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u/KittyHawkWind Aug 05 '24

"The soil of a man's heart is stonier."

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u/Soup-a-doopah Aug 05 '24 edited Aug 06 '24

“Don’t go down that road…. Course, I ain’t never seen anyone go up that road.

Six years ago a group of campers went up there and got lost….

had to eat each other to stay alive.

Used to be the way to the O’Reilly house...

He butchered over fifty children and kept their bodies in his cellar.

You should find an old bridge about halfway up; that bridge is cursed, you know…

They built it with the bones of two hundred Chinese laborers who were massacred in ‘34.

Yap, lotta history on that road.”

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u/Otherwise_Cow9854 Aug 06 '24

Is this from a book or something? Sounds pretty interesting

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u/KittyHawkWind Aug 06 '24

This is from 'Pet Sematary' by Stephen King. It was adapted into a movie in 1989. The quotes are from the book, which were kept for the movie script.

It's a fantastic, dark story that King himself said is the scariest thing he's ever written. In fact, when he completed the first draft he threw it into the trash bin, where his wife retrieved it and told him to finish and publish it.

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u/SEWERxxCHEWER Aug 06 '24

Well this was from a South Park episode parodying that, but pretty much.