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woman in grey ☹

This story happened on a cold mid-autumn day somewhere in the mid-western states.

Two gentlemen were working in the town's small general store. The store was quiet and no customers were shopping until she walked in. A small frail woman dressed in grey entered the store, and proceeded toward the dairy section, saying nothing. She picked up a glass container of milk and, without paying for it or even glancing at the gentlemen, walked out of the store.

The men, surprised by the woman's thievery, hurried out of the store after her...but she was gone.

A few days later, the incident occurred again.

The same small woman dressed in the same grey dress entered the store, grabbed a glass container of milk, and left without paying. Again the men tried to follow after her, but found her nowhere to be seen.

After a few weeks, the woman appeared once again.

The same small woman, dressed in the same grey dress, entered the store, paid no attention to the men, snatched a glass container of milk, and vanished out the door. The men, slightly more prepared this time, quickly followed the woman out of the store. She hurried down the town's main street and the men found themselves having to run to keep up with her. She hastily turned down a dirt path, just at the edge of the woods. This is where the men lost her.
They trekked on further and came to a small cemetery neither of them knew existed. Suddenly, they heard a small noise. Concentrating, they identified it as a baby's cry...it was coming from the ground.

The ground from which it was coming from was in front of a gravestone marking the death of a mother and her infant who were buried together. Unsure of what else to do. the men quickly found shovels and exhumed the coffin. The crying became louder as they dug. When they reached the coffin, they pried off the lid and inside found the small, grey-dressed woman...dead...with a live, crying infant in her arms...and three empty glass containers of milk. The poor child was mistakenly buried alive and the spirit of her deceased mother kept her alive until she was found.

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This urban legend is thought to have started in one of the mid-western states. Two young men were working in a small shop and were quite bored. They looked up when someone entered, glad to have something to do. A small woman in a grey dress walked towards the dairy products without acknowledging them. She took a bottle of milk and walked straight out of the store. The surprised workers rushed after her, but she was nowhere to be found.

The woman soon came to the store again. The men watched as she once again took a bottle of milk and left without paying. Again they tried to follow her, but couldn't find her. When it happened again in a couple of weeks the men were ready and managed to follow her through the main street of the little town. She walked so fast they had to run to keep up. However, as soon as she turned onto a dirt road, they lost her. The pair walked a little further and came across a cemetery they'd never seen before.

They heard a noise and realized it was coming from an infant. They followed the sound to a gravestone that indicated a mother and child were buried together. They found shovels, dug up the coffin and hesitantly opened the lid. Inside was the corpse of the woman in grey, and in her arms was a crying baby. Alongside them were three empty milk bottles.