August 13, 2025 • 41 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a noteworthy attempt to revive in American radio dramas like Inner Sanctum (1941-1952) and Suspense (1942-1962). Radio dramas were widely considered "dead" 12 years prior to this series. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, or simply Mystery Theater, was created by Inner Sanctum creator Himan Brown and ran on CBS from 1974-1982. The show, much like older radio dramas, was introduced by a host (E.G. Marshall in this program), who steers us through the creaking door to start the episode. Many voices from the golden age of radio were featured, including Richard Widmark, Bret Morrison, Agnes Moorehead and many more.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Come in welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm e. G.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Marshall. The race, we are told, is to the swift,
likewise the battle to the strong. There is no substitute
for victory winning, that's the only thing. The only place
is first place. The only guy is top guy.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
The only number is numero uno.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
As a popular philosopher so recently stated, nice guys finish last. True, perhaps,
but there are also some last guys who finish nice
or should we say nicely. Our mystery drama, The Secret Chamber,
was written especially for the miss by Sam Dan and
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stars Ian Martin. It is sponsored in part by Buick
Motor Division and True Value Hardware Stores. I'll be back
shortly with that one. There are those people who flatly
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refuse to recognize the existence of ghosts, But as Mark
Twain once said, those are the people who never saw
one or heard one. There is something about the sight
of a ghost, the sound of a ghost, and a
dark night in a deserted house that will dissolve the
doubts of the most skeptical and make fervent converts of
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the most cynical. After all, seeing his believing, isn't it well?
Why don't we discuss this matter with a man who's
more or less an authority on the subject. Tattersall's name
Thomas Tatum. Tatasall. They'll just blay Tommy suits me fine,
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been a real estate. It isn't all alive, though nowadays
we have a fancy name for it, real tour. So
you say you're in the market for final colonials taking
back to the revolutionary period.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Well, I got just the thing, the real beauty in
the hard Graves house.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Oh you know about that one.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You hear it's haunted. Would I say you are hearted house? Well,
in fact, the matter is it used to be hated.
But no more can I guarantee that? Well, I suppose
I just tell you the story, no extra charge, and
you can decide for your self.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And that fair enough.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And you got to go back away to the war.
I guess you'd call it the First World War. I
didn't get to go myself. It was just to shape
too young. I was also just to shake too young
for a beautiful girl named Felicity aug Anyhow, she was
in love with Lieutenant Bobby like when it was fighting
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France with the rainbotivation. Well, one morning Felicity's mother asked
me to drop over to the house.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Thomas, you have to help me.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Oh harmas hugged Bobby. Bobby Lightfoot is dead. Bobby light
for it.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Felicity was Loify. Bobby fell at a place called Shadow Terry.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Oh gee, I feel so bad for Felicity.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Eh, Felicity, Thomas.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I'm frightened.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
You see, when Felicity found out she was standing right
here in this room, she didn't say one word. Not
a solitary tear ran down her cheek. She stood silent
for at least five foot minutes. And then she turned
around and went upstairs to the.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Room, and and she said nothing at all.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
That was three days ago. She still won't say one word.
She won't touch a bite of food though, such a
single swallow of water.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh what I suppose I could tell?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I met my with riend who's only her father the
judge was alive, and her uncle.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Dumont's off in the navy.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Thomas.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Could you talk to her?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
How, miss Huggers?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
What could I say?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
She was always fond of you, Tomash, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
But cannot keep sitting in that room forever.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Wasn't by going to do, ma'am? I suresh I knew who.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
You'd been a little older, perhaps she might have fallen
in love with you instead of Bobby Lightfoot. That's why
you've got to help her.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I wanted to help, ma'am, but hey, I just don't.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Know harm to Just talk to her. Talk to her.
That might be enough.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Talk to her, Felicity.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Uh, it's me, Tommy. Tommy, chat us home, Felicity.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yes, I know, Tommy, Gee, I'm sorry about Bobby. Bobby.
Who who's Bobby Bobby eyed for?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
I don't know anyone named Bobby.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh well, I would you like to go for a walk? No, Tim,
But you've been.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Cooked up in your own So I want to stay here.
It's such a lovely room, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Oh? Yes?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
But the house, it is such a magnificent house. I
was born here, did you know that?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Oh yeah, I was my dad and his dad before him.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I never want to leave this house for Felicity.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Because death outside death, death lying and wait everywhere death. Pobby,
my own Bobby Lightfoot, didn't I please with him, don't go, Bobby,
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don't leave. Death is waiting there outside. But he didn't listen.
My Bobby didn't listen. But I won't leave this house.
I won't go out there, out where death is waiting.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
No, I could I have you something?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
These rooms, these walls, these floors and ceilings, they all.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Know me, they all love me.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Look through the windows, look out on the street, and
see how bright and how clean and how lovely.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Ever there is house sheltered.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
They could heect me.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I'll never the street. You see my dad's od.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
You see I don't want to look out on the street.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I go to work there. Why don't you come buy
earlier the day?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You can trust me, Felicity.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I wouldn't let anything bad happen. He's just staying. And
look to me at the office tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Take a take a walk over.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Well, it'll have to be a very short walk. I'm
so afraid to be outside. There's so much death.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
And that's how it all began. Every morning she'd come by,
stay alone, and she can rush right back home, Poor Felicity.
I was the only one she ever talked to. And
what did we talk about? Yes, good morning, tommy morning, tellsity,
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How do you feel this morning?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
I don't feel well. I did a terrible thing.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Oh not you, Felicity, Yes I did.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I stepped then, and oh I saw him. I should
have waited till he'd gone by, and I did stop,
but then so did he, and I thought he was
just going to stay there and it would be safe
for me too, And then I just as I stepped forward,
so did he, and and my foot. I think it
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was too late.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I'm sorry, Felicity, I'm I'm really truly sorry.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
And he's a living thing. It's one of God's crib
Wasn't your fault?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Of God's plan?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
He won't against you.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
You mean that, Tony, of course, then you're not just
saying it to make me feel better?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Would I lie to you?
Speaker 5 (08:41):
And I'll be forgiven?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Someday You've been forgiven already. Solicity are Graves once the loveliest,
liveliest young lady.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
In the county.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
As time went on, she got no better. I guess
she could say she got even worse. So the years
went by, she was so tall, so beautiful, and I
was so much in love with her, but that him
could ever come of that. So anyway, one one night
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I got a call from missus Hargras and seeing her
with a shock. I mean, she'd been such a steady,
well built, strong woman. Philicopy's mother and here and now
all of a sudden it was. It was like as
if she'd shrunk to almost nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Tell me, oh, missus, hargh, grace.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
You don't know what to make of me. I can't
understand it myself. It happened almost overnight.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
But what's wrong?
