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The Winter Watchman: A Chilling Tale of Corpses, Cards, and Connecticut Folklore

     In the winter of 1949, the snow in rural Connecticut didn’t fall—it settled. Like dust on forgotten things. My grandfather used to say that the dead slept better when the ground was too frozen to dig. And that year, the cold came early and stayed with a vengeance. Back then, when a person passed in winter, the cemetery didn’t bury them right away. Hydraulic machines weren’t around, so graves were dug by hand. And once the frost sunk its teeth into the soil, that was the end of any digging until spring. The bodies would be stored in a stone vault near the woods at the edge of the cemetery—rows of silent guests waiting for their final appointment with the earth. The vault needed guarding. Not from wolves or the cold, but from the living. Body snatchers still roamed then—doctors in need of cadavers, occultists with strange ideas, and other shadows you didn’t speak of in polite company. The town hired a night watchman. A man named Red Clemens. Red was a veter...