Please believe what I'm about to tell you. It's the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Yesterday, a two-to-three foot dead catfish had washed up against our rocks and was stinking up the back yard. I dig a foot-deep hole and bury it, fully expecting that to be the end of it. How presumptuous of me.
This morning I'm looking out on our backyard and see something I at first thought was a piece of wood about six feet from the grave. Upon closer inspection, and I'm sure you can see where this is going by now, it was the dead fish, risen up from its grave. It's white skin had rotted to brown and green flies were swirling all over it. It's back fin and eyes were gone, but other than that and the skin it was unchanged (as in, not eaten into).
My mind searched for an answer not involving zombies. Can ants dig up and carry for six feet a three-foot long fish? Don't think so. They'd just eat it right up. What about a dog, it could have dug it up? Yes, but we don't have a dog, and our neighbor's dogs should be kept out of yard by a invisible fence and a real fence, respectively. Moreso, the dug-up grave didn't have any paw prints or scratch marks; it would just dirt tossed every which way.
So what happened? Anyone?
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Colonel Mustard with the candlestick. Case closed.
zombie fish. totally. when i was a kid our goldfish jumped out of the tank and he found it looking quite dead. however, just as he was about to plop it in the toilet it flinched a little, so it threw it back in the fish tank and it lived for several more years.
and props on getting dsl or cable internet. it's about time...
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