September 6, 2024 • 21 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Conway, weary days, hot things.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Nine days not a sign of another boat, another human.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Oh look minute, nine days open boat. I can't believe
yet nineteen thirty four, nine days ago I thought I'd
get a scooped.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh well, I remember.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I talked Wisden Everly into going with me, losing his
private yacht far out into the Atlantic. That things were happening.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Together.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
We defied percussions, offered ourselves as bait for some unseen
devil beneath the waters in the Eastern Sea.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And that was my day.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
As though, well, I've been on deck an hour.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
There's nothing.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I told you it was useless, didn't I.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I'm still not convinced that it is. Something has happened
to those remissing shit. Certainly something has happened to them.
They simply sank, that's all. But it isn't of It's
plain nonsense thinking those three boats went down with all
hands on board, with not a clue to their disappearance. Besides,
what about the radios. Not a distressed signal was picked
up all three cases.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
I know, but that's still not a sign something, well,
something unusual has happened.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Well, just use your head, man, this is nineteen thirty four.
Boats just don't go down in the Atlantic without someone
somewhere knowing about hees three.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
He certainly did, just disappeared into nothingness without leaving a trace.
And I still say something went wrong in each case
that can be explained in a natural, normal manner.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And I say that you don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Well, don't be so violent in what you have to say.
After all, I've gone this far with you.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I might as well see it through.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I'm sorry, yes, just anxious that so.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yes, so am I.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
There's no sense biting each other's heads off. We may
need them before we're through with this. I've set the
automatic pilot. I was clear good.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I gore up on deck and have a turn up
the wheel after a bit game of rummy.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh I don't think so, Thanks poker, I thanks.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Got a cigarette.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yes, somewhere that last ship, the yess Clariana, went down
just about where we are now.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The other two somewhere in this vicinity.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Here's a smoke.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Why do you say the ships went down in this vicinity, Adams?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
No one knows where they went down.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
What I mean is they were last heard from within
the vicinity of world fifty mile radius.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Vihear all of them.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
I admit it would be a strange coincident for all
three of them to disappear in such a small area,
but well, stranger things that have happened at sea.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's not a coincidence. Something has happened to those boats
which none of us can explain, something that is ordinary.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Brown in the radio room on the talkback system, hand
me that microphone, Will you adam sure here?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Browns on those three remaining ships.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Reported, you mean the boss have been found.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
The passengers from all three ships were centered drifts in
the lifeboats.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, what's happened to them?
Speaker 7 (04:29):
None of them seem to know. They're all in perfect
health though, but they're all in a studivine conditions drug
that's strange.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Mm hm any further news.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
I just picked it up from the news broadcast from
the States.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Thanks Brown, No, what do you think? Deficitally strange?
Speaker 6 (04:49):
All hands from all three ships set the drift in
the lifeboats.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And none of them knowing what happened.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
To them, and all of them in a drug condition.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
No one could drug three boat loads of passengers through
the drinking water.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Half of them don't drink.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Water when they're aboard till they were drug But how man, how.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
That's another mystery I'd like to clear up.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Then perhaps you can what I say?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Where did you come from? Who are you?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
My name is Seagfried?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
How did you get on board? Where did you come from?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
One question at a time, if you please, I came
on board in the same manner I boarded the other
boats lately, the others, the three others.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
You you're responsible for what happened to those boats?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yes I am, But why I needed them for my
own purposes? You destroy them? I sent them to the
bottom of the Atlantic.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I repeat, you destroy them.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Quite the contrary, I use them to a very good advantage.
What do you mean, would you like to know? I
certainly would, and I shall be glad to show you
if you wish, it will entail a trip to the
bottom of the sea.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You're talking like a madman.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Am I I regret you think so, because I assure
you I am, by no means demented in the slightest degree.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Those people set adrift on the lifeboats apparently drugged. What
happened to them? It's naturally best that they do not
know what happened to them. They were not harmed. They
were carefully guarded against danger, and no harm shall come
to them.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
But the boats, the cost of the boats, and the
inconveniences which naturally arise to their their loss have all
been taken care of. And each passenger has been repaid
ten times for everything he was forced to leave behind
when placed in the lifeboat. I don't understand all this.
Who are you anyway? I shall tell you soon. Now
we must make haste. Time is most valuable.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
You told me you wish to see what I did
with the three boats. I'm ready to grunt your wishes
and to take you to the depths of the Atlantic.
