August 21, 2025 • 23 mins
Dark Fantasy was a supernatural anthology radio series that ran for only 31 episodes during 1941-1942. Every story in the series explored the mysteries of the unknown. The episodes ranged from murder mysteries to science fiction to spine-tingling supernatural tales. Scott Bishop, known for his work on The Mysterious Traveler and The Sealed Book, expertly merged the supernatural with science fiction. Dark Fantasy is remembered for drawing significant interest to the horror genre during the golden age of radio.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And no.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
All of fantasy. Welcome to all of fantasy.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Welcome to a series of radio problems dedicated to the supernatural,
the unusual, and the unknown. Come with me, my friends,
We go decent of the world of the unknown, and
forbiddess down to.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
The step with a valing time, the slipping and the.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Supernatural raise his kids. Come with see and this is
the tail of.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
The seas.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Back up.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Here the story course the ships and come to Saco
right frank and through the storm they heard a woman
caught in to help.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You know it was a man.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Rest The ship wielded out and started toy.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
As they were getting close to her. Suddenly the ship
hit a submerged rock that tore open her hull. No
one had a chance, for in a matter of minutes,
the ship and all hands were lost.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
In just a moment, The Hall of Fantasy will present
The Sea Fatom. And now for our story, an original
Taylor fantasy by Richard Thorn entitled The Sea Fatom.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
The house stands on one of two points of lands
that steps out into the ocean, forming a small bay
of the water and the shore between them. The tide
rise and falls, the waves roll in in extra way.
Sometimes the wind shrieks and howls and anger. On a
calm day, when the ocean is in peace with man
(02:22):
and the soft sea breeze is flowing off, the water
has no more beautiful spot in all the world. But
when the sea is angry and the winds whip it
into a raging fury in the sky is filled with black,
swirling clouds, then you would believe that you were in
another world. And you would also believe the stories I tell.
(02:52):
Don Fleming was an artist and I right, and through
the years we've become good friends. Off time would take
tips together around the country Europe or South America.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
He's a paint eye to write.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
And when we had finished with the day's work, well,
we managed to have some pretty good times together. How
we came to rent that house in Maine, on the
rocky coast of the Atlantic, I still don't know, but
we did that.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
It was there the story I tend to begin.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Awful. License you to knat here with us, mister lollan,
that's coming out anyway.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Let's see, oh, missus Green about some business, And I
figured I might as.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Well drive out with you, fellish.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Make sure you get settled nice and comfortable like.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Well, we appreciated mister Lollan coh, take.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Nothing at all.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You're that writer from him?
Speaker 7 (03:43):
That's Larry Redon.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Read one of your stories and magazine just other day.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Pretty good a fact.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And well about you, young fella.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
What do you do.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
I'm an artist, Peter, eh, yeah he is, and a
very good one.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
The only thing I know about peyton can and houses
and barns and boots an sol with Pete and I
ever done. And you've probably a lot better off aspect
you o yea his house bit boo.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
It's a beautiful house.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Always come out here when I rent it to folks. Yeah,
he is a king.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Thanks, and I want to thank you for driving me
out here.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
A going down missus Green's maw up in down then
see how.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
You're getting along, thanks mister Lowan.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
And gee, you seeing anything ain't down in that bay.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
Don't you worry, man, It.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Won't hurt you as long as you're even long.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Both Don and I thought he was joking when he
said that. He disappeared down the road and we moved
everything into the house. It was a beautiful old place,
spacious and bright, standing like a lonely well on the
point overlooking the ocean, And in the days that followed
we were too busy to think about his words. Both
down and I seem to be.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Well inspired, if you will allow me to use that.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
And his painting was almost half finished when my story
was well along the way.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Not until a week after.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
We arrived did we realize what was happening.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It was late in the evening.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
He stood outside the house looking down at the ocean. Lay, Hu,
something's happening. How do you mean my painting? I don't
know how to explain it. I'm not painting it.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
It seems like someone or.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Something is moving my hand to make no conscious effort.
