September 26, 2025 • 23 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful radio series during it's run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1940-1962. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Marlene Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart. The plots were mostly engaging crime dramas, science fiction and some horror - usually with a surprise ending.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And now a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I know, I know, according to all natural laws, it's impossible,
completely utterly impossible. But I tell you, and I swear
to it, that I and I alone, am guilty of
this murder, as guilty as though I killed him with
my own two hands. So you must tell them, the police.
You must tell them, because they'd never believe me, because
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it is impossible.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
But it happened.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Listen now to act one of Dreams, starring Philip Sterling
and written especially for suspense by Jack Bundy.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
M.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Colling Colling.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yes, doctor Harris, Yes, yes, yes you are, doctor Harris.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I know because I saw you.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I heard you make that speech last week at the
Civic Auditorium about the supernatural and premonitions and telepathy and
about about dreams, doctor, about dreams. Yes, and I should
have told you about it then.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I was. I was a fool.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I was such a fool not too tell me about what,
young men.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
These dreams, these terrible dreams that I have.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
That.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Oh, if only i'd come to you before.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yes, who are you, young man? And please please get
hold of yourself. No, well, I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Sorry, doctor, I'm sorry. My name is Kingman, Robert Kingman. Yes,
I live here in the village and I work at
Blake Electronics, and please or let me come in because
I think you can help me.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Well, I don't know. I'm not a medical doctor, Kingman.
I'm only a student of the supernatural extra sensory perception.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yes, and you know about dreams and premonitions and things. Well,
that's why I've come to you. And listen your speech,
your lecture. The other night you talked about dreams coming true.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Now I talked about the possibility of such things.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Oh if I only talked to you then there it's
your lecture and told you about this. Perhaps you could
have helped me before it was too late. But I
hope to heaven and even now you can help me
if you will, Doctor.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Harris, Well, well perhaps you'd better come in.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Thank you, Thank you all.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I didn't hear Kingman.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
A little drink perhaps two to com you.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
No, no, no, just let me tell you these these
terrible things that I've done.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
If I don't tell somebody, I'll go crazy.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Oh no, come on, will we consider right down here?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Thank you? Now, Like I said, it's these it's these dreams.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Of mine, These fantastic dreams I have, they've nearly driven
me out of my mind. And you know why, because
they made a killer out of me.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Do you understand, sir, I'm I'm a murderer. I've murdered
a man.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Wait a minute, mister Kingland. Yes, if you have killed someone.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And I have, doctor, I've killed him, And why.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Do you come to me? The police are the ones
you must go to the police, of course.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
But what would they do?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
What could they do, don't you see, doctor, They wouldn't understand,
They wouldn't believe me.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Nonetheless, my boy, if there actually has been.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Am you see?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It isn't as though I actually killed him with my
own two hands, as though I actually struck him down.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
But I might as well have, don't you see that?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
No, I'm afraid I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
But it's true. I'm responsible. I'm holy and totally responsible
no one else. But I can't tell the police about it,
don't you see? Because you know about such things, you
can make them understand. And then if they say I'm
legally guilty, all right, yes, yes, then I'll take the consequences,
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even if I have to die for it. But my
wife says, I'm not responsible, Janet says, I can't be.
It's impossible. And yet after all that happened, I don't know.
I don't know what to do. Please, you've got to
help me, doctor, Harris.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Well, you can hardly expect me to help you until
you calm down enough to start at the beginning and
tell me just what is it all about? So far
you've really told me nothing.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I'm sorry, doctor, I'm sorry, it's just that well, I'm sorry,
but listen please. Yes, it was only last month. One
morning last month, my wife Janet and I were sitting
having breakfast together.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Darling, why aren't you eating your breakfast?
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Isn't everything all right?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
What?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Sure, Sure of course it is, honey.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Then why aren't you eating? Why you've been sitting there
staring into space? Something wrong, Darling?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Wrong?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
No, no, of course, not, Janet, I because I'm just
not hungry this morning.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It's all, is it?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Sure? That isn't true?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Dear?
