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Speaker 1 (00:14):
The makers of Mars Forever yours bar and all those
other good Mars candy bars invite you through the Creaking
Door or another thrilling Inner Sanctum mystery tonight the Unforgiving
Corpse starring Louis van Ruten.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Good evening, Friends of the Creaking Door, this is your
host to welcome you once again into the Inner Sanctum.
Come in, Come on.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
In spooking of baseball.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We have a team that you'll really lose your mind
of our pitches. A real sweetheart razor shop. His best
pitch is a ghost ball. Swing at it and it
disappears along with a picture. A double head is nobody's
better equipped with them than we are? An odd sight,
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you know, watching nine ball players with eighteen heads and
kill the umpire in O League. But that's no idle.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Friends, Now into the inner Sanctum for a thrilling mystery.
But first, this is Allansey Anthony. You know, certain things
are very personally yours, things that make you the person
you are, Your voice, your features, your manner, yes, your
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(02:37):
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Speaker 2 (02:51):
An now for tonight's quakes and shudders acted out in Santamato,
a prairie town somewhere beyond the limits of reason. Hear
them coyotes. It's a lullaby. You sleep too in Santa Modo,
if you can sleep. Here's another soothing sound in the night,
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an express train roaring by. It doesn't stop in Santa
Modo except on the signal. Prairie coyotes and screaming train
whistles night after night, every night. They can haunt you,
that is, if you haunt like old Bencier. Here's his
station master at the railroad whistle stop, and very morbid
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about it.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
When the man has hid, he is bowed low with
grief and guilt. He sometimes sees the devil rise before him.
He sees the devil, he gives him a feast.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
And what face do you give me? Bences?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Well, I ask, what face do you give me?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Silver?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
White like the moon sits on your shoulders, and my
eyes eyes cold.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
The socket's cold like a frost, like the touch of tath.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Shall I touch you? No?
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Why so afraid?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Bences? You and I? You're talking?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
You think not?
Speaker 7 (04:39):
We've things to recall together, Bences Who what things? Things
like your murder of me? Have you forgotten the old
eleven fifty five?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
No, h's a brand on my memory?
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Then say my name?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Kirby Willis, engineer of the train.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
The rail was split a Jericho bend. But you did
not signal for me to stop. No.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
They found Kirby Willis in the hollow of Jerry Cobbin,
with his hand on the front.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
I died when no man should.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
When no man should, Kirby, I had a girl promised
to me, Your Jenny.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
My Jenny. Yes, you cost me more than life. That
black knight.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Then says, what payment are you here to take from me?
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Live through this week and see old man, live through
this week, and keep your eyes to the ground.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Keep my eyes to the ground. Might be a haunted man.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
There was a problemise made by the devil himself. I'd
be a haunted man. A woman up my step son
bringing me a warming drink like he did every night.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Why the lockdoor pop against prowlers, Santa Modo, that's a joke.
The only prowlers around here are four legged coyote coffee
for you. I'll go home to bed now.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Fred Waite, huh, I.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Saw a man tonight. I saw Kirby Willis.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Kirby Willie.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Who's he?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
I wait, the name's familiar. Your mind's not slipping back
into the dark, not again.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
It was Kirby stood before me in the station you are.
He spoke to me.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
And invited you out of your mind.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I murdered him.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Kirby sid at the time when no man should.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Ah forget Kirby Willison. Think of the miracle that happened
only one life long.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
The rails were split. I didn't signal Kirby to stop.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Because you couldn't know about the busted rail. You were
acquitted of negligence at the hearing.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
I never acquitted myself.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Because you like living in the dark. Ten years now, Ah,
telegraph message coming in.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
If you're up to it, to take it from me,
Red face.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Says, uh, eleven fifty five, do buy in one minute now,
it's right on time on a button. Hey, move over, Pop,
make room in the dark for a relative.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Make room.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
There's more of the message. Last half says I'll be
riding the engine again.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Sign Kirby Willis.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Eleven fifty five Willis Road the eleven fifty five That night,
shut up found him in the hollow, sealed in his
wrecked cab with his hand dead on the front.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
Shut up, Pop, shut out, it's gone, hip Pop.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
He's free.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
You're like something contagious. Stick close to you, Knights, and
I can get to be just as crazy as you.
