September 9, 2024 • 23 mins
Hope you enjoy this episode of Dark Fantasy! Find all our OTR radio stations and podcasts at theaterofthemind-otr.com - Dark Fantasy was an old-time radio horror/suspense thriller 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.- Thank you for listening, consider a donation to help keep the OTR radio stations commercial-free: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jared.day.oldtimeradio - Audio Credit: The Old Time Radio Researchers Group. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 - Find all the podcasts, download free - Spreaker | Apple Podcasts | YouTube Music
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Uh, oh, arrangements, don't confounded, is the alright?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Anybody here, Richard?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
That had that chair? There is someone sleeping.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
All you can see is his hand and wrist resting
on the arm of the chair with a burning cigarette
between the fingers.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
He must be asleep. Friends, you wake with.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Richard a cigarette? It's burned down to the man's fingers.
Whoever that is over there, he's dead, did you ring?
I say, oh, h are you the inky? H? I'm
sorry I was so long, sir, was short handed these days.
(01:05):
I was outside and couldn't come any sooner.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
There's a dead man over there.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
What was that? A dead man sitting right over there
in that chair. H. But he's gone. But Richard, did
you say a dead man? Sir?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yes, he was sitting there.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
That sha was there? My wife and I both saw him.
Must have been the shadows from the fire. I say,
I say, come here, will you? Are you looking for lodging?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Dear? Uh? Come over here?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
There was someone here, certainly there was.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
We both saw him.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Look they're on the floor. But the arm of that chair.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Oh, a burning cigarette?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yes, the one we saw Bernie in the dead man's hand. Yes,
I say, handkeeper, come over here. Oh I didn't see
you follow us.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Look, we saw the man from over at the desk.
All we could see was his arm in hand with
a cigarette between his fingers.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Nuts the cigarette down there, still burning.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And it was burning the man's fingers.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I'm sure you're both mistaken, said, There's been no one
here in the lobby. It was merely the shadows from
the fireplace. Then how do you account for that burning
cigarette there on the floor. One of the guests probably
dropped it save by accident before retiring. But I tell
you there was some one sitting in this chair then.
(02:37):
Since he's not here now, it may have been the aunt,
the the haunt, yes, miss folks calling the ghost of
the big Ammerhart. Oh come now, don't start any nonsense
about ghosts. His name was Trafalgar first a last I dunno,
which no one remembers. He built this old wayside in
(03:00):
more than two hundred years ago. Merridy's Girl he did.
Just after it was finished, and the night he moved
in he was murdered in cold blood by one of
the girls. Rejected swines killed Trafalgar for revenge he did
right here in this room while his honor was smoking
(03:21):
his last smoke before retiring. Ah, then and it was
the ghost could've been miss could have been? Folks claim
they seem every now and then, though I can't say
I has I say. Look, yes, Governor, there on the
back of the chair, isn't that a spot of blood? Well,
(03:43):
now I I don't rightly know, sir, but well, yes,
I believe you're white, Girvaney. Oh, the man was stabbed
in the back. He was through art. Seems that spot
there would be just about where he would leave blood behind.
Was he to sit in this charrier? Oh, Richard, let's
go ooh, so you seeming too? Uh? Well, that makes
(04:07):
three times this month. Seems like he's making quite a
habit of visiting us. Lightness. Shall we go, dear, yesingle
right away? Will you two be wanting a room for
the knife? No? No, we're looking for a place called Merryvale.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Merryvale, Yes, yes, we we thought we had the right
directions from Ethanshire.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
But we ended up here.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
We seem to have lost the weight. Oh no, Governor,
you just haven't gone far enough. Merryvale lives about twenty
kilometers to the west.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
How far is that in miles.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Ooh, about twelve thirteen.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Then let's go on, Richard. We can make it in
twenty minute.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
The road is not so good, miss, They probably forty
five instead of twenty. Besides, Merryvale hasn't been occupied for
nigh on to six years. You say it, it has
no no, sir, But.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
We understood it had been occupied by a a Miss
Priscilla Longacre.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yes, Miss long Ancre died about four months ago and
left marydal estate to me. When I managed to clean
up my affairs in Madrid, we came up to retire
and live on the estate. I was with a British
concern in Spain. Now I've resigned and come up here.
Till I got that message, I didn't even know I
had an aunt living in England. You'd say our name
was Priscilla long Acre. That's right. She died late in
(05:29):
December day or so after Christmas. Priscilla long Anchre has
been dead for five years. What indeed, she asked governor.