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Something is wrong? Now?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
What is it? Bob?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Janet?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Do you remember that funny dream I had about a
week ago, you.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Mean about my brother Walter falling down the steps and
breaking his wrist. Yes, well, i'd hardly call.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It funny, I know, because that's exactly why what happened
to him The very next day.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I dreamed it, and then it happened.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
It was a real strange coincidence.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Only it wasn't. It wasn't coincidence, Janet, But it must have. No, Dear,
had I ever before told you about.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
A dream of mine?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
No, I guess not, Honey.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
That was the first dream I'd had since I was
just a little kid. When I was a kid, I
had dreams all the time that came true, like the
one about Joey Prentice, the boy next door, just before
he drowned in Parven's pond, Like the one of my
father before he died. I dreamed only when something like
that was going to happen. Even so, don't you see, Janet,
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the one about your brother was far more than just
a dream.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It was a definite premonition.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Well maybe it was, and probably it wasn't.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Anyhow, you and I know better than believe in premonition.
So so just forget it, dear, and eat this nice
breakfast I've.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Fixed for you.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
No, it's not that easy, I'm afraid. Why not? Last night, Dear,
I had another dream and if it comes true.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Oh now, honey, don't sit there and tell me you've
actually lost your appetite just because of a dream you had. Yes,
but daring, that's silly, unless it was a horrible nightmare.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
No, no, it wasn't a nightmare. But the dream was
also clear. I had a fight with Stanley Bolton. Bolton, Yes,
he's not only ahead of her search, but a vice
president too, and the one man who could block the
promotion promised me by mister Blake.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Oh yes, but just a dream deed.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Promotion means everything to me, Janet, to both of us, of.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Course it does. You've worked for it and you've earned it.
But surely something you happened to dream about isn't going
to keep you from getting it. I wonder, well, just
stop wondering right this minute, Robert Kingman, and eat your
break fist. It is kind of silly, you know, really,
and you even take the time.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Well, I certainly hope your wife was right, But go on,
Kingdom doctor.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
At the office that day, I watched my step every
minute to make sure that nothing could possibly go wrong,
and I carefully avoided mister Bolton. But then as the
day wore on and nothing out of the way happened. Well,
I began to breathe more easily and decided I'd worried
about nothing at all. But a few minutes after five,
as I finished things up for the day.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
I'll have this finished for you in just a second,
mister Kingdom.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Oh good, Miss Racott, and you might as well run
along home, very nun Here you are for it. Let's
see if you'll sign it.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
I'll have the envelope already and i'll mail it on
the way out here.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
You are, thank you.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Well away right now, all right now, Kingman, Yes, mister
pol why haven't I received the foreign sales records for
last month?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Well, today is only the eighth, mister Poltman. We don't
usually put together these reports until.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Today is only the eighth. Well, how nice of you
to tell me.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
But Kingman, if Scoville is to take those records with
him to the Toronto office tomorrow, he's got to have
them immediately and in perfect orders.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Coville, Toronto, I didn't know any You didn't know. Do
you think that's any excuse?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
But I'm usually notified if someone needs material like that. Negligent,
that's the trouble with you. Utterly irresponsible.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Well, mister, and you're the one that mister Blake was
considering for promotion.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Well, I'll soon put a stop to that. Mister Polton Scoville.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
Is leaving on the coup tomorrow, and if those figures
aren't ready for him, you'd better look for another job.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
And then king what happened? Then?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
The next morning, mister Blake called me in and politely
told me the promotion would have to wait, perhaps another year,
until mister Bolton was better satisfied with my work.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Well, I'm sorry, but now, look, my boy, is that
one incident? That coincidence about incidence? Yes, if that's all
that brought you here to see me so upset.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
And so didn't you hear me?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Don't you understand that was only the beginning of the
dreams that have made me a killer. And when you
hear the rest of the terrible things I've dreamed about
that have happened, Heaven forgive me for what I've done.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
In a moment, we'll return for Act two of.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
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Speaker 5 (11:09):
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Speaker 9 (11:26):
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Speaker 5 (11:55):
Remember for cars left out at night or in unheated garages.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Don't ask the trouble to ask going to put xerx.