Speaker 5 (09:59):
And I and Felicity is going to need a friend
more than ever.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, she's always got a friend in me.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Her uncle of Dumont will take care of her financial affairs.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Dumont, Yes, the judge has him named.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Executor of the estate when I die.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Oh, I.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
Know you'll say her bills and see that she always
has this house. But Tommy, he won't have time for her, Felicity.
He needs someone to talk to her, someone who will
worry about her. Promise me, Tommy, promise.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Less than months later, that fine lady was dead and
Dumont Hargraves took active charge of the family money. Maybe
what I'm the next story you might have heard before?
Why not don't to occur all the time? That was
all kinds of talk in tom that Dumont was running through. Yes,
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he was making unwise investments, that he was gambling of
course losing heavy. Well, none of this could be proved.
But one day Dumont came into the office. Lawrence, Tommy,
I like to throw a little bit of business your way.
Oh yes, oh that yes. You ever see a bird
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look at a snake? Well, Dumont, watching you, I now
see how a snake looks at the bird. You don't
like me, Tommy, that's true. You think I am robbing
felicidee of her inheritance. Well you are, aren't you. But
it looks that way. I admit, Tommy, it's not my fault. Eh,
So what's this business you want to throw my way? First?
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I wanted you to understand that I didn't ask for
the job of exacting all right, I do not get
to it. Well, I I had to sell a house,
the house, the old hard Graves homestead. But you can't
sell a house. Why not? Well because Phylicity. Well what
about Felicity? Where will she live? Where? But she belonged
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in the sanitarium.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
How could you say that?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
What's true? How can she live all by herself in
that big old house she manages very nicely. Tom I'm
myr uncle. I love her. I want to do what's
best for her. Felicity simply is not right.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
In the head to do mom.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Don't you say that? Oh, poor tom you had a
crush on her all your life, and then when Bobby
Lightfoot got killed, you might have had a chance, but
she went crazy.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Tell you don't choose that work.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Can you suggest another one who describes the situation more accurately?
For the house that it means so much to her,
It's all she has in the world. It's all I
have in the world too. What do you mean there's
nothing left with the house?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Nothing? How can that be?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I don't know, Tommy, Here and there, it's in that.
It all adds up to. It's nothing, domant. I'm want
to let you sell that, Toss. I'll go to court.
I'll have you declared I'm fit to continuous executive. Sure,
and you'd probably and win. But it's too late. Everything
else is gone. The court would have to sell the
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house in any event to satisfy the debts. I'm sorry, Tommy.
Somebody has to tell her, tell her what that she
has to leave the house.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Oh, sure, that's right.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Somebody does. Somebody has to break her heart, destroy a spurt,
and turn her whole world into ashes and ruins. And
you know who that somebody is gonna be do mont
you Tommy you, oh ah, this is all you're doing.
You're gonna tell her justice demands it.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
If I tell her, it'll kill her.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
But if you tell her, well you can quite and
sess your weight it, she'll believe you. She'll actually think
it's all for the best. There are those people who
are always pulling chestnuts out of the fire somebody else's chestnuts,
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we might add, why do they do it? What makes
the Tommy tatters alls of this world take Since there's
a little bit of Tommy in so many of us,
perhaps even in you, why not ponder the problem for
a few moments until I returned shortly with that too.
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Someone said once that a house is not necessarily a home.
That may not be true, but what can hardly be
in dispute is the fact that a home has to
be a house of some kind in all, it has
to have form and structure. It must protect and shelter,
It must be fortress and sanctuary. Felicity hard Graves is
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about to be evicted.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
But I I can't leave here, tell me I can't.
I know it's difficult, for it's more than difficult time,
it's impossible.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Look, Felicity, just close.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
No, oh, yes, there's death outside. You know that I'm
not safe anywhere else, Tommy, Safe with me, Felicity.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I've spoken over with my mother. You stay at our
house for one No, I want to stay at my house.
Mother's alone all day, and you'll you'll be such a
good company for each other. You always like my mother,
didn't you?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Yes, tell me very much. I have a wonderful idea.
Let her come and stay with me at my house.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
But Felicity, she's good. Please, won't you try to understand?
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Understand what.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
It Isn't your house anymore?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
How can it not be in my house?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Got to be sold.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Every part of his house is a part of me, Tommy.
It knows me. It shot at me. It kept me warm,
that kept me dry, It kept me safe. No, no.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
House.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Could I sell part of myself?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Could I sell my heart?
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Could I? Tommy? Yes I could, But I die.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I only want to help you now because you know that,
and you believe me.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
The war in France will be over, and Bobby will
be back, and if I'm not here, he won't know
where to look for me.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I'll keep an eye out for Bobby and if he comes.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Along, don't say if when, Well, when he comes, I'll
bring him to you.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Come on, so listen, you you come with me now,
it'd be best.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Tommy, Please let me just stay here one more night.
Please let me stay here tonight and say goodbye to
the house. And then in the morning I'll go away
with you.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Please, all right, Felicity, I'll come by for you early
in the morning. Oh, maybe I shouldn't let us stay,
but how could I refuse? Said? What could happen? Well,
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a great deal happened. I came by for her in
the morning and she was gone. Felicity, Felicity, Where are you? Felicity?
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Sheriff said that Tommy ketters off. Yeah, it's Felicity. Had
she's gone? Yeah, so that's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
She disappeared.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Oh oh I'm here now. Yeah. I searched the house
from top of the bottom. I was not a sign up.
But I don't know where she went.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Where did you go?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Where did she go?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Well? It was not coming to talk foul play. Or
maybe she might have just wandered off into the woods
and beyond them down into the swamp. If she'd gone
done that, then she'd be lost forever. That's what I
told people, because I realized what Felicity e been trying
to tell me, that if she had to leave that house,
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and she'd kill herself. That's what all are talking about
death and and honor too, And I felt it was
my fault. Why had I let her stay.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
That final night?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Why had I left her alone? She might imagine the
disappearance of Felicity hard. It was a sensation, but like
all such sensations, had only lasted a while. We had
the elections and the circus come to town, and one
thing and another, and gradually Plisope Addres was forgotten by
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almost everyone. Shipped me, Temmy, you're gonna help me here? Yeah, oh,
that is where I'd like to help you. Doum on
right out the door. Don't be angry, Tommy, it goes
against your better nature. I'm in trouble now. I'm glad
to hear it. No, you're not. You're a very kind
hearted person. I still have to sell that house. I'm
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not stummy. Don't you hear what's being said around town?
The house is haunted. It's impossible for our house to
be auted, though I don't know about that. The way
it started, was I advertised in the Philadelphia New York papers. No,
I admit I was trying to save your broker's commission.
I admit that. Well, these folks came down and I
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took him into the house, and they just loved it.
I almost had a deal.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
And then we heard it?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
And what the ghost? What do you mean? Ghost?
Speaker 5 (19:56):
How could you hear?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Is moaning and crying? Who monit said? Pass?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
There?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Worth three of us, this man, his wife, and myself.
