Dying is bad enough, but what if you didn't even realize that you were no longer alive? This story told by a man in West Amana describes a ghost who is confused indeed.

It seems that a group of men had gotten together in one of their homes to play cards one evening, the day after a man who lived in another part of the house had died. The men were having a good time talking and laughing as they played, when suddenly they heard a knock on the door.

"Come on in," the host of the party called, not even bothering to look up from the game.

The door slowly opened and there on the threshold stood someone they all recognized: the man who had just died the day before, looking dazed but fully alive.

Naturally all the card players were surprised to see him, but they couldn't deny the evidence of their own eyes. They stared in amazement at the dead man, and the dead man looked confusedly back at them. Finally, the dead man spoke.

"Who are you?" he blurted out, a question which surprised the men even more, for they'd all lived in the same village together their entire lives.

No one had the gumption to answer the ghost, however, and then the dead man walked past the table where they were sitting and out the door on the other side. The men sat there stunned for a short while, until finally they got up the nerve to search the house from top to bottom for some explanation of what they had seen. Nothing out-of-the-ordinary could be found, however,

Now this may be a ghost story, or it may be the story of a group of men who've had a bit too much to drink along with their card playing.