handle any problem. mostly because she would get ahead of it and sort of predict complications and treat them before they became complications this sixth sense that she had did not just pertain to work She also would have, you know, these sort of gut feelings or premonitions like the dream she had just had about her personal life and almost always, you know her intuition on these things or her visions of the future, pan out to be right. So Linda knew that in order to literally protect herself, she needed to cancel her trip to the Caribbean. And even though she knew this was the right call, It didn't stop it from being hugely disappointing. She hadd planned this whole trip. She hadd been really looking forward to it, as was her boyfriend Tim. And also she sort of felt like this was an important trip for her relationship with Tim She had been with him now for four years and he too was a doctor, and they spent all their time together at the hospital. They both worked at the same hospital. But lately they'd been struggling and fighting a little bit more Tim had sort of become pretty over prrotective of her. Like he was becoming sort of like controlling And so it was just sort of exhausting dealing with their relationship issues. and this trip to the Caribbean, she saw as like this easy way to like get out of their normal lives and work on their issues, but in a happy sort of fun environment. It felt like they needed it for their relationship But now Linda knew she would not only have to break the news to Tim that They were going to go ahead and cancel this trip, but also she would need to go find something else, some other way for her and Tim to reconcile, you know, callall it a different vacation or some other outing or something to like break the norm, which had become sort of toxic So on this night, eventually Linda calmed down from the shock of waking up to this horrible nightmare and down and she just told herself that she would figure it out in the morning, like this was obviously bad, but At least she wasn't going to die in a car crash in thearibbean. A few weeks later, on the night of september thirtieth Linda stormed down the hallway of the hospital where she worked towards her office. Linda was fuming So she should have been leaving for her trip to the Caribbean with Tim in just a few days, but she had gone ahead and canceled the cruise because of her dream, which Tim was very annoyed with her about. He'd been vocal about the fact that her reason for canceling this trip was ridiculous And it had made things really tense between them. and it was already tense between them. So this is like doubly bad. And now just a few minutes ago, they had actually run into each other in the hospital hallway because they both worked there together And they hadd gotten into this huge fight about the cancellation of this trip and other coworers had actually overheard it. And so now Linda was not only mad but also embarrassed, you know, that other people saw her fighting. And And so as soon as she got into her office, she just slammed the door behind her and sat down and tried to focus on her work, reviewing patient charts and other things like that. but She just couldn't. Now, Linda knew that canceling this trip was the right thing to do. She was sure that if she had gone to the Caribbean She and maybe even Tim would have died in a car. Like she knew that she was preventing that. But at the same time, she also just hated how this premonition was now further complicating her relationship. And so now, Linda just told herself to calm down She took a few deep breaths and told herself, you know, you have other things that are coming up that will distract her from the drama of her relationship and this this trip Like she had a massage she had booked for herself on her day off tomorrow. and she also had her college reunion this weekend. twoo things she was definitely looking forward to that so far anyways, she had not had a premonition about, so she had not canceled. Finally, around eight fifteen PM, when Linda Schift finally came to an end and she had left the hospital to make her way home She actually was in pretty good spirits. you know, even though she had certainly not resolved things with Tim, they were still very much fighting. You know, this Caribbean trip really had become a pain in both of their sides. Despite all that Linda was determined that, you know what? she's not gonna to let this be just a constant drag on her life She needs to just li her life and just go forward and in time, things will sort themselves out. Four days later on the afternoon of Monday, october fourth. One of Linda's friends was driving towards the hospital where Linda worked And this friend was very worried about Linda since she hadn't heard from Linda since they spoke on the phone last Thursday. In and of itself was not a particularly big deal since they didn't speak every day. But this friend had also spoken to one of Linda's coworkers that morning who was also worried about Linda? Because Linda apparently didn't show up for work that morning and the staff at the hospital were very worried and they had even sent someone to Linda's house to check on her to make sure she was okay she wasn't home. And Linda, she rarely missed work. And if she did, she called in And so to find out that she hadn't called in and nobody knew where she was, combined with the fact that this friend has not heard from her Like the friend is thinking something's wrong here And so they were going to the hospital to basically get together with her coworers to just get to the bottom of this, to figure out what happened to Linda