All three of us we heard it. I still it's impossible.
Instead of standing there and saying impossible, why don't you
going here for yourself? All right, doumon, where's your ghost?
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I tell you we heard it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I tell you what you heard. You heard the voice
of your guilty conscience. You rubbed a troubled girl out
of everything she owned in this world. It leads me, Tommy,
it wasn't intention ever comes to the same thing. Money
meant nothing to her, but then you took away the
one thing she couldn't live without, the souls. Please, Tommy,
I go ahead and suffer because you deserve it. Tommy.
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My conscience is one thing, but a ghost is something else.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Here.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
He is a ghost. It's the ghost of Felicity our graves.
Felicity is dead, Shemmy, Oh Gord, hear that, Tommy, it's
not your imagination. It's not the terror on my face.
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C your eyes. Don't you hear it there?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Tell me?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
There is it my imagination? It was a ghost. It
was just the way a ghostly voice was supposed to sound.
So I'd been wrong all my life. There was such
a thing as a ghost of This was a ghost
of Philicity at her grave. She'd come home, I believed.
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Do something, Tommy, do something?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Do what?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Tell her to stop? How can I tell her? She
she always liked you, Tommy, that's a fact. Then no, no, no,
explained to her. Don't you're crazy? Please, Tommy, I have
to sell this house high on her.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Felicity.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
It's me, Tommy.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Felicity.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Are you here?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
You do that?
Speaker 7 (22:04):
Ye too?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Money? Felicity. You shouldn't be here. You only scare folks. Felicity.
I can't you forget it too many? Felicity's house, Sis
solicitiserver I'll dead or alive, and if she wants to
live in it, I say more power to her. It
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was no longer the hard Graves house. It had now
become a haunted house. No one will be near it. Well,
one day Dumon came into the office and with him
was a woman, a tall woman with a sharp and
bony face and long jet black hair. And she wore
her dress. It was also black, but the blackest black
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you could imagine. She was the kind of woman you
didn't mean in a nightmare. It was broad daylight, and
we were in my office. Student woman sounder too up
and down my spine. Tell me, may I present the
Countess de Genera? How are you, doman child? The Countess
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is an exorcist, an extra feast. I am the one
who vanishes the evil spirit. Look what kind of joke
is this, Dumont Hoddan. This lady is a great artist.
What is she here for? I am to exercise the
evil spirit from the house of our grave, Haman, there's
no evil spirit in the house of our graves.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
There is a spirit.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You will have heard the spirits. Now that's Dumont. You
just get taken in by his mumbo jumble.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Tell me I'm death mumbo jumble mumbo.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Done. You irritated her?
Speaker 5 (23:50):
You do not be deeve in spirits?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well, I she must return to the grave.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
She will never know peace.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I tried, Tommy. We're doing this for their own good.
What do you want with me? Somebody has got to
go into the house with Countess Dejonnara. All right, but
your dumont oh no, no, no, I would create a
spiritual climate of little violence which the countists couldn't overcome. Sure,
and you're also scared out of your wits to walk
into that house. And that's the secondary consideration. Why does
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somebody have to go into the house with a countess
a weakness?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
He's required by astra law?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
All right, folks, go ahead, I just have a witness.
I respectfully decline the honor. Tommy, tummy, you've got to
do it. Everyone else in town turned me down.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Now do it for Felicity, for licity.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yes, let his spirit find peace. She can't keep wandering
around that house forever. Do you want to be guilty
of depriving Felicity of arrest and peace throughout all eternity?
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
But this access is business? Is this business?
Speaker 7 (25:00):
He is to call it business?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
It is the sacred professions of fake is it?
Speaker 5 (25:06):
And do you know everything, young man?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Can you swear that Felicite's ghost isn't in the house,
or come on tell him? Or did he get to lose?
He has a great deal to lose. He's arrogance, he
isn't politans, he's dign.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Right, all right, I'll go, I'll go, And here he
goes again.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Over time, as you have already seen, he does get
to run a great many errands for people. But this
one coming up looks like an authentic. First, join us
for dinner this evening, Tommy, No thanks, I have work
to do. What kind of work exercising a ghost? How's
that for a conversation piece. Well, our exercise in exorcism
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is scheduled for act two, which is only a few
moments away. Exorcising spirits is a practice that's as old
as mankind. However, in practically all recorded cases, the spirits
were evil and therefore deserved to be driven out. We
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have a slightly different problem here. We have a spirit
that's kind and gentle, the ghost of a beautiful lady.
But evidently that won't help her. Since she's a ghost out,
she must go a madame doja?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
When do we go to the house of sartry?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Little con game, mister Harker, I simply can appollulate the
attacks of this This Boris is gonna and Mount Tommy.
In the first place, she's a countess. In the second,
it's an ancient and honorable guess. But since I'm to
be a partner in list deal, all I want to
know is when it starts, when the moon has reason
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and Venus has approached perry Helium. All right, just give
me the time this stroke of midnight.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
You and I shall stand in the geocentric Ordaine perimeter
of the presence, and.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I you shall be king. Well, I tell you it's
easy enough to laugh at this game. But the more
she got herself involved in what she was doing, the
more she started, I want to care a scare you.
Her black eyes began to send o sparks. She could
feel fire in her voice, and before you knew it,
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she kind of began to believe it wasn't a lac
but that there was something dark and mysterious and scary
about it. She closed her eyes and pressed her hands
against her head, as if her mind was on fire,
trying to burn through a skin.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Go out, out, I command you, out, go, Go sever
the bonds, cut crack, break, go.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Hear it, your queen life were Felicity hard Graves.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
I command you to leave.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Within me is the soul of the high Priest of
the Temple.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I will now.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Exercise you.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Leave go.
Speaker 9 (28:47):
I shall pronounce the enoffable for vision tetra Gramaton.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I shall thunder under the name of.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Who eats that.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
The ghost cast the ghost?
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Who no.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Come?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Just one? What's wrong? She fainted? I somehow managed to
get her outside. There was a rickety whole rocket chair
on the porch, and set her down on it, and
I waited for her to come to When she woke
up finally, it was obviously the profound change taking place
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within her?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
What hit me?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I beg your pardon?
Speaker 5 (29:43):
The flicker flick the flim flammer, not flim flamms.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
You were right about me.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Pal back down the office.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
When you call it a calm game, that's all.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
It was a rocket go figure the rocos.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
What do you say?
Speaker 5 (30:00):
I'm saying, Powell, that you just heard the real Artico.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
You heard a ghost. You know there's no such thing
as a ghost. All right?
Speaker 5 (30:08):
What do you think the inside the house?
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Here?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Now?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Look Condor's digital all right? Can that countless label?
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Pal the square handles Molly maguire from Union City, New Jersey.