At least folks say that five years ago she telephoned
here to the end she did and asked for doctor Riley.
(05:49):
He answered the call and found her dead. So he
come back to make a report. But when the authorities
got to the place and he was gone, some say
it was stolen, some say the old lady become a zombie. Oh, anyways,
she was never seen again, and mary Dale was closed
(06:13):
up because nobody knowed it was kin to the old lady.
But that's impossible. Why I was notified early in January
of her death, you know, to fight your governor. Well,
the man you just spoke of, doctor Highley, you couldn't
have been notified by him, Governor, why not because he
died two days before Priscilla long it. But I have
(06:35):
his letter. Oh have you now, sir? Well? Yes, of
course outside in my car he said he would meet
me at Maryvale tonight. Then maybe you're going to see
another ghost before the night he's finished, egg, Governor mentioned,
Please let me go, yes there right away. I look here,
(06:55):
and keeper, is what you've been telling us the truth?
Of course, it's the truth, Governor. Why would I be
telling you things it ain't true? Eh? Then there hasn't
been anyone living in Merryvale for five years, and doctor
Higley has been lad that long too, And that's the
gospel truth, Governor. You'll see so for yourself when you
(07:19):
get there. Well, that's where we're going. You say, it's
about twelve miles mm. About that, Governor, you'll come to
a fork just around the turn up a ways tight
the left one. The other goes to London. Right, come along, Emily, Yes, dear,
if you need anything, my name is Joyson. You can
(07:41):
telephone here if you like. Just ask for the pig
of the amber. Yeah, all right, thank you very much.
They say it This wind strong come up in the
last few minutes, Richard.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yes, did did you notice that man's hand, the right one?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Well, no, dear, I didn't. Why there were.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Deep angry burns on top of his forefinger in the
middle one like burns a a cigarette would make.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Hm. Place seems to desert.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It, Thank Kevin. That wind stops.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Oh, Maryvale was in a small valley. Doesn't blow much here.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Look at the windows on the house all boarded up, and.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
So is the door looks weird in the moonlight, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Ritchard? Is is there a hammer in the car?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
No? I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Why, well, you'll need one if we're going to get
inside the place.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
That's right, those boards seemed tightly nailed.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
There might be something in that shed where behind us?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Oh yeah, sure, come on, let's have a look.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Look it's not nailed up. What the door's hanging open?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Mm h Richard, Yes, dear.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
We're not alone out here. What I feel it someone's
watching us?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh maybe it's the cigarette smoking ghost of.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
The air, Darling. I'm serious, I feel someone watching us.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You know, if I were the uneasy type, you'd scare
me half to death.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I mean it, I'm frightened.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh come now, Darling, I think we'd.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Better go back to that town where we stopped for dinner.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Nothing doing. I wouldn't brave that road again for anything.
Come on, here's what she had, still got the matches
I gave you.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yes, but let's don't go inside. Please, Why not? I'd
I just don't want to.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But we've got to find something to break away those
boards from the door up the house. Good, come on,
I've got the candle. M wish I had a flashlight, Richard,
don't It's all right, dear?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
How about a match?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Oh, Richard, come on, come on.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Give me a match?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Oh all right, here good.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
There should be an old length of pipe or something
in here we can use. There we are there, candles
lip will you hold a deer. When I look around, Richard,
(10:29):
what's that mm over there in the corner?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Those black boxes boxes, Oh Richard, they're coffins.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Coffins, they are.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
They're painted solid black. Look three little silver.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Handles, you may be right, three handles on this side too.
They are coffins, Richard, Yes, yes, they are the new ones.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
What in the world are they doing out here?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Let me have the candle.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Look aren't those silver inscription plates on the lids?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
That's what I wanna look at here?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Now there, Oh, Richard, I'm frightened?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Good lord, why this place? Says Richard Longacre, and the
other one, Emily long Acre died May fifteenth, nineteen forty two.
(11:41):
Well that's today, Richard, the light Emily. What happened?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
The wind blew out the candle? Richard, Richard?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Is that you?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
You moving about in here?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
No? I'm not moving. I thought it was you here?
Where are you? A sh She's not here, she's gone.
Candle must be on the floor in someplace. Has to
(12:20):
be here, someplace must have light, I said, long A.