Any reason.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
You had more of these so called promontory dreams, then.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yes, doctor, because I wanted to, because I wanted to
get even I banked a lot on that promotion. Now
I've lost any chance for it thanks to mister Bolton.
I knew it wasn't right, but I couldn't help hating
him almost viciously, and I couldn't get him or my
hatred for him, or what he'd done to us. I
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couldn't get it out of my mind. I couldn't get
him out of my mind. And then a few nights
later I dreamed about him again. It was a weird,
a crazy, fantastic sort of dream.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Well, what do you want with me, kingman? What do
you want? And why do you have me?
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Pend up in this place like a jail.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Isn't it, mister Bolton? High walls of heavy concrete blocks.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Well, I built this place myself, mister Bolton, just for you.
There's no door, no windows, there's no way out for you.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You can't get away from me. And now I'm going
to pay you back, mister Bolton, for what you've done
to me. You're crazy, king when you can't hurt me.
This is only a dream, only a dream.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
It's my dream, It's my dream, mister Bolton, now, Kingman,
And that's why you can't help yourself when I beat
you and beat you the way you deserve.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Ready stop?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Are you ready? Stop?
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Stay away from me? I'm ready?
Speaker 10 (13:38):
No, no, And you did beat him in this dream
of your.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Unmercifully until he fell unconscious.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Well, I hard to see anything about it to worry
your king. But wait, I can hardly picture anything like
that actually happening. Dream will not Wait?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Wait, doctor, When I woke up in the morning, my
hands were sore, my knuckles were all bruised.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
And I imagine you've done a pretty good job of
tearing up the bedclothes too, then, hadn't you, doctor, mister Kingman, Now, Robert,
you must understand something after what had happened at the
office when you and mister Bolden, a dream like that
was the most natural thing in the world. Dreams spring
from the unconscious, and so far as this man Bolton
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is concerned in your subconscious.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh wait, please, you've got to hear me out very well.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Go on.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
When I got to the office the next morning, everybody
was commiserating with mister Bolton because of the terrible bumps
and bruises.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
All over his head.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
And how did he explain?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
He said that he'd fallen out of his bed during
the night, but with all those bruises, he'd have to
have fallen out a dozen times.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
And then when he.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Saw me, doctor, it was just as though he knew
it was just as though he knew that I had
somehow made it happen to him, and from that point
on he never let up on me. Day after day,
everything I did was wrong.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
No, No, wait a minute, no.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Doctor, I began to hate him more bitterly than anything
or any person I ever hated before.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
He became an obsession I couldn't shake off.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
And then suddenly it dawned on me all my dreams
had come true, and that meant my dreams would come true.
Whatever I dreamed would have to come true. So from
that moment on, I knew what I had to do.
I knew that I would never have any peace until
I dreamed about, and therefore brought about the death of
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Stanley Bolton. Yes, Doctor, The more I thought about it,
the more I became convinced. More I knew than anything
I dreamed about would have to come to pass, not
exactly as I dreamed it, perhaps, but the result would
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be the same. And so every night before I dropped
off to sleep, I thought of nothing but Stanley Bowten,
of all the hatred I had for him. I concentrated
all my thoughts on him and nothing else, Doctor, and
I focused my thoughts on his murder.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
But it didn't work. I couldn't seem to dream again, try.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
As I might well fivesessed for the best.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Not until three nights ago. Oh and again, doctor. It
was a wild, crazy, utterly fantastic dream. There was a
big empty square, a city block or more, with a
high thick wall around it, much bigger than the place
I'd dreamed about before. And there was a car, a
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sports car, a sort of race car, a very fast one,
driving around in this place as though it were hunting
for something all of a sudden, the way it can happen.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Only in a dream.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I was in that car, I was driving it. I
was hunting for something or something frantically. And then as
I wildly spun and swerved the car about, then I
saw him Bolton, and he knew me, and he knew
I was after him, and he knew that this time
he wouldn't get away alive. Stop stop you you run
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me down?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Run me Go ahead and run Bolton.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
You think you cannot run me on this?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Try it, try it?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Oh h you'll kill me, But a try of dream, remember,
So run your legs off, Bolton and see what couldable?