I'm sorry, son, you know just then with the eleven
fifty five train the station. You know what crazy thought
flies through my head. This is the anniversary week of
the wreck.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
Of the old eleven fifty five.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
It would really be one for the books. If the
ghost of Kirby Willis rode the eleven fifty five into
another wreck. How about the head pop?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I too had the same thought. I kept my mind
in the dark and my eyes to the ground. Later
in Santa Mada Cemetery, I held my lantern over a headstone.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Here lies Kirby.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Willis, de person from the dead.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
He was.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
There was every side an open grave and open coffin.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Leader. I could see by the shine of my lantern
that Kirby wasn't in his coffin.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
You came to see with your own eyes that Kirby
Willis is outside his coffin. Kirby on the path, playing
in the light of your lantern. See me here, I
rode the eleven fifty five tonight.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I know Kirby is in message on the wireless. How
was it done?
Speaker 7 (10:04):
I'll be riding the eleven fifty five every night this
anniversary week, then.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Says, and I'm the last night. Will the train go
through on last night?
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Lived through the week? And see, Since you've come to
comfort the dead, why not take yourself over to Jenny.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Two to Jenny.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Five graves from this one count five graves from mine.
Go ask Jenny to tell you how she died.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
I counted five graves from Kirby's. Stood there with my
mind in the dark, my eyes to the ground.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
An open grave, this one pool.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
The lead of the coffin was closed, closed, but it
opened well.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I watched the specter quite rose up.
Speaker 9 (11:25):
Then, Seirs are you Ben?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Sears?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I am Kirby sent you to me, yes to ask
how you died?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
He said, how did you die?
Speaker 9 (11:40):
In my wedding gown, I was fitting it to wear
for Kirby.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
When the news came that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Night, it it was a tragic hour.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
I stood there and didn't move when they told me
about Kirby. I never moved again from that minute.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Will yourself to die?
Speaker 6 (12:03):
My heart swelled.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Up as big as myself, and then it stopped.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I stopped it. It was a bad time to die
when living was so good.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
And Kirby, firm to his promise, rode the eleven fifty
five for the anniversary week and always the message for
me at eleven fifty four, just one minute before.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I'll ride the engine of the eleven fifty five fences
look to the rail at Jericho, Ben, look to the rail.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Kirby meant to ride the eleven fifty five to his
death again, stop, stop the train.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Stop. It's too late, Jully, it's too late to stop
the train.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
In ten years it could be willis, don't be another wreck.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
It's too late to can see the trend.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
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wind up with a thrill that'll chill you. Remember if
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a frosty friend that's truly forever yours. Ben's sense of
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guilt is is so big? Really size two? That's all
Kirby and Jenny, That engineer Kirby will now he's really
stirring things up. He may be dead, but he's no
dead hair.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
But it's Jenny who gets me. Isn't she a dream girl?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Mm hmm?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Let me see how far out of mind did we get?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yes, there were the serenading coyotes and old Ben Sears.
Sears had just seen history repeat itself.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
He's just been cheers at the station.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I've heard terrible You live fifty.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Upbraiding, upbraid, friend.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
What's coming at a dark now? Pop's the telephone?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
You, pelf understood?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Give me the phone?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
What am I to say? Outside? Would you saw eleven
fifty five?
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Rank?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Who would be interested in hearing that? Who would be interested?
Pick up a telephone?
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Hop? You're a maniac. You worked hard at becoming one
and you made it. What about the eleven fifty five?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Its? It's it's a big.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Kirby Willis a ghost engineer on a ghost train. The
wall clock's behind you, Pop, See what time it says?
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Eleven fifty four.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
To eleven fifty four.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Here's the eleven fifty five now quite on time? You're
eleven fifty five?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Pop? It crashed in your head, sayer mind than mine.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I needed this saner mind than mine to take me
by the hand, the wisdom of my years. Where was
the wisdom of my years? Wilson, the town supervisor? I
let him take me by the hand Back to the
Sanomata Cemetery.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Uh which other two grade? Oh over, here's Kirby Willis?