Who's that is that? Richard long Acre? Yes? Think heaven?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Go ahead? Don't let him.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Hear you talking? Who are you?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Can you get a light going? Yes? I found the candle.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
See if I got a match?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yes? Yeah, but no one here don't wanna be shed
but myself. Door's closed now, good lord? The lid, the
lid on that coffin, moving something inside, pushing it up, slowly,
(13:10):
pushing the lid up, pushing it up. Oh, take this
confound and lid, will you? Well, don't stand there looking
like a stupid country pumpkin. Take this lid so I
can get out of this cursed casket.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Who who are you?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
How did you get in there? Where? You? Take this? Lead?
You fool? Sure? All right there now help me out?
Sure keive me your hand? Yeah, h yeah, m How
long were you in that thing? You have a non
(13:51):
the eyes hours before you and your wife came into
the shad. My wife? Where is she? I have a
pretty good idea. Where is she? I rather imagine he's
got her? Eh, wooh, sh stuffy in that box?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Wooh?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Where's my wire?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
You pool?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
He comes back and finds me here? Who are you?
Tell me what you know? My name is Warren Hayley. Hailey, Yes,
doctor Hayley, the one who sent you the notice of
your aunt's death.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
But he said you were dead.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He the younkeeper. Oh, Jason, Yeah, that was his name, Jason.
I rather imagine he would tell you I am dead.
You see, he thinks he kills me. What. Yes, five
years ago he lured me out here to attend to
the occupant of Madravail, Priscilla Lomica, my aunt. Yes, I've
(14:55):
found the woman dying. Someone had attempted to murder her.
Someone did I couldn't save her life. The innkeeper exactly.
He attacked me, left me for dead. But I recovered,
and I hid the body of the dead woman and
(15:17):
found a place to hide myself. But why why what?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Why did you hide out?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Why didn't you return? And accused the innkeeper of murder?
But I had no proof resigns. I was always devoted
to Miss long Acre. I wanted to find that motive
behind the crime. I did not know it would take
five years to do so what was the motive? It's
not a novel one Jason wants to buy Merrivale because
(15:48):
somewhere on this property I buried more than three tons
of silver silver. Yes, it was brought to England from
France during the Revolution. Its owners were captured and executed.
The silver finally became a legend. But now I have
discovered it here on this property. Indeed, yes, would you
(16:11):
like to see it?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Now?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Look here. I'm not interested in the silver, ands life
and my wife. Where is she? I? I think I
can take you to her? Well, then suppose you got
about doing it. We must be most careful. Yeah, hold
the light over here for sure. Help move this straw aside. Hey, hey,
careful of the flame. Now the trap door, yes, right now,
(16:41):
very quid. I'm going to open it, all right, careful,
now give me the light. You go first, all right,
I'll follow the careful, careful of the bottom. There's a
(17:01):
quick lamb pitch just a few feet from the bottom
of the ladder. A yeah, this way, this way, I
am fits over there.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
What's that? Oh, Italy, it's my wife, Italy.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Elly? Oh oh that's it, Oh darling, are you all right? Yes?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
That I guess, sir. What what happened?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I don't know?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Life went out and you disappeared?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And who that?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Oh doctor Highley, dear.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
The one who sent us the notice of at Priscilla's death. Doctor,
my wife prays your mess long a gay, where where
are we This is a chamber beneath the old shin.
I discovered it the day Priscilla was murdered five years ago.
I brought her here. Uh can you get help, missus Longaker?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yes that I think so.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, I'll help you. Huh.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I must have fallen down here.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Will you come this way?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Please?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Can you walk down here?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I'm all right, Oh yeah, if you please? Alright, come here? Yeah,
under the heavy glass. Look, oh, the body of an
old woman. She was Priscilla Longacer. I've kept her here
(18:33):
all these years until I could get the entire Longacre
clan together.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I now you out together. Mm. I waited for this
day five years. I've waited, Fitzman. Look here, doctor Holley. Jason, Yes,
Walton Jason.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Watch them closely, Jason, I'll watch them doctor. You doctor
highly you told me Jason wants to buy Merryvale?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Did you who wants to buy it?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You will never repeat that to any one, mister Longaga lies.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Never think you told me nothing but lies. You kill
my aunt.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
It took me five years to locate her only living relative, you,
Richard Longka, And now that you are here, Meryvale will
soon be mine.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
But you can't matter, ha, And no one will ever
find either of you in the lime pit.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
No, no, your coffins are prepared up above there. Tomorrow
there will be a funeral, but your bodies will not
be in the caskets.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Why get my pine now, doctor?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Oh yes, Jason, of course here you've killed him?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
No such luck, mad They rendered him unconscious, but he'll
never regain consciousness.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
How are you going to do with him?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
The lamb?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Before that short word of him?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You'll join him?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Enough away?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I'm twenty for you fall into that pit, and I
threw you down here through the trap door up there.