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Do?
Speaker 5 (17:46):
You?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Release? Please?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Are you ready? Are you ready?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Well?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I'm ready?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
No, Well, well Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
The next morning, when I got to the office, I
learned that mister Bolton had been killed. What, Yes, by
some hit and around driver in a sports car.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
And do you know why, doctor, because of my dream?
Because it's what I wanted to dream.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
So I'm guilty of Stanley Bolton's murder.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
No, no, you want you had nothing to do with
the car that ran him down.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Of course I didn't. But I'm still to blame because
I am. Because now now I have proof that I
am proof. Yes, because last night I dreamed again. Yes,
I dreamed that for what I'd done, I was electrocuted.
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What can I do, doctor? What can I do?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I don't know, I don't know. I must have time
to think about this.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Do you believe me? You believe me what I've told you?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Yes, yes, Robert, I believe you, and I believe you
need help.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
If I go to the police, if they believe me,
it can mean only one thing, the death penalty.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Electrocution.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Now, now, now, Robert listened to me, you may feel
any way you wish about this whole, gruesome affair. And
because of the strain that's imposed on you, I can
understand why you're so upset about it. But we've got
to be realistic about this.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Now.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Legally there is no possible way in which you could
be found guilty of Bolton's murder. So first we have
to think about you, about how to ease your mind.
You're conscious of this. Oh wait, now, what of course
I should have thought of him when you came here.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yes, doctor, someone who can help.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Me, Robert. I know it's late, but I want you
to go and see an old friend of mine. His
name is Thaddius Hagen.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
You know him, the psychiatist. Yes, well, I've heard of him.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
But Doc, I want you to go to him alone.
I want you to tell him exactly what you've told me.
I'll phone him that you're coming in spite of the hour,
and I promise that I'll tell him nothing whatever about
the case. I'll only ask him that he called me
after he's talked with you.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You think I've gone crazy?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
No, no, not by any means. But this whole experience
has upset you badly, as it would anyone, and the
most important thing at the moment is to get you
back into the frame of mind where you can well,
you can face this thing with your fullest capacity for
sound judgment, because you must work this out for yourself, Robert,
but not in your present state of mind. Will you
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go and see Hagen for your own sake? Robert? Yes, now, no, good,
I'll give you his address. It's only a few miles
from here, and you must telling him that. I'll be
waiting to hear from him. Doctor Harris speaking.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Harris, Harris, this is Tardius Hagen Hagen.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Oh, yes, yes, but I'm I was surprised to hear
from you so soon, Harris.
Speaker 11 (21:28):
That young man you said you were sending out here
to see me, yes, Robert Kingman.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yes Hagen you talked to him.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
No, no, I didn't.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
But why not?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Because a terrible thing has happened.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Well, well, what is it? Man?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Harris?
Speaker 11 (21:44):
The new high tension power line the electric company strung
across my property, twenty two thousand volts Hagen. Yes, one
of those lines broke. It fell across my front walk
and there in the darkness. He couldn't say it. He
stumbled into it. Good lord, it was killed immediately, Harris.
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Electrocuting suspense. You've been listening to Dreams starring Philip Sterling
and written especially for suspense by Jack Bundy. Suspense is
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produced and directed by Bruno Zerato.
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Junior music supervision by Ethel Huber. Heard in Tonight's Story,
where Edgar Staley is Doctor Harris, Connie Lemke is Janet,
Richard Kendrick is mister Bolton Raymond Edward Johnson as Thaddius Hagen,
and Barbara Cassar.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
As the Girl.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Listen again next week when we return with Seeds of Disaster,
written by David Hill. Another tale well calculated to keep
you in suspense. Carelessness causes forest fires, only you can
prevent them.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
This is the CBS Radio Network.
