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(Message started by: THUDandBLUNDER on Jan 1^st, 2005, 5:52am)

Title: Tall Story
Post by THUDandBLUNDER on Jan 1^st, 2005, 5:52am

What do you make of the following story about the death of somebody's grandfather?

"My grandparents used to go to church on Sundays. One day during the sermon, which was long and dry, my grandfather fell asleep. That week he had been reading a novel about the French Revolution and began to dream that he was a rich aristocrat living in a beautiful chateau in France. Suddenly there was a commotion outside. A mob of peasants appeared, stormed the house, grabbed him and tied him up, dragged him to the market square, where there was a platform with a guillotine set up. My grandfather was led up the stairs, a priest muttered a few words to him and then his head was placed in the cradle of the guillotine. A hooded executioner approached and reached up for the lever that releases the blade. At that moment my grandfather was snoring quite loudly, so my grandmother reached out and pinched him on the back of his neck to wake him up. This was such a shock to my grandfather that he suffered a heart attack and died on the spot."

Title: Re: Tall Story
Post by rmsgrey on Jan 1^st, 2005, 10:53am

Who organised the seance?

Title: Re: Tall Story
Post by John_Gaughan on Jan 2^nd, 2005, 12:53pm

It must be fake. If he died on the spot he could not relay his dream to anyone else, so nobody knows what he was dreaming about. That contradicts the whole story.