I stand before the east brush seems to be alive.
That's what's been happening to me with my story.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You know.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Usually I have to think and plod ahead for hours
before I can write a word. But it's been different
with this story done.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's writing itself.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
What's it about?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
About a Sandom ship that sails forever? You haven't seen
my canvas here. I don't know why, because that's what
I'm paying the Sandom ship. Strange coincidence, isn't it? Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Listen, I could.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
It's a woman's voice crying for help, and it came
from somewhere down in that thing. There's nothing done here?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Eh, I know? Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Oh, who's that over there?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
It's mister Loman. H oh, and look there's a woman
with it.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Hey, No, I got men say hello, I get along
and find mister Leman. Here's missus Green. These are those
two I was talking about more, mister Griddon and mister Fleming.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I'm how you getting wrong?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Oh? Pretty well?
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Set out the way when you were coming up here?
Did you hear anyone calling from done on that day?
Speaker 7 (07:13):
You know another thing?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
It was a woman's voice.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
You didn't call the genesis name?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
No, Now, then we've probably were mistaken.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
No, you weren't. You heard something? All right?
Speaker 6 (07:26):
You know who it was?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
H It was a girl? What girl? The girl on
the ship. But there's no ship down there, yes, but
there will be.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
What do you mean alone?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
You tell him mode all that send? Well, it was
almost one hundred years ago, a mister Flemming.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
There was a terrible storm on this coast.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
The ship before him to the stove.
Speaker 8 (07:55):
But I hadn't for show off, and through the storm I.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Heard a woman call him for help.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I think what he's under us?
Speaker 8 (08:01):
You are They healed around and started throwing it.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
On the ship.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
The min's blocked the card.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
Open a hole in her house.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Well, if he missed wing down any matter of men,
we all.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Hadn't been lost.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Help it anyway, It's true, believe me, Oak show it
on the shore, saw the girl appear and the ship
go down.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
No one knew where she seems from that? Who was
the people said he went to get in a sad way.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
The woman being murdered twenty years before that, she bowed.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Vengeance on all men. That's why I too usually saw
anything down on that base.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
The ain't no attention to it.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Oh, I haven't seen anything.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
We don't good to.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Why you see the ship that you worried?
Speaker 6 (08:46):
I said, the ways seemed.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
To be holding in much stronger than they were before her.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Again, yep, that's terrib all right.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I can't see any Wait a minute, down there there.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
You see sailing ship on the four candlas. Girl, they're
not be in trouble.
Speaker 8 (09:12):
Why don't we go down there?
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Right, there's a robot down there.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
I wouldn't have bowed you.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I'm going to see what's down there.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
I'm telling you don't know. Come, I'm going right.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Don't go.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Back now to our story. An original tailor fantasy by
Richard Thorne entitled The Sea Phantom.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Down and I went down the trail as fast as
we could, even though it was deep and treacherous. As
we near the water, the spray from the breaking waves
filled the air from falling down, and the rock made
it slippery in the west.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
These ways what pretty strong. You have nothing to worry about, though.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
You're ready with the oars, right, and I'll shove us
off then okay, Yeah, the.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
Ship's still there.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Yeah, can you see anyone?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
No, we shouldn't take it's too long to get out
to it.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Then we'll see if anyone's aboard.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Seems to be quieting down.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Yeah, you make out her name?
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Let me see, says.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Sea Miss.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
That's the one they told us about.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Yes, I know, and watch it.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
We're getting close. Hello, we're here.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I'll beat these oars.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
I think I should try having you.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Yeah, might as well.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
All right, hello, sea Miss. There's no answer. Maybe they
didn't hear you. Look, we pulled up right alongside this ropeladder.
We might go border, I.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Suppose, So you know, woman's crazy with that the story
of his about.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
This being ship.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
It's the more solidly built ghost ship.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
But ever seen there?
