March 1, 2026 • 43 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents. Come in Welcome. I'MI G.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
The Yucatan in Mexico is a land of great scenic
beauty and of extraordinary, unforgettable legends. The enigmatic wonders found
in its caverns below the surface of the earth often
excel the beauty and strangeness found above, and the incredible
tales told by those who explore them caverrs or spelunkers,
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as they are called, are a challenge few of them
can resist, for it can truly be said that what
is seen and heard below is indeed wondrous strange.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, I'll miss you when it's time to go back home.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Marieval Grandfather Hunac say, maybe you and mister Carling stay
in Yucatan.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Where would he get an idea like that?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Grandfather speak with dead ancestors. They tell him many things,
but that's.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Impossible, and no one can talk with the dead.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Grandfather, not like other people. He descends from Mayan priests
and prophets. When Grandfather Hunac speak the dead answer.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Our mystery drama The Lost Tomorrows was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Stella Moss and stars Mendel Kramer
and Anne Williams. It is sponsored in part by Buick
Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with Act one. For
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most serious cave explorers, penetrating deep into the bowels of
the earth is a challenge, impossible to resist. The very
thought of a dangerous caving expedition sets the heart pounding.
Rena and Matthew Carling are two such cavers who have
come to a tiny town in the lake territory of Yucatan.
They have only one thought in mind, exploring little known
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caves where they hope to find ancient Mayan relics. They
are living in a temporary structure of palm leaves set
up between two large trees. Two Mayan servants, Hunak and
Maria Val do their housekeeping. We've never found this many
pieces so quickly, Rena.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And how beautiful some of them are. Look at this
piece of jade, Matthew. A Mayan princess might have worn it.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The pottery shards intrigued me. The eating utensils, all those
curious patterns on them.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I wish we could take the candlesticks home, beautifully crafted.
Seems a pity to have to give all these fascinating
things to a Mexican museum.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Well, just be glad they let us go into the
caves to look for them.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Hey, these pottery pieces are off beef.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
In what way you have a look?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Each piece has the same pattern of a small bird
on it, poised in a sort of lunging position, head down,
wings spread wide, sort of a tax stance like a
toy dive BOMBA.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
What do you suppose the Mayon's had in mind?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I will have to find out.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Meanwhile, into the museum box they all go, Well, let's
hope we do as well as this in the Cave
of the Lost Tomorrow's.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Matthew, did you notice that Hunak and Maria val both
seemed upset as they served our breakfast? But when we
talked about tomorrow's caving trip, I mean, oh not particularly.
They kept looking at each other an odd way all
the time.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
They served us.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I'd be a lot more comfortable if I knew what
was on their minds.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well, I'll ask them who not you committed here for
a minute?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Would not come carling.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
And take it gently? Matthew, Life in this god forsaken
place would be impossible That those two.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Don't worry, trust me, mister Carling, wish for something for
missus Carling about Tomorrow's cave. Do not and granddaughter take
care everything. If mister Carling not wish to change plans.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Why should we change our plans?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Well, if our luck holds out, the Mayan artifacts we
found in other caves will be nothing compared to the
cave of the Loss Tomorrow's.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I may speak, mister Carling. Of course, things you take
from caves belong to dead ancestors do not belong in
living world.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Privacy of dead must be respected. We are scientific cavers.
We believe that things like these belong where they can
be studied.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
But for living to take from head who like not understand.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, that's the difference between science on one hand, and legend.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And superstition on the other.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Please, Matthew who neck.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Knows Cave of Lost Tomorrow's well, many time go there.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Not same as other caves mean one way cave of
fear and terror, sacred cave of my young gods, where
you don't frighten me.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Hunak, please pack the usual equipment. We'll be leaving early
in the morning as scheduled.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Maybe mister and missus Carling permit Hunac to go with them.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I thank you for the offer, but we prefer to
go alone. And please tell Marieval that pack is a
good lunch. We're planning a long day.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That lunch looks delicious.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Mariavell many thanks, missus Carling. Grandfather Hunac catch fresh fish
this morning I make for you and mister Curling.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
That sounds fine.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Also you find sweet oranges and lunch basket and canteen
filled from fresh cool spring.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I don't know how it managed without you. I'll miss
you when it's time to leave you catan and.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Go back home.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Maybe you stay in your catan. Not a chance, Grandfather say,
maybe you and mister Carling stay.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Where would you get an idea like that?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Grandfather speak with dead ancestors. Dead ancestors, they tell many things.
That's impossible.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
No one can talk with the dead.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Grandfather Hunac not same as other people. And what way
he descend to this life from my own priests and prophets,
learn from them wisdom of a thousand years?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
He speak?
Speaker 7 (06:53):
They answer?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
But how Marieval? How what do they sound like? What
do they say?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Maria? I'll not hear voices?
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Only grandfather here?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Where is Hunac?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Now?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I won't to talk to him about loading the jeep
with our caving equipment. Mister Carling is anxious to get started.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Jeep loaded, Missus Carling hard hats with lamp, first aid kit, packet, knife, flashlight,
rope ladder.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Grandfather, what I want to know is why he isn't
here as usual to help us take off.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Grandfather asked mister and Missus Carling please to excuse him.
Ancestors wish to speak with him this morning about mister
and Missus Carling.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I'll take the food basket and water, Maria Val. Mister
Carling will be getting impatient. Please to let me go
with you. Missus Carling. Mariaval know well Cave of Lost
to Morrow's first Hunac, now you why are you so
anxious to go with us?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Grandfallow Hulac wished to speak to you.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I come, Grandfather, Please not be angry Missus Culling. Mariadel
fear for safety of mister and Missus Carling. Tomorrow, ninth
day of ninth month.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
What has that got to do with anything?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
What take you so long?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I come, Grandfather?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Please, Missus Curling for in people not safe in Cave
of Lost tomorrows, Please to be careful.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Please, I can't believe this cave, Matthew.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I feel almost as if I've lost my sense of reality.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
What kind of remark is that for an experienced cave,
it's so deep.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
So enormous, so quiet, and there's such amazing passageways and chambers.
I have to struggle to keep my sense of which
way is up and which way is down, which way
is in and which way is out. Oh, I hate
to get stranded here.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Stop worrying about it.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I've been making a careful map of every small cave
inside the large one, and every connecting tunnel. Now we've
been through eight passageways and inside eight cave chambers.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Is it possible there's a total of nine passageways and
nine cave chambers. Nine was a sacred number to the
agent NaNs and today is the ninth day of the
ninth month.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That's got into you.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Between who Mac and Maria Val, they've really managed to upset.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
You, Matthew. Do you realize our only link for the
outside world is a thin stream of daylight coming through
a narrow cave entrance, eight chambers and eight tunnels away.
I've even lost my sense of time. I'm not sure
if We've been here minute so hours a.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Days, Rina, trust me, we've never yet failed on a
caving expedition.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Look, I'll make a bargain with you.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
What's that the minute we find a really good piece
for our museum box, we'll do a right about face
and go back to camp.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Fair enough, Now, if you'll just let your which light
sweep over the darkness for a second or two, I'll
be my old self again. The darkness here is different somehow,
like black paper thin glass.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I'd rather say, with my batteries and stick with the
light from the lamps on our hard hats. But if
it'll make you feel better, on goes the flashlight.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Oh nephew, I'll simply off.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Take it easy.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Now.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
That's a human skeleton over there, with a huge rock
resting on the leg bones as if it fell on
him from above, and pin the poor man down.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I'm turning off the flesh.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Oh please, don't all right, but I don't want to
hear that we shouldn't have come to this cave.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Look at that enormous dead tree on the right, as
if its branches were woven into a gigantic kind of
spider's whip. All the human skeleton bones caught it Oo,
how do you suppose that happened?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
And we'll check it out when we get back to
the States. Some expert will have a perfectly good archaeological explanation.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I'm afraid, and I don't know exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
A part weena. Any caber who isn't afraid it's dangerous
usually winds up forgetting how important it is to be cautious.
