782: Desecration

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Desecration
It gets worse! You know that wizened old monk with the gypsy wife whose voodoo shop we smash up every day after school?
Title text: It gets worse! You know that wizened old monk with the gypsy wife whose voodoo shop we smash up every day after school?

Explanation

This comic is making fun of the tendency to use "Indian Burial Mounds" as an explanation for creepy things happening, for example, in the move Poltergeist.

Transcript

[Girl running towards Cueball.]
Girl: ROB! ROB!
Rob: You look terrifed! What's wrong?
Girl: We've made a huge mistake!
[Both standing in place, Girl has hands up in an expaining gesture.]
Girl: Remember last week when we dug up all those Indian bones and made puppets out of them?
Rob: Sure...
[Girl is throwing her arms out.]
Girl: It turns out they were buried over an Ancient Indian Burial Ground!
Rob: Oh my God!