Speaker 5 (11:19):
You sure you're tired of bout killing?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I don't worry about it, okay, man over, I.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Want a hand on.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
No, I can make it larry anybody on board.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I want answer, don't you?
Speaker 6 (11:42):
And asked me? Someone aboard this ship couldn't have sailed
into this way by herself?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Of course not.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
She's in such good condition. They must have built her recently,
probably for a celebration of some kind.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
One of There's one thing.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Why should I paint this ship exactly like this? Even
the name? And I hadn't even seen it? Why should
you write about one?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I don't know. But you think we better take.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
A look around. I'm not sure it would be a
good idea. We can't stand down here, I'm.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah. We'll come at the sails.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
They're all unfurled. They're catching the wind where you're going.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Take a look over the side.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
There's no weight what I've done.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
The sails are full, but there's no wake. The ship's
not moving now, how can a ship be under force?
Where over there? The captain steak the skeleton last of
the wheels. All right, it wasn't there when we first
boarded this ship.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
It could have been.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
We might not have seen it. Maybe maybe not. But
I think we've got to get off the thing.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
That's not a bad idea.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
But you will join us when.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Larry, Yes, jo.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Something here with us, But I.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Can't see anything.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Nothing sept the skeleton lash to the wair. Let's get
back the show a right, let's go. I hope my
warrior is there.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Maybe alone was right? Yeah, maybe lifted the phantom ship comes,
We're coming on.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah. We were worried about you.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
We thought maybe you wouldn't come back. What happened back there?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah? What happened?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
We ordered her man?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
What happened? Right? Listen, he's calling to you again.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Let's go into the house.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Shod idea.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
You shouldn't have gone out there.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
We know that.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Now looks like it's gonna up. It's potting over very badly.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
I will go into the front room.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
I'll have to be leaving the sun time.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Ye take you back home. Don't worry.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I'm just interested in finding out what happened.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
What did happen out there?
Speaker 6 (14:21):
And like Don said, we boarded the ship, what was
its mean the sea missed.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
That's the one, all right? And then what happened?
Speaker 6 (14:29):
And we looked over a part of the main deck
but couldn't find anyone on board.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Did you go down inside it?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
No, it's a good thing you didn't.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
You mightn't have come up.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
They didn't see anyone by the wheel when we first
boarded it open, But suddenly when we turned around, we
saw a skeleton lashed the wheel. And then we heard
a voice, a woman's, a whispering voice, saying, you will
join us when we come for you.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
You know what that means?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Now, I'll tell you then, Like I said, you shouldn't
have gone out there.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
If you hadn't, nothing would have happened.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
For nothing actually has happened yet, just that we went
out there.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
And while we were on board we heard a voice.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
That's just the beginning that.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
You mean, what do you think she calls out for help.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
For she don't need help. She wants to get you
out there after that ship. She's got her eyes set
on one of you, or maybe both.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Of course that's when I've heard. Now, mind you, I
never saw it myself, and Maude has neither. But they
say she's always looking for men for her crew, that
she or the mate of the Sea Phantom will come
to get you if ever you set foot on the
ghost ship alone. And you can't mean what you say,
Oh yes I can. Like I said, I never saw
it myself, but I've heard folks tell about it. And
(15:44):
I've known men to disappear and never show up again.
Remember what she said? You will join us when we
come for you.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Way time fin.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Back now to our story, an original tale of fantasy
by Richard Thorne entitled The Sea Fasom Outside. The weather
was getting worse.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
The sound of the waves wahing up against the rocky
shore became longer, the wind became stronger. Four of us
were in the front room of the House Star Live.
Resident Simon Loman had just said, and.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I've known man to disappear and never show up again.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
He's following me, the two.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
What should we do? I wouldn't know what to suggest.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Oh we can leave her, do you no good?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
She would catch you sooner, Leader where with you? I'd
stay right here. She's going to take one of you
or maybe Booth.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
You'd better take me home, Simon.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
All right, I'm pleased to have met you both of
you same here, missus Tree.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Let's go, Simon, Do I take her home?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
I'll come back.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Maybe I couldn't help you somewhere. I'll be care.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
What are we going to do there?
