The Ghost of Robert Burton

The ghost of a man named robert appeared to isabel. He told her the story of how Mary burton murdered him in cold blood. She had robbed his corpse before hiding it beneath kitchen floor boards. Then she tricked his family into handing over more valuables to her. And that included making sure his spirit wouldn't return to spill the beans, which we now know was a common belief. So mary had driven a wooden stake through robert's heart. It was the sort of thing that townsfolk did to prevent a corpse from rising from the dead, known as a deviant burial. A stake like the one isabel had found imbedded in the dirt beneath the