This ghost racket, now, it's a gimmick, a hawk to
catch the rooms with. Do you know something? Because you
now the rooms were right, David, The rooms were always
right because there are ghosts.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
And the last on the flickers like me.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
And surely time went by and the house became more
harder than ever, and then one day do want came in.
Oh he was considerably older now, and he looked the
worst aware horror, I should say it, the worse for work,
because these days he had to earn a living. Learn
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In many respects, he was still the same old Dukeont
tell me, tell me you you've got to help me.
I've got a chance, a one in a million, once
in a lifetime chance to recoup. Yeah, I've been working,
tell me you know, I've been working for years now,
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ever since Felicity left us.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Now whose fault was up to me?
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Tom?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I didn't come to two open old wounds, But not
his chance. Some folks from New York want to buy
the house, all right, sell it. How the house now
has a national reputation. So what can I do about something?
Don't ask me what, but something? Do you in your
heart honestly believe in ghosts. No, why not, because it's
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because it's impossible. For how do you come to the
fact that people actually hear they goes thhere, they're inside
that house? Who wants you want to know what folks
here in that house? They hear? A loose board on
the floor, or a gap on the mortar of a chimney,
a missing time on the roof. Every house has creaks
and moans and strains, and the fellow's imagination takes it
from there, and you've got to find him. You've got
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to find that loose board, that missing mortar, that bust entire,
whatever it is, you've got to find it. Give me
a chance to live out the rest of my life comfortably. Now,
please tell me, well, sir, I wanted to work in
that house. I looked her over from top to bottom. Oh,
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Colonel Nathaniel Hargraves, he sure knew how to build beams
of solid oak, walls of thick and heavy plaster. After
all these years, everything was still sound and true. I
put it up the window so nowhere it could roll through,
and make sure the shutters hung firm and steady. I
oiled all the hardware and the doors, and I was
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through tighter sound of lordship shape house simper didn't exist,
and the coat of paint made it so fresh and
clean and bright. And he put in telephone. No, that
was for psychological reasons, after all, a practical thing that
the phone works against, the very idea for ghost. Oh, yes,
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two month, what is it, prospective buyer, he said, waiting
this hotel. Yes, tell you he didn't take care of
the ghost.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
House.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
It's not all bad. I'll uh, I'll see you in
a little while.
Speaker 7 (33:40):
De month.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Oh, bless you, Tommy, that's just for that. I'm going
to give you your full brokers coss. I looked around
the house, a right place and cheerful, sunny place. How
could anyone possibly believe? It was hard? And it proved
as no, this thing as a ghost. And then.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Then I heard her, opsity, Felicity, it's me, it's Tommy,
said Tommy Tannyson.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Talk to me, Felicity.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Don't you remember Tommy?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Felicity?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Not another word? She didn't speak another word. Oh. I
ran through the hours. I searched every room, memory cloud
that I called through, look and cranny cellar, the heading.
Speaker 7 (34:42):
There was nothing, nothing, no one.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
And then I decided to try something else. Stood by
the fireplace, very quietly, I said.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Felicity, it's it's Bobby, Felicity.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
It's your own true love, Bobby Lightfoot, come back from
the war.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
It's me, Bobby.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
Bobby, Bobby, you're listen.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Oh my good lord, w whit you? It's Felicity.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
You keep the girl alive.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
You're You're not a girl.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Bobby.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
You've come back to me, and you've come back. How
did you? I had to stay here, Bobby. You'd never
find me if i'd lend just befohere. Did Youn't you
remember the room, the hidden room beside the chimney. We
found it when we were children, where they used.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
To hide the runaway slaves. Remember, but everyone says it's
a haunted house.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
How did.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (35:57):
You know? How sounds go in this place? I was crying.
I was calling to you, Bobby.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
How did you live?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Live?
Speaker 6 (36:06):
I didn't have to live, Bobby.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
I'm dead just as you were dead. I'm so happy,
I mean, I mean fool Oh, how funny? How I
still need food even if I'm dead On a dark night.
You know, folks around here, no one ever locks a door,
or I haven't needed was a crust of bread, a
swallow of milk. No one ever missed him. You must
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never take me anywhere, Bobby. Someone always wants to take
the house away from me. Don't let them. Promise You'll
never let anyone take this house away from me. Never
pro I.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
I promise, and you'll.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
Come and you'll visit me every day. You can't stay
here until we're married. Thou plan for a big wedding.
Oh yes, it could be your big wedding, the biggest
this town ever saw. Yes, people, let anyone ever take
his house away from me.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
You won't. I won't, Yes, mister Hastings. I'm sitting in
mister Tattersall's office right now. We'll be a boy to
pick you up. Why here's mister Tattersall walking in right now?
Hang off the phone. Do we shouldn't take us more
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than five minutes? Hang out of the phone. Sorry, you
just have your check book? Way? Hang up? Will you
we'll see you right away? He you will not see him.
Will you realize what a deal I just worked out
for the house. You have to call it off, the
house and property for three hundred and fifty dollars. What
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do you mean call it off. Well, it's all contingent
on my house not being haunted. Right, yes, yes, but
that's what you want they to ascertain, approve to establish
the out the shadow of a dollar, and it's hanted. Dumont,
it was haunted. Nonsense. There's no such three as a
fire here. I guarantee you here enough to run screaming
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out of the premises. No, no, tell me. I can't
work anymore. I just can't. I'm afraid you're gonna act.
I've got to sell that house that you can't sell.
A haunted house, doomandol and the home of Purusity. Hard
Graves is haunted. Lucify died last year, very very old lady.
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She died in that house.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
She loved.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
She died and Bobby liked foot songs.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
And late that night.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Bobby buried in a sheriks, Well, now that we have
all that ghost story business out of the way, let
me show you the finest, the most nicely kept, the
best constructed, the most attractive colonial period homes in the
entire USA.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
The hard Graves House. Oh, I vouch for each of
every beam board and brick.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
And I'll even show you the secret chamber. Well, if
our animal oriented friends will forgive the expression there.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
Are many ways to skin a cat, and just as
many ways.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
To sell a house. People who pill large ticket items
like automobiles and houses are known for their enthusiasm and optimism,
as indeed they should be. They are also incurably romantic,
and in many cases they tell us story so convincingly
they actually believe it themselves.
Speaker 7 (40:01):
I'll be back shortly. You have just heard a ghost story.
But what is a ghost story?
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Indeed, what is a ghost? Mister Ibsen says, We are
all ghosts. We are what we have inherited from our
departed ancestors. We are all sorts of dead ideas and beliques.
