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August 29, 2024 • 22 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lights out everybody.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
It is.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Later then you.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Think this is.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Arch Obler bringing you another in our series of stories
of the unusual. And once again we caution you. These
lights out stories are definitely not for the timid soul.
So we tell you calmly and very sincerely, if you
fright me, easily turn off your radio.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Now.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Hi, I know, let's die and I am father, damahue
as a rule as I am, I'm not ready to
die until ah I'm closer father. And here my miserable confession.

(01:12):
You know mere's a good woman of the village. That uh,
I've heard what you say. There's no finer old woman
in all the islands in the wood of the ells.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
But that's not so.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Father down the hill. And if I'm to meet all
my old friends in the island of Paradise, then heal
me out and pray for of me.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
You know, all my.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Sons, Thomas and Petty barn on the same called when
there's night they were, and the first born Thomas, were
as good as an angel in Paradise. But the second there,
one man named Petty, was evil. From the moment he
took his first breath of God's good air.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
It was.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
Thomas had carried the load of the family on his back,
fishing from Maryland to late the petty Ah, that's right,
drinking and brawling and running from work, as if the
devil himself was pulling him away. I prayed to the
Good God every night that some goodness come into the

(02:19):
man's heart. But with every year he grew worse, stealing
what his crooked tongue couldn't talk away from honest men. Ah.
But his brother Thomas, he repaid me for all the
trouble a good bye. And when it came to me
with a word that he was to marry Iveen, the

(02:40):
herting me sang for the good God always meant for
the two of them to be together.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
Ah.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
How I remember the day of the widden, the sun shining,
and the sky and the sea smooth of the baby's cheek.
There was the happy little known of the horror of
what was to come. Ah, it was a happy morning.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
A listen to the mother. Did you ever hear a
happier sound in all creation?

Speaker 4 (03:07):
Wait?

Speaker 6 (03:07):
Don't they be happy?

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Thomas? It's not every day that such a blessed marriage
comes in the islands.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Ah.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
The prettiest girl and all the blasket's waiting to be
your bride as soon as the sun God setting my bride.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
I'm happy for you, my son. I wonder where.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Patty can be.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Paddy he is, He isn't around You know where he is.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
That's ray.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
He will be a better wedding without him. Oh, my mother,
don't say things like that. After all, he's your son
and my brother.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Sorry, in my heart, he's drinking and brawlin.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Paddy, you did come speak? And why shouldn't I be here?
It's an honest stranger said, we welcome to your wedding, Patty.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
That's not the way to talk.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
There's food and drink and nah.

Speaker 7 (03:44):
Wait a minute, I've got more important things to do
than to be sunning the belly.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Listen to me, brother Thomas. Is your head that full of.

Speaker 7 (03:50):
Weddings that it can't give a chance of making us
old richer than the Yankee?

Speaker 2 (03:54):
What do you mean?

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yes, think up, Paddy?

Speaker 1 (03:55):
What give me a be up to now?

Speaker 7 (03:57):
It's honest money I'm talking about and made the next
pipes and tobacco at me.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
On wake if I'm not telling you the truth. I'm listening, Paddy,
But you're what you have to see you remember the half.

Speaker 7 (04:06):
Of a ship that was wrecked off the Nish and abroad.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
But to go well, well, I went there yesterday to
see if there was anything. What's happening?

Speaker 7 (04:13):
Listen to me, brother, in the bottom of a pool
no deeper than this room, he's lying enough. Bought some
copper and bash to make you and leave the richest
men on the items.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
What you can believe you're is.

Speaker 7 (04:23):
Wouldn't you rather bring the brighter pocket book filled with
the golf suverns.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
And the empty level you've got now for Paddy. I
wish you mother, you talk to the men that if.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
It's in the sea, it will wait until after the wedding?

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Wait, will it?

Speaker 7 (04:34):
And with those iniche boats sailing out around the place, I.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Tell you now or never, and lay my sword for
the devil. If I'm not saying through.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
Words, m Thomas, it would be nice to have a
bit of money in the house.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yes, sir, then what are you waiting for?

Speaker 7 (04:47):
You've got a boat big enough to handle the stuff,
and I'll be there to help you, and in three
hours you can be back.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
You'll dance.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Oh, let her have the word, But you stay or go?

