THE CURSED CLOCK

My father bought my mother a lovely musical clock decorated with mother of pearl. Every quarter of an hour it would play the tune 'Home Sweet Home'. When dad died the clock was given to my son.

Soon afterwards my son was taken seriously ill. We were worrying about him when the clock started chiming 'Home Sweet Home'. But it wouldn't stop and continued playing the song without stopping. When the mechanism finally ran down and we heard the final chime, my son died.

After that event I hung the clock on the wall but could never bring myself to wind it up again. However a friend who took an interest in mending clocks asked if he could fix it for me. He repaired it and for a few months it hung on the wall working perfectly.

Then it went wrong again and the bad memories came flooding back as it repeated 'Home Sweet Home' over and over again. I rang my friend who had repaired it to be told some bad news. At the very minute that the clock had stopped his son had died from a heart attack.

Mary M. J.

People often write to this column to say that a clock stopped at the precise moment that a death has occurred. Remarkably your clock did this not once but twice. No wonder there are so many superstitions associated with clocks and death.

WN28 (Copyright)

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