"The Boarded Window: An Incident in the Life of an Ohio Pioneer" is a short story by American Civil War soldier and writer Ambrose Bierce.
It was first published in The San Francisco Examiner on April 12, 1891, and was reprinted the same year in Bierce's collection Tales of Soldiers and Civilians.
At that moment came in through the open window a long, wailing sound like the cry of a lost child in the far deeps of the darkening wood!
Bierce's story of a man who incorrectly thinks his wife has died of fever is thought to have been influenced by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Premature Burial".
[3] Okno zabite deskami (1971), directed by Janusz Majewski, is a film adaptation of the short story.