Now we try this next passageway.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
And see where it leads.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I suppose we better take this one with a crouch walking.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I'll go first.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
If things get too cramped, we may have to do
a belly cross.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I'll just be sure your knee pads.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Are in place and your gloves are on snugly the
only blistered knees the bleeding hand.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Don't move too fast. I feel better when I can
reach out and touch it.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
And remember to relax.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Now it's easier to adjust your body to the narrow
parts of the crawlways.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Oh, smell like damp earth in here. It doesn't seem
quite so black as in the cave chamber we just left.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
In your eyes getting used to the darkness, you know
you might be right. Rena does smell of damp earth
getting muckier under foot too. You should be heading for
a wet cave this time. Just be careful you don't
slip now, twist and anckle, Matthew.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
The lamp on your heart hat? Did you put the
light out?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Why would I do that? Your hat light just went out?
Two damp batteries maybe?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Our flashlight is certainly a godsend.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Use it?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Will you be careful around this bend right now?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Our movement seems to have loosened some falling stones.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
There are no stones overhead, Matthew, it's all level clay legends.
What's that yellowish light just to head? Aren't caves usually
dark places?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
It's probably the entrance to the next cave chamber. I'll
be done to something that looks like yellow sunlight?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Isn't glowing in there?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Please have a look around before we go in, mat
Just be a second or two.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Where on earth did these birds come from?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
You?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
From here?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
You crazy creatures?
Speaker 8 (13:00):
There hundreds of them, a bix like small.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Knight actually dive bombing.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Why that is?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
If they didn't want me in there?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
They quiet. I don't hear any of them anymore. Con
As suddenly as they came. What kind of birds, Matthew?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Well, they look like those small birds on some of
our Mayan artifacts.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Must we go in there?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I don't see why not.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It's because the idea of hundreds of birds in a
cave this far underground bothers me. I don't understand it.
And why would they want to attack you?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
There's only one way we'll ever find an explanation.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Now, are you coming with me? Or am I going
in there alone?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
How to understand the mind the spirit that compels a
man to walk on them, to touch the bottom of
the sea, or, as in the case of Matthew Carley,
to defy a long history of ancient superstition, to explore
the dangers and mysteries of a multi tambered cave in
far away Yukatan. And will Matthew's passion for caving bring
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him in touch with some explanation of the mysteries in
the Cave of the Lost Tomorrow's I'll.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Be back shortly with that Two.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
An old Yucatan legend tells us that nine was considered
a sacred number to the ancient Mayans. Riena and Matthew Carling,
two Americans whose caving obsession has brought them to Yucatan.
Have just crawled through the ninth passageway and are about
to enter the ninth cave chamber in the Cave of
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the Lost Tomorrow's it is a ninth day of the
ninth month.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Oh, Matthew, for a breath taking sight. All those elegant
salactites hanging from the roof like like delicate Venetian chandeliers.
They seem to be giving off a.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Wet light, and the rock formations are spectacular.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Wish we could figure out where all the bright light
is coming from.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Well, we'll find the explanation.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Just give us time, Matthew. Mayan legend tells us that
some of these subterranean caves were inhabited by gods and
spirits who were called the illustrious Dead, that living men
and women were actually cast into caves like this one
as a sacrifice in time of drought. Do you suppose.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
What's that that crater directly below us? It's filling with water.
The bottom is covering completely.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
It's not a crater anymore, Matthew, turning into a lovely
shallow lake, thousands of silver water, bubble with bright colored fish.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
And a look what's on the edge of the shore,
a dugout from way back. Where can get any help
through that underfoot?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I want to have a closer look.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I can manage. I'm glad. Sick foots are part of
cating gear.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Look there, there's a pair of handcrafted paddles resting on
the dugout.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
They looks like the beauties will be the envy of
every caver we know when we add them to our collection.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Well, you haven't got them yet, Matthew. The dugouts being
pushed from the shore, edge of the water.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
How on earth do you explain that? I can't see anyone,
can you? And yet no one seems to be in
the boat.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
The lighting here has changed, Matthew. It's getting dimmer all
the time.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Ah, whoever you.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Are, I want to talk to you. Come back here, here, here, here, here, Matthew.
The dugout is standing on end, absolutely upright on top
of the water. It's going under prow slowly, I said,
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A magnet is pulling it down.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
It's disappeared completely.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I can't take any more.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Please, let's get out of here.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Who visit Cave of Lost Tomorrow's wish to return there?
Sacred Cave can destroy man's mind.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Then why do you keep going back?
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Hunac born of ancient priests and prophets. Whunach is living
messenger of holy ancestors. No, next few days not good
for caving.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Well, thank you for the message.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Can't say, mister Carling, must not make discord order you
not to go cave of lost Tomorrow's again.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You'll expect us to believe that.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Hunacs say you must keep my God's.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Friendly strange underground sounds and not unusual in the life
of experienced caberds Unak, and neither are mirages or extreme
natural phenomena.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And besides, my wife and I are almost.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
As familiar with many legends about gods and voices as
you are.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
What you call legend, Hulac call truth. You and missus
Carling here perhaps of ancient compassionator cross.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Of course you and Maria Vala have been wearing them
around your next is the day you came.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
To work for us.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Why do you ask who Nec suggests, mister Carling, where
compassionat a cross?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You're offering me your compassionate across to protect me when
we go back to the cave.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Maria val will give hers to missus Carling.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
That's nice of you both, Unak.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Look, I don't know how to make you understand this,
but I just don't believe in protective talismans of any kind.
Talismans exist only because people are frightened of things that
they think cannot be explained.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Some things are not to be explained.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Please, who not hope for change of mind before tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Not a chance, missus Carling and I will handle any
situation that arises tomorrow in our own way. You're a
good sport to have another go at this cave with me, Na,
I thought I might be coming back alone.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I'm glad the water is almost completely gone from the crater,
so shallow it's hard to leave what it was like
when we left here.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yes, do you watch your step just the same? A
yellow light still bother your eyes.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
No, I feel comfortable. I even enjoyed eating Maria VAL's
Mexican picnic lunch, sitting on a hard stone throat.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I married the right girl, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Rina, Sometimes anything more.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I tricked on something sticking out of the muck under
my feet. What is this, you tell you?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
In a second, A fairly large pottery shard and scrape
off the MUDs you were.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Another prize for a yucadamn collection pattern on it.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Matthew, their ancient sacred monkey. Funny little creature, so small,
such a long tale.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Why do you suppose it's a lettle wracked up there?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
But we left our things. A pack of small monkeys
helping themselves to what's left of our lunch. Well they
can have it, doesn't strike to you is rather odd.
Those birds that tried to attack you yesterday were the
same as a sacred bird on some of our artifacts,
and now these monkeys. Look at the pottery shards you
just found. The monkeys on it are exactly the same
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as those stealing our lunch. Where did they go?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yeah, they're probably picnicking and Maria VAL's good cooking in
one of the smaller cave chambers we're in.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
A Look at the water.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
What an incredible blue it is, a golden light overhead,
translucent blue light underfoot.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
What a place, Matthew. Have you been noticing that school
of large pink and red fish over there carrying water
plants in their mouth? And what about them? They all
swim to the same spot and drop the plants there,
as if they were trying to cover up something.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Let's go see what they're up to.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
What's on earth? Are these one, two, three, nine sticking
straight up into the air out of the water, Matthew?