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Stay? You'll go?

Speaker 4 (04:55):
Well, another dinnail.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
What's going on? Tom Will you see Aileen at the
end of the day sharks?

Speaker 7 (05:01):
Let me say it, Eileen, here's a fortune living grass
and copper boats waiting for us, and water more deeper
than a man's neck over off innisna brawl and Tommy
he'll thinks you'd be full enough to say no to
his going.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
But must he go now?

Speaker 2 (05:15):
See?

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Doesn't wait?

Speaker 2 (05:15):
He'd be back in three hours, Arleen.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
I just think, Eileen, you'll have a dress.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
For every day of the week.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
Do you want to go?

Speaker 2 (05:23):
We could build a new house with.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
The money, not a danell. Do you think Thomas should
go now?

Speaker 2 (05:28):
I mean with all them are.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
There, when there's the pool, and Thomas young as he
used the worn and ridly from work.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Maybe this is God's breting.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
I give from Heaven for putting our faith in him
who watches over.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
All off we God's blessing is right. One hundred pounds
and we'll be things of the island. Come on, now,
we can take the side that down the kait brother.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Eileen, is it your wish?

Speaker 4 (05:49):
I be a poor wife to you, Tomas if I
stood in your way of making a living before.

Speaker 7 (05:55):
My God, God they'll be time enough for that now
when we get back.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Come on, Thomas, let's get out of here.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
Hurry back to me.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
My dear sea will take me to our.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Good fortune, and the sea will bring me back. I'll
just wait, Thomas.

Speaker 8 (06:05):
Yeah, I'm coming, And here's the wedding darling God, Yes, yes,
I'll be back in three hours.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Mother and ring to the Yankees by Oh this is baby.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Why should you cry? Thomas just goud to see so
many times.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Why should you cry this time?

Speaker 8 (06:24):
I'm frightened.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Frightened and show me. Why should you be frightened?

Speaker 2 (06:29):
I don't know. But that door closed behind him. It
seems as if the waters of the sea were closing over.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Oh. Mother did come out, and soon Father, Danaghue, Eileen
and I left the tension in the fiddling behind and
climbed the long pass up to the top of the
cliff so our eyes could see far out over the water.
And all the time my Lene kept crying that she'd

(06:58):
never see Thomas again, She's ever coming to see. Oh,
stop trying, you're saying, girl, to the tip and do work. Oh.
I haven't climb this passed for a minute.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
It's a little too steep.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
From the old bones. Swell, oh, now stop that girl.
Thomas has found so much coppering is taking.

Speaker 6 (07:23):
Him long as any though Thomas wouldn't come back.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Like you wouldn't. Well, Paddy would if there was a
shill and extra to be made. And he talked. Thomas
taked wood when that shot tngue appeared. Ah ah the
last year and now we'll see them. They're both way
down with good fortune. I mean, I mean, stay away
from the edge and go over the clip. Mother dennounced
to the west, to the west where they went.

Speaker 9 (07:45):
The water for him?

Speaker 4 (07:47):
That wind, where did it come from?

Speaker 2 (07:48):
On to the west where he was.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
But you know all my years such your wind has
never been before.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Okay, it's swallen tossing before the wind.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
No, don't yet it down, I mean I need to.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
H That was a time father, down the hill, the
window wilder and wilder. In a minute, the sea was
pounding at the.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Batey the cleef.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
Then the girl shriek and she wanted to die with
Tom and me frightened her back from the edge and
praying to the Good God to give me old arms
and strength to hold her back until she came to
her senses. None of us got her wink asleep to
the light of morn.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh, that's wind.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
I can hear it now, snarling and talking.

Speaker 7 (08:43):
The boat yourself to the west, my son, Come on, No, no,
the boat's coming in.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
There's living hands on the yours.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
Come on the starter money that takes for the mercy
than I heard someone say.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
I mean the merciful God has brought them back quick.
They're trying to get into land.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
Hurry now, mother, quickly off no way charge or shaw
chaws air.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Don't give me your arm.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
I can more.

