The old woman statue

In a little town called Windsburg there was four teenagers who took a shortcut through the graveyard. In the graveyard they passed a old woman statue and then Angela said:

-I know a scary story about this statue. 

-Please tell us, Jessica said.

-Okey, Angela said:

”Once upon a time there was a woman whose husband had left her. After that she died of sadness and now her soul forever is in the statue. But if somebody is sleeping beside the statue, that person will die and she will kill that person twelve a’clock. Because if her husband can’t sleep beside her, no one can”

-I’m not scared and you can’t actually die of sadness, Jessica said. 

-Okey, can you sleep under her tonight then, Angela said.

-Yes, I’m going to do that and proof that this is just a story, Jessica said.

-You're a chicken if you don’t make it, Angela boasted.

Jessica walked home not really shore if she was going to make it but they had a bet.

She took a blanket, a torch, a pillow, walked back, lay down and tried to sleep under the statue. But she couldn’t and something just didn’t feel right. Everything was so scary that night, but she was very decided to proof that it was just a story and to win the bet. 

Suddenly she heard something. She thought that it was somebody but then she shone with her torch and saw that it was just a tree that fluttered in the worm summer wind. 

It smelled like an old and swampy forest and everything seemed to whisper to her to quit and to go home but she really wanted to proof to her friends that she wasn’t a chicken. 

All these impressions made her feel like she was camping with her family. They often did that when she was a child. All these impressions also made Jessica tired and finally she fell asleep. 

The next morning when her friends came to see if she had made it. 
Then they saw her laying on the blanket and they thought she was still sleeping but when they came closer they saw it. 

She was dead! The story was true.They noticed that she had marks on her neck so somebody most have strangled her in the sleep! The teenagers called the police but the police could never proof that it was made by a living person. 
After that Angela and her friends never ever again took a short cut through the graveyard.