These are crosses camouflaged by the water plants. Nine crosses
has symmetrically laid out as in an old burial gra
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Not only are they crosses, but but what look? Each
one marks a grave? Nine graves and the crosses themselves.
Can't you see? They're exactly like the ones at Hunak
and Maria val wanted to give us, only these are
much larger. You're absolutely right, Compassion not across is two
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feet high.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I wonder they wanted to keep us out of this cave.
Why to a museum or a private collection? These could
be worth a fortune.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
You're not thinking of taking one, are you? Meth Why live?
Because according to the Mayan legend, no fisherman ever set
sail without one. They considered them a talisman, a protector
in death as well as life.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Rina, It's a legend.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Remember.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Now, come over here and help me loosen one. So
we're not going to go back to Campbell now. I
don't do it, Matthew, all right, I'll do it myself.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
What was.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
From will be some cay Anibal.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You know this isn't easy.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Cross has sunk a lot deeper than I thought. I'll
give it another try, give.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It up back your please late beginning to fill up
against one. I'm going out you, Matthew, Please, you're not
making tad.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I'm coming with me compassion out of Cross for our collection.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Please, mister Carling, missus Carling, do not go inside your room.
Why not something happen here at Campbell? You were both
at Cave of Lost Tomorrows.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Tell us about it?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Please? Wait here?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Maria Belle return with grandfather. Not be long, Grandfather.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I'm going into our room. Are you coming?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Of course? Only I can't imagine what's in there that
could shake her up?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Some something serious. You can be sure what's.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Going on in here?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Candles, dozens of them, burning on every surface. It's like
a church burning votive offerings and memory.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Have the dead look at these over here, burning in
the candlesticks we brought back from our caving. And these
are our pottery pieces, These are our glass artifacts held
in place by melted tallow.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
They've even turned the clapperless death bells upside down and
used them to hold candles. Oh, here too, they didn't
like for some reason, Marie.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Val, will you commit here right away?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Please? I don't understand why anyone would do such a thing.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Oh who not keeps insisting he's descended from ancient priests
and prophets, doesn't he? He even walks around with jade
plugs in his ears to.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Prove it, Mister Carlin call huna, can Maria.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Val, Maria Val, stay here? I am afraid.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Look?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Would you two be good enough to tell me why?
When it is still broad days light? There are dozens
of candles burning.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
All over this room.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Who nack not light candles, Mariavell?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Not light candles?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Well?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Then who did light them?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Please?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Observe candles closely, mister Carling, missus Carling well too near
your bed? Not burning? Same size, same color, smooth? And
even who lack buy those for camp at store?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
And the burning candles not same?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Those who nak did not buy.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
He's right, Matthew. The ones burning are irregular in size,
shape and color. They have a coarse, primitive look.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Who brought them here? And let them have about them?
Marie Val, you take care of this room for us.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Many of ell not understand these things.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Oak, mister Carling, you remove sacred objects from cave of
lost Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
You must return dead.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Ancestors, honor each other. It is they who bring ancient candles.
It is they make them burn. Do not weave crandles.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
You actually expect us to believe this?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
If you do not return sacred objects, burning candles only
a beginning.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Of what Maria put out the candles, you can both go.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Mariadelle will not touch burning candles. No, mister Carling, please please.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Nak you put them out?
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Who arenack not offend world of departed spirits? Who nack
not put out candles?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
He won't have to, Matthew. Every candle in the room
is flickering and going out. Someone is blowing them out. Look,
one by one, every single one of them.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Kunak stands motionless a moment, his eyes closed, his head bowed, his.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Lips moving silently.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Then slowly, he lowers himself to the earthen floor, lies
flat on his back, and places his fingertips lightly on
his moist foreg The soft archaic sounds form on his
lips and fill the air, making a hypnotic melody. Matthew
and Rena Carling watch incredulously as they realize that Huonak
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is attempting to communicate with his dead ancestors. I'll return
shortly with Act three. Can the living make contact with
the world of the dead? Is it possible to hear them?
Speaker 2 (28:05):
See them, ask.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Their advice, carry out their bidding. Matthew and Reena Carling
have met such a man in Yucatan. He calls himself
Punak and claims to have brought them a warning from
his dead ancestors. Matthew and Reena are sitting in a
coconut grove on the edge of a small bay.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
What exactly do you make of Hunac, Matthew, No.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I put him in a category with people who consider
themselves wizards, witch, doctors, medicinemen, you know that sort of thing.
Whatever he's up to, Rennie, doesn't intimidate me, you one bit.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I think it's the compassion that across concerns him the most.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Well, I won't give that a brain no matter what
I mean that is.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Matthew, Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Oh? I think so.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
That whole pluster of enormous coconuts missed me by a
hair's breath.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
If they had landed on your head. Matthew, those coconuts
they're absolutely green. I always thought coca does never drop
from a tree until they were right, very right.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Let's see which branch they fell from, this lower one.
I think, well, what are those marks and machete cuts?
Can you imagine that it was coconuts who were cut
loose with a large machete knife.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
No one has been here. Well, we haven't even seen
a bird on animal. Let's go back to camp.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Okay, we'll walk back along the bay, pick up Hunac
and Marie Val where we left them fishing.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Missus Colin, Maria Belle does not wish to stay here.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I wish to go back to camp. We were just
going to pick you and your grandfather up.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Not necessary, be upset, Marioval. Not necessary? Disturbed mister and
missus Skott.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
What's bothering you? Mariavell? Something happened while you and your
grandfather were fishing?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Answer Brioval.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
I see strange things, mister Colin, what kind of things?
Ancient small boat rise from beneath water, not dugout? No
one in boat.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I don't move with no hands.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
He saw that too, Hunac, Yes, Whonac see too?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
What else happened?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Maria does not move? Just look in bottom of ancient boat,
maria sea fishing net. Fishing net was toughed from small
boat to my shoulders like beautiful shawl. Then small ancient
boat moves swiftly from.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Shore and disappear below surface of water.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Is that not so?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Please take Mariavel back to camp.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Mister Carling, What did you do with the fishing net? Mariavel?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Hunac has it?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Would you mind letting me and my wife hold on
to it for a bit?
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Whunak advised mister Carling leave net?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Weez who I'm not playing games? Not let me have it?
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (31:01):
We go back camp.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
No, mister cottle Oh one thing more. You know quite
a bit about coconut grows, don't you.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Who like live all these life Where are coconut trees?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I suppose you have a look at the cluster of
green coconuts lying on the ground on the other side
of this tree.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Nothing ungrowned, mister Garling.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Nothing, We'll be.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
You carry a machete knife, don't you.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Marchette knife belonged to dead ancestors.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I suppose I told you my wife and I found
machete marks on the branch of this tree, and that
the machete marks were exactly were a large cluster of
green coconuts fell to the ground, missing me by a
hair's breadth. Where, mister Carli, that first large branch right
above our heads, m.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Oh Manchette marks day, mister Carli, only many green coconut
I's waiting to be ripe, you see.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
For you, sir, I can't seem to understand what goes
on here, Matthew. I feel as if my thinking is
going native, or if Unak and Maria Vale are putting
a drug of some kind of what we eat and drink.
Let's change our plane reservations and go home.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Rena Yucatana's a once in a lifetime experience, and I'm
not cutting it short. Look, we'll both feel better after
a good night's sleep.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
I don't even feel comfortable in this room we're living
in anymore. Would you mind leaving a light on tonight? Somehow?