And now a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I know, I know, according to all natural laws, it's impossible,
completely utterly impossible. But I tell you, and I swear
to it, that I and I alone, am guilty of
this murder, as guilty as though I killed him with
my own two hands. So you must tell them, the police.
You must tell them, because they'd never believe me, because
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it is impossible.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
But it happened.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Listen now to act one of Dreams, starring Philip Sterling
and written especially for suspense by Jack Bundy.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
M.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Colling Colling.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yes, doctor Harris, Yes, yes, yes you are, doctor Harris.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I know because I saw you.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I heard you make that speech last week at the
Civic Auditorium about the supernatural and premonitions and telepathy and
about about dreams, doctor, about dreams. Yes, and I should
have told you about it then.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I was. I was a fool.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I was such a fool not too tell me about what,
young men.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
These dreams, these terrible dreams that I have.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
That.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Oh, if only i'd come to you before.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yes, who are you, young man? And please please get
hold of yourself. No, well, I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Sorry, doctor, I'm sorry. My name is Kingman, Robert Kingman. Yes,
I live here in the village and I work at
Blake Electronics, and please or let me come in because
I think you can help me.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Well, I don't know. I'm not a medical doctor, Kingman.
I'm only a student of the supernatural extra sensory perception.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yes, and you know about dreams and premonitions and things. Well,
that's why I've come to you. And listen your speech,
your lecture. The other night you talked about dreams coming true.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Now I talked about the possibility of such things.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Oh if I only talked to you then there it's
your lecture and told you about this. Perhaps you could
have helped me before it was too late. But I
hope to heaven and even now you can help me
if you will, Doctor.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Harris, Well, well perhaps you'd better come in.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Thank you, Thank you all.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I didn't hear Kingman.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
A little drink perhaps two to com you.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
No, no, no, just let me tell you these these
terrible things that I've done.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
If I don't tell somebody, I'll go crazy.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Oh no, come on, will we consider right down here?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Thank you? Now, Like I said, it's these it's these dreams.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Of mine, These fantastic dreams I have, they've nearly driven
me out of my mind. And you know why, because
they made a killer out of me.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Do you understand, sir, I'm I'm a murderer. I've murdered
a man.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Wait a minute, mister Kingland. Yes, if you have killed someone.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And I have, doctor, I've killed him, And why.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Do you come to me? The police are the ones
you must go to the police, of course.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
But what would they do?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
What could they do, don't you see, doctor, They wouldn't understand,
They wouldn't believe me.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Nonetheless, my boy, if there actually has been.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Am you see?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It isn't as though I actually killed him with my
own two hands, as though I actually struck him down.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
But I might as well have, don't you see that?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
No, I'm afraid I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
But it's true. I'm responsible. I'm holy and totally responsible
no one else. But I can't tell the police about it,
don't you see? Because you know about such things, you
can make them understand. And then if they say I'm
legally guilty, all right, yes, yes, then I'll take the consequences,
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even if I have to die for it. But my
wife says, I'm not responsible, Janet says, I can't be.
It's impossible. And yet after all that happened, I don't know.
I don't know what to do. Please, you've got to
help me, doctor, Harris.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Well, you can hardly expect me to help you until
you calm down enough to start at the beginning and
tell me just what is it all about? So far
you've really told me nothing.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I'm sorry, doctor, I'm sorry, it's just that well, I'm sorry,
but listen please. Yes, it was only last month. One
morning last month, my wife Janet and I were sitting
having breakfast together.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Darling, why aren't you eating your breakfast?
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Isn't everything all right?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
What?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Sure, Sure of course it is, honey.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Then why aren't you eating? Why you've been sitting there
staring into space? Something wrong, Darling?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Wrong?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
No, no, of course, not, Janet, I because I'm just
not hungry this morning.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
It's all, is it?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Sure? That isn't true?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Dear?