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Maybe he's only trying to scare us, to play a
trick on the smart city slickers.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
We've only got his story to go on.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
And the woman, well, maybe she was in on it.
And of course it's possible someone could have been on
that ship when we went out there, and they could
have waited until we weren't looking, then gone out and
lashed that that thing to the wheel, and then they
could have hidden and called out the words we heard.
Why should they go to so much trouble to do
anything like that sort of practical joke.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It doesn't sound reasonable, I.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Know, but it's possible as it's possible, and I think
that's just what they have done. There is going to
be strong tonight, Yeah, bad one. I still can't believe
that they'd go to all that trouble. Haven't we done
the same thing on occasion and.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
We didn't go to such of course we did.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
I'll forget it, nothing.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
To worry about, nothing at all. I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
If Morman didn't send someone else out here to I
could tell us that the woman was waiting for us.
Starting to rain.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
The woman will be back tonight, he said he would.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I don't know, and I'm not so sure he will. Person.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Yes, I heard it, and this is a joke.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Why don't they stop it?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Take get the easy, doe?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
How can I take it easy? I hell?
Speaker 8 (18:27):
All of this I can take here it is again?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Where are you going to? Take a look out the
window aft? Do you see anything?
Speaker 8 (18:35):
No?
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Wait a minute, what's the matter? Is someone coming towards
the door?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
That's probably Norman?
Speaker 8 (18:42):
I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
He couldn't have taken missus Green down to her house
and return in so short a time. Yeah, I didn't
think of that.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Who is it?
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Let Who is that man coming towards the house? I
don't know unless they're carrying through.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That joke of this?
Speaker 8 (18:57):
Okay, right, I ope?
Speaker 6 (19:00):
It very funny. It's clothes?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
What about them?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
There?
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Not?
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Must he's wearing clothing one by Stators almost one hundred
years ago.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
He's at the door. Let him?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Yes, come, man, fie, come for here?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
For whom?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Man a brush?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Her?
Speaker 8 (19:30):
Short worm head.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
That's why we put in here.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Look, I've had just about enough of this. This thing
has gone too fine.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
If you go back and tell him to stop this
little joker, or I'll stop it for him.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Right here from the man with a brush, she shirt,
She wants him get out of here, work here.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
I want to get away from here.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I will leave tomorrow night.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
All right, all right, we leave tonight.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Come on, let's start packing. No packing, we'll just leave.
We want anything here, We can come back when it's
day life.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
All right, he's back.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
I warned him a moment. I want to talk to you, sure,
what about this thing has gone far enough this this
joke of you soon But Duke trying to fighting us
with that pallabaloo about a ghost chipping and then sending
him out here.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
That's sailor in the costumes.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
To me, I didn't send anyone here.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
What stuff?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
But do you think we are?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I don't know, But.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
I didn't send anyone here, and who I don't know?
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Anyone?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
You do? And that.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Story you told us was.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
True every word.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Hey, I'm going to get out of here.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Done. He's running the wrong way for Claire.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
We got to stop him.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Done. Come there.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Who running the wrong way?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
He can't hear it. He gotta stuff you woman.
Speaker 8 (20:50):
There's someone else out there too. He's won't do you
no good looking.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Not a lovely fell over the cliff.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
He should be down here.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
On the rocks.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
You don't find his body down here?
Speaker 6 (21:19):
You saw, and Paul, so did I And she went.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Over with him right the show n booth go over.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
But we're not going to find him down here.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
We get on the sea out onto the day, now,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Why she needed a man for her crew.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
She has him now and the ship's gone and won't
be back again, so she needs someone else.
Speaker 9 (21:59):
So so one's to Night's tale of the unusual but
terrified the unknown. Join us again when next week journey
(22:21):
down the corridor Alcohol of Fantasy to hear another.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Strange tale of the supernatural.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
All characters that events portrait in these programs are fictional,
and any similarity to actual events or persons, living or
dead is purely coincidental.