It was you up there, crawling into the coffin and
pretending the hide was all a lot of Chandalor me
down here. I'll look here. I the man that you
release us. You are in no position to demand anything.
Your aunt is next, and you will follow her.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
And I warn you this gun, I have his loaded.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
The old d goes into the pit next let her.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Alone, and kept her hidden down here for five years.
I heard you were coming here, I finished, but they
down How should have become that? It does?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
You've done enough?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Start? Put her daughter? She'd gone into the pit. Put
her Doe say, did you come back, you devil Richard.
That woman.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Thought you killed me, didn't you. Doctor?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
No, No, no, you do.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
You'll kill me after keeping me here.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
All well, you didn't kill me, doctor or Shop, he didn't.
(21:49):
Dark Fantasy.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
You have heard funeral arrangements completed Tonight's original tale of
Dark Fatasy by Scott Bishop. Alf Daniels was heard as
Richard Longacre, Eleanor Naylor Korn was Emily Fred Wayne played
Doctor Highly, Georgiana Cook was the old woman, and meure
Height was Jason. Next Friday at this time one of
(22:28):
the most unusual of all dark Fantasy adventures created for
you by Scott Bishop.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Reaching.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
For pictures of the production Dead Hands Reaching, and of
the dramatic staffs of Dark Fatasy, as well as for
vivid and exciting picturizations of next Friday's story, Dead Hands Reaching,
we call your attention to the two page story appearing
in the magazine Movie Radio Guide dated tomorrow, May sixteenth,
and No, this is Tom Paxton reminding you about United
(23:00):
States War bonds and stamps.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
M h m hm.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Dark Fantasy comes to you each Friday night from Oklahoma today.
This is the National Broadcasting Company h.
Uh, oh, arrangements, don't confounded, is the alright?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Anybody here, Richard?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
That had that chair? There is someone sleeping.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
All you can see is his hand and wrist resting
on the arm of the chair with a burning cigarette
between the fingers.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
He must be asleep. Friends, you wake with.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Richard a cigarette? It's burned down to the man's fingers.
Whoever that is over there, he's dead, did you ring?
I say, oh, h are you the inky? H? I'm
sorry I was so long, sir, was short handed these days.
(01:05):
I was outside and couldn't come any sooner.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
There's a dead man over there.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
What was that? A dead man sitting right over there
in that chair. H. But he's gone. But Richard, did
you say a dead man? Sir?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yes, he was sitting there.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
That sha was there? My wife and I both saw him.
Must have been the shadows from the fire. I say,
I say, come here, will you? Are you looking for lodging?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Dear? Uh? Come over here?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
There was someone here, certainly there was.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
We both saw him.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Look they're on the floor. But the arm of that chair.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Oh, a burning cigarette?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yes, the one we saw Bernie in the dead man's hand. Yes,
I say, handkeeper, come over here. Oh I didn't see
you follow us.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Look, we saw the man from over at the desk.
All we could see was his arm in hand with
a cigarette between his fingers.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Nuts the cigarette down there, still burning.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And it was burning the man's fingers.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I'm sure you're both mistaken, said, There's been no one
here in the lobby. It was merely the shadows from
the fireplace. Then how do you account for that burning
cigarette there on the floor. One of the guests probably
dropped it save by accident before retiring. But I tell
you there was some one sitting in this chair then.
(02:37):
Since he's not here now, it may have been the aunt,
the the haunt, yes, miss folks calling the ghost of
the big Ammerhart. Oh come now, don't start any nonsense
about ghosts. His name was Trafalgar first a last I dunno,
which no one remembers. He built this old wayside in
(03:00):
more than two hundred years ago. Merridy's Girl he did.