Who knows what lies dormant in each of us? Who
knows what we keep locked up in the dark of
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the soul. Our cast included Ian Martin, Marinceldie's, Joam Shay,
and Leon Jenny. The entire production was under the direction
of Hymon Brown Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored in part
by Certainty Fiberglass Attic Insulation.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Missus E. G.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure. Sure in the macabre until next time, Pleasant dreams,
Come in welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm e. G.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Marshall. The race, we are told, is to the swift,
likewise the battle to the strong. There is no substitute
for victory winning, that's the only thing. The only place
is first place. The only guy is top guy.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
The only number is numero uno.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
As a popular philosopher so recently stated, nice guys finish last. True, perhaps,
but there are also some last guys who finish nice
or should we say nicely. Our mystery drama, The Secret Chamber,
was written especially for the miss by Sam Dan and
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stars Ian Martin. It is sponsored in part by Buick
Motor Division and True Value Hardware Stores. I'll be back
shortly with that one. There are those people who flatly
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refuse to recognize the existence of ghosts, But as Mark
Twain once said, those are the people who never saw
one or heard one. There is something about the sight
of a ghost, the sound of a ghost, and a
dark night in a deserted house that will dissolve the
doubts of the most skeptical and make fervent converts of
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the most cynical. After all, seeing his believing, isn't it well?
Why don't we discuss this matter with a man who's
more or less an authority on the subject. Tattersall's name
Thomas Tatum. Tatasall. They'll just blay Tommy suits me fine,
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been a real estate. It isn't all alive, though nowadays
we have a fancy name for it, real tour. So
you say you're in the market for final colonials taking
back to the revolutionary period.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Well, I got just the thing, the real beauty in
the hard Graves house.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Oh you know about that one.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
You hear it's haunted. Would I say you are hearted house? Well,
in fact, the matter is it used to be hated.
But no more can I guarantee that? Well, I suppose
I just tell you the story, no extra charge, and
you can decide for your self.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
And that fair enough.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And you got to go back away to the war.
I guess you'd call it the First World War. I
didn't get to go myself. It was just to shape
too young. I was also just to shake too young
for a beautiful girl named Felicity aug Anyhow, she was
in love with Lieutenant Bobby like when it was fighting
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France with the rainbotivation. Well, one morning Felicity's mother asked
me to drop over to the house.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Thomas, you have to help me.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Oh harmas hugged Bobby. Bobby Lightfoot is dead. Bobby light
for it.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Felicity was Loify. Bobby fell at a place called Shadow Terry.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Oh gee, I feel so bad for Felicity.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Eh, Felicity, Thomas.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I'm frightened.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
You see, when Felicity found out she was standing right
here in this room, she didn't say one word. Not
a solitary tear ran down her cheek. She stood silent
for at least five foot minutes. And then she turned
around and went upstairs to the.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Room, and and she said nothing at all.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
That was three days ago. She still won't say one word.
She won't touch a bite of food though, such a
single swallow of water.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh what I suppose I could tell?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I met my with riend who's only her father the
judge was alive, and her uncle.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Dumont's off in the navy.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Thomas.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Could you talk to her?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
How, miss Huggers?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
What could I say?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
She was always fond of you, Tomash, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
But cannot keep sitting in that room forever.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Wasn't by going to do, ma'am? I suresh I knew who.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
You'd been a little older, perhaps she might have fallen
in love with you instead of Bobby Lightfoot. That's why
you've got to help her.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I wanted to help, ma'am, but hey, I just don't.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Know harm to Just talk to her. Talk to her.
That might be enough.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Talk to her, Felicity.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Uh, it's me, Tommy. Tommy, chat us home, Felicity.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Yes, I know, Tommy, Gee, I'm sorry about Bobby. Bobby.
Who who's Bobby Bobby eyed for?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
I don't know anyone named Bobby.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh well, I would you like to go for a walk? No, Tim,
But you've been.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Cooked up in your own So I want to stay here.
It's such a lovely room, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Oh? Yes?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
But the house, it is such a magnificent house. I
was born here, did you know that?
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Oh yeah, I was my dad and his dad before him.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I never want to leave this house for Felicity.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Because death outside death, death lying and wait everywhere death. Pobby,
my own Bobby Lightfoot, didn't I please with him, don't go, Bobby,
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don't leave. Death is waiting there outside. But he didn't listen.
My Bobby didn't listen. But I won't leave this house.
I won't go out there, out where death is waiting.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
No, I could I have you something?
Speaker 5 (06:36):
These rooms, these walls, these floors and ceilings, they all.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Know me, they all love me.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Look through the windows, look out on the street, and
see how bright and how clean and how lovely.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Ever there is house sheltered.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
They could heect me.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I'll never the street. You see my dad's od.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
You see I don't want to look out on the street.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I go to work there. Why don't you come buy
earlier the day?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
You can trust me, Felicity.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I wouldn't let anything bad happen. He's just staying. And
look to me at the office tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Take a take a walk over.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Well, it'll have to be a very short walk. I'm
so afraid to be outside. There's so much death.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
And that's how it all began. Every morning she'd come by,
stay alone, and she can rush right back home, Poor Felicity.
I was the only one she ever talked to. And
what did we talk about? Yes, good morning, tommy morning, tellsity,
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How do you feel this morning?
Speaker 5 (07:52):
I don't feel well. I did a terrible thing.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Oh not you, Felicity, Yes I did.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I stepped then, and oh I saw him. I should
have waited till he'd gone by, and I did stop,
but then so did he, and I thought he was
just going to stay there and it would be safe
for me too, And then I just as I stepped forward,
so did he, and and my foot. I think it
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was too late.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I'm sorry, Felicity, I'm I'm really truly sorry.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
And he's a living thing. It's one of God's crib
Wasn't your fault?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
Of God's plan?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
He won't against you.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
You mean that, Tony, of course, then you're not just
saying it to make me feel better?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Would I lie to you?
Speaker 5 (08:41):
And I'll be forgiven?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Someday You've been forgiven already. Solicity are Graves once the loveliest,
liveliest young lady.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
In the county.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
As time went on, she got no better. I guess
she could say she got even worse. So the years
went by, she was so tall, so beautiful, and I
was so much in love with her, but that him
could ever come of that. So anyway, one one night
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I got a call from missus Hargras and seeing her
with a shock. I mean, she'd been such a steady,
well built, strong woman. Philicopy's mother and here and now
all of a sudden it was. It was like as
if she'd shrunk to almost nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Tell me, oh, missus, hargh, grace.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
You don't know what to make of me. I can't
understand it myself. It happened almost overnight.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
But what's wrong?
Speaker 5 (09:59):
And I and Felicity is going to need a friend
more than ever.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, she's always got a friend in me.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Her uncle of Dumont will take care of her financial affairs.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Dumont, Yes, the judge has him named.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Executor of the estate when I die.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Oh, I.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
Know you'll say her bills and see that she always
has this house. But Tommy, he won't have time for her, Felicity.
He needs someone to talk to her, someone who will
worry about her. Promise me, Tommy, promise.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Less than months later, that fine lady was dead and
Dumont Hargraves took active charge of the family money. Maybe
what I'm the next story you might have heard before?