Speaker 7 (05:39):
Something is wrong? Now?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
What is it? Bob?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Janet?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Do you remember that funny dream I had about a
week ago, you.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
Mean about my brother Walter falling down the steps and
breaking his wrist. Yes, well, i'd hardly call.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It funny, I know, because that's exactly why what happened
to him The very next day.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I dreamed it, and then it happened.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
It was a real strange coincidence.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Only it wasn't. It wasn't coincidence, Janet, But it must have. No, Dear,
had I ever before told you about.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
A dream of mine?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
No, I guess not, Honey.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
That was the first dream I'd had since I was
just a little kid. When I was a kid, I
had dreams all the time that came true, like the
one about Joey Prentice, the boy next door, just before
he drowned in Parven's pond, Like the one of my
father before he died. I dreamed only when something like
that was going to happen. Even so, don't you see, Janet,
(06:43):
the one about your brother was far more than just
a dream.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It was a definite premonition.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Well maybe it was, and probably it wasn't.
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Anyhow, you and I know better than believe in premonition.
So so just forget it, dear, and eat this nice
breakfast I've.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Fixed for you.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
No, it's not that easy, I'm afraid. Why not? Last night, Dear,
I had another dream and if it comes true.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Oh now, honey, don't sit there and tell me you've
actually lost your appetite just because of a dream you had. Yes,
but daring, that's silly, unless it was a horrible nightmare.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
No, no, it wasn't a nightmare. But the dream was
also clear. I had a fight with Stanley Bolton. Bolton, Yes,
he's not only ahead of her search, but a vice
president too, and the one man who could block the
promotion promised me by mister Blake.
Speaker 7 (07:39):
Oh yes, but just a dream deed.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Promotion means everything to me, Janet, to both of us, of.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Course it does. You've worked for it and you've earned it.
But surely something you happened to dream about isn't going
to keep you from getting it. I wonder, well, just
stop wondering right this minute, Robert Kingman, and eat your
break fist. It is kind of silly, you know, really,
and you even take the time.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Well, I certainly hope your wife was right, But go on,
Kingdom doctor.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
At the office that day, I watched my step every
minute to make sure that nothing could possibly go wrong,
and I carefully avoided mister Bolton. But then as the
day wore on and nothing out of the way happened. Well,
I began to breathe more easily and decided I'd worried
about nothing at all. But a few minutes after five,
as I finished things up for the day.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
I'll have this finished for you in just a second,
mister Kingdom.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Oh good, Miss Racott, and you might as well run
along home, very nun Here you are for it. Let's
see if you'll sign it.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
I'll have the envelope already and i'll mail it on
the way out here.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
You are, thank you.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
Well away right now, all right now, Kingman, Yes, mister
pol why haven't I received the foreign sales records for
last month?
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Well, today is only the eighth, mister Poltman. We don't
usually put together these reports until.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Today is only the eighth. Well, how nice of you
to tell me.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
But Kingman, if Scoville is to take those records with
him to the Toronto office tomorrow, he's got to have
them immediately and in perfect orders.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Coville, Toronto, I didn't know any You didn't know. Do
you think that's any excuse?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
But I'm usually notified if someone needs material like that. Negligent,
that's the trouble with you. Utterly irresponsible.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Well, mister, and you're the one that mister Blake was
considering for promotion.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Well, I'll soon put a stop to that. Mister Polton Scoville.
Speaker 8 (09:58):
Is leaving on the coup tomorrow, and if those figures
aren't ready for him, you'd better look for another job.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
And then king what happened? Then?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
The next morning, mister Blake called me in and politely
told me the promotion would have to wait, perhaps another year,
until mister Bolton was better satisfied with my work.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Well, I'm sorry, but now, look, my boy, is that
one incident? That coincidence about incidence? Yes, if that's all
that brought you here to see me so upset.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
And so didn't you hear me?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Don't you understand that was only the beginning of the
dreams that have made me a killer. And when you
hear the rest of the terrible things I've dreamed about
that have happened, Heaven forgive me for what I've done.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
In a moment, we'll return for Act two of.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Suspense.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
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(11:46):
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Speaker 5 (11:55):
Remember for cars left out at night or in unheated garages.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Don't ask the trouble to ask going to put xerx.