Just after it was finished, and the night he moved
in he was murdered in cold blood by one of
the girls. Rejected swines killed Trafalgar for revenge he did
right here in this room while his honor was smoking
(03:21):
his last smoke before retiring. Ah, then and it was
the ghost could've been miss could have been? Folks claim
they seem every now and then, though I can't say
I has I say. Look, yes, Governor, there on the
back of the chair, isn't that a spot of blood? Well,
(03:43):
now I I don't rightly know, sir, but well, yes,
I believe you're white, Girvaney. Oh, the man was stabbed
in the back. He was through art. Seems that spot
there would be just about where he would leave blood behind.
Was he to sit in this charrier? Oh, Richard, let's
go ooh, so you seeming too? Uh? Well, that makes
(04:07):
three times this month. Seems like he's making quite a
habit of visiting us. Lightness. Shall we go, dear, yesingle
right away? Will you two be wanting a room for
the knife? No? No, we're looking for a place called Merryvale.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Merryvale, Yes, yes, we we thought we had the right
directions from Ethanshire.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
But we ended up here.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
We seem to have lost the weight. Oh no, Governor,
you just haven't gone far enough. Merryvale lives about twenty
kilometers to the west.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
How far is that in miles.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Ooh, about twelve thirteen.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Then let's go on, Richard. We can make it in
twenty minute.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
The road is not so good, miss, They probably forty
five instead of twenty. Besides, Merryvale hasn't been occupied for
nigh on to six years. You say it, it has
no no, sir, But.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
We understood it had been occupied by a a Miss
Priscilla Longacre.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yes, Miss long Ancre died about four months ago and
left marydal estate to me. When I managed to clean
up my affairs in Madrid, we came up to retire
and live on the estate. I was with a British
concern in Spain. Now I've resigned and come up here.
Till I got that message, I didn't even know I
had an aunt living in England. You'd say our name
was Priscilla long Acre. That's right. She died late in
(05:29):
December day or so after Christmas. Priscilla long Anchre has
been dead for five years. What indeed, she asked governor.
At least folks say that five years ago she telephoned
here to the end she did and asked for doctor Riley.
(05:49):
He answered the call and found her dead. So he
come back to make a report. But when the authorities
got to the place and he was gone, some say
it was stolen, some say the old lady become a zombie. Oh, anyways,
she was never seen again, and mary Dale was closed
(06:13):
up because nobody knowed it was kin to the old lady.
But that's impossible. Why I was notified early in January
of her death, you know, to fight your governor. Well,
the man you just spoke of, doctor Highley, you couldn't
have been notified by him, Governor, why not because he
died two days before Priscilla long it. But I have
(06:35):
his letter. Oh have you now, sir? Well? Yes, of
course outside in my car he said he would meet
me at Maryvale tonight. Then maybe you're going to see
another ghost before the night he's finished, egg, Governor mentioned,
Please let me go, yes there right away. I look here,
(06:55):
and keeper, is what you've been telling us the truth?
Of course, it's the truth, Governor. Why would I be
telling you things it ain't true? Eh? Then there hasn't
been anyone living in Merryvale for five years, and doctor
Higley has been lad that long too, And that's the
gospel truth, Governor. You'll see so for yourself when you
(07:19):
get there. Well, that's where we're going. You say, it's
about twelve miles mm. About that, Governor, you'll come to
a fork just around the turn up a ways tight
the left one. The other goes to London. Right, come along, Emily, Yes, dear,
if you need anything, my name is Joyson. You can
(07:41):
telephone here if you like. Just ask for the pig
of the amber. Yeah, all right, thank you very much.
They say it This wind strong come up in the
last few minutes, Richard.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Yes, did did you notice that man's hand, the right one?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Well, no, dear, I didn't. Why there were.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Deep angry burns on top of his forefinger in the
middle one like burns a a cigarette would make.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Hm. Place seems to desert.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It, Thank Kevin. That wind stops.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Oh, Maryvale was in a small valley. Doesn't blow much here.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Look at the windows on the house all boarded up, and.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
So is the door looks weird in the moonlight, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Ritchard? Is is there a hammer in the car?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
No? I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Why, well, you'll need one if we're going to get
inside the place.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
That's right, those boards seemed tightly nailed.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
There might be something in that shed where behind us?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Oh yeah, sure, come on, let's have a look.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Look it's not nailed up. What the door's hanging open?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Mm h Richard, Yes, dear.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
We're not alone out here. What I feel it someone's
watching us?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh maybe it's the cigarette smoking ghost of.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
The air, Darling. I'm serious, I feel someone watching us.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
You know, if I were the uneasy type, you'd scare
me half to death.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I mean it, I'm frightened.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh come now, Darling, I think we'd.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Better go back to that town where we stopped for dinner.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Nothing doing. I wouldn't brave that road again for anything.
