History Headscratchers / PetSematary

* Similar question to above, but does the road outside the high school not have a school zone? The whole "Wendigo makes everyone stupid" can only get you so far before it crosses into self-parody territory, especially since I doubt it has influence over the entire county/state/school district.

* If you have to bury your own, [[spoiler:then how was the bully revived if no other family members were present?]]
** [[spoiler:Because Gus clearly belonged to... whatever it is that dwelled in the Cemetery.]]

** It appears the thing has to be "put down" after it's revived, as all the examples in the story are: [[spoiler: Billy in the fire, Jud's dog, Gage and the cat with Lewis' syringes]]. It's not addressed what happens if it's not.

** Few revived animals or people were even violent (a bull that "went bad" is mentioned as something of an exception). Even [[spoiler: Billy]] was more unnerving than dangerous. Louis just drew the short stick. If it counts, the sheriff in Pet Semetary Two had some agenda involving making those near him like him, although [[spoiler: he dies before its ever revealed.]] There are evidently multiple spirits, some more malicious than others.

* Did they ever explain how Pascow knew Louis's name? I get him knowing about the Pet Sematary, being a ghost and having access to spirit world knowledge and so forth, but this happened ''before'' he died.
** It could have been the school sent out a message about the new medical director. Or perhaps more likely, since he was so close to death, he was close enough to death that he his soul was already leaving and he could be possessed by an entity working in opposition to the Wendigo that knew Louis’s name. Given the state he was in, maybe it was that entity animating his body and his soul had already left by the time he started talking.

** The resurrection process in the book involves some sort of restoration job on the body beyond powering it with a twisted lifeforce, because some return with intact bones that had been extensively fractured during the events that killed them. It seems like the Wendigo’s power repairs the body to something a little over the bare minimum to function as a technically living being and pass as nothing extraordinary without closer inspection (and prior knowledge of their death by the observer, of course). The injuries that initially led to the death of Jud’s dog, for example, aren’t the open, infected wounds they were upon its death but have ‘healed’ to dimpled, hairless skin. Ditto for the gunshot wounds from the mercy kill at the barrel of Jud’s father’s gun. Also, the autopsy on Jimmy Baterman after his second death picks up on some of the decomposition that had occurred following his first death, again highlighting that the physical aspect of the resurrection is far from perfect (and is probably this way by design, since a supernatural power that goes the whole hog in physically restoring a body isn’t much more fantastical than one that falls short of perfect, but the latter results in a distressingly uncanny revenant).
* In the book, when Louis administers the fatal injection to the Gage and, at the moment of death, the “real” Gage seems to return to call out a pained “Daddy” before passing away, is this truly Gage or just a final, spiteful illusion?
** That one's really up to whatever option you think is worse.