Speaker 7 (09:09):
Yes, yes, lean on me, hurry, yes.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yes, I'm moving fast as I can.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
It's hard.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
It's hard to get against his wings.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
I did win.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Let him no pleasure for the life one the night
bladed for the light.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
Of good neighbors, good neighbors. Let us through, my son,
I can see nothing away from the dark.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
I'm easy you see, yes, yes, something, I'll see them, I.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
Sir, where put you?

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Talk to the girl?

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Pare all the day on my finger. No, they're coming there. Yes,
I see the whole chow lesson bog at chars.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Praise God.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
I see it one.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
There's only one.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Now, So what is he saying? Jobs?

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Can got the kake come.

Speaker 6 (10:00):
Back the way?

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Heard the bird right, there's only one the ball.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Where No, I didn't wait for me, my son, my
son takes yes, yes, forgive me pas girl learning and
good does Oh?

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Which one?

Speaker 4 (10:19):
Which one?

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Thomas? I know it's I know it's yes.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Thomas, and.

Speaker 5 (10:24):
Everybody.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Let the wind the girl brew let them know what.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
My son my son quick one?

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Well, well I'm back mother.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Are you.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Hanna you can yes?

Speaker 8 (10:44):
Yes, me can't.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
I got a right to live.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
Tell me tell me quick? Where is my son with Thomas? Candy?

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Where is my comas?

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Where they is the key is old woman?

Speaker 7 (10:54):
Yeah, that's the bottom of the shea.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Oh hi, father done here. That was what he told me,
that good Thomas was dead at the bottom of the
sea dead, the good Thomas dead, and Paddy Patty the
evil and alife. Ah, it wasn't right, father, And in
the days and nights that followed, I cried to God,

(11:20):
why did you do it?

Speaker 5 (11:21):
Why?

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Why did the sea take my dear Thomas from the
boat and leave Paddy?

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Was the no reward on earth.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
For goodness and sweetness of soul? And in the seventh night,
in my sorrow, there came an answer. I was lying
in my bed outside the sea. You were seeing and whispering.
My window was open, and I could hear the sea
talking about day.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
There crying crying from a motide I did, oh, oh.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
Do not cry? Mother, Ah, Mother, I heard a voice.
You heard me? Brother?

Speaker 4 (12:11):
Tell us his voice?

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh no, no, it's some wordless and I the head. Mother,
I am so weird. You must listen. Oh, dear s God,
why do you do?

Speaker 1 (12:26):
It is to me my son is dead?

Speaker 4 (12:31):
Why do you bring me the memory of his voice?

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Mother? Mother? Believe me.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
If I could only see you, I would believe.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Oh no, the horrid the sea made of me, winding
wave and grinding rock against my flesh. I wouldn't care
my son. Just let me see that It is you,
not my own voice speaking in the head. Oh, mother,
you don't know what you ask. But if there is

(12:59):
no other way, close your eyes until I give your
word to open them. I've closed them. No, no, open, mother,
and have no fear. I beg you. Ah, this was promise.

(13:20):
Oh no, mother, why did he murder me?

Speaker 4 (13:27):
My?

Speaker 2 (13:28):
The sea has come. We reached the pool where he
said the coupver in the brastling. I stripped off my
clothes and door under And when I tried to come
up for another breath of air, oh, mother, you wouldn't
let me do it with his hand, he held me under.
My hands they tore at his arm, but he held

(13:50):
me down dawn until at last I screamed for mercy,
and the water filled my mouth my lungs, and my
own brother killed me. And that is why I tore
myself out of the sea. I want to know why
he didn't why I cannot rest in peace until I

(14:12):
know and understand you speak, mother, that game could come
to him for such a horror. I believe me, my son,
I do not know. Then I must go back. I
cannot stand this. Oh my good, look at this what

(14:33):
was Thomaston Mayor's face? Look at it and give me
your ord. You will not see my eye, leen or
my brother this night, your owd mother. They must not
know you, hear me, They must not know. I swear long,
merciful want this pain. I come back to the sea,

(14:59):
and you will. We will we ever meet again, my son. Yes,
the day I find out why he made me drown,
I will return, Mother. I will return Thomas, my.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
Son, Come back, my son, my son. But he was gone,
Father Donahue, gone back to his name, miss Grave. And
see then then it happened. Taddy talked his way into
the good graciers of the girl, simple little Isleen.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
What did she know?