Come on, here's what she had, still got the matches
I gave you.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yes, but let's don't go inside. Please, Why not? I'd
I just don't want to.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
But we've got to find something to break away those
boards from the door up the house. Good, come on,
I've got the candle. M wish I had a flashlight, Richard,
don't It's all right, dear?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
How about a match?
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Oh, Richard, come on, come on.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Give me a match?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Oh all right, here good.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
There should be an old length of pipe or something
in here we can use. There we are there, candles
lip will you hold a deer. When I look around, Richard,
(10:29):
what's that mm over there in the corner?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Those black boxes boxes, Oh Richard, they're coffins.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Coffins, they are.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
They're painted solid black. Look three little silver.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Handles, you may be right, three handles on this side too.
They are coffins, Richard, Yes, yes, they are the new ones.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
What in the world are they doing out here?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Let me have the candle.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Look aren't those silver inscription plates on the lids?
Speaker 1 (11:10):
That's what I wanna look at here?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Now there, Oh, Richard, I'm frightened?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Good lord, why this place? Says Richard Longacre, and the
other one, Emily long Acre died May fifteenth, nineteen forty two.
(11:41):
Well that's today, Richard, the light Emily. What happened?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
The wind blew out the candle? Richard, Richard?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Is that you?
Speaker 1 (11:55):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
You moving about in here?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
No? I'm not moving. I thought it was you here?
Where are you? A sh She's not here, she's gone.
Candle must be on the floor in someplace. Has to
(12:20):
be here, someplace must have light, I said, long A.
Who's that is that? Richard long Acre? Yes? Think heaven?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Go ahead? Don't let him.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Hear you talking? Who are you?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Can you get a light going? Yes? I found the candle.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
See if I got a match?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yes? Yeah, but no one here don't wanna be shed
but myself. Door's closed now, good lord? The lid, the
lid on that coffin, moving something inside, pushing it up, slowly,
(13:10):
pushing the lid up, pushing it up. Oh, take this
confound and lid, will you? Well, don't stand there looking
like a stupid country pumpkin. Take this lid so I
can get out of this cursed casket.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Who who are you?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
How did you get in there? Where? You? Take this? Lead?
You fool? Sure? All right there now help me out?
Sure keive me your hand? Yeah, h yeah, m How
long were you in that thing? You have a non
(13:51):
the eyes hours before you and your wife came into
the shad. My wife? Where is she? I have a
pretty good idea. Where is she? I rather imagine he's
got her? Eh, wooh, sh stuffy in that box?
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Wooh?
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Where's my wire?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
You pool?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
He comes back and finds me here? Who are you?
Tell me what you know? My name is Warren Hayley. Hailey, Yes,
doctor Hayley, the one who sent you the notice of
your aunt's death.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
But he said you were dead.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He the younkeeper. Oh, Jason, Yeah, that was his name, Jason.
I rather imagine he would tell you I am dead.
You see, he thinks he kills me. What. Yes, five
years ago he lured me out here to attend to
the occupant of Madravail, Priscilla Lomica, my aunt. Yes, I've
(14:55):
found the woman dying. Someone had attempted to murder her.
Someone did I couldn't save her life. The innkeeper exactly.
He attacked me, left me for dead. But I recovered,
and I hid the body of the dead woman and
(15:17):
found a place to hide myself. But why why what?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Why did you hide out?
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Why didn't you return? And accused the innkeeper of murder?
But I had no proof resigns. I was always devoted
to Miss long Acre. I wanted to find that motive
behind the crime. I did not know it would take
five years to do so what was the motive? It's
not a novel one Jason wants to buy Merrivale because
(15:48):
somewhere on this property I buried more than three tons
of silver silver. Yes, it was brought to England from
France during the Revolution. Its owners were captured and executed.