The idea of the dark bother's milk.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
You don't really mean that. Besides, you know I can't
sleep if there's a light on.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Oh all right, put it out.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Sleep well now, like a really early start in the morning.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Did you hear anything just now, Matthew?
Speaker 8 (33:03):
Why the tun rope one else got into you breathe,
and not a rope shoking on the way.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
There's no one here.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
You must have started to have a nightmare. Wait a second,
what is it?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Well, the skin on your throat is all red, and
also also what there are small round marks on your
neck and said from a knotted rope of some kind.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
And I can't bear it anymore. I'm gonna pipe this
minute and get ready to go home.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Nobody could possibly have been in here without our hearing,
no sign of any not at rope, anywhere in the room.
Look on the floor at my feet, the fisherman's net
that I took romonac.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Someone was trying to stangle me with that. It's knotted
fisherman's net. It's a room. It's a mess, suitcases wide open,
things scattered all over the floor.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Someone's been here looking for something, probably after we fell asleep.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
What I don't understand is why we don't ever see
or hear any.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
We're gonna look at this box. It was full of
our best relics, absolutely empty.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
The pieces were the sacred birds and monkeys, the candlesticks,
the death bells.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Every one of them gone.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
They even took the compassion out a cross that.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
I had right under where I was sleeping.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Oh why didn't they touch this other box here? It's
full of the other artifactory fam Matthew, they only took
the sacred relics. Please, let's be satisfied with these and
go home. Not on your life, Ohnak Maria Ba. I'm
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going to tell them we'll leave.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Those two are probably miles away by this time. We'll
never see either of them or the missing pieces again.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Missus Carlin calm arms, come in please?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Oh yes, come in and have a look around.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Why are things all over the floor?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Maybe you can tell us, Missus.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Carling wish to see whoake.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Some awful things happened in this room last night.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
First someone tried to strangle Missus Carling, and then later
they managed.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
To steal all of our sacred relics.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
Dead do not steal from living, mister Carling. It is
living who steal from dead.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
But what became of those relics and our compassion out across?
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Where are they? Who not? Do you have any idea?
Speaker 5 (35:42):
In sacred cave of lost Tomorrow's where they be?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Long?
Speaker 3 (35:47):
If that's so? Who put them there?
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Who nack not know?
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Dead ancestors?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Tell Whunac only that they are there.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
I don't know why I keep letting you persuade me
to come back into this case. Happily the lake is
shallow today. Flashing through this muddy lake bottom and heavy boots.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
Isn't exactly fun here in the burial ground.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
So we'll have some answers pretty soon. Huh.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Count the compassion of crosses like I just did. This
is to none upright crosses marking nine tidy graves, including
the one you took up the last time. The cross
is back where you took it from.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
This, and I'll bet Hunck is a pretty good idea.
How it?
Speaker 3 (36:41):
What happens?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Stub my boot against?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Okay? Can you see what I see?
Speaker 5 (36:46):
It?
Speaker 2 (36:47):
An old metal box? Pretty heavy?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
What's in it?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Well?
Speaker 5 (36:56):
How do you like that?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
All I still and cave pieces, every single one? Plus
plus what this pair of jade ear plugs?
Speaker 3 (37:12):
We had no jade ear plugs in our cave collection.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
No, but our friend hunok where's a pair to prove
that he's descended from my own priests and prophets.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
I wonder how they got in there.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
We'll figure that out later. You hold the box in
the winning while I dig up one of the crosses.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Oh, don't do it, Matthew. We've had nothing but trouble
tis we found this barrier.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Please move back a little bit. When it for this
crow BArch takes no time to talk.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
I'm not gonna let you do it.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
You let go of me.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
You're not going to think up that cross, not again?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Please talk when who's coming to join us? Who knocking?
Maria bound to stop us?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
You mean say where you y?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
You too?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
I mean to finish what I.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Started talk with? What's on your mind? When I'm we come?
Speaker 5 (38:00):
Say goodbye? Not work anymore at your camp?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Who like? Bring farewell pressent to wear around mister.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Carling's neck, Marrie ab I'll bring one for missus Carling too.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
Please lower your head, mister Carling.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
No wait a minute, what's on that Shane?
Speaker 1 (38:21):
You offered me that many ature compassion out of cross
once before, Hunch, and I thought I made it clear
that I don't believe in things like that.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Put it on my neck, mariaval and thank you.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
Missus Carling wise to accept farewell gift.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Make mister Carling take it too?
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Please?
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Who not get away from me? Who know I don't
need it? I'm taking one of the large ones for
our collection.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
Do not struggle, mister Carling, who neck put this on
your neck?
Speaker 3 (38:48):
So I'm taking it off. Can't you just so it
won't come off? I can't get it off? Why is
that the leak rand father beginning to pill up again?
Speaker 2 (39:02):
You gotta finish digging up to that cross, Grenna. Don't
just stand there.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Either help me or get out of the way. I
am a slave, Glendon.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
We go quickly too, sure he's not.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
He do no stable. Let's go with the lttew.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
It's almost loose right now.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
We're gonna have one of these large compassion out of
crosses after all.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
I don't think we can make it, not not the
way the one was rising it. I've got it in
its soft g you Matthew, the dog I just came
out of the small cape chamber behind you, Doug.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
He's you're right, it's heading straight for us. Keep that
thing away from it, get it away.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
But they up to and know they pulled into the
dord out.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
I can't see.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Anyone to hear anyone that.
Speaker 5 (39:49):
I mean, pull in where? Throw me where you are?
Speaker 3 (39:52):
It's so deep now, so swift, it's like a.
Speaker 8 (39:55):
Whirl, try to get the shore in a save yourself dug.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
It's coming toward.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
No, I'll get away.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
I'm pulling me to the dug, out to it. Why
can't I see you got?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Why can't I see that the prow that don what's happening?
Speaker 3 (40:12):
It's pointing upwards like is fine? It seems like a
tide of way. We've spun around, we're finding downward. Now
you my guy, beneath the surface. It's like being fled
headlong into a bottle of water.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Fall deeper and deeper.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
I'm trying to bring Maria house miniature and patching others.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
And then when I.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Meet you way as you're still around your nick.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Someone just took mine off chain and off. Someone just
took mine off too.
Speaker 8 (40:41):
Listen, we're civilized people in a civilized world.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Things I just don't have a lot of this work.
They just don't happen and happen.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
As the underground lakes of size Kunak and Maria val
look down at two familiar bodies, drenched, lightless, lying close
to the mysterious burial ground. The miniature compassion out of
crosses are gone from their necks and hung innocently on the.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Necks of their rightful owners.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
In the burial ground, the large compassion out a cross
stands upright in its place, one of nine, a sacred
number to the ancient Mayans.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
The story you have just heard is based upon a
legend told in Akumal in Yucatan. A small museum there displays,
among its ancient Mayan treasures, several compassion out of crosses,
said to have been found on the floor of a
body of water close by. The large ones are like
those which mark the graves in the Cave of Lost Tomorrow's.