But you see, I need your boat, my boat. Yes,
I've come to take it. I will you to go
along with me if you wish.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But where what are you going to do with the boat?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I've already told you I need it, together with the
others I have use for it at the bottom of
the sea.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Ah, that's perfectly ridiculous. No one has need for a
boat down there I have.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
How do you propose to take us there? I cannot
tell you that you will merely do as I say?
I will take you down beneath the surface safely, and
I will return you safely.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
How can we be certain of that? I have given
my word.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
You will find that the word of Sigrid always has
been kept down through the ages, the centuries, centuries, hundreds
of thousands of centuries.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Do you mean that you're actually a creature from a
bottom of the sea.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I'm a man like you. I'm not a creature. Here.
Drink this.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Nearly what I gave the others. It's quite harmless.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I don't want to wait.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I assure you that if you don't consume the potion
of your own will, I have the means of seeing
to it that you do better. Do what he says, everything. Yeah,
I'll take the first drap, little wise mad mister Adams,
Oh you know my name, I know everything. Now the
potion has agreed all right now, mister Ebly or you
(08:32):
already a man and mechanic have already been set adrift.
It will arrive safely ashore within a few days. None
the worlds for the experience, mister Ebly.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
No, no, no, I won't take it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Take it away. Get away from me.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Too late to change your mind. Now you will drink
all of this.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Oh no, no, I don't want it.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I give you one more opportunity. No, I refuse, I'm
no fool.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I won't take.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It very well then, mister Ebly, Yeah, yeah, what have
you done? I told you I had the means of
compelling you to take the mixture. Now it's well with
both you and mister Adams. I shall take your boat
(09:17):
and the two of you along with it. Are you
quite all right now, mister Adams?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yes, I guess.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
So Where are we that I promised to take you
at the bottom of the Atlantic?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So strange here light like the light above. This is
almost like the place up there. I'm sure you're jesting.
This is no spot beneath the sea. Oh, but I
assure you it is definitely Your stubborn companion is about
to rejoin us.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
What whats happened?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Oh Adams?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Are you all right?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yes, he's quite all right.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And you, sir, what in the world did you do
to us?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I gave both of you an ancient formula, one which
induces your spirit to leave your body momentarily. Then I
brought you here and admitted your spirits to return again.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Where are we?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
You are fifty thousand leagues beneath the sea. Why we
can't be so, your companion boughts to heavily. You're both mistaken.
There's no water, no seaweed, no sign of underwater creature.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
No.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Indeed, that's because you've been brought not to just an
ordinary place.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
What do you mean? What place is this?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
This is the ancient continent of Atlantis. Atlantis.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
You say, I never heard of the place.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
That's because you're not a student. Your friend, mister Adams,
seems to know quite a bit about it. Yes, an
ancient continent once located in the Atlantic Ocean thousands upon
thousands of years ago, and which disappeared beneath the surface
of the Atlantic.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
That sinking of the continent began more than a million
years ago, according to our scientists.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Hand so it did. Slowly over thousands of years, Atlantis
began to decline, to be claimed by the waters, and
new lands began to rise. South America, your continent. They
had no existence in the days of Atlantis, and far
to the west lay the mighty land of move But
(11:55):
what about you. Well, finally, after hundreds of thousands of years,
all of Atlantis had been consumed by the hungry waters,
except the island of Posidonis, so named.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
After the god of the sea. Yes, I know that
Porsodonus was destroyed by volcanic eruption, not destroyed entirely, but
the volcanoes disturbance sent our land far beneath the sea.
And that was nine thousand years before the death of Plato,
(12:30):
eleven thousand years ago. Yes, roughly speaking.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
But you say this land of yours wasn't actually destroyed.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
No, they were in our land, wise men from Greece,
and together with our wise ones, they foresaw the volcanic
disturbance and the seeking of Posidonis. Yes, this is the
ancient island of Porsidonus, last home of mighty Atlantis. Yes,
and you have existed here all time. There is no
(13:01):
time here, no death, only life amazing. Now we are
fighting to preserve our life, our civilization after these eleven
thousand years, our existence is threatened by the vicious waters.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
What do you mean.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I mean we suddenly found ourselves without sufficient materials to
keep our underwater poetry safe against the water's destruction.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Wait a minute, now, I'm beginning to understand.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
We needed metal, and lots of it to use for
reinforcing the portions of our continent which was threatened by
the water. And that's where the three ships went and Ableija.