Why not don't to occur all the time? That was
all kinds of talk in tom that Dumont was running through. Yes,
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he was making unwise investments, that he was gambling of
course losing heavy. Well, none of this could be proved.
But one day Dumont came into the office. Lawrence, Tommy,
I like to throw a little bit of business your way.
Oh yes, oh that yes. You ever see a bird
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look at a snake? Well, Dumont, watching you, I now
see how a snake looks at the bird. You don't
like me, Tommy, that's true. You think I am robbing
felicidee of her inheritance. Well you are, aren't you. But
it looks that way. I admit, Tommy, it's not my fault. Eh,
So what's this business you want to throw my way? First?
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I wanted you to understand that I didn't ask for
the job of exacting all right, I do not get
to it. Well, I I had to sell a house,
the house, the old hard Graves homestead. But you can't
sell a house. Why not? Well because Phylicity. Well what
about Felicity? Where will she live? Where? But she belonged
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in the sanitarium.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
How could you say that?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
What's true? How can she live all by herself in
that big old house she manages very nicely. Tom I'm
myr uncle. I love her. I want to do what's
best for her. Felicity simply is not right.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
In the head to do mom.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Don't you say that? Oh, poor tom you had a
crush on her all your life, and then when Bobby
Lightfoot got killed, you might have had a chance, but
she went crazy.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Tell you don't choose that work.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Can you suggest another one who describes the situation more accurately?
For the house that it means so much to her,
It's all she has in the world. It's all I
have in the world too. What do you mean there's
nothing left with the house?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Nothing? How can that be?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I don't know, Tommy, Here and there, it's in that.
It all adds up to. It's nothing, domant. I'm want
to let you sell that, Toss. I'll go to court.
I'll have you declared I'm fit to continuous executive. Sure,
and you'd probably and win. But it's too late. Everything
else is gone. The court would have to sell the
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house in any event to satisfy the debts. I'm sorry, Tommy.
Somebody has to tell her, tell her what that she
has to leave the house.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Oh, sure, that's right.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Somebody does. Somebody has to break her heart, destroy a spurt,
and turn her whole world into ashes and ruins. And
you know who that somebody is gonna be do mont
you Tommy you, oh ah, this is all you're doing.
You're gonna tell her justice demands it.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
If I tell her, it'll kill her.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
But if you tell her, well you can quite and
sess your weight it, she'll believe you. She'll actually think
it's all for the best. There are those people who
are always pulling chestnuts out of the fire somebody else's chestnuts,
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we might add, why do they do it? What makes
the Tommy tatters alls of this world take Since there's
a little bit of Tommy in so many of us,
perhaps even in you, why not ponder the problem for
a few moments until I returned shortly with that too.
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Someone said once that a house is not necessarily a home.
That may not be true, but what can hardly be
in dispute is the fact that a home has to
be a house of some kind in all, it has
to have form and structure. It must protect and shelter,
It must be fortress and sanctuary. Felicity hard Graves is
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about to be evicted.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
But I I can't leave here, tell me I can't.
I know it's difficult, for it's more than difficult time,
it's impossible.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Look, Felicity, just close.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
No, oh, yes, there's death outside. You know that I'm
not safe anywhere else, Tommy, Safe with me, Felicity.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I've spoken over with my mother. You stay at our
house for one No, I want to stay at my house.
Mother's alone all day, and you'll you'll be such a
good company for each other. You always like my mother,
didn't you?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Yes, tell me very much. I have a wonderful idea.
Let her come and stay with me at my house.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
But Felicity, she's good. Please, won't you try to understand?
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Understand what.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
It Isn't your house anymore?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
How can it not be in my house?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Got to be sold.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Every part of his house is a part of me, Tommy.
It knows me. It shot at me. It kept me warm,
that kept me dry, It kept me safe. No, no.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
House.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Could I sell part of myself?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Could I sell my heart?
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Could I? Tommy? Yes I could, But I die.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I only want to help you now because you know that,
and you believe me.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
The war in France will be over, and Bobby will
be back, and if I'm not here, he won't know
where to look for me.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I'll keep an eye out for Bobby and if he comes.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Along, don't say if when, Well, when he comes, I'll
bring him to you.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Come on, so listen, you you come with me now,
it'd be best.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Tommy, Please let me just stay here one more night.
Please let me stay here tonight and say goodbye to
the house. And then in the morning I'll go away
with you.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Please, all right, Felicity, I'll come by for you early
in the morning. Oh, maybe I shouldn't let us stay,
but how could I refuse? Said? What could happen? Well,
(17:27):
a great deal happened. I came by for her in
the morning and she was gone. Felicity, Felicity, Where are you? Felicity?
(17:47):
Sheriff said that Tommy ketters off. Yeah, it's Felicity. Had
she's gone? Yeah, so that's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
She disappeared.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Oh oh I'm here now. Yeah. I searched the house
from top of the bottom. I was not a sign up.
But I don't know where she went.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Where did you go?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Where did she go?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Well? It was not coming to talk foul play. Or
maybe she might have just wandered off into the woods
and beyond them down into the swamp. If she'd gone
done that, then she'd be lost forever. That's what I
told people, because I realized what Felicity e been trying
to tell me, that if she had to leave that house,
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and she'd kill herself. That's what all are talking about
death and and honor too, And I felt it was
my fault. Why had I let her stay.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
That final night?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Why had I left her alone? She might imagine the
disappearance of Felicity hard. It was a sensation, but like
all such sensations, had only lasted a while. We had
the elections and the circus come to town, and one
thing and another, and gradually Plisope Addres was forgotten by
(19:03):
almost everyone. Shipped me, Temmy, you're gonna help me here? Yeah, oh,
that is where I'd like to help you. Doum on
right out the door. Don't be angry, Tommy, it goes
against your better nature. I'm in trouble now. I'm glad
to hear it. No, you're not. You're a very kind
hearted person. I still have to sell that house. I'm
(19:25):
not stummy. Don't you hear what's being said around town?
The house is haunted. It's impossible for our house to
be auted, though I don't know about that. The way
it started, was I advertised in the Philadelphia New York papers. No,
I admit I was trying to save your broker's commission.
I admit that. Well, these folks came down and I
(19:46):
took him into the house, and they just loved it.
I almost had a deal.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
And then we heard it?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
And what the ghost? What do you mean? Ghost?
Speaker 5 (19:56):
How could you hear?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Is moaning and crying? Who monit said? Pass?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
There?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Worth three of us, this man, his wife, and myself.
All three of us we heard it. I still it's impossible.
Instead of standing there and saying impossible, why don't you
going here for yourself? All right, doumon, where's your ghost?
Speaker 5 (20:19):
I tell you we heard it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I tell you what you heard. You heard the voice
of your guilty conscience. You rubbed a troubled girl out
of everything she owned in this world. It leads me, Tommy,
it wasn't intention ever comes to the same thing. Money
meant nothing to her, but then you took away the
one thing she couldn't live without, the souls. Please, Tommy,
I go ahead and suffer because you deserve it. Tommy.