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The miniatures are identical with those worn by Hunak and
Maria val Our cast included Mandel Kramer, Ann Williams, Arnold Moss,
and Elizabeth Latham. The entire production was under the direction
of Hymon Brown. This is E. G. Marshall inviting you
to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in
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the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant ba ba
The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents. Come in Welcome. I'MI G.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
The Yucatan in Mexico is a land of great scenic
beauty and of extraordinary, unforgettable legends. The enigmatic wonders found
in its caverns below the surface of the earth often
excel the beauty and strangeness found above, and the incredible
tales told by those who explore them caverrs or spelunkers,
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as they are called, are a challenge few of them
can resist, for it can truly be said that what
is seen and heard below is indeed wondrous strange.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Well, I'll miss you when it's time to go back home.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Marieval Grandfather Hunac say, maybe you and mister Carling stay
in Yucatan.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Where would he get an idea like that?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Grandfather speak with dead ancestors. They tell him many things,
but that's.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Impossible, and no one can talk with the dead.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Grandfather, not like other people. He descends from Mayan priests
and prophets. When Grandfather Hunac speak the dead answer.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Our mystery drama The Lost Tomorrows was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Stella Moss and stars Mendel Kramer
and Anne Williams. It is sponsored in part by Buick
Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with Act one. For
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most serious cave explorers, penetrating deep into the bowels of
the earth is a challenge, impossible to resist. The very
thought of a dangerous caving expedition sets the heart pounding.
Rena and Matthew Carling are two such cavers who have
come to a tiny town in the lake territory of Yucatan.
They have only one thought in mind, exploring little known
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caves where they hope to find ancient Mayan relics. They
are living in a temporary structure of palm leaves set
up between two large trees. Two Mayan servants, Hunak and
Maria Val do their housekeeping. We've never found this many
pieces so quickly, Rena.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And how beautiful some of them are. Look at this
piece of jade, Matthew. A Mayan princess might have worn it.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The pottery shards intrigued me. The eating utensils, all those
curious patterns on them.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I wish we could take the candlesticks home, beautifully crafted.
Seems a pity to have to give all these fascinating
things to a Mexican museum.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Well, just be glad they let us go into the
caves to look for them.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Hey, these pottery pieces are off beef.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
In what way you have a look?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Each piece has the same pattern of a small bird
on it, poised in a sort of lunging position, head down,
wings spread wide, sort of a tax stance like a
toy dive BOMBA.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
What do you suppose the Mayon's had in mind?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I will have to find out.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Meanwhile, into the museum box they all go, Well, let's
hope we do as well as this in the Cave
of the Lost Tomorrow's.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Matthew, did you notice that Hunak and Maria val both
seemed upset as they served our breakfast? But when we
talked about tomorrow's caving trip, I mean, oh not particularly.
They kept looking at each other an odd way all
the time.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
They served us.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I'd be a lot more comfortable if I knew what
was on their minds.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well, I'll ask them who not you committed here for
a minute?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Would not come carling.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
And take it gently? Matthew, Life in this god forsaken
place would be impossible That those two.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Don't worry, trust me, mister Carling, wish for something for
missus Carling about Tomorrow's cave. Do not and granddaughter take
care everything. If mister Carling not wish to change plans.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Why should we change our plans?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Well, if our luck holds out, the Mayan artifacts we
found in other caves will be nothing compared to the
cave of the Loss Tomorrow's.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I may speak, mister Carling. Of course, things you take
from caves belong to dead ancestors do not belong in
living world.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Privacy of dead must be respected. We are scientific cavers.
We believe that things like these belong where they can
be studied.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
But for living to take from head who like not understand.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Well, that's the difference between science on one hand, and legend.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And superstition on the other.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Please, Matthew who neck.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Knows Cave of Lost Tomorrow's well, many time go there.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Not same as other caves mean one way cave of
fear and terror, sacred cave of my young gods, where
you don't frighten me.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Hunak, please pack the usual equipment. We'll be leaving early
in the morning as scheduled.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Maybe mister and missus Carling permit Hunac to go with them.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I thank you for the offer, but we prefer to
go alone. And please tell Marieval that pack is a
good lunch. We're planning a long day.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
That lunch looks delicious.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Mariavell many thanks, missus Carling. Grandfather Hunac catch fresh fish
this morning I make for you and mister Curling.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
That sounds fine.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Also you find sweet oranges and lunch basket and canteen
filled from fresh cool spring.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I don't know how it managed without you. I'll miss
you when it's time to leave you catan and.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Go back home.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Maybe you stay in your catan. Not a chance, Grandfather say,
maybe you and mister Carling stay.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Where would you get an idea like that?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Grandfather speak with dead ancestors. Dead ancestors, they tell many things.
That's impossible.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
No one can talk with the dead.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
Grandfather Hunac not same as other people. And what way
he descend to this life from my own priests and prophets,
learn from them wisdom of a thousand years?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
He speak?
Speaker 7 (06:53):
They answer?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
But how Marieval? How what do they sound like? What
do they say?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Maria? I'll not hear voices?
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Only grandfather here?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Where is Hunac?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Now?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I won't to talk to him about loading the jeep
with our caving equipment. Mister Carling is anxious to get started.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Jeep loaded, Missus Carling hard hats with lamp, first aid kit, packet, knife, flashlight,
rope ladder.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Grandfather, what I want to know is why he isn't
here as usual to help us take off.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Grandfather asked mister and Missus Carling please to excuse him.
Ancestors wish to speak with him this morning about mister
and Missus Carling.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I'll take the food basket and water, Maria Val. Mister
Carling will be getting impatient. Please to let me go
with you. Missus Carling. Mariaval know well Cave of Lost
to Morrow's first Hunac, now you why are you so
anxious to go with us?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Grandfallow Hulac wished to speak to you.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I come, Grandfather, Please not be angry Missus Culling. Mariadel
fear for safety of mister and Missus Carling. Tomorrow, ninth
day of ninth month.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
What has that got to do with anything?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
What take you so long?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I come, Grandfather?
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Please, Missus Curling for in people not safe in Cave
of Lost tomorrows, Please to be careful.
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Please, I can't believe this cave, Matthew.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I feel almost as if I've lost my sense of reality.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
What kind of remark is that for an experienced cave,
it's so deep.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
So enormous, so quiet, and there's such amazing passageways and chambers.
I have to struggle to keep my sense of which
way is up and which way is down, which way
is in and which way is out. Oh, I hate
to get stranded here.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Stop worrying about it.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I've been making a careful map of every small cave
inside the large one, and every connecting tunnel. Now we've
been through eight passageways and inside eight cave chambers.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Is it possible there's a total of nine passageways and
nine cave chambers. Nine was a sacred number to the
agent NaNs and today is the ninth day of the
ninth month.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That's got into you.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Between who Mac and Maria Val, they've really managed to upset.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
You, Matthew. Do you realize our only link for the
outside world is a thin stream of daylight coming through
a narrow cave entrance, eight chambers and eight tunnels away.
I've even lost my sense of time. I'm not sure
if We've been here minute so hours a.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Days, Rina, trust me, we've never yet failed on a
caving expedition.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Look, I'll make a bargain with you.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
What's that the minute we find a really good piece
for our museum box, we'll do a right about face
and go back to camp.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Fair enough, Now, if you'll just let your which light
sweep over the darkness for a second or two, I'll
be my old self again. The darkness here is different somehow,
like black paper thin glass.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I'd rather say, with my batteries and stick with the
light from the lamps on our hard hats. But if
it'll make you feel better, on goes the flashlight.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Oh nephew, I'll simply off.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Take it easy.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Now.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
That's a human skeleton over there, with a huge rock
resting on the leg bones as if it fell on
him from above, and pin the poor man down.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I'm turning off the flesh.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Oh please, don't all right, but I don't want to
hear that we shouldn't have come to this cave.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Look at that enormous dead tree on the right, as
if its branches were woven into a gigantic kind of
spider's whip. All the human skeleton bones caught it Oo,
how do you suppose that happened?
