A Ghost Story/ Back in 2010

I found Mark Twain's "A Ghost Story" to be rather entertaining and different from other short stories we have read in class. I felt like it was a generally fun story, although I admit, in the beginning I thought someone was going to die or something awful was going to happen. As the story went on, I sort of got the sense that there was nothing to be afraid of and the narrator seemed to become calmer as well. I had never heard of the Cardiff Giant before so I used trusty Wikipedia to gain some background knowledge on the situation and found that Twain is satirizing the hoax that occurred at that time. I found the ghost's diction to be rather comical and added some humor to the story because you would sort of expect the ghost of an enormous being to be rather angry and hateful towards the world. When he finds out the body nearby is just a replica, the reader gets the sense that Twain is having a good time with this and that he indeed is making fun of the situation. I felt like this short story was a page turner and a good read. I know I found my self laughing a couple of times. This is different in terms of narration compared to other of his stories but he is similarly satirizing a human condition: believing everything you hear and see.