(20:42):
My conscience is one thing, but a ghost is something else.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Here.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
He is a ghost. It's the ghost of Felicity our graves.
Felicity is dead, Shemmy, Oh Gord, hear that, Tommy, it's
not your imagination. It's not the terror on my face.
(21:11):
C your eyes. Don't you hear it there?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Tell me?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
There is it my imagination? It was a ghost. It
was just the way a ghostly voice was supposed to sound.
So I'd been wrong all my life. There was such
a thing as a ghost of This was a ghost
of Philicity at her grave. She'd come home, I believed.
(21:40):
Do something, Tommy, do something?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Do what?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Tell her to stop? How can I tell her? She
she always liked you, Tommy, that's a fact. Then no, no, no,
explained to her. Don't you're crazy? Please, Tommy, I have
to sell this house high on her.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Felicity.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
It's me, Tommy.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Felicity.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Are you here?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
You do that?
Speaker 7 (22:04):
Ye too?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Money? Felicity. You shouldn't be here. You only scare folks. Felicity.
I can't you forget it too many? Felicity's house, Sis
solicitiserver I'll dead or alive, and if she wants to
live in it, I say more power to her. It
(22:29):
was no longer the hard Graves house. It had now
become a haunted house. No one will be near it. Well,
one day Dumon came into the office and with him
was a woman, a tall woman with a sharp and
bony face and long jet black hair. And she wore
her dress. It was also black, but the blackest black
(22:51):
you could imagine. She was the kind of woman you
didn't mean in a nightmare. It was broad daylight, and
we were in my office. Student woman sounder too up
and down my spine. Tell me, may I present the
Countess de Genera? How are you, doman child? The Countess
(23:15):
is an exorcist, an extra feast. I am the one
who vanishes the evil spirit. Look what kind of joke
is this, Dumont Hoddan. This lady is a great artist.
What is she here for? I am to exercise the
evil spirit from the house of our grave, Haman, there's
no evil spirit in the house of our graves.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
There is a spirit.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You will have heard the spirits. Now that's Dumont. You
just get taken in by his mumbo jumble.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Tell me I'm death mumbo jumble mumbo.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Done. You irritated her?
Speaker 5 (23:50):
You do not be deeve in spirits?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well, I she must return to the grave.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
She will never know peace.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
I tried, Tommy. We're doing this for their own good.
What do you want with me? Somebody has got to
go into the house with Countess Dejonnara. All right, but
your dumont oh no, no, no, I would create a
spiritual climate of little violence which the countists couldn't overcome. Sure,
and you're also scared out of your wits to walk
into that house. And that's the secondary consideration. Why does
(24:23):
somebody have to go into the house with a countess
a weakness?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
He's required by astra law?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
All right, folks, go ahead, I just have a witness.
I respectfully decline the honor. Tommy, tummy, you've got to
do it. Everyone else in town turned me down.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Now do it for Felicity, for licity.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yes, let his spirit find peace. She can't keep wandering
around that house forever. Do you want to be guilty
of depriving Felicity of arrest and peace throughout all eternity?
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:55):
But this access is business? Is this business?
Speaker 7 (25:00):
He is to call it business?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
It is the sacred professions of fake is it?
Speaker 5 (25:06):
And do you know everything, young man?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Can you swear that Felicite's ghost isn't in the house,
or come on tell him? Or did he get to lose?
He has a great deal to lose. He's arrogance, he
isn't politans, he's dign.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Right, all right, I'll go, I'll go, And here he
goes again.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Over time, as you have already seen, he does get
to run a great many errands for people. But this
one coming up looks like an authentic. First, join us
for dinner this evening, Tommy, No thanks, I have work
to do. What kind of work exercising a ghost? How's
that for a conversation piece. Well, our exercise in exorcism
(26:04):
is scheduled for act two, which is only a few
moments away. Exorcising spirits is a practice that's as old
as mankind. However, in practically all recorded cases, the spirits
were evil and therefore deserved to be driven out. We
(26:28):
have a slightly different problem here. We have a spirit
that's kind and gentle, the ghost of a beautiful lady.
But evidently that won't help her. Since she's a ghost out,
she must go a madame doja?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
When do we go to the house of sartry?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Little con game, mister Harker, I simply can appollulate the
attacks of this This Boris is gonna and Mount Tommy.
In the first place, she's a countess. In the second,
it's an ancient and honorable guess. But since I'm to
be a partner in list deal, all I want to
know is when it starts, when the moon has reason
(27:07):
and Venus has approached perry Helium. All right, just give
me the time this stroke of midnight.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
You and I shall stand in the geocentric Ordaine perimeter
of the presence, and.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I you shall be king. Well, I tell you it's
easy enough to laugh at this game. But the more
she got herself involved in what she was doing, the
more she started, I want to care a scare you.
Her black eyes began to send o sparks. She could
feel fire in her voice, and before you knew it,
(27:42):
she kind of began to believe it wasn't a lac
but that there was something dark and mysterious and scary
about it. She closed her eyes and pressed her hands
against her head, as if her mind was on fire,
trying to burn through a skin.
Speaker 9 (28:00):
Go out, out, I command you, out, go, Go sever
the bonds, cut crack, break, go.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Hear it, your queen life were Felicity hard Graves.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
I command you to leave.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
Within me is the soul of the high Priest of
the Temple.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
I will now.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Exercise you.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Leave go.
Speaker 9 (28:47):
I shall pronounce the enoffable for vision tetra Gramaton.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I shall thunder under the name of.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Who eats that.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
The ghost cast the ghost?
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Who no.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Come?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Just one? What's wrong? She fainted? I somehow managed to
get her outside. There was a rickety whole rocket chair
on the porch, and set her down on it, and
I waited for her to come to When she woke
up finally, it was obviously the profound change taking place
(29:37):
within her?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
What hit me?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
I beg your pardon?
Speaker 5 (29:43):
The flicker flick the flim flammer, not flim flamms.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
You were right about me.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Pal back down the office.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
When you call it a calm game, that's all.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
It was a rocket go figure the rocos.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
What do you say?
Speaker 5 (30:00):
I'm saying, Powell, that you just heard the real Artico.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
You heard a ghost. You know there's no such thing
as a ghost. All right?
Speaker 5 (30:08):
What do you think the inside the house?
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Here?
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Now?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Look Condor's digital all right? Can that countless label?
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Pal the square handles Molly maguire from Union City, New Jersey.
This ghost racket, now, it's a gimmick, a hawk to
catch the rooms with. Do you know something? Because you
now the rooms were right, David, The rooms were always
right because there are ghosts.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
And the last on the flickers like me.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
And surely time went by and the house became more
harder than ever, and then one day do want came in.