Speaker 1 (10:53):
And we'll check it out when we get back to
the States. Some expert will have a perfectly good archaeological explanation.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
I'm afraid, and I don't know exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
A part weena. Any caber who isn't afraid it's dangerous
usually winds up forgetting how important it is to be cautious.
Now we try this next passageway.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
And see where it leads.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I suppose we better take this one with a crouch walking.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I'll go first.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
If things get too cramped, we may have to do
a belly cross.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I'll just be sure your knee pads.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Are in place and your gloves are on snugly the
only blistered knees the bleeding hand.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Don't move too fast. I feel better when I can
reach out and touch it.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
And remember to relax.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Now it's easier to adjust your body to the narrow
parts of the crawlways.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Oh, smell like damp earth in here. It doesn't seem
quite so black as in the cave chamber we just left.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
In your eyes getting used to the darkness, you know
you might be right. Rena does smell of damp earth
getting muckier under foot too. You should be heading for
a wet cave this time. Just be careful you don't
slip now, twist and anckle, Matthew.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
The lamp on your heart hat? Did you put the
light out?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Why would I do that? Your hat light just went out?
Two damp batteries maybe?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Our flashlight is certainly a godsend.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Use it?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Will you be careful around this bend right now?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Our movement seems to have loosened some falling stones.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
There are no stones overhead, Matthew, it's all level clay legends.
What's that yellowish light just to head? Aren't caves usually
dark places?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
It's probably the entrance to the next cave chamber. I'll
be done to something that looks like yellow sunlight?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Isn't glowing in there?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Please have a look around before we go in, mat
Just be a second or two.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Where on earth did these birds come from?
Speaker 6 (12:56):
You?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
From here?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
You crazy creatures?
Speaker 8 (13:00):
There hundreds of them, a bix like small.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Knight actually dive bombing.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Why that is?
Speaker 2 (13:05):
If they didn't want me in there?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
They quiet. I don't hear any of them anymore. Con
As suddenly as they came. What kind of birds, Matthew?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Well, they look like those small birds on some of
our Mayan artifacts.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Must we go in there?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I don't see why not.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It's because the idea of hundreds of birds in a
cave this far underground bothers me. I don't understand it.
And why would they want to attack you?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
There's only one way we'll ever find an explanation.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Now, are you coming with me? Or am I going
in there alone?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
How to understand the mind the spirit that compels a
man to walk on them, to touch the bottom of
the sea, or, as in the case of Matthew Carley,
to defy a long history of ancient superstition, to explore
the dangers and mysteries of a multi tambered cave in
far away Yukatan. And will Matthew's passion for caving bring
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him in touch with some explanation of the mysteries in
the Cave of the Lost Tomorrow's I'll.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Be back shortly with that Two.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
An old Yucatan legend tells us that nine was considered
a sacred number to the ancient Mayans. Riena and Matthew Carling,
two Americans whose caving obsession has brought them to Yucatan.
Have just crawled through the ninth passageway and are about
to enter the ninth cave chamber in the Cave of
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the Lost Tomorrow's it is a ninth day of the
ninth month.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Oh, Matthew, for a breath taking sight. All those elegant
salactites hanging from the roof like like delicate Venetian chandeliers.
They seem to be giving off a.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Wet light, and the rock formations are spectacular.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Wish we could figure out where all the bright light
is coming from.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Well, we'll find the explanation.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Just give us time, Matthew. Mayan legend tells us that
some of these subterranean caves were inhabited by gods and
spirits who were called the illustrious Dead, that living men
and women were actually cast into caves like this one
as a sacrifice in time of drought. Do you suppose.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
What's that that crater directly below us? It's filling with water.
The bottom is covering completely.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
It's not a crater anymore, Matthew, turning into a lovely
shallow lake, thousands of silver water, bubble with bright colored fish.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
And a look what's on the edge of the shore,
a dugout from way back. Where can get any help
through that underfoot?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I want to have a closer look.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I can manage. I'm glad. Sick foots are part of
cating gear.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Look there, there's a pair of handcrafted paddles resting on
the dugout.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
They looks like the beauties will be the envy of
every caver we know when we add them to our collection.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Well, you haven't got them yet, Matthew. The dugouts being
pushed from the shore, edge of the water.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
How on earth do you explain that? I can't see anyone,
can you? And yet no one seems to be in
the boat.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
The lighting here has changed, Matthew. It's getting dimmer all
the time.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Ah, whoever you.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Are, I want to talk to you. Come back here, here, here, here, here, Matthew.
The dugout is standing on end, absolutely upright on top
of the water. It's going under prow slowly, I said,
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A magnet is pulling it down.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
It's disappeared completely.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
I can't take any more.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Please, let's get out of here.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Who visit Cave of Lost Tomorrow's wish to return there?
Sacred Cave can destroy man's mind.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Then why do you keep going back?
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Hunac born of ancient priests and prophets. Whunach is living
messenger of holy ancestors. No, next few days not good
for caving.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Well, thank you for the message.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Can't say, mister Carling, must not make discord order you
not to go cave of lost Tomorrow's again.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
You'll expect us to believe that.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Hunacs say you must keep my God's.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Friendly strange underground sounds and not unusual in the life
of experienced caberds Unak, and neither are mirages or extreme
natural phenomena.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And besides, my wife and I are almost.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
As familiar with many legends about gods and voices as
you are.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
What you call legend, Hulac call truth. You and missus
Carling here perhaps of ancient compassionator cross.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Of course you and Maria Vala have been wearing them
around your next is the day you came.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
To work for us.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Why do you ask who Nec suggests, mister Carling, where
compassionat a cross?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
You're offering me your compassionate across to protect me when
we go back to the cave.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Maria val will give hers to missus Carling.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
That's nice of you both, Unak.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Look, I don't know how to make you understand this,
but I just don't believe in protective talismans of any kind.
Talismans exist only because people are frightened of things that
they think cannot be explained.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Some things are not to be explained.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Please, who not hope for change of mind before tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Not a chance, missus Carling and I will handle any
situation that arises tomorrow in our own way. You're a
good sport to have another go at this cave with me, Na,
I thought I might be coming back alone.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I'm glad the water is almost completely gone from the crater,
so shallow it's hard to leave what it was like
when we left here.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Yes, do you watch your step just the same? A
yellow light still bother your eyes.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
No, I feel comfortable. I even enjoyed eating Maria VAL's
Mexican picnic lunch, sitting on a hard stone throat.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
I married the right girl, you know.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Rina, Sometimes anything more.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I tricked on something sticking out of the muck under
my feet. What is this, you tell you?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
In a second, A fairly large pottery shard and scrape
off the MUDs you were.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Another prize for a yucadamn collection pattern on it.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Matthew, their ancient sacred monkey. Funny little creature, so small,
such a long tale.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Why do you suppose it's a lettle wracked up there?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
But we left our things. A pack of small monkeys
helping themselves to what's left of our lunch. Well they
can have it, doesn't strike to you is rather odd.
Those birds that tried to attack you yesterday were the
same as a sacred bird on some of our artifacts,
and now these monkeys. Look at the pottery shards you
just found. The monkeys on it are exactly the same
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as those stealing our lunch. Where did they go?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yeah, they're probably picnicking and Maria VAL's good cooking in
one of the smaller cave chambers we're in.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
A Look at the water.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
What an incredible blue it is, a golden light overhead,
translucent blue light underfoot.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
What a place, Matthew. Have you been noticing that school
of large pink and red fish over there carrying water
plants in their mouth? And what about them? They all
swim to the same spot and drop the plants there,
as if they were trying to cover up something.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Let's go see what they're up to.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
What's on earth? Are these one, two, three, nine sticking
straight up into the air out of the water, Matthew?