Any reason.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
You had more of these so called promontory dreams, then.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yes, doctor, because I wanted to, because I wanted to
get even I banked a lot on that promotion. Now
I've lost any chance for it thanks to mister Bolton.
I knew it wasn't right, but I couldn't help hating
him almost viciously, and I couldn't get him or my
hatred for him, or what he'd done to us. I
(12:33):
couldn't get it out of my mind. I couldn't get
him out of my mind. And then a few nights
later I dreamed about him again. It was a weird,
a crazy, fantastic sort of dream.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Well, what do you want with me, kingman? What do
you want? And why do you have me?
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Pend up in this place like a jail.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Isn't it, mister Bolton? High walls of heavy concrete blocks.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Well, I built this place myself, mister Bolton, just for you.
There's no door, no windows, there's no way out for you.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You can't get away from me. And now I'm going
to pay you back, mister Bolton, for what you've done
to me. You're crazy, king when you can't hurt me.
This is only a dream, only a dream.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
It's my dream, It's my dream, mister Bolton, now, Kingman,
And that's why you can't help yourself when I beat
you and beat you the way you deserve.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Ready stop?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Are you ready? Stop?
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Stay away from me? I'm ready?
Speaker 10 (13:38):
No, no, And you did beat him in this dream
of your.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Unmercifully until he fell unconscious.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Well, I hard to see anything about it to worry
your king. But wait, I can hardly picture anything like
that actually happening. Dream will not Wait?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Wait, doctor, When I woke up in the morning, my
hands were sore, my knuckles were all bruised.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
And I imagine you've done a pretty good job of
tearing up the bedclothes too, then, hadn't you, doctor, mister Kingman, Now, Robert,
you must understand something after what had happened at the
office when you and mister Bolden, a dream like that
was the most natural thing in the world. Dreams spring
from the unconscious, and so far as this man Bolton
(14:30):
is concerned in your subconscious.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh wait, please, you've got to hear me out very well.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Go on.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
When I got to the office the next morning, everybody
was commiserating with mister Bolton because of the terrible bumps
and bruises.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
All over his head.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
And how did he explain?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
He said that he'd fallen out of his bed during
the night, but with all those bruises, he'd have to
have fallen out a dozen times.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
And then when he.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Saw me, doctor, it was just as though he knew
it was just as though he knew that I had
somehow made it happen to him, and from that point
on he never let up on me. Day after day,
everything I did was wrong.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
No, No, wait a minute, no.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Doctor, I began to hate him more bitterly than anything
or any person I ever hated before.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
He became an obsession I couldn't shake off.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
And then suddenly it dawned on me all my dreams
had come true, and that meant my dreams would come true.
Whatever I dreamed would have to come true. So from
that moment on, I knew what I had to do.
I knew that I would never have any peace until
I dreamed about, and therefore brought about the death of
(15:45):
Stanley Bolton. Yes, Doctor, The more I thought about it,
the more I became convinced. More I knew than anything
I dreamed about would have to come to pass, not
exactly as I dreamed it, perhaps, but the result would
(16:09):
be the same. And so every night before I dropped
off to sleep, I thought of nothing but Stanley Bowten,
of all the hatred I had for him. I concentrated
all my thoughts on him and nothing else, Doctor, and
I focused my thoughts on his murder.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
But it didn't work. I couldn't seem to dream again, try.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
As I might well fivesessed for the best.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Not until three nights ago. Oh and again, doctor. It
was a wild, crazy, utterly fantastic dream. There was a
big empty square, a city block or more, with a
high thick wall around it, much bigger than the place
I'd dreamed about before. And there was a car, a
(16:58):
sports car, a sort of race car, a very fast one,
driving around in this place as though it were hunting
for something all of a sudden, the way it can happen.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Only in a dream.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I was in that car, I was driving it. I
was hunting for something or something frantically. And then as
I wildly spun and swerved the car about, then I
saw him Bolton, and he knew me, and he knew
I was after him, and he knew that this time
he wouldn't get away alive. Stop stop you you run
(17:32):
me down?
