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Milk Bottles
A California Ghost Story retold by
S. E. Schlosser

She was just another poor, bedraggled woman, struggling to feed her family. He saw them all the time, their faces careworn, and blank. The Depression had created hundreds of them. He was one of the lucky ones who still had his grocery and money coming in to feed his family.
She came one day to his shop, carrying two empty milk bottles, and wordlessly placed them on the counter in front of him. He took the empties and replaced them with full bottles, saying: "Ten cents, please."
She did not reply. She just took the bottles and left the shop. He might have gone after her to demand his money, or called the police, but he did neither. Her need was in her face, and he always felt a little guilty at being one of the lucky ones with money and a job. She was probably one of the migrant workers, he decided.
She was back the next day with two empty milk bottles. He replaced them with full bottles and watched as she hurried out the door. She looked so worried that he wondered if she had a job at all. If she came back, he would offer her a part-time position cleaning the store.
She came again the next morning, and exchanged her empty bottles for full without saying a word. He tried to talk to her, to ask if she wanted a job, but she practically ran from the store with the milk. Her urgency worried him. He followed, wondering what he could do to help.
To his surprise, she headed away from the migrant camp outside of town. She went instead to the graveyard by the river. As he watched, she hurried up to a stone marker and then disappeared into the ground. He rubbed his eyes in disbelief. Then he heard the muffled cry of a baby. It was coming from the ground underneath the stone marker where the woman had disappeared!
He ran back to the store and phoned the police. Within minutes, the graveyard was swarming with people, and the workers started digging up the grave. When the casket was opened, the store owner saw the woman who had visited his store lying dead within it. In her arms, she held a small baby and two full milk bottles. The baby was still alive.

There is a woman; she is poor and struggling to feed her family. the Depression had created hundreds of them. But there is a man he was one of the lucky ones who still had his grocery and money coming in to feed his family. One day, the women bring two empty milk bottles to his store,and he took the empties and replaced them with full bottles, saying ten cents, please. But the women did not reply, she just took the bottle and left the shop, the grocery owner could have called the police or might have gone after her to demand his money, but he did not. Because he always felt a little guilty at being one of the lucky ones with money and a job. But it is not over yet,the woman come again and again, and every time she did not pay the money, He tried to talk to her, to ask if she wanted a job, but she practically ran from the store with the milk. Her urgency worried him. He followed, wondering what he could do to help. To his surprise, the woman headed away outside of town. And went to a graveyard by the river, and then disappeared into the ground. Then the man heard the muffled cry of a baby, It was coming from the ground underneath where the woman had disappeared, then he ran back to the store and called the police, after that, the graveyard was swarming with people, and the workers started digging up the grave .When the casket was opened, the store owner saw the woman who had visited his store lying dead within it. In her arms, she held a small baby and two full milk bottles. The baby was still alive.

it was a good story how a mother does anything 4 her baby, it was the mother's spirit protecting her baby. Somehow she kept he/she alive. It's the magic of ghosts

that was such an awesome story and so freaky to how could the baby be still alive and the mom dead so she couldnt feed or take care of her baby and what perverse reason would someone bury a baby alive

this story really is touching but what i dont understand is how the mother dead an yet the babyis still alive it really makes no sence and i think it is soooo weird is how the mother and baby are buried together