The silver finally became a legend. But now I have
discovered it here on this property. Indeed, yes, would you
(16:11):
like to see it?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Now?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Look here. I'm not interested in the silver, ands life
and my wife. Where is she? I? I think I
can take you to her? Well, then suppose you got
about doing it. We must be most careful. Yeah, hold
the light over here for sure. Help move this straw aside. Hey, hey,
careful of the flame. Now the trap door, yes, right now,
(16:41):
very quid. I'm going to open it, all right, careful,
now give me the light. You go first, all right,
I'll follow the careful, careful of the bottom. There's a
(17:01):
quick lamb pitch just a few feet from the bottom
of the ladder. A yeah, this way, this way, I
am fits over there.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
What's that? Oh, Italy, it's my wife, Italy.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Elly? Oh oh that's it, Oh darling, are you all right? Yes?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
That I guess, sir. What what happened?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I don't know?
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Life went out and you disappeared?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And who that?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Oh doctor Highley, dear.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
The one who sent us the notice of at Priscilla's death. Doctor,
my wife prays your mess long a gay, where where
are we This is a chamber beneath the old shin.
I discovered it the day Priscilla was murdered five years ago.
I brought her here. Uh can you get help, missus Longaker?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yes that I think so.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, I'll help you. Huh.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I must have fallen down here.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Will you come this way?
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Please?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Can you walk down here?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I'm all right, Oh yeah, if you please? Alright, come here? Yeah,
under the heavy glass. Look, oh, the body of an
old woman. She was Priscilla Longacer. I've kept her here
(18:33):
all these years until I could get the entire Longacre
clan together.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I now you out together. Mm. I waited for this
day five years. I've waited, Fitzman. Look here, doctor Holley. Jason, Yes,
Walton Jason.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Watch them closely, Jason, I'll watch them doctor. You doctor
highly you told me Jason wants to buy Merryvale?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Did you who wants to buy it?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You will never repeat that to any one, mister Longaga lies.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Never think you told me nothing but lies. You kill
my aunt.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
It took me five years to locate her only living relative, you,
Richard Longka, And now that you are here, Meryvale will
soon be mine.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
But you can't matter, ha, And no one will ever
find either of you in the lime pit.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
No, no, your coffins are prepared up above there. Tomorrow
there will be a funeral, but your bodies will not
be in the caskets.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Why get my pine now, doctor?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Oh yes, Jason, of course here you've killed him?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
No such luck, mad They rendered him unconscious, but he'll
never regain consciousness.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
How are you going to do with him?
Speaker 1 (20:10):
The lamb?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Before that short word of him?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You'll join him?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Enough away?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I'm twenty for you fall into that pit, and I
threw you down here through the trap door up there.
It was you up there, crawling into the coffin and
pretending the hide was all a lot of Chandalor me
down here. I'll look here. I the man that you
release us. You are in no position to demand anything.
Your aunt is next, and you will follow her.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
And I warn you this gun, I have his loaded.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
The old d goes into the pit next let her.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Alone, and kept her hidden down here for five years.
I heard you were coming here, I finished, but they
down How should have become that? It does?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
You've done enough?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Start? Put her daughter? She'd gone into the pit. Put
her Doe say, did you come back, you devil Richard.
That woman.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Thought you killed me, didn't you. Doctor?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
No, No, no, you do.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
You'll kill me after keeping me here.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
All well, you didn't kill me, doctor or Shop, he didn't.
(21:49):
Dark Fantasy.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
You have heard funeral arrangements completed Tonight's original tale of
Dark Fatasy by Scott Bishop. Alf Daniels was heard as
Richard Longacre, Eleanor Naylor Korn was Emily Fred Wayne played
Doctor Highly, Georgiana Cook was the old woman, and meure
Height was Jason. Next Friday at this time one of
(22:28):
the most unusual of all dark Fantasy adventures created for
you by Scott Bishop.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Reaching.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
For pictures of the production Dead Hands Reaching, and of
the dramatic staffs of Dark Fatasy, as well as for
vivid and exciting picturizations of next Friday's story, Dead Hands Reaching,
we call your attention to the two page story appearing
in the magazine Movie Radio Guide dated tomorrow, May sixteenth,
and No, this is Tom Paxton reminding you about United
(23:00):
States War bonds and stamps.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
M h m hm.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Dark Fantasy comes to you each Friday night from Oklahoma today.
This is the National Broadcasting Company h.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
Gregg Rosenthal and a rotating crew of elite NFL Media co-hosts, including Patrick Claybon, Colleen Wolfe, Steve Wyche, Nick Shook and Jourdan Rodrigue of The Athletic get you caught up daily on all the NFL news and analysis you need to be smarter and funnier than your friends.