These are crosses camouflaged by the water plants. Nine crosses
has symmetrically laid out as in an old burial gra
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Not only are they crosses, but but what look? Each
one marks a grave? Nine graves and the crosses themselves.
Can't you see? They're exactly like the ones at Hunak
and Maria val wanted to give us, only these are
much larger. You're absolutely right, Compassion not across is two
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feet high.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I wonder they wanted to keep us out of this cave.
Why to a museum or a private collection? These could
be worth a fortune.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
You're not thinking of taking one, are you? Meth Why live?
Because according to the Mayan legend, no fisherman ever set
sail without one. They considered them a talisman, a protector
in death as well as life.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Rina, It's a legend.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Remember.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Now, come over here and help me loosen one. So
we're not going to go back to Campbell now. I
don't do it, Matthew, all right, I'll do it myself.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
What was.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
From will be some cay Anibal.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You know this isn't easy.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Cross has sunk a lot deeper than I thought. I'll
give it another try, give.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It up back your please late beginning to fill up
against one. I'm going out you, Matthew, Please, you're not
making tad.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I'm coming with me compassion out of Cross for our collection.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Please, mister Carling, missus Carling, do not go inside your room.
Why not something happen here at Campbell? You were both
at Cave of Lost Tomorrows.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Tell us about it?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Please? Wait here?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Maria Belle return with grandfather. Not be long, Grandfather.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I'm going into our room. Are you coming?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Of course? Only I can't imagine what's in there that
could shake her up?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Some something serious. You can be sure what's.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Going on in here?
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Candles, dozens of them, burning on every surface. It's like
a church burning votive offerings and memory.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Have the dead look at these over here, burning in
the candlesticks we brought back from our caving. And these
are our pottery pieces, These are our glass artifacts held
in place by melted tallow.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
They've even turned the clapperless death bells upside down and
used them to hold candles. Oh, here too, they didn't
like for some reason, Marie.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Val, will you commit here right away?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Please? I don't understand why anyone would do such a thing.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Oh who not keeps insisting he's descended from ancient priests
and prophets, doesn't he? He even walks around with jade
plugs in his ears to.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Prove it, Mister Carlin call huna, can Maria.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Val, Maria Val, stay here? I am afraid.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Look?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Would you two be good enough to tell me why?
When it is still broad days light? There are dozens
of candles burning.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
All over this room.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Who nack not light candles, Mariavell?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Not light candles?
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Well?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Then who did light them?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Please?
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Observe candles closely, mister Carling, missus Carling well too near
your bed? Not burning? Same size, same color, smooth? And
even who lack buy those for camp at store?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
And the burning candles not same?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Those who nak did not buy.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
He's right, Matthew. The ones burning are irregular in size,
shape and color. They have a coarse, primitive look.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Who brought them here? And let them have about them?
Marie Val, you take care of this room for us.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Many of ell not understand these things.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Oak, mister Carling, you remove sacred objects from cave of
lost Tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
You must return dead.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Ancestors, honor each other. It is they who bring ancient candles.
It is they make them burn. Do not weave crandles.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
You actually expect us to believe this?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
If you do not return sacred objects, burning candles only
a beginning.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Of what Maria put out the candles, you can both go.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Mariadelle will not touch burning candles. No, mister Carling, please please.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Nak you put them out?
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Who arenack not offend world of departed spirits? Who nack
not put out candles?
Speaker 3 (26:49):
He won't have to, Matthew. Every candle in the room
is flickering and going out. Someone is blowing them out. Look,
one by one, every single one of them.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Kunak stands motionless a moment, his eyes closed, his head bowed, his.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Lips moving silently.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Then slowly, he lowers himself to the earthen floor, lies
flat on his back, and places his fingertips lightly on
his moist foreg The soft archaic sounds form on his
lips and fill the air, making a hypnotic melody. Matthew
and Rena Carling watch incredulously as they realize that Huonak
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is attempting to communicate with his dead ancestors. I'll return
shortly with Act three. Can the living make contact with
the world of the dead? Is it possible to hear them?
Speaker 2 (28:05):
See them, ask.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Their advice, carry out their bidding. Matthew and Reena Carling
have met such a man in Yucatan. He calls himself
Punak and claims to have brought them a warning from
his dead ancestors. Matthew and Reena are sitting in a
coconut grove on the edge of a small bay.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
What exactly do you make of Hunac, Matthew, No.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I put him in a category with people who consider
themselves wizards, witch, doctors, medicinemen, you know that sort of thing.
Whatever he's up to, Rennie, doesn't intimidate me, you one bit.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
I think it's the compassion that across concerns him the most.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Well, I won't give that a brain no matter what
I mean that is.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Matthew, Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Oh? I think so.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
That whole pluster of enormous coconuts missed me by a
hair's breath.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
If they had landed on your head. Matthew, those coconuts
they're absolutely green. I always thought coca does never drop
from a tree until they were right, very right.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Let's see which branch they fell from, this lower one.
I think, well, what are those marks and machete cuts?
Can you imagine that it was coconuts who were cut
loose with a large machete knife.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
No one has been here. Well, we haven't even seen
a bird on animal. Let's go back to camp.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Okay, we'll walk back along the bay, pick up Hunac
and Marie Val where we left them fishing.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Missus Colin, Maria Belle does not wish to stay here.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I wish to go back to camp. We were just
going to pick you and your grandfather up.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
Not necessary, be upset, Marioval. Not necessary? Disturbed mister and
missus Skott.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
What's bothering you? Mariavell? Something happened while you and your
grandfather were fishing?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Answer Brioval.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
I see strange things, mister Colin, what kind of things?
Ancient small boat rise from beneath water, not dugout? No
one in boat.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
I don't move with no hands.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
He saw that too, Hunac, Yes, Whonac see too?
Speaker 3 (30:16):
What else happened?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Maria does not move? Just look in bottom of ancient boat,
maria sea fishing net. Fishing net was toughed from small
boat to my shoulders like beautiful shawl. Then small ancient
boat moves swiftly from.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Shore and disappear below surface of water.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Is that not so?
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Please take Mariavel back to camp.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Mister Carling, What did you do with the fishing net? Mariavel?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Hunac has it?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Would you mind letting me and my wife hold on
to it for a bit?
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Whunak advised mister Carling leave net?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Weez who I'm not playing games? Not let me have it?
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (31:01):
We go back camp.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
No, mister cottle Oh one thing more. You know quite
a bit about coconut grows, don't you.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Who like live all these life Where are coconut trees?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
I suppose you have a look at the cluster of
green coconuts lying on the ground on the other side
of this tree.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Nothing ungrowned, mister Garling.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
Nothing, We'll be.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
You carry a machete knife, don't you.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Marchette knife belonged to dead ancestors.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I suppose I told you my wife and I found
machete marks on the branch of this tree, and that
the machete marks were exactly were a large cluster of
green coconuts fell to the ground, missing me by a
hair's breadth. Where, mister Carli, that first large branch right
above our heads, m.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
Oh Manchette marks day, mister Carli, only many green coconut
I's waiting to be ripe, you see.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
For you, sir, I can't seem to understand what goes
on here, Matthew. I feel as if my thinking is
going native, or if Unak and Maria Vale are putting
a drug of some kind of what we eat and drink.
Let's change our plane reservations and go home.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Rena Yucatana's a once in a lifetime experience, and I'm
not cutting it short. Look, we'll both feel better after
a good night's sleep.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
I don't even feel comfortable in this room we're living
in anymore. Would you mind leaving a light on tonight? Somehow?
