Talk:The Statue/@comment-10449976-20130927075842/@comment-24468828-20140210103259

You DO realize that stories almost identical to this one have been around for centuries, right? They get adapted for the time-period and audience. Where do you think they got the idea for Dr. Who? It wasn't original when THEY did it, either. I saw it in a book of old scary stories as a nurse-maid home with the kids and a man from a neighboring farm came to visit while the rest of the family was out. The girl complained that she didn't see why the family had acquired such a ghastly statue to place in the foyer. The visitor told her that he'd been there only a few hours before and there was no statue. When the girl led him to the foyer to show him, it had moved. She believed an intruder must have done it and the man ran off to gather men from the neighboring area to conduct a search while the girl ran to get the children and go with him. He heard a scream before he got to the end of the walk and ran back to help her, but when he got there, there was nothing but blood in the foyer and in both the childrens' beds. The statue was gone.

That version was originally published in 1908 and even THEN, it was a re-write.