Old fashioned wake

Sadness settled in and sorrow flooded hearts over each mountain community’s members . Typically most were kin or very close knit like family. So when a loved one passed they would keep them in their house mainly the living room and for three days and nights they would sit up with them untill their spirit left this world. Loved ones and relatives all would come in to pay respects and sit up with them . My dad’s family had a member of the mountain community that had a husband and a father pass . They were very close to them and Dad’s mom and some brothers and sisters went to pay their respects and sit for a while .they walked through the mountain ridges and hollows until they came to the fields of the property and seen the old log home in the distance . They aproached the home and went in. The grieving family was there and a few others . They all sat around the loved one laid out in his man made coffin in the middle of the living room floor .

Day time grew into evening and dusk was on the horizon . As they sat and talked a loud ruckus came from under the floor and it got everyone’s attention . What in the world ? What is that ? Broke the intense mood and shattered the rooms silence like glass out of a broken window .

Dad’s mom spoke up ! That must be animal or something . The husband’s wife spoke up I t can’t be because everything around the base of the house is completely sealed . Then cursing blasted from under the floor in a voice that stood everyone on edge , the voice grew louder and cursing and snapping sounds and scratching sounded like the house was coming down . Dad said to his brothers , Come on somebody got underneath and is trying to disturb this wake and scare everyone. I’m going to get him and beat the crap out of him. So the three went outside and walked around the house .but no place was there that anyone could get under the floor . Everything nailed and sealed but the racket and cursing kept on . So dad got a claw hammer and started to take the boards off when the cursing and scratching started on the boards he was trying to get off . Dad and his brothers was pissed by then and darkness was coming on fast . He finally got the boards ripped off when a big black dog ran out from under the house and ran straight through the fields and still was cursing and snarling as he went out of sight .