September 4, 2024 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
God, and just see.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
On of this.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
View man, beautiful take off?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yes, good pilot. Why did you charge such a large
plane for just the two of us, Michael, isn't this
being just a bit too pretentious?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Nothing but the best from now on ATLA.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Besides, this was the only plane available, and you can
unmotion your safety belt now.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I might as well confessed that the real reason I
was late was because I took so much time reading
the notices in the paper this morning. They excellent. The
audience was quite nice to me last night, extremely appreciative.
But I didn't expect such fine reports from the press.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
And didn't I tell you before the concert that you'd
be a hit today, my dea, you were recognized as
the outstanding soprano.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Of the nation.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
You've had a lot of faith in me.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Handing to Michael, well off hand, i'd say I have.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yes, you spent a lot of money to make me
a success.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Uh huh, I don't worry.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I'll collect every cent of it back if we get
as good house as we had last night.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Michael. Yes, Donny, do you feel well rather as strange?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Strange?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
No, Dear, why, I I feel like something is going
to happen hm.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
What makes you say that?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I don't know. A feeling of impending danger just seemed
to come over me, all of a sudden danger.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
What possible danger could we be in?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I don't Oh, but I've had this feeling before. It's
like like someone had spread a shroud down over this aeroplane.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Now that's a peculiar way to talk, Adlin.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
It's the same sort of feeling I had that day
Stephan disappeared stefan wildly, Yes, Adler, I was riding in
my car that day. I'd been to a matinee with
several of my friends. We'd had a glorious time. I
was quite happy. So I drove out into the country
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with the top down on my car. The wind was
blowing against the car, just as it's blowing against the
plane now. And the sun was glistening on the bright
metal of the car, just as it's glistening on the
wing out there.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Darling, Please don't think of that now. Oh.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It was a lovely day, just like today. My heart
was very light. I was happy, thrillingly happy. Stephan and
I were to be married within a week. I love please,
And then, for no reason at all, I had that
strange feeling. It just came out of nowhere and settled
(03:15):
down around me, like a a huge cloth might cover
the body of someone who had just died.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
M talk that way dying.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
It was the strangest feeling I'd ever experienced, weird, terrible.
It gave me the feeling that a hundred thousand evil
spirits were racing at a maddening pace behind my car,
trying to catch up with me, clutch me and their bony,
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fiendish hands.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Something was so long ago, five years.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
So long ago, seems like yesterday. Then when I speeded
up the car, something began to pound in my ears.
It's ponding there now, Michael, it's pounding there now. Huddler,
please the clouster. I drove the more that evil shroud
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hung over me. I gave the car more gas, more,
more more.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And then when they found you in the wreckage, they
thought you were dead.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I couldn't make the curve. The motor had reached full speed.
I could think of but one single danger, the invisible
danger that raced there behind me, striving to catch me
in its hold.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
There was no one, nothing, Oh, but.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
There seemed to be. And what was so strange? All
of a sudden, that bright day vanished, just vanished. Clouds
came out of nowhere and hid the sun from sight.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Darning, I I'd better pull down the shade on the window.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh, Michael, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Look look at that.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Clouds were flying below of 'em, and they've completely blotted
out the sun.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
The sun will be out in the minute.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's just like that day. Clouds hiding the sun, just
like they did that day.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Oh, just a coincidence, dark, dreary.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Gods, Oh my lad, busts up, ponder listen, Oh my god,
what does it mean?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Nothing, nothing at all, just a thunderstorm. I I'll go
up and fly above it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Why didn't he go up above the storm when he sides? Oh,
I don't know, because he didn't see it. That's why.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Certainly.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
No. Well, it came up just like that day five
years ago, out of nowhere, came up before the pilot
wasn't even aware of it. Oh nonsense, It wasn't nonsense.
Five years ago. First clouds, then the thunder. Then it
began to rain.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Well look for yourself.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Oh it's not raining now, it's nothing but an electrical storm.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
See you were going above.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It, Michael, I'm frightened.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
There's nothing to be frightened. Aboy there, Look there's a
sun again.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
It's all so strange, that feeling the cloud's hiding behind
the sun. The thunder, sure, but.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
No rain, Oh, Michael, to just the pilot talking to
us over the talkback system.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Uh, push that button right there so I can answer it. Yes, pilot,
what is it now? Don't be alarmed about the storm.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Or about it now?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yes, thank you. Uh just an electrical storm, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Oh sir, it's modernize.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
It's raining cats and.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Dogs down then my card rain, Oh mir, we're up
above the storm.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Nothing can harm us here.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You remember, don't you? I never saw Stephen Wilder again
after that experience I had five years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yes, is that? Remember?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
No one ever saw him again. He just disappeared.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Please, darling, don't think about it anymore. Today. You're tired.
Perhaps a little rest would do you good.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Oh, yes, you're right, I am tired.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Just lie back and relax then, honestly, sweet, there's nothing
to be worried about. We just happened to run into
a storm, and you've thought about that or experience of yours.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I wonder, Michael, I wondered if we did just happen
into the storm. Michael, Well, you dolly over here?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Did do you have a good sleep?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Oh? I did sleep after all? Why are the lights out? Why?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I turned them out so you could sleep as long
as you could, and I'll switch 'em back on.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Eh.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
What time is it? Huh hm? Nine thirty nine thirty? Oh, Michael,
I've been asleep more than eight hours.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I thought you'd never wake up after.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Dark, and you've had the lights off all this time.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Just for me.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Well, I guess i'd better admit I got a little
sleep too.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
We now over Mexico. Hey, hungry do?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I vamished? You know, I can't imagine what made me
sleep so long.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
We landed Sintella. We can get food there?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Have we landed it all since I retired?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Oh, we're circling now. Well that's Sintella down there. They
better pretty up of it. This is a secluded part
of the country, but you'll never know who you're gonna
run into.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Well that was Sintella.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
How long before we were in Monterey for about an hour?
Did you get good reservation rest?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Did you enjoy your dinner?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Oh? Immensely. It was a nice place. Certainly a rough landing.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Field, though, well it's not actually a landing field. We
had to land someplace to refuel before we got to Monterey,
so I picked Santella.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I enjoyed. It's a quaint little place. Mm it's a
funny thing, Michael. Did you notice the plane?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
What do you mean, dear?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
It didn't look a bit like it had been in
a rain storm.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I thought you'd forgotten all about that. Course, it didn't
look like it. We flew above the rain before it started.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Oh, yes, that's right. Well, if you don't mind, I'm
going to spend the next hour looking through my fashion
magazines before we land at Monterey. M Michael. Yes, should
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we be over water?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Water? Well? No, of course not.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Well we are, there's water all around us.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Uh, let's see why heaven Aatly you're right, pilot's office.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Course, surely you must realize it.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Oh, you better go up and find out.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yes, I will. I'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I have it, hurried, Michael.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
For Heaven's sake, right, doords the pilot's captain's locked?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I say, pilot