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vonsindri
Since: Mar, 2011
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Since: May, 2012

I remember a story from when I was in elementary school (early to mid '90s) probably part of a compilation (like Scary Stories to tell in the dark) about a pair of farmers who build a scarecrow. They are very abusive to it, throwing food at it, hitting it, yelling at it and such. It slowly comes to life, and ends up killing one of the farmers. I think they called it "ol' fred" Does anyone know what book this is from?