I was pickpocketing and knocking out some people, while they were asleep. Specifically, the women in the bath-house. But as I finished robbing one of them in her bed, I realised I had the option to stealth kill her. I hadn’t seen the stealth-kill animation for a sleeping target, I thought. So, I killed her.
After that, I loaded the game, and knocked her out instead as I normally do, for that bit of stealth and unarmed XP. But as I’m wandering around the upper floor, looking for anything else to steal, I see her body on the floor instead of in the bed. Then, when I finished pick-pocketing a second girl, and looked back… I saw this:
Standing there, stretch-necked. Judging me.
I immediately knocked her over. “I didn’t kill you!” I said to the game. “I loaded the game after I killed you.”
Then, I ended up loading a different save… and there she was again (here’s a close-up):
Her body was bent, contorted to one side, opposite the shoulder I stabbed her in.
Now if only I cared enough to post this story on reddit, and spin it into a creepy pasta.