The idea of the dark bother's milk.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
You don't really mean that. Besides, you know I can't
sleep if there's a light on.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Oh all right, put it out.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Sleep well now, like a really early start in the morning.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Did you hear anything just now, Matthew?
Speaker 8 (33:03):
Why the tun rope one else got into you breathe,
and not a rope shoking on the way.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
There's no one here.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
You must have started to have a nightmare. Wait a second,
what is it?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Well, the skin on your throat is all red, and
also also what there are small round marks on your
neck and said from a knotted rope of some kind.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
And I can't bear it anymore. I'm gonna pipe this
minute and get ready to go home.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Nobody could possibly have been in here without our hearing,
no sign of any not at rope, anywhere in the room.
Look on the floor at my feet, the fisherman's net
that I took romonac.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Someone was trying to stangle me with that. It's knotted
fisherman's net. It's a room. It's a mess, suitcases wide open,
things scattered all over the floor.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Someone's been here looking for something, probably after we fell asleep.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
What I don't understand is why we don't ever see
or hear any.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
We're gonna look at this box. It was full of
our best relics, absolutely empty.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
The pieces were the sacred birds and monkeys, the candlesticks,
the death bells.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Every one of them gone.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
They even took the compassion out a cross that.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
I had right under where I was sleeping.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Oh why didn't they touch this other box here? It's
full of the other artifactory fam Matthew, they only took
the sacred relics. Please, let's be satisfied with these and
go home. Not on your life, Ohnak Maria Ba. I'm
(34:59):
going to tell them we'll leave.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Those two are probably miles away by this time. We'll
never see either of them or the missing pieces again.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
Missus Carlin calm arms, come in please?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Oh yes, come in and have a look around.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Why are things all over the floor?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Maybe you can tell us, Missus.
Speaker 5 (35:17):
Carling wish to see whoake.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Some awful things happened in this room last night.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
First someone tried to strangle Missus Carling, and then later
they managed.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
To steal all of our sacred relics.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
Dead do not steal from living, mister Carling. It is
living who steal from dead.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
But what became of those relics and our compassion out across?
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Where are they? Who not? Do you have any idea?
Speaker 5 (35:42):
In sacred cave of lost Tomorrow's where they be?
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Long?
Speaker 3 (35:47):
If that's so? Who put them there?
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Who nack not know?
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Dead ancestors?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Tell Whunac only that they are there.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
I don't know why I keep letting you persuade me
to come back into this case. Happily the lake is
shallow today. Flashing through this muddy lake bottom and heavy boots.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
Isn't exactly fun here in the burial ground.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
So we'll have some answers pretty soon. Huh.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Count the compassion of crosses like I just did. This
is to none upright crosses marking nine tidy graves, including
the one you took up the last time. The cross
is back where you took it from.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
This, and I'll bet Hunck is a pretty good idea.
How it?
Speaker 3 (36:41):
What happens?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Stub my boot against?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
Okay? Can you see what I see?
Speaker 5 (36:46):
It?
Speaker 2 (36:47):
An old metal box? Pretty heavy?
Speaker 3 (36:51):
What's in it?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Well?
Speaker 5 (36:56):
How do you like that?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
All I still and cave pieces, every single one? Plus
plus what this pair of jade ear plugs?
Speaker 3 (37:12):
We had no jade ear plugs in our cave collection.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
No, but our friend hunok where's a pair to prove
that he's descended from my own priests and prophets.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
I wonder how they got in there.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
We'll figure that out later. You hold the box in
the winning while I dig up one of the crosses.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Oh, don't do it, Matthew. We've had nothing but trouble
tis we found this barrier.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Please move back a little bit. When it for this
crow BArch takes no time to talk.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
I'm not gonna let you do it.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
You let go of me.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
You're not going to think up that cross, not again?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Please talk when who's coming to join us? Who knocking?
Maria bound to stop us?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
You mean say where you y?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
You too?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
I mean to finish what I.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Started talk with? What's on your mind? When I'm we come?
Speaker 5 (38:00):
Say goodbye? Not work anymore at your camp?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (38:06):
Who like? Bring farewell pressent to wear around mister.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Carling's neck, Marrie ab I'll bring one for missus Carling too.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
Please lower your head, mister Carling.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
No wait a minute, what's on that Shane?
Speaker 1 (38:21):
You offered me that many ature compassion out of cross
once before, Hunch, and I thought I made it clear
that I don't believe in things like that.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Put it on my neck, mariaval and thank you.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
Missus Carling wise to accept farewell gift.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Make mister Carling take it too?
Speaker 4 (38:37):
Please?
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Who not get away from me? Who know I don't
need it? I'm taking one of the large ones for
our collection.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
Do not struggle, mister Carling, who neck put this on
your neck?
Speaker 3 (38:48):
So I'm taking it off. Can't you just so it
won't come off? I can't get it off? Why is
that the leak rand father beginning to pill up again?
Speaker 2 (39:02):
You gotta finish digging up to that cross, Grenna. Don't
just stand there.
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Either help me or get out of the way. I
am a slave, Glendon.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
We go quickly too, sure he's not.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
He do no stable. Let's go with the lttew.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
It's almost loose right now.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
We're gonna have one of these large compassion out of
crosses after all.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
I don't think we can make it, not not the
way the one was rising it. I've got it in
its soft g you Matthew, the dog I just came
out of the small cape chamber behind you, Doug.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
He's you're right, it's heading straight for us. Keep that
thing away from it, get it away.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
But they up to and know they pulled into the
dord out.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
I can't see.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Anyone to hear anyone that.
Speaker 5 (39:49):
I mean, pull in where? Throw me where you are?
Speaker 3 (39:52):
It's so deep now, so swift, it's like a.
Speaker 8 (39:55):
Whirl, try to get the shore in a save yourself dug.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
It's coming toward.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
No, I'll get away.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
I'm pulling me to the dug, out to it. Why
can't I see you got?
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Why can't I see that the prow that don what's happening?
Speaker 3 (40:12):
It's pointing upwards like is fine? It seems like a
tide of way. We've spun around, we're finding downward. Now
you my guy, beneath the surface. It's like being fled
headlong into a bottle of water.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Fall deeper and deeper.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
I'm trying to bring Maria house miniature and patching others.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
And then when I.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Meet you way as you're still around your nick.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Someone just took mine off chain and off. Someone just
took mine off too.
Speaker 8 (40:41):
Listen, we're civilized people in a civilized world.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Things I just don't have a lot of this work.
They just don't happen and happen.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
As the underground lakes of size Kunak and Maria val
look down at two familiar bodies, drenched, lightless, lying close
to the mysterious burial ground. The miniature compassion out of
crosses are gone from their necks and hung innocently on the.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Necks of their rightful owners.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
In the burial ground, the large compassion out a cross
stands upright in its place, one of nine, a sacred
number to the ancient Mayans.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
I'll be back shortly.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
The story you have just heard is based upon a
legend told in Akumal in Yucatan. A small museum there displays,
among its ancient Mayan treasures, several compassion out of crosses,
said to have been found on the floor of a
body of water close by. The large ones are like
those which mark the graves in the Cave of Lost Tomorrow's.
(42:08):
The miniatures are identical with those worn by Hunak and
Maria val Our cast included Mandel Kramer, Ann Williams, Arnold Moss,
and Elizabeth Latham. The entire production was under the direction
of Hymon Brown. This is E. G. Marshall inviting you
to return to our mystery theater for another adventure in
(42:31):
the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant ba ba
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