This grave? This grave? You say it?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Says Kirby Willis, I'm the gravestone.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I'll hold the leadin to it.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Where do we see different things? Wilson, I see.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
An open grave, an open grave, and an open common.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Gen.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Here's five graves from this. Wilson, count five graves.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Group five.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
I've counted five. I'm an old man.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
I've lost my reason. But not you, Wilson.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
You're the best minded cinematter, the town supervisor.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
What what do you see?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
The grave.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
As unnatural as the first, open and the coffin empty
like the first.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
See Jenny calling to you, Ben, you hear her tool? Yes,
I stood in.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
My bridal gown and didn't move. My heart swelled up.
When it stopped. I stomped so I could be with
Kirby Willis. It was a bad time to die, such
a bad time when living could be sunk.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Wilson.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yes, Ben, Yeah, you heard.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
What she said, every word.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
And did you also see her.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Yes, like a white mist and long flowing hair and
no flesh that I could see. I do have your
hallucinations now.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Ben, In the morning, Wilson, the best we had in
Sanna matter put his hallucinations to rest.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I thought about the things we saw and heard, Ben,
all that long. I thought about it. This morning a
clear thought came to me. Clear thought there's a guiding
spirit behind these sights that have turned your mind. I
don't understand a guiding spirit with a scheme at hand,
a scheme against you, Ben Sears. This morning I took action.
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Now let's see what the ghosts do.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
What action did you take?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I ordered an arrest the rest of your steps on Fred.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
You arrested Fred.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
He's the culprit with others in with him, looting graves
and dressing up to masqueradeer's ghosts.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Why would Fred conspire against me to.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Drive you into the madhouse, even to drive you to
your I can't believe it is. I know, I know
it's a great shock to you. But the boy hates you, Ben,
Fred hates me well, unbalanced as you've been these ten years,
an unsteady, brooding man. Fred's mother died to shut her
eyes at the sight of you grieving.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
The boy thanks this.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Fred blames me for Margaret, his mother's passing.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
And there's your house and land with you gone, it
will pass to him. There's profit and hate for Fred.
Now I've reasoned it all out. Now let's see what
the ghosts will do.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
There was a message that night, that last anniversary night,
ten years to.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
The day of the old Wreck. Kirbie Willis firm to
his promise. I could hear his voice in the keys.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
I'll ride the eleven fifty five for the last time
to night.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Look to the Jericho.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Ben, look through the rail Jericho bind.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
This time I would there would be no negligence this time,
Jerry Coobin, I.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Saw what I hadn't seen ten years before.
Speaker 11 (21:17):
The rails. The rails were split. Once again, the rails
were split. Stop the train. I had to stop the train.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
This time.
Speaker 11 (21:24):
I knew to stop the train. My signal land and
I waved it, waved it high in the airs of
Furby to see Hi.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Stop one. This time I'd stopped the train.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
I woke from a long sleep in the outdoors.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
With someone standing over me.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Wilson, it's me.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Eleven fifty five words in eleven fifty five.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Eleven fifty five came and went, came.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
And and went.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
You signaled it to stop, and it stopped. It's gone now.
A train can't wait on a hallucinating old fool.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
The rail Jericho bend it was split. I saw that
with my own eyes.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
The train took the bend with nothing wrong, but I
saw it. I'll show you here hit the bend.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I'm standing here to be shown.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Ben.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Oh, oh, the rail is firm. Now, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
What I saw I.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Didn't see except in your mind is but on the
ground there in the hollow.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I see a body, a lonely body in the night, Yes, Ben,
a dead man.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Kirby Willis did where he died before?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Oh, Ben, not Kirby were strange corpse in this one.
And a man who died tonight a night blood soaked
in his clothes and in the dead and still bleeding.
The old dead don't bleed then, and the old dead
don't wear police handcuffs.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Police handcuffs there on his wrists, and a pullet hole.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
In his head.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
See, this one was shot to death. I'll uh telephone
the card I to come take the murdered man. Operator.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Wait, wait, wait with the telephone. He eats Kirby on
the wireless again.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Derby is it?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
I'll take this message? Ben?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
What is the message? And awakening?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
From a detective who was on the eleven fifty five tonight?
