this be a classic piece of ray bradbury about a country man who buy a mysterious jar from a carnival and become a sensation in his small town a a result . night after night and a group of citizen meet at his house to discuss the jar and it content and to try to discover what it it be . each of the citizen venture a guess and some very complicate like grandma explanation and and some very simple like the young girl who think that the content be the boogieman . like most of alfred hitchcock hair raiser and this segment have a surprise end . in addition and in this particular segment and it have a very gruesome end at that . dan basinger .