Introducing Mr. Jared Garrity, a gentleman of commerce, who in the latter half of the nineteenth century plied his trade in the wild and wooly hinterlands of the American West.
And you and I have just entered a saloon where the bar whiskey is brewed, bottled and delivered from the Twilight Zone.In the year 1890, a traveling peddler named Jared Garrity arrives in the little recently renamed town of Happiness, Arizona, offering to bring the townsfolk's dead back from Boot Hill.
After performing the resurrection ritual, Garrity, in seemingly casual conversation, reminds the people about the dead and departed, almost all of whom were murdered: who died having a score to settle with whom and so forth.
Respectfully submitted from an empty cemetery on a dark hillside that is one of the slopes leading to the Twilight Zone.The story was based on an 1873 incident in Alta, Utah, in which a stranger arrived in the mining town and offered to raise the dead.
[2] Sportswriter Mike Korologos read about the incident in the American Guide Series, and wrote about it for a 1963 article in The Salt Lake Tribune.