And no.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
All of fantasy. Welcome to all of fantasy.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Welcome to a series of radio problems dedicated to the supernatural,
the unusual, and the unknown. Come with me, my friends,
We go decent of the world of the unknown, and
forbiddess down to.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
The step with a valing time, the slipping and the.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Supernatural raise his kids. Come with see and this is
the tail of.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
The seas.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Back up.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Here the story course the ships and come to Saco
right frank and through the storm they heard a woman
caught in to help.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You know it was a man.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Rest The ship wielded out and started toy.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
As they were getting close to her. Suddenly the ship
hit a submerged rock that tore open her hull. No
one had a chance, for in a matter of minutes,
the ship and all hands were lost.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
In just a moment, The Hall of Fantasy will present
The Sea Fatom. And now for our story, an original
Taylor fantasy by Richard Thorn entitled The Sea Fatom.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
The house stands on one of two points of lands
that steps out into the ocean, forming a small bay
of the water and the shore between them. The tide
rise and falls, the waves roll in in extra way.
Sometimes the wind shrieks and howls and anger. On a
calm day, when the ocean is in peace with man
(02:22):
and the soft sea breeze is flowing off, the water
has no more beautiful spot in all the world. But
when the sea is angry and the winds whip it
into a raging fury in the sky is filled with black,
swirling clouds, then you would believe that you were in
another world. And you would also believe the stories I tell.
(02:52):
Don Fleming was an artist and I right, and through
the years we've become good friends. Off time would take
tips together around the country Europe or South America.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
He's a paint eye to write.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
And when we had finished with the day's work, well,
we managed to have some pretty good times together. How
we came to rent that house in Maine, on the
rocky coast of the Atlantic, I still don't know, but
we did that.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
It was there the story I tend to begin.
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Awful. License you to knat here with us, mister lollan,
that's coming out anyway.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Let's see, oh, missus Green about some business, And I
figured I might as.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Well drive out with you, fellish.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Make sure you get settled nice and comfortable like.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Well, we appreciated mister Lollan coh, take.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Nothing at all.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You're that writer from him?
Speaker 7 (03:43):
That's Larry Redon.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Read one of your stories and magazine just other day.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Pretty good a fact.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And well about you, young fella.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
What do you do.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
I'm an artist, Peter, eh, yeah he is, and a
very good one.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
The only thing I know about peyton can and houses
and barns and boots an sol with Pete and I
ever done. And you've probably a lot better off aspect
you o yea his house bit boo.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
It's a beautiful house.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Always come out here when I rent it to folks. Yeah,
he is a king.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Thanks, and I want to thank you for driving me
out here.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
A going down missus Green's maw up in down then
see how.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
You're getting along, thanks mister Lowan.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
And gee, you seeing anything ain't down in that bay.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
Don't you worry, man, It.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Won't hurt you as long as you're even long.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Both Don and I thought he was joking when he
said that. He disappeared down the road and we moved
everything into the house. It was a beautiful old place,
spacious and bright, standing like a lonely well on the
point overlooking the ocean, And in the days that followed
we were too busy to think about his words. Both
down and I seem to be.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Well inspired, if you will allow me to use that.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
And his painting was almost half finished when my story
was well along the way.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Not until a week after.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
We arrived did we realize what was happening.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It was late in the evening.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
He stood outside the house looking down at the ocean. Lay, Hu,
something's happening. How do you mean my painting? I don't
know how to explain it. I'm not painting it.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
It seems like someone or.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Something is moving my hand to make no conscious effort.
I stand before the east brush seems to be alive.
That's what's been happening to me with my story.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You know.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Usually I have to think and plod ahead for hours
before I can write a word. But it's been different
with this story done.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's writing itself.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
What's it about?
