There was a Twilight Zone episode like this. Rich person bets person 2 can’t speak for some time. Maybe a year. The rich person tries to let person 2 out of the bet, but >!person 2 cut our his tongue or something!< So he wouldn’t lose. Rich person >!didn’t have the money to pay though!<.
A Rose for Emily.
It was about some old lady hermit. She had some relationship with the town and after she died they went into her house. >!Emily had been sleeping next to the corpse of her dead husband for probably decades!<.