It starts out with this old lady and her husband. The lady had a golden arm. She was very sick and she knew that she was going to die. She told her husband that when she died she wanted to be buried with her golden arm and her husband said "ok honey I promise".

The next day came and the lady was still alive and again she told her husband " when I die I want to be buried with my golden arm" and again her husband said "ok honey I promise". The next day came and the lady was still alive and again she told her husband " when I die I want to buried with my golden arm" and the husband said "ok honey I promise". The day after that the lady died.

Her husband buried her with her golden arm like she had asked him.

After she was buried the husband thought to himself "I can get a lot of money from selling my wife's golden arm" so that night the husband went to his wife's grave and dug up his wife's golden arm. The husband went home with his wife's golden arm. Before going to bed he lay the golden arm on his desk. He suddenly had a nasty thought that someone might see it in the nearby window and break into the house and steal it so he decided it would be better off in the bed with him, safe and warm.

Just as he was drifting off to sleep he heard something say "I want my golden arm". He woke up with a start, thought he'd imagined it and went back to sleep. That same night he heard it again " I want my golden arm" and again he didn't think anything of it so he went back to sleep. That same night he heard it again " I want my golden arm" but this time it sounded like it was in the house. He heard it again "I want my golden arm" he heard it coming up the stairs "I want my golden arm". It finally got to his bedroom and he saw the ghost of his died wife she said "I want my golden arm" he didn't want to give the golden arm away but she kept saying "I want my golden arm". His wife had a knife in her other hand and she said "I want my golden arm" he again didn't want to give the arm up so his wife killed him and she finally got her golden arm back.