His Novella The Body Was Inspired By True Events

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Stephen King's novella, The Body, which was later adapted into the hit film Stand By Me, was inspired by real events. When King was a young boy, a friend he was playing with was hit and killed by a freight train. However, King claims to have no memory of the event.

According to his mother, after leaving to play with his friend, he came back an hour later white as a ghost and unable to speak. He commented, "My mom never knew if I had been near him when it happened, if it had occurred before I even arrived, or if I had wandered away after it happened."

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