It's correct, mister Adams. In our desperation, I saw no
other solution. I chose the boats containing the most metal,
went aboard and sought to the complete safety of the passengers.
(13:52):
And then our men brought the ships down here to
be dismantled and to salvage the metal. Here I assure you.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
A sliding panel there, half of the room sliding away.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
You see out there the men of the plantet putting
the final touches upon the patchwork. It will make our
footres secure for hundreds of years to come, thanks to
the metal from your continent. Why this place is just
as modern and advanced as our civilization. We will find
in many instances that it's more advanced. Now I will
show you that we are as honest and as upright
(14:26):
as any other people public world.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
This is the treasure of advantage.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
Huh who.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
Rules go sover? Treasures of every sort here The room
is completely filled with valuable treasures.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Each passenger on those books be confiscated.
Speaker 9 (14:56):
Received a portion from our treasure room, enough to more
than repay him for whatever loss he suffered, and the
boat owners were.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Paid double the value of their vessels. When you returned
to the surface above, you would be given a portion
likewise in payment for your yacht. Mister Ebie, I've never
seen quite so many valuables together in one place in
all my life. Come now, I've shown you the explanation
(15:26):
of what has been happening. It's time we refresh ourselves,
and time you were preparing for your return journey. I
(15:56):
knew I could find my way back.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
To this vault. Just looked at the treasure hidden there,
chest upon chest.
Speaker 10 (16:08):
Of beautiful jewels, necklaces of pearl, bees of precious jade,
loose gems, and some set in the finest gold.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
And over there, bar upon bar of gold and silver,
and some strange metal.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Here I've never seen before.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Oh, a hundred thousand fortunes hidden here where no one
will ever use them.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
The door.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Anywhere there Adams looking for it really lighted here.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yes, that's the second course, that door. What are you
doing in this treasure room? That fellow cast themselves? Sigrid says,
we'll leave here soon, and I'm taking some of this
treasure with me.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
But she said you were to have a portion of it, Yes,
and pains enough with you.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I am taking somen you won't know about, but you
care it's not right.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
What difference does it make?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
No one will use this stuff? Might as well take
some of it where gens as I can. And I
don't know. I have eleven thousand years, isai.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
It's about eleven thousand childhood. I say, here all these diamonds,
but I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Want any part of this.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I don't take care of getting them away from here heapily.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I advise you not to do this.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Listen, you came you, You could not conquer the world
a desire to steal our treasures.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
You will never use them.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Nonetheless, they still belong to us.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Why not let us take them where they'll do us
some good? Very useless laying here, I.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Had intended to give each of you enough of the
treasure to make you wealthy. Me from doing so. Look
here six those are loves to Adam's no better than
ten thousand years ago, and vis h kill the same.
Greed and sin and iniquities included all evil, And so
(18:08):
I gladly send you back well to pay for you.
You get that before you reach the safe of torture.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Past adrift and will it taste exam for food? Unconscious
in the bottom of the thing, you said, heavily, Oh man,
(18:49):
still steady, man.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Oh never well, torture lover.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Say man, take it easy, ad on.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Ten years.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Only nine days, learn days only nine days.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I can't stand it, Harry, I can't stand it any longer.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Save your strength, man, going back.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
I can't stand there in the bottom of.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
The boat, the chest of treasure and payment for my art?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
What good'll it do? Now?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Will will be dead when we read? Sure?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Oh steady, but nobody else, what are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
It?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Won't believe you for anybody else.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I'll see that.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
No one else, Get.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Jesus the rest of Emily. Don't jump. No one else
who did Emily.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Fantasy?
Speaker 8 (20:40):
You are a bird convoy for Atlantis. Tonight's original tale
of Dark Pantasy by Scott Bishop, originating in the studios
of W. K. Y and based upon an idea suggested
by Ken Right. Ben Morris was Harvey Adams, Murillo Schofield
took the part of Winston Ebery, and Garland Moss was Sigbred,
ruler of a lattice. Next Friday, Dark Fantasy will be
(21:03):
heard over most of these stations twenty five minutes earlier.