Speaker 4 (15:35):
The evil of men? They were teddy and my good
Thomas's Eileen. Uh took the life out of me and
made me long for the quiet and my grave. And
then then came the day of the wind, and then
the fiddler was playing, and then the good people of
the islands were happy. I alone was sad, weeping, weeping

(15:57):
the twiling.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Oh, mother, don't know what listed here? Apart from all
the rest and week.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
I'm not sweeping gardens for which you have been so sad?
Can't you find little joy in your heart for this
day of.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
My marriage to your own son, My my son.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
I do not love him as I did there Tom.
But Thomas himself told Paddy that if he died, he
wished Paddy had cared for me and.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Mother than that.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
What is it your face so strange? No, he knows.
I just remembered, now he knows.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Who knows?

Speaker 1 (16:47):
What do you saying? Ah, there you are, my little
bride to be? Why waste your witing day with this
old woman. Whether the mind does she be? Her face
is sour enough to credle milk.

Speaker 7 (16:58):
Come on away, No, no, wait, heady mother, than hell,
you must tell me what is it that makes you dare?

Speaker 4 (17:04):
It's heady with such an odd.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
That's the look she's always head Look how the sun
glimpse on the sea.

Speaker 7 (17:13):
It's a day for the king, and I am a
king marrying the girl I've always wanted. Come kiss me,
He kiss me, so that oh shall see me kissing
the prettiest brighten our ireland.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
No, please kiss me.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
That's the sky in the side.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Mother, than what did you make that sound? For all
the woman? Take the Then speak up, mother?

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Why did you speak like that? The sea?

Speaker 7 (17:40):
What of the sea? What are you putting your bonny
finger at out there?

Speaker 2 (17:43):
What are you?

Speaker 6 (17:44):
Fuck? And the water's edge?

Speaker 1 (17:46):
Say? What is something coming over to the she? Something's
coming over right?

Speaker 9 (17:51):
Are you here?

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Now?

Speaker 1 (17:53):
It's a seal, that's what it Just brether she's thinking,
she will.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Not see what.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
What what is it?

Speaker 1 (18:15):
I can't move.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
I cannot move.

Speaker 9 (18:20):
No, you cannot move, my brother, yes, cannot move.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
That voice bone and little flesh, and yet you know
the voice.

Speaker 9 (18:36):
Toomas Thomas, your brother, Thomas, come back.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Again, because now he knows, Now he knows, now what
why the murdered your flesh and blood.

Speaker 9 (18:51):
I heard it from your own lip, say you wanted
my eye lean always, That's why you did it. Your
clever tongue can no longer see your water. I have
come up, paying for a way to get you.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
No, no, no, you won't get me getting No, I'll
get away.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
I run, I run, And so he ran farther down
the hue. They turned and ran up up the path
that led to the top of the cliff, and behind him,
slowly sobbing with the pain in the tarlet his dead
bone climbed my dead Thomas after him, and after Thomas,

(19:32):
dragging my old bones. I went, oh, for they were
my son, and I had to see that right was done.

Speaker 6 (19:41):
Up, up, up, until at last Terry stood on the
very edge to see five hundred feet below, shrieking, yelling
and waiting.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
He stood there, shrieking in that horrible thing. No, no,
no things, stay back, stay back, your bones.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
And thirst day back.

Speaker 8 (20:10):
No he fell, he fell, mother, See he didn't get
me start rotting bones gave way beneath him.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
He didn't get me, mother, mother, What are you gonna do?

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Mother? Mother?

Speaker 4 (20:34):
Over the cliff, Paddy went turning and twist hang into
the sea, where the water covered him over.

Speaker 6 (20:42):
When the others.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Of the village came up there at last, I told.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
Him that the old bones of Thomas had Dannett had
clutched Paddy close to him and thrushed him over. Uh,
my father, down, he listen.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
It was I that day, that final push that sent
to me a son of mine.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
There was death. Thomas tried and failed before he had
his flat measure of revenge.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
So I gave the father.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
I I gave patted in our life.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
And I daved death.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
Is that the name of forgiven and seven for what
I did? It is.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Later then you faint
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