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Chilling Tales for Dark Nights.
An Incident on a Snowy Mountain, narrated by Otis Jiry.
A photographer went to a snowy mountain with his assistant, commissioned to take pictures
for a magazine article. They stayed at a log cabin, and a few days had passed when the
assistant had an accident and injured himself. At that point their work was still unfinished
and they felt they could not go home unless they finished it first. So they decided to
stay on in the mountain. However, the injury got worse and worse, until the assistant suddenly
died from it a couple of days later. But even so the photographer would not go
home. He was very committed to his job and to leave the work unfinished was unimaginable
to him. He decided to bury the assistant by the cabin and continued to work on his own.
The following morning when the photographer awoke, the assistant's dead body was lying
beside him. "I'm sure I buried him," he thought to himself. He was deeply puzzled. He went
and buried the body again before going off to take pictures.
But the same thing happened again the following morning, and the morning after that. On his
final day he decided to set the camera to Automatic mode and place it by his sleeping
bag, so he could see what went on during the night. The next morning, the dead body was
there beside him as he had expected. He buried it again and then climbed down the mountain.
When he got home he developed the pictures he had taken the previous night. And there
in the pictures he saw someone get up, go out of the cabin, carry the dead body back
on the shoulder and lay it down beside his sleeping bag.
That someone was none other than the photographer himself.