Is telegraphing from the first town he came to after
here he lost a prisoner. He says, when you stopped
the eleven fifty five tonight, I don't understand the prisoner
he was taking to the state penitentiary, Willie French, a
convicted man.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
The message says, we're to look for a short.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Man ball wearing a dark suit and handcuffs.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
That's the murdered man out there, that is, and.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
We're to tell our sheriff to look for a gangster
named Curley Sands and a gun girl named Jenny, a
pair who schemed to board the train here in Santa
Mondo and.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Seized the prisoner.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
A scheme to seize the prisoner and murder him. That's
how your hallucinations came about. Santa Moto was the place
they picked to stop the eleven fifty five.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
You were to stop the train for them.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Then they played on your imagination all this anniversary week
to get you to stop the train to night as
you did.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Then be hear me, sh.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
There's a message coming in from Kirby.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Then come to your senses. We know the truth.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Now I must decode the message.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Ben help yourself.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
The keys aren't going. They aren't going, excepting your mind.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
These are going.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
But we dose tail the.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Same things a little more, a little more.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
A corps in handcuffs. It's a fresh seasonal style. Note friends,
it's merry month of mayhem. It gives death that little
added weight. An old station master Ben, the way he
kept crying over spilt guilt. A stiff stood up in
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a coffin and Ben blew his lips.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Morrow.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Oh sure, this one's a hint on proper behavior when
wandering through graveyards. Never stopped to chat with strange women.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
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Speaker 3 (28:00):
Host, Good nights.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
In a Sanctum Mystery was written by John Robert and
starred Louis van Rutten in the role of Ben Larson.
Survey played Wilson.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Music was by lou White.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
This month's In a Sanctum Mystery novel is Burden of
Guilt by Ian Gordon. Entire production of In a Sanctum
is under the direction of Hymon Brown.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Well, friends, it's.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Time again to close that creaking door until next week
at this same time, when we'll be back with more
spooks and shudders. Next week we're featuring a sprightly little
item entitled a Corpse There was starring a winsome girl
who liked to drag corpses around the house, evidently on
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the principle of not letting any grass grow under her
or over them.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
You'll be sure to listen, won't you? Until then?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Good night, pleasant tree.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
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The makers of Mars Forever yours bar and all those
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Door or another thrilling Inner Sanctum mystery tonight the Unforgiving
Corpse starring Louis van Ruten.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Good evening, Friends of the Creaking Door, this is your
host to welcome you once again into the Inner Sanctum.
Come in, Come on.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
In spooking of baseball.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We have a team that you'll really lose your mind
of our pitches. A real sweetheart razor shop. His best
pitch is a ghost ball. Swing at it and it
disappears along with a picture. A double head is nobody's
better equipped with them than we are? An odd sight,
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you know, watching nine ball players with eighteen heads and
kill the umpire in O League. But that's no idle.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Friends, Now into the inner Sanctum for a thrilling mystery.
But first, this is Allansey Anthony. You know, certain things
are very personally yours, things that make you the person
you are, Your voice, your features, your manner, yes, your
(01:55):
particular tastes do For example, you may be one of
those extra special individuals who strongly preferred dark chocolate and
That's why Mars puts their special candy making magic to
work to bring you that delicious Mars Forever Yours candy
bar for you who particularly preferred dark chocolate. Forever Yours
(02:15):
makes the most of that dark chocolate by delightful flavor
contrast by wrapping it thick around creamy whipped pure vanilla
NuGet topped with gold and caramel. Yes, the not too
sweet taste of elegant dark chocolate in a refreshing flavor
combination with the clean, bright taste of pure vanilla. That's
(02:37):
Forever Yours. That's the candy bar particularly for you and
made to be forever yours.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
An now for tonight's quakes and shudders acted out in Santamato,
a prairie town somewhere beyond the limits of reason. Hear
them coyotes. It's a lullaby. You sleep too in Santa Modo,
if you can sleep. Here's another soothing sound in the night,
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an express train roaring by. It doesn't stop in Santa
Modo except on the signal. Prairie coyotes and screaming train
whistles night after night, every night. They can haunt you,
that is, if you haunt like old Bencier. Here's his
station master at the railroad whistle stop, and very morbid
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about it.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
When the man has hid, he is bowed low with
grief and guilt. He sometimes sees the devil rise before him.
He sees the devil, he gives him a feast.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
And what face do you give me? Bences?
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Well, I ask, what face do you give me?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Silver?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
White like the moon sits on your shoulders, and my
eyes eyes cold.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
The socket's cold like a frost, like the touch of tath.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Shall I touch you? No?