Oh he was considerably older now, and he looked the
worst aware horror, I should say it, the worse for work,
because these days he had to earn a living. Learn
(31:06):
In many respects, he was still the same old Dukeont
tell me, tell me you you've got to help me.
I've got a chance, a one in a million, once
in a lifetime chance to recoup. Yeah, I've been working,
tell me you know, I've been working for years now,
(31:27):
ever since Felicity left us.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Now whose fault was up to me?
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Tom?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I didn't come to two open old wounds, But not
his chance. Some folks from New York want to buy
the house, all right, sell it. How the house now
has a national reputation. So what can I do about something?
Don't ask me what, but something? Do you in your
heart honestly believe in ghosts. No, why not, because it's
(31:58):
because it's impossible. For how do you come to the
fact that people actually hear they goes thhere, they're inside
that house? Who wants you want to know what folks
here in that house? They hear? A loose board on
the floor, or a gap on the mortar of a chimney,
a missing time on the roof. Every house has creaks
and moans and strains, and the fellow's imagination takes it
from there, and you've got to find him. You've got
(32:18):
to find that loose board, that missing mortar, that bust entire,
whatever it is, you've got to find it. Give me
a chance to live out the rest of my life comfortably. Now,
please tell me, well, sir, I wanted to work in
that house. I looked her over from top to bottom. Oh,
(32:39):
Colonel Nathaniel Hargraves, he sure knew how to build beams
of solid oak, walls of thick and heavy plaster. After
all these years, everything was still sound and true. I
put it up the window so nowhere it could roll through,
and make sure the shutters hung firm and steady. I
oiled all the hardware and the doors, and I was
(32:59):
through tighter sound of lordship shape house simper didn't exist,
and the coat of paint made it so fresh and
clean and bright. And he put in telephone. No, that
was for psychological reasons, after all, a practical thing that
the phone works against, the very idea for ghost. Oh, yes,
(33:24):
two month, what is it, prospective buyer, he said, waiting
this hotel. Yes, tell you he didn't take care of
the ghost.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
House.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
It's not all bad. I'll uh, I'll see you in
a little while.
Speaker 7 (33:40):
De month.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Oh, bless you, Tommy, that's just for that. I'm going
to give you your full brokers coss. I looked around
the house, a right place and cheerful, sunny place. How
could anyone possibly believe? It was hard? And it proved
as no, this thing as a ghost. And then.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Then I heard her, opsity, Felicity, it's me, it's Tommy,
said Tommy Tannyson.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Talk to me, Felicity.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
Don't you remember Tommy?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Felicity?
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Not another word? She didn't speak another word. Oh. I
ran through the hours. I searched every room, memory cloud
that I called through, look and cranny cellar, the heading.
Speaker 7 (34:42):
There was nothing, nothing, no one.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
And then I decided to try something else. Stood by
the fireplace, very quietly, I said.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Felicity, it's it's Bobby, Felicity.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
It's your own true love, Bobby Lightfoot, come back from
the war.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
It's me, Bobby.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
Bobby, Bobby, you're listen.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Oh my good lord, w whit you? It's Felicity.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
You keep the girl alive.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
You're You're not a girl.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Bobby.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
You've come back to me, and you've come back. How
did you? I had to stay here, Bobby. You'd never
find me if i'd lend just befohere. Did Youn't you
remember the room, the hidden room beside the chimney. We
found it when we were children, where they used.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
To hide the runaway slaves. Remember, but everyone says it's
a haunted house.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
How did.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (35:57):
You know? How sounds go in this place? I was crying.
I was calling to you, Bobby.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
How did you live?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
Live?
Speaker 6 (36:06):
I didn't have to live, Bobby.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
I'm dead just as you were dead. I'm so happy,
I mean, I mean fool Oh, how funny? How I
still need food even if I'm dead On a dark night.
You know, folks around here, no one ever locks a door,
or I haven't needed was a crust of bread, a
swallow of milk. No one ever missed him. You must
(36:34):
never take me anywhere, Bobby. Someone always wants to take
the house away from me. Don't let them. Promise You'll
never let anyone take this house away from me. Never
pro I.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
I promise, and you'll.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
Come and you'll visit me every day. You can't stay
here until we're married. Thou plan for a big wedding.
Oh yes, it could be your big wedding, the biggest
this town ever saw. Yes, people, let anyone ever take
his house away from me.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
You won't. I won't, Yes, mister Hastings. I'm sitting in
mister Tattersall's office right now. We'll be a boy to
pick you up. Why here's mister Tattersall walking in right now?
Hang off the phone. Do we shouldn't take us more
(37:31):
than five minutes? Hang out of the phone. Sorry, you
just have your check book? Way? Hang up? Will you
we'll see you right away? He you will not see him.
Will you realize what a deal I just worked out
for the house. You have to call it off, the
house and property for three hundred and fifty dollars. What
(37:51):
do you mean call it off. Well, it's all contingent
on my house not being haunted. Right, yes, yes, but
that's what you want they to ascertain, approve to establish
the out the shadow of a dollar, and it's hanted. Dumont,
it was haunted. Nonsense. There's no such three as a
fire here. I guarantee you here enough to run screaming
(38:12):
out of the premises. No, no, tell me. I can't
work anymore. I just can't. I'm afraid you're gonna act.
I've got to sell that house that you can't sell.
A haunted house, doomandol and the home of Purusity. Hard
Graves is haunted. Lucify died last year, very very old lady.
(38:44):
She died in that house.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
She loved.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
She died and Bobby liked foot songs.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
And late that night.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Bobby buried in a sheriks, Well, now that we have
all that ghost story business out of the way, let
me show you the finest, the most nicely kept, the
best constructed, the most attractive colonial period homes in the
entire USA.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
The hard Graves House. Oh, I vouch for each of
every beam board and brick.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
And I'll even show you the secret chamber. Well, if
our animal oriented friends will forgive the expression there.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
Are many ways to skin a cat, and just as
many ways.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
To sell a house. People who pill large ticket items
like automobiles and houses are known for their enthusiasm and optimism,
as indeed they should be. They are also incurably romantic,
and in many cases they tell us story so convincingly
they actually believe it themselves.
Speaker 7 (40:01):
I'll be back shortly. You have just heard a ghost story.
But what is a ghost story?
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Indeed, what is a ghost? Mister Ibsen says, We are
all ghosts. We are what we have inherited from our
departed ancestors. We are all sorts of dead ideas and beliques.
Who knows what lies dormant in each of us? Who
knows what we keep locked up in the dark of
(40:39):
the soul. Our cast included Ian Martin, Marinceldie's, Joam Shay,
and Leon Jenny. The entire production was under the direction
of Hymon Brown Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored in part
by Certainty Fiberglass Attic Insulation.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Missus E. G.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure. Sure in the macabre until next time, Pleasant dreams,
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