Listen for the Thing from the Darkness from Oklahoma City,
Conway, weary days, hot things.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Nine days not a sign of another boat, another human.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Oh look minute, nine days open boat. I can't believe
yet nineteen thirty four, nine days ago I thought I'd
get a scooped.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Oh well, I remember.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I talked Wisden Everly into going with me, losing his
private yacht far out into the Atlantic. That things were happening.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Together.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
We defied percussions, offered ourselves as bait for some unseen
devil beneath the waters in the Eastern Sea.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And that was my day.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
As though, well, I've been on deck an hour.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
There's nothing.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I told you it was useless, didn't I.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I'm still not convinced that it is. Something has happened
to those remissing shit. Certainly something has happened to them.
They simply sank, that's all. But it isn't of It's
plain nonsense thinking those three boats went down with all
hands on board, with not a clue to their disappearance. Besides,
what about the radios. Not a distressed signal was picked
up all three cases.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
I know, but that's still not a sign something, well,
something unusual has happened.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Well, just use your head, man, this is nineteen thirty four.
Boats just don't go down in the Atlantic without someone
somewhere knowing about hees three.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
He certainly did, just disappeared into nothingness without leaving a trace.
And I still say something went wrong in each case
that can be explained in a natural, normal manner.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And I say that you don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Well, don't be so violent in what you have to say.
After all, I've gone this far with you.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
I might as well see it through.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I'm sorry, yes, just anxious that so.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yes, so am I.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
There's no sense biting each other's heads off. We may
need them before we're through with this. I've set the
automatic pilot. I was clear good.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I gore up on deck and have a turn up
the wheel after a bit game of rummy.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Oh I don't think so, Thanks poker, I thanks.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Got a cigarette.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yes, somewhere that last ship, the yess Clariana, went down
just about where we are now.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The other two somewhere in this vicinity.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Here's a smoke.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Why do you say the ships went down in this vicinity, Adams?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
No one knows where they went down.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
What I mean is they were last heard from within
the vicinity of world fifty mile radius.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Vihear all of them.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
I admit it would be a strange coincident for all
three of them to disappear in such a small area,
but well, stranger things that have happened at sea.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's not a coincidence. Something has happened to those boats
which none of us can explain, something that is ordinary.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Brown in the radio room on the talkback system, hand
me that microphone, Will you adam sure here?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Browns on those three remaining ships.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Reported, you mean the boss have been found.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
The passengers from all three ships were centered drifts in
the lifeboats.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, what's happened to them?
Speaker 7 (04:29):
None of them seem to know. They're all in perfect
health though, but they're all in a studivine conditions drug
that's strange.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Mm hm any further news.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
I just picked it up from the news broadcast from
the States.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Thanks Brown, No, what do you think? Deficitally strange?
Speaker 6 (04:49):
All hands from all three ships set the drift in
the lifeboats.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And none of them knowing what happened.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
To them, and all of them in a drug condition.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
No one could drug three boat loads of passengers through
the drinking water.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Half of them don't drink.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
Water when they're aboard till they were drug But how man, how.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
That's another mystery I'd like to clear up.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Then perhaps you can what I say?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Where did you come from? Who are you?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
My name is Seagfried?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
How did you get on board? Where did you come from?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
One question at a time, if you please, I came
on board in the same manner I boarded the other
boats lately, the others, the three others.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
You you're responsible for what happened to those boats?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yes I am, But why I needed them for my
own purposes? You destroy them? I sent them to the
bottom of the Atlantic.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
I repeat, you destroy them.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Quite the contrary, I use them to a very good advantage.
What do you mean, would you like to know? I
certainly would, and I shall be glad to show you
if you wish, it will entail a trip to the
bottom of the sea.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
You're talking like a madman.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Am I I regret you think so, because I assure
you I am, by no means demented in the slightest degree.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Those people set adrift on the lifeboats apparently drugged. What
happened to them? It's naturally best that they do not
know what happened to them. They were not harmed. They
were carefully guarded against danger, and no harm shall come
to them.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
But the boats, the cost of the boats, and the
inconveniences which naturally arise to their their loss have all
been taken care of. And each passenger has been repaid
ten times for everything he was forced to leave behind
when placed in the lifeboat. I don't understand all this.
Who are you anyway? I shall tell you soon. Now
we must make haste. Time is most valuable.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
You told me you wish to see what I did
with the three boats. I'm ready to grunt your wishes
and to take you to the depths of the Atlantic.