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Run me Go ahead and run Bolton.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
You think you cannot run me on this?
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Try it, try it?
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Oh h you'll kill me, But a try of dream, remember,
So run your legs off, Bolton and see what couldable?
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Do?
Speaker 5 (17:46):
You?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Release? Please?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Are you ready? Are you ready?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Well?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I'm ready?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
No, Well, well Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
The next morning, when I got to the office, I
learned that mister Bolton had been killed. What, Yes, by
some hit and around driver in a sports car.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
And do you know why, doctor, because of my dream?
Because it's what I wanted to dream.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
So I'm guilty of Stanley Bolton's murder.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
No, no, you want you had nothing to do with
the car that ran him down.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Of course I didn't. But I'm still to blame because
I am. Because now now I have proof that I
am proof. Yes, because last night I dreamed again. Yes,
I dreamed that for what I'd done, I was electrocuted.
(19:06):
What can I do, doctor? What can I do?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I don't know, I don't know. I must have time
to think about this.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Do you believe me? You believe me what I've told you?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Yes, yes, Robert, I believe you, and I believe you
need help.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
If I go to the police, if they believe me,
it can mean only one thing, the death penalty.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Electrocution.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Now, now, now, Robert listened to me, you may feel
any way you wish about this whole, gruesome affair. And
because of the strain that's imposed on you, I can
understand why you're so upset about it. But we've got
to be realistic about this.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Now.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Legally there is no possible way in which you could
be found guilty of Bolton's murder. So first we have
to think about you, about how to ease your mind.
You're conscious of this. Oh wait, now, what of course
I should have thought of him when you came here.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yes, doctor, someone who can help.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Me, Robert. I know it's late, but I want you
to go and see an old friend of mine. His
name is Thaddius Hagen.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
You know him, the psychiatist. Yes, well, I've heard of him.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
But Doc, I want you to go to him alone.
I want you to tell him exactly what you've told me.
I'll phone him that you're coming in spite of the hour,
and I promise that I'll tell him nothing whatever about
the case. I'll only ask him that he called me
after he's talked with you.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
You think I've gone crazy?
Speaker 4 (20:32):
No, no, not by any means. But this whole experience
has upset you badly, as it would anyone, and the
most important thing at the moment is to get you
back into the frame of mind where you can well,
you can face this thing with your fullest capacity for
sound judgment, because you must work this out for yourself, Robert,
but not in your present state of mind. Will you
(20:54):
go and see Hagen for your own sake? Robert? Yes, now, no, good,
I'll give you his address. It's only a few miles
from here, and you must telling him that. I'll be
waiting to hear from him. Doctor Harris speaking.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Harris, Harris, this is Tardius Hagen Hagen.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Oh, yes, yes, but I'm I was surprised to hear
from you so soon, Harris.
Speaker 11 (21:28):
That young man you said you were sending out here
to see me, yes, Robert Kingman.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yes Hagen you talked to him.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
No, no, I didn't.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
But why not?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Because a terrible thing has happened.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Well, well, what is it? Man?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (21:43):
Harris?
Speaker 11 (21:44):
The new high tension power line the electric company strung
across my property, twenty two thousand volts Hagen. Yes, one
of those lines broke. It fell across my front walk
and there in the darkness. He couldn't say it. He
stumbled into it. Good lord, it was killed immediately, Harris.
(22:06):
Electrocuting suspense. You've been listening to Dreams starring Philip Sterling
and written especially for suspense by Jack Bundy. Suspense is
(22:48):
produced and directed by Bruno Zerato.
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Junior music supervision by Ethel Huber. Heard in Tonight's Story,
where Edgar Staley is Doctor Harris, Connie Lemke is Janet,
Richard Kendrick is mister Bolton Raymond Edward Johnson as Thaddius Hagen,
and Barbara Cassar.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
As the Girl.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Listen again next week when we return with Seeds of Disaster,
written by David Hill. Another tale well calculated to keep
you in suspense. Carelessness causes forest fires, only you can
prevent them.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
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