Mr. Ballin

It was the four local gravediggers who he had called earlier to bury that sailor who had just died.

Now, generally speaking, Dr. Allard had virtually no interactions with the gravediggers after he hired them.

He would tell them to bury the body and they would do that and go on their separate way.

Like there was no reason for the gravediggers to come back and check in with the doctor.

But as the doctor is looking at these four guys trying to figure out what was going on here, he quickly assessed that, you know, these guys weren't here just to chat.

They were here because they look spooked.

And before Dr. Allard could ask any questions about, you know, what was going on here, one of these gravediggers began to speak.

And in sort of a rapid and sort of anxious tone, he said, you know, as we were carrying the coffin over to the gravesite, it began to shake like the person inside the coffin was alive.

And then we heard all these moaning sounds coming from inside of this nailed-shut coffin.

And we all got so panicked that we just dropped the coffin and we ran here to tell you.

Now, Dr. Allard was pretty surprised by what he was hearing, but he's also thinking that, you know, when he hired these four gravediggers, they were at a local pub and they were drinking.

And so he's thinking to himself, you know, maybe something strange happened, you know, with this coffin.

Or, much more likely, these four guys are drunk, and that what they've sort of said here is just some figment of their imagination, that they're not professional, they're just drunk guys who are coming here screwing up my day.

And so sort of annoyed, Dr. Allard's like, hey, I'm telling you, that guy is dead, okay?

This isn't a ghost scenario, but if you're so worried about it, why don't you go get a police officer?

have them come over and inspect the coffin, you know, make sure the person is really dead in there.

And then once they confirm that, please do your job and bury this guy.

And so the gravediggers, they kind of, you know, look down sort of awkwardly and they're like, okay, you know, we'll go do that.

Then they turned and they left.

And then Dr. Allard got back to work.