But you see, I need your boat, my boat. Yes,
I've come to take it. I will you to go
along with me if you wish.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But where what are you going to do with the boat?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I've already told you I need it, together with the
others I have use for it at the bottom of
the sea.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Ah, that's perfectly ridiculous. No one has need for a
boat down there I have.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
How do you propose to take us there? I cannot
tell you that you will merely do as I say?
I will take you down beneath the surface safely, and
I will return you safely.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
How can we be certain of that? I have given
my word.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
You will find that the word of Sigrid always has
been kept down through the ages, the centuries, centuries, hundreds
of thousands of centuries.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Do you mean that you're actually a creature from a
bottom of the sea.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I'm a man like you. I'm not a creature. Here.
Drink this.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Nearly what I gave the others. It's quite harmless.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I don't want to wait.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
I assure you that if you don't consume the potion
of your own will, I have the means of seeing
to it that you do better. Do what he says, everything. Yeah,
I'll take the first drap, little wise mad mister Adams,
Oh you know my name, I know everything. Now the
potion has agreed all right now, mister Ebly or you
(08:32):
already a man and mechanic have already been set adrift.
It will arrive safely ashore within a few days. None
the worlds for the experience, mister Ebly.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
No, no, no, I won't take it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Take it away. Get away from me.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Too late to change your mind. Now you will drink
all of this.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Oh no, no, I don't want it.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
I give you one more opportunity. No, I refuse, I'm
no fool.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I won't take.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
It very well then, mister Ebly, Yeah, yeah, what have
you done? I told you I had the means of
compelling you to take the mixture. Now it's well with
both you and mister Adams. I shall take your boat
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and the two of you along with it. Are you
quite all right now, mister Adams?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yes, I guess.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
So Where are we that I promised to take you
at the bottom of the Atlantic?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So strange here light like the light above. This is
almost like the place up there. I'm sure you're jesting.
This is no spot beneath the sea. Oh, but I
assure you it is definitely Your stubborn companion is about
to rejoin us.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
What whats happened?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Oh Adams?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Are you all right?
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yes, he's quite all right.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
And you, sir, what in the world did you do
to us?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I gave both of you an ancient formula, one which
induces your spirit to leave your body momentarily. Then I
brought you here and admitted your spirits to return again.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Where are we?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
You are fifty thousand leagues beneath the sea. Why we
can't be so, your companion boughts to heavily. You're both mistaken.
There's no water, no seaweed, no sign of underwater creature.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
No.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Indeed, that's because you've been brought not to just an
ordinary place.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
What do you mean? What place is this?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
This is the ancient continent of Atlantis. Atlantis.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
You say, I never heard of the place.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
That's because you're not a student. Your friend, mister Adams,
seems to know quite a bit about it. Yes, an
ancient continent once located in the Atlantic Ocean thousands upon
thousands of years ago, and which disappeared beneath the surface
of the Atlantic.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
That sinking of the continent began more than a million
years ago, according to our scientists.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Hand so it did. Slowly over thousands of years, Atlantis
began to decline, to be claimed by the waters, and
new lands began to rise. South America, your continent. They
had no existence in the days of Atlantis, and far
to the west lay the mighty land of move But
(11:55):
what about you. Well, finally, after hundreds of thousands of years,
all of Atlantis had been consumed by the hungry waters,
except the island of Posidonis, so named.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
After the god of the sea. Yes, I know that
Porsodonus was destroyed by volcanic eruption, not destroyed entirely, but
the volcanoes disturbance sent our land far beneath the sea.
And that was nine thousand years before the death of Plato,
(12:30):
eleven thousand years ago. Yes, roughly speaking.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
But you say this land of yours wasn't actually destroyed.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
No, they were in our land, wise men from Greece,
and together with our wise ones, they foresaw the volcanic
disturbance and the seeking of Posidonis. Yes, this is the
ancient island of Porsidonus, last home of mighty Atlantis. Yes,
and you have existed here all time. There is no
(13:01):
time here, no death, only life amazing. Now we are
fighting to preserve our life, our civilization after these eleven
thousand years, our existence is threatened by the vicious waters.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
What do you mean.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I mean we suddenly found ourselves without sufficient materials to
keep our underwater poetry safe against the water's destruction.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Wait a minute, now, I'm beginning to understand.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
We needed metal, and lots of it to use for
reinforcing the portions of our continent which was threatened by
the water. And that's where the three ships went and Ableija.