Now, as the friend turned into the hospital's parking lot, She could immediately see that something was terribly wrong here because the lot was crawling with police officers. They'd completely roped off the whole area, and then there was this one big group of people sort of standing over at the perimeter And so when the friend pulled up and parked their car, she got out and she rushed over to this group to see what they were all looking at. When she saw She just gasped It would turn out Linda's premonition Eerily accurate Linda had misinterpreted it So on the previous Thursday, when she had left work after that long shift and she's looking forward to her massage the next day and the college reunion that weekend,s she's trying not to think about the toxicity with her boyfriend Tim. She heads out, you know to head back home and And just be done for the weekend But she never makes it home In fact, she never leaves the hospital grounds becausecause shortly after leaving the hospital Linda was attacked and strangled to death inside of her car Linda had been convinced that the death in the car was going to take place in the Caribbean and so avoid the Caribbean she didn't realize is that it had nothing to do with the Caribbean It was simply that she was going to die in a car. She didt Meaning preremonition she had was right Did die in a The location was just wrong. So Linda's boyfriend, Tim Stryker, was the only suspect in her murder He had no alibi, and he still went on that cruise to the Caribbean without Linda after her body was found And he was later caught paying a witness to give the police false information about seeing Linda with another man at the time of her death However, Tim was never officially charged with Linda's murder and denied all involvement. 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And so over the next couple of days, John just had to watch in horror as his wife basically just shut down Now in some ways, her death was like a mercy But it was still devastating for John. in part because he felt so helpless, like he's a doctor and he couldn't save his wife. But now, you know, despite how unfair this whole thing seemed John had to kind of like pick up the pieces. I mean, his wife in many ways, was like his whole world. You know, they had kids, they had grandkids, you know, they were only in their fifties, but much of those fifty years have been spent together And so now it's like he was this lost soul. And so he just looked down at his wife And he just reached out and he grabbed her hand, you know, the hand that he was so familiar with and he squeezed it And it was just limp. And it made it even more upsetting that like she was really gone. And then he looked at her actual hand and he saw the beautiful gold wedding ring that he had saved all this money for, that they both had loved so much Just seeing that ring on her finger on that limp hand of hers is it just sort of It really reinforced the finaity of this moment. You know, he couldn't believe this had happened, but it was real. hisis wife really was gone And so now, as John continued to cry and squeeze his wife's hand and just sort of reflect on this horrible situation, He also, in tandem, knew that he had to start thinking about her funeral He would have to plan it really quickly so they could bury her really quickly So at this time in Ireland, it was traditional to hold a multi day wake when somebody died so that friends and relatives could have time to pay their respects before the actual burial took place. But if somebody died from disease, like obviously John's wife had, something had caused the fever He didn't know what, but it had to be some sort of disease If that was the case The wake was off the table And the person was buried pretty much right away just to prevent the sickness from spreading further Even though John knew this He couldn't quite bring himself to face that reality. The idea that his wife would be in the ground as soon as like tomorrow. But for right the second, John did not get up and you know, start making arrangements here He just wanted to soak up the last few moments he had wife before she was in the ground The following day, John stood beside his wife's casket as it was lowered into the ground at their local cemetery in front of a crowd of other mourners Even though Marjorie because of the disease factor, had not had a wake John had still expected to spend this day focused primarily on grieving and thinking about all the things he loved about his wife Instead, he found himself on this particular day, very fixated on something else wife's wedd ring. So John really wanted his wife's wedding ring just to have something to remind him of Marjorie, you know, and he loved that ring. It was something that meant a lot to him prettyretty much right after Marjorie had died As part of the decomposition process, her fingers had begun to swell really badly and he could not remove the ring from his wife's finger. Nobody could. Other people tried, they couldn't do it And so ultimately, the decision was made to just bury her with the ring. And so of course, that in and of itself was sad for John. He really wanted that ring But also, as John stood there watching her casket get lowered into the ground with this ring inside He was worried that Now her graves site could potentially become a target for grave robbers. Now grave robbing has been a thing as long as there have been graves It was especially common in Ireland in the early seventeen hundreds when the story took place Because the country at the time was experiencing widespread famine and poverty and people were desperate