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
About a Sandom ship that sails forever? You haven't seen
my canvas here. I don't know why, because that's what
I'm paying the Sandom ship. Strange coincidence, isn't it? Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Listen, I could.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
It's a woman's voice crying for help, and it came
from somewhere down in that thing. There's nothing done here?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Eh, I know? Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Oh, who's that over there?
Speaker 6 (06:49):
It's mister Loman. H oh, and look there's a woman
with it.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
Hey, No, I got men say hello, I get along
and find mister Leman. Here's missus Green. These are those
two I was talking about more, mister Griddon and mister Fleming.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I'm how you getting wrong?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Oh? Pretty well?
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Set out the way when you were coming up here?
Did you hear anyone calling from done on that day?
Speaker 7 (07:13):
You know another thing?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
It was a woman's voice.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
You didn't call the genesis name?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
No, Now, then we've probably were mistaken.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
No, you weren't. You heard something? All right?
Speaker 6 (07:26):
You know who it was?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
H It was a girl? What girl? The girl on
the ship. But there's no ship down there, yes, but
there will be.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
What do you mean alone?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
You tell him mode all that send? Well, it was
almost one hundred years ago, a mister Flemming.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
There was a terrible storm on this coast.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
The ship before him to the stove.
Speaker 8 (07:55):
But I hadn't for show off, and through the storm I.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Heard a woman call him for help.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I think what he's under us?
Speaker 8 (08:01):
You are They healed around and started throwing it.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
On the ship.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
The min's blocked the card.
Speaker 9 (08:08):
Open a hole in her house.
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Well, if he missed wing down any matter of men,
we all.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Hadn't been lost.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Help it anyway, It's true, believe me, Oak show it
on the shore, saw the girl appear and the ship
go down.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
No one knew where she seems from that? Who was
the people said he went to get in a sad way.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
The woman being murdered twenty years before that, she bowed.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Vengeance on all men. That's why I too usually saw
anything down on that base.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
The ain't no attention to it.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Oh, I haven't seen anything.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
We don't good to.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Why you see the ship that you worried?
Speaker 6 (08:46):
I said, the ways seemed.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
To be holding in much stronger than they were before her.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Again, yep, that's terrib all right.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I can't see any Wait a minute, down there there.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
You see sailing ship on the four candlas. Girl, they're
not be in trouble.
Speaker 8 (09:12):
Why don't we go down there?
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Right, there's a robot down there.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
I wouldn't have bowed you.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I'm going to see what's down there.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
I'm telling you don't know. Come, I'm going right.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Don't go.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Back now to our story. An original tailor fantasy by
Richard Thorne entitled The Sea Phantom.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Down and I went down the trail as fast as
we could, even though it was deep and treacherous. As
we near the water, the spray from the breaking waves
filled the air from falling down, and the rock made
it slippery in the west.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
These ways what pretty strong. You have nothing to worry about, though.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
You're ready with the oars, right, and I'll shove us
off then okay, Yeah, the.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
Ship's still there.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Yeah, can you see anyone?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
No, we shouldn't take it's too long to get out
to it.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Then we'll see if anyone's aboard.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Seems to be quieting down.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
Yeah, you make out her name?
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Let me see, says.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Sea Miss.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
That's the one they told us about.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Yes, I know, and watch it.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
We're getting close. Hello, we're here.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I'll beat these oars.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
I think I should try having you.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Yeah, might as well.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
All right, hello, sea Miss. There's no answer. Maybe they
didn't hear you. Look, we pulled up right alongside this ropeladder.
We might go border, I.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Suppose, So you know, woman's crazy with that the story
of his about.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
This being ship.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
It's the more solidly built ghost ship.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
But ever seen there?
Speaker 5 (11:19):
You sure you're tired of bout killing?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I don't worry about it, okay, man over, I.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Want a hand on.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
No, I can make it larry anybody on board.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I want answer, don't you?
Speaker 6 (11:42):
And asked me? Someone aboard this ship couldn't have sailed
into this way by herself?