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Why so afraid?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Bences? You and I? You're talking?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
You think not?
Speaker 7 (04:39):
We've things to recall together, Bences Who what things? Things
like your murder of me? Have you forgotten the old
eleven fifty five?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
No, h's a brand on my memory?
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Then say my name?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Kirby Willis, engineer of the train.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
The rail was split a Jericho bend. But you did
not signal for me to stop. No.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
They found Kirby Willis in the hollow of Jerry Cobbin,
with his hand on the front.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
I died when no man should.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
When no man should, Kirby, I had a girl promised
to me, Your Jenny.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
My Jenny. Yes, you cost me more than life. That
black knight.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Then says, what payment are you here to take from me?
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Live through this week and see old man, live through
this week, and keep your eyes to the ground.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Keep my eyes to the ground. Might be a haunted man.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
There was a problemise made by the devil himself. I'd
be a haunted man. A woman up my step son
bringing me a warming drink like he did every night.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Why the lockdoor pop against prowlers, Santa Modo, that's a joke.
The only prowlers around here are four legged coyote coffee
for you. I'll go home to bed now.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Fred Waite, huh, I.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Saw a man tonight. I saw Kirby Willis.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Kirby Willie.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Who's he?
Speaker 5 (06:49):
I wait, the name's familiar. Your mind's not slipping back
into the dark, not again.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
It was Kirby stood before me in the station you are.
He spoke to me.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
And invited you out of your mind.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I murdered him.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Kirby sid at the time when no man should.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Ah forget Kirby Willison. Think of the miracle that happened
only one life long.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
The rails were split. I didn't signal Kirby to stop.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Because you couldn't know about the busted rail. You were
acquitted of negligence at the hearing.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
I never acquitted myself.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Because you like living in the dark. Ten years now, Ah,
telegraph message coming in.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
If you're up to it, to take it from me,
Red face.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Says, uh, eleven fifty five, do buy in one minute now,
it's right on time on a button. Hey, move over, Pop,
make room in the dark for a relative.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Make room.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
There's more of the message. Last half says I'll be
riding the engine again.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Sign Kirby Willis.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Eleven fifty five Willis Road the eleven fifty five That night,
shut up found him in the hollow, sealed in his
wrecked cab with his hand dead on the front.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
Shut up, Pop, shut out, it's gone, hip Pop.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
He's free.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
You're like something contagious. Stick close to you, Knights, and
I can get to be just as crazy as you.
I'm sorry, son, you know just then with the eleven
fifty five train the station. You know what crazy thought
flies through my head. This is the anniversary week of
the wreck.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
Of the old eleven fifty five.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
It would really be one for the books. If the
ghost of Kirby Willis rode the eleven fifty five into
another wreck. How about the head pop?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I too had the same thought. I kept my mind
in the dark and my eyes to the ground. Later
in Santa Mada Cemetery, I held my lantern over a headstone.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Here lies Kirby.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Willis, de person from the dead.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
He was.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
There was every side an open grave and open coffin.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Leader. I could see by the shine of my lantern
that Kirby wasn't in his coffin.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
You came to see with your own eyes that Kirby
Willis is outside his coffin. Kirby on the path, playing
in the light of your lantern. See me here, I
rode the eleven fifty five tonight.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
I know Kirby is in message on the wireless. How
was it done?
Speaker 7 (10:04):
I'll be riding the eleven fifty five every night this
anniversary week, then.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Says, and I'm the last night. Will the train go
through on last night?
Speaker 7 (10:19):
Lived through the week? And see, Since you've come to
comfort the dead, why not take yourself over to Jenny.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Two to Jenny.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Five graves from this one count five graves from mine.
Go ask Jenny to tell you how she died.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
I counted five graves from Kirby's. Stood there with my
mind in the dark, my eyes to the ground.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
An open grave, this one pool.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
The lead of the coffin was closed, closed, but it
opened well.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
I watched the specter quite rose up.
Speaker 9 (11:25):
Then, Seirs are you Ben?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Sears?
Speaker 4 (11:29):
I am Kirby sent you to me, yes to ask
how you died?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
He said, how did you die?
Speaker 9 (11:40):
In my wedding gown, I was fitting it to wear
for Kirby.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
When the news came that.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Night, it it was a tragic hour.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
I stood there and didn't move when they told me
about Kirby. I never moved again from that minute.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Will yourself to die?
Speaker 6 (12:03):
My heart swelled.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Up as big as myself, and then it stopped.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
I stopped it. It was a bad time to die
when living was so good.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
And Kirby, firm to his promise, rode the eleven fifty
five for the anniversary week and always the message for
me at eleven fifty four, just one minute before.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I'll ride the engine of the eleven fifty five fences
look to the rail at Jericho, Ben, look to the rail.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Kirby meant to ride the eleven fifty five to his
death again, stop, stop the train.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Stop. It's too late, Jully, it's too late to stop
the train.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
In ten years it could be willis, don't be another wreck.
Speaker 10 (13:07):
It's too late to can see the trend.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
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guilt is is so big? Really size two? That's all
Kirby and Jenny, That engineer Kirby will now he's really
stirring things up. He may be dead, but he's no
dead hair.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
But it's Jenny who gets me. Isn't she a dream girl?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Mm hmm?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Let me see how far out of mind did we get?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yes, there were the serenading coyotes and old Ben Sears.
Sears had just seen history repeat itself.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
He's just been cheers at the station.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I've heard terrible You live fifty.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Upbraiding, upbraid, friend.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
What's coming at a dark now? Pop's the telephone?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
You, pelf understood?
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Give me the phone?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
What am I to say? Outside? Would you saw eleven
fifty five?
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Rank?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Who would be interested in hearing that? Who would be interested?
Pick up a telephone?
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Hop? You're a maniac. You worked hard at becoming one
and you made it. What about the eleven fifty five?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Its? It's it's a big.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Kirby Willis a ghost engineer on a ghost train. The
wall clock's behind you, Pop, See what time it says?
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Eleven fifty four.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
To eleven fifty four.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Here's the eleven fifty five now quite on time? You're
eleven fifty five?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Pop? It crashed in your head, sayer mind than mine.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I needed this saner mind than mine to take me
by the hand, the wisdom of my years. Where was
the wisdom of my years? Wilson, the town supervisor? I
let him take me by the hand Back to the
Sanomata Cemetery.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Uh which other two grade? Oh over, here's Kirby Willis?
This grave? This grave? You say it?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Says Kirby Willis, I'm the gravestone.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I'll hold the leadin to it.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Where do we see different things? Wilson, I see.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
An open grave, an open grave, and an open common.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Gen.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Here's five graves from this. Wilson, count five graves.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
Group five.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
I've counted five. I'm an old man.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
I've lost my reason. But not you, Wilson.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
You're the best minded cinematter, the town supervisor.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
What what do you see?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
The grave.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
As unnatural as the first, open and the coffin empty
like the first.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
See Jenny calling to you, Ben, you hear her tool? Yes,
I stood in.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
My bridal gown and didn't move. My heart swelled up.
When it stopped. I stomped so I could be with
Kirby Willis. It was a bad time to die, such
a bad time when living could be sunk.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Wilson.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yes, Ben, Yeah, you heard.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
What she said, every word.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
And did you also see her.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Yes, like a white mist and long flowing hair and
no flesh that I could see. I do have your
hallucinations now.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Ben, In the morning, Wilson, the best we had in
Sanna matter put his hallucinations to rest.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I thought about the things we saw and heard, Ben,
all that long. I thought about it. This morning a
clear thought came to me. Clear thought there's a guiding
spirit behind these sights that have turned your mind. I
don't understand a guiding spirit with a scheme at hand,
a scheme against you, Ben Sears. This morning I took action.
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Now let's see what the ghosts do.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
What action did you take?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I ordered an arrest the rest of your steps on Fred.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
You arrested Fred.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
He's the culprit with others in with him, looting graves
and dressing up to masqueradeer's ghosts.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Why would Fred conspire against me to.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Drive you into the madhouse, even to drive you to
your I can't believe it is. I know, I know
it's a great shock to you. But the boy hates you, Ben,
Fred hates me well, unbalanced as you've been these ten years,
an unsteady, brooding man. Fred's mother died to shut her
eyes at the sight of you grieving.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
The boy thanks this.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Fred blames me for Margaret, his mother's passing.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
And there's your house and land with you gone, it
will pass to him. There's profit and hate for Fred.
Now I've reasoned it all out. Now let's see what
the ghosts will do.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
There was a message that night, that last anniversary night,
ten years to.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
The day of the old Wreck. Kirbie Willis firm to
his promise. I could hear his voice in the keys.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
I'll ride the eleven fifty five for the last time
to night.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Look to the Jericho.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Ben, look through the rail Jericho bind.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
This time I would there would be no negligence this time,
Jerry Coobin, I.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Saw what I hadn't seen ten years before.
Speaker 11 (21:17):
The rails. The rails were split. Once again, the rails
were split. Stop the train. I had to stop the train.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
This time.
Speaker 11 (21:24):
I knew to stop the train. My signal land and
I waved it, waved it high in the airs of
Furby to see Hi.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Stop one. This time I'd stopped the train.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
I woke from a long sleep in the outdoors.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
With someone standing over me.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Wilson, it's me.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Eleven fifty five words in eleven fifty five.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Eleven fifty five came and went, came.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
And and went.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
You signaled it to stop, and it stopped. It's gone now.
A train can't wait on a hallucinating old fool.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
The rail Jericho bend it was split. I saw that
with my own eyes.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
The train took the bend with nothing wrong, but I
saw it. I'll show you here hit the bend.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I'm standing here to be shown.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Ben.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Oh, oh, the rail is firm. Now, it's fine.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
What I saw I.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Didn't see except in your mind is but on the
ground there in the hollow.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
I see a body, a lonely body in the night, Yes, Ben,
a dead man.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Kirby Willis did where he died before?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Oh, Ben, not Kirby were strange corpse in this one.
And a man who died tonight a night blood soaked
in his clothes and in the dead and still bleeding.
The old dead don't bleed then, and the old dead
don't wear police handcuffs.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Police handcuffs there on his wrists, and a pullet hole.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
In his head.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
See, this one was shot to death. I'll uh telephone
the card I to come take the murdered man. Operator.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Wait, wait, wait with the telephone. He eats Kirby on
the wireless again.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
Derby is it?
Speaker 5 (24:00):
I'll take this message? Ben?
Speaker 3 (24:04):
What is the message? And awakening?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
From a detective who was on the eleven fifty five tonight?
Is telegraphing from the first town he came to after
here he lost a prisoner. He says, when you stopped
the eleven fifty five tonight, I don't understand the prisoner
he was taking to the state penitentiary, Willie French, a
convicted man.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
The message says, we're to look for a short.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Man ball wearing a dark suit and handcuffs.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
That's the murdered man out there, that is, and.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
We're to tell our sheriff to look for a gangster
named Curley Sands and a gun girl named Jenny, a
pair who schemed to board the train here in Santa
Mondo and.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Seized the prisoner.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
A scheme to seize the prisoner and murder him. That's
how your hallucinations came about. Santa Moto was the place
they picked to stop the eleven fifty five.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
You were to stop the train for them.
Speaker 5 (25:12):
Then they played on your imagination all this anniversary week
to get you to stop the train to night as
you did.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Then be hear me, sh.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
There's a message coming in from Kirby.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Then come to your senses. We know the truth.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Now I must decode the message.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Ben help yourself.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
The keys aren't going. They aren't going, excepting your mind.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
These are going.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
But we dose tail the.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Same things a little more, a little more.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
A corps in handcuffs. It's a fresh seasonal style. Note friends,
it's merry month of mayhem. It gives death that little
added weight. An old station master Ben, the way he
kept crying over spilt guilt. A stiff stood up in
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a coffin and Ben blew his lips.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Morrow.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Oh sure, this one's a hint on proper behavior when
wandering through graveyards. Never stopped to chat with strange women.
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Speaker 3 (28:00):
Host, Good nights.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
In a Sanctum Mystery was written by John Robert and
starred Louis van Rutten in the role of Ben Larson.
Survey played Wilson.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Music was by lou White.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
This month's In a Sanctum Mystery novel is Burden of
Guilt by Ian Gordon. Entire production of In a Sanctum
is under the direction of Hymon Brown.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Well, friends, it's.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Time again to close that creaking door until next week
at this same time, when we'll be back with more
spooks and shudders. Next week we're featuring a sprightly little
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Speaker 3 (28:57):
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