It's correct, mister Adams. In our desperation, I saw no
other solution. I chose the boats containing the most metal,
went aboard and sought to the complete safety of the passengers.
(13:52):
And then our men brought the ships down here to
be dismantled and to salvage the metal. Here I assure you.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
A sliding panel there, half of the room sliding away.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
You see out there the men of the plantet putting
the final touches upon the patchwork. It will make our
footres secure for hundreds of years to come, thanks to
the metal from your continent. Why this place is just
as modern and advanced as our civilization. We will find
in many instances that it's more advanced. Now I will
show you that we are as honest and as upright
(14:26):
as any other people public world.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
This is the treasure of advantage.
Speaker 8 (14:40):
Huh who.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
Rules go sover? Treasures of every sort here The room
is completely filled with valuable treasures.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Each passenger on those books be confiscated.
Speaker 9 (14:56):
Received a portion from our treasure room, enough to more
than repay him for whatever loss he suffered, and the
boat owners were.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Paid double the value of their vessels. When you returned
to the surface above, you would be given a portion
likewise in payment for your yacht. Mister Ebie, I've never
seen quite so many valuables together in one place in
all my life. Come now, I've shown you the explanation
(15:26):
of what has been happening. It's time we refresh ourselves,
and time you were preparing for your return journey. I
(15:56):
knew I could find my way back.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
To this vault. Just looked at the treasure hidden there,
chest upon chest.
Speaker 10 (16:08):
Of beautiful jewels, necklaces of pearl, bees of precious jade,
loose gems, and some set in the finest gold.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
And over there, bar upon bar of gold and silver,
and some strange metal.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Here I've never seen before.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Oh, a hundred thousand fortunes hidden here where no one
will ever use them.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
The door.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Anywhere there Adams looking for it really lighted here.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yes, that's the second course, that door. What are you
doing in this treasure room? That fellow cast themselves? Sigrid says,
we'll leave here soon, and I'm taking some of this
treasure with me.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
But she said you were to have a portion of it, Yes,
and pains enough with you.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I am taking somen you won't know about, but you
care it's not right.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
What difference does it make?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
No one will use this stuff? Might as well take
some of it where gens as I can. And I
don't know. I have eleven thousand years, isai.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
It's about eleven thousand childhood. I say, here all these diamonds,
but I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Want any part of this.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I don't take care of getting them away from here heapily.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I advise you not to do this.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Listen, you came you, You could not conquer the world
a desire to steal our treasures.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
You will never use them.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Nonetheless, they still belong to us.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Why not let us take them where they'll do us
some good? Very useless laying here, I.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Had intended to give each of you enough of the
treasure to make you wealthy. Me from doing so. Look
here six those are loves to Adam's no better than
ten thousand years ago, and vis h kill the same.
Greed and sin and iniquities included all evil, And so
(18:08):
I gladly send you back well to pay for you.
You get that before you reach the safe of torture.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Past adrift and will it taste exam for food? Unconscious
in the bottom of the thing, you said, heavily, Oh man,
(18:49):
still steady, man.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Oh never well, torture lover.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Say man, take it easy, ad on.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Ten years.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Only nine days, learn days only nine days.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I can't stand it, Harry, I can't stand it any longer.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Save your strength, man, going back.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
I can't stand there in the bottom of.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
The boat, the chest of treasure and payment for my art?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
What good'll it do? Now?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Will will be dead when we read? Sure?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Oh steady, but nobody else, what are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
It?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Won't believe you for anybody else.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I'll see that.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
No one else, Get.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Jesus the rest of Emily. Don't jump. No one else
who did Emily.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Fantasy?
Speaker 8 (20:40):
You are a bird convoy for Atlantis. Tonight's original tale
of Dark Pantasy by Scott Bishop, originating in the studios
of W. K. Y and based upon an idea suggested
by Ken Right. Ben Morris was Harvey Adams, Murillo Schofield
took the part of Winston Ebery, and Garland Moss was Sigbred,
ruler of a lattice. Next Friday, Dark Fantasy will be
(21:03):
heard over most of these stations twenty five minutes earlier.
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