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Of course not.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
She's in such good condition. They must have built her recently,
probably for a celebration of some kind.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
One of There's one thing.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Why should I paint this ship exactly like this? Even
the name? And I hadn't even seen it? Why should
you write about one?
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I don't know. But you think we better take.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
A look around. I'm not sure it would be a
good idea. We can't stand down here, I'm.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah. We'll come at the sails.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
They're all unfurled. They're catching the wind where you're going.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Take a look over the side.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
There's no weight what I've done.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
The sails are full, but there's no wake. The ship's
not moving now, how can a ship be under force?
Where over there? The captain steak the skeleton last of
the wheels. All right, it wasn't there when we first
boarded this ship.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
It could have been.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
We might not have seen it. Maybe maybe not. But
I think we've got to get off the thing.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
That's not a bad idea.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
But you will join us when.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Larry, Yes, jo.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Something here with us, But I.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Can't see anything.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Nothing sept the skeleton lash to the wair. Let's get
back the show a right, let's go. I hope my
warrior is there.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Maybe alone was right? Yeah, maybe lifted the phantom ship comes,
We're coming on.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Yeah. We were worried about you.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
We thought maybe you wouldn't come back. What happened back there?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Yeah? What happened?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
We ordered her man?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
What happened? Right? Listen, he's calling to you again.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Let's go into the house.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Shod idea.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
You shouldn't have gone out there.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
We know that.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Now looks like it's gonna up. It's potting over very badly.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
I will go into the front room.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
I'll have to be leaving the sun time.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Ye take you back home. Don't worry.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I'm just interested in finding out what happened.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
What did happen out there?
Speaker 6 (14:21):
And like Don said, we boarded the ship, what was
its mean the sea missed.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
That's the one, all right? And then what happened?
Speaker 6 (14:29):
And we looked over a part of the main deck
but couldn't find anyone on board.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Did you go down inside it?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
No, it's a good thing you didn't.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
You mightn't have come up.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
They didn't see anyone by the wheel when we first
boarded it open, But suddenly when we turned around, we
saw a skeleton lashed the wheel. And then we heard
a voice, a woman's, a whispering voice, saying, you will
join us when we come for you.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
You know what that means?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Now, I'll tell you then, Like I said, you shouldn't
have gone out there.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
If you hadn't, nothing would have happened.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
For nothing actually has happened yet, just that we went
out there.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
And while we were on board we heard a voice.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
That's just the beginning that.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
You mean, what do you think she calls out for help.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
For she don't need help. She wants to get you
out there after that ship. She's got her eyes set
on one of you, or maybe both.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Of course that's when I've heard. Now, mind you, I
never saw it myself, and Maude has neither. But they
say she's always looking for men for her crew, that
she or the mate of the Sea Phantom will come
to get you if ever you set foot on the
ghost ship alone. And you can't mean what you say,
Oh yes I can. Like I said, I never saw
it myself, but I've heard folks tell about it. And
(15:44):
I've known men to disappear and never show up again.
Remember what she said? You will join us when we
come for you.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Way time fin.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Back now to our story, an original tale of fantasy
by Richard Thorne entitled The Sea Fasom Outside. The weather
was getting worse.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
The sound of the waves wahing up against the rocky
shore became longer, the wind became stronger. Four of us
were in the front room of the House Star Live.
Resident Simon Loman had just said, and.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
I've known man to disappear and never show up again.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
He's following me, the two.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
What should we do? I wouldn't know what to suggest.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Oh we can leave her, do you no good?
Speaker 5 (16:40):
She would catch you sooner, Leader where with you? I'd
stay right here. She's going to take one of you
or maybe Booth.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
You'd better take me home, Simon.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
All right, I'm pleased to have met you both of
you same here, missus Tree.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Let's go, Simon, Do I take her home?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
I'll come back.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Maybe I couldn't help you somewhere. I'll be care.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
What are we going to do there?
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Maybe he's only trying to scare us, to play a
trick on the smart city slickers.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
We've only got his story to go on.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
And the woman, well, maybe she was in on it.
And of course it's possible someone could have been on
that ship when we went out there, and they could
have waited until we weren't looking, then gone out and
lashed that that thing to the wheel, and then they
could have hidden and called out the words we heard.
Why should they go to so much trouble to do
anything like that sort of practical joke.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
It doesn't sound reasonable, I.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Know, but it's possible as it's possible, and I think
that's just what they have done. There is going to
be strong tonight, Yeah, bad one. I still can't believe
that they'd go to all that trouble. Haven't we done
the same thing on occasion and.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
We didn't go to such of course we did.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
I'll forget it, nothing.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
To worry about, nothing at all. I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
If Morman didn't send someone else out here to I
could tell us that the woman was waiting for us.
Starting to rain.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
The woman will be back tonight, he said he would.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I don't know, and I'm not so sure he will. Person.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Yes, I heard it, and this is a joke.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Why don't they stop it?
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Take get the easy, doe?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
How can I take it easy? I hell?
Speaker 8 (18:27):
All of this I can take here it is again?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Where are you going to? Take a look out the
window aft? Do you see anything?
Speaker 8 (18:35):
No?
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Wait a minute, what's the matter? Is someone coming towards
the door?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
That's probably Norman?
Speaker 8 (18:42):
I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
He couldn't have taken missus Green down to her house
and return in so short a time. Yeah, I didn't
think of that.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Who is it?
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Let Who is that man coming towards the house? I
don't know unless they're carrying through.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That joke of this?
Speaker 8 (18:57):
Okay, right, I ope?
Speaker 6 (19:00):
It very funny. It's clothes?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
What about them?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
There?
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Not?
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Must he's wearing clothing one by Stators almost one hundred
years ago.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
He's at the door. Let him?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
Yes, come, man, fie, come for here?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
For whom?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Man a brush?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Her?
Speaker 8 (19:30):
Short worm head.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
That's why we put in here.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Look, I've had just about enough of this. This thing
has gone too fine.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
If you go back and tell him to stop this
little joker, or I'll stop it for him.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
Right here from the man with a brush, she shirt,
She wants him get out of here, work here.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
I want to get away from here.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I will leave tomorrow night.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
All right, all right, we leave tonight.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Come on, let's start packing. No packing, we'll just leave.
We want anything here, We can come back when it's
day life.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
All right, he's back.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
I warned him a moment. I want to talk to you, sure,
what about this thing has gone far enough this this
joke of you soon But Duke trying to fighting us
with that pallabaloo about a ghost chipping and then sending
him out here.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
That's sailor in the costumes.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
To me, I didn't send anyone here.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
What stuff?
Speaker 5 (20:22):
But do you think we are?
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I don't know, But.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
I didn't send anyone here, and who I don't know?
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Anyone?
Speaker 1 (20:27):
You do? And that.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
Story you told us was.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
True every word.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Hey, I'm going to get out of here.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Done. He's running the wrong way for Claire.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
We got to stop him.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Done. Come there.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Who running the wrong way?
Speaker 5 (20:47):
He can't hear it. He gotta stuff you woman.
Speaker 8 (20:50):
There's someone else out there too. He's won't do you
no good looking.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Not a lovely fell over the cliff.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
He should be down here.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
On the rocks.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
You don't find his body down here?
Speaker 6 (21:19):
You saw, and Paul, so did I And she went.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Over with him right the show n booth go over.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
But we're not going to find him down here.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
We get on the sea out onto the day, now,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Why she needed a man for her crew.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
She has him now and the ship's gone and won't
be back again, so she needs someone else.
Speaker 9 (21:59):
So so one's to Night's tale of the unusual but
terrified the unknown. Join us again when next week journey
(22:21):
down the corridor Alcohol of Fantasy to hear another.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Strange tale of the supernatural.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
All characters that events portrait in these programs are fictional,
and any similarity to actual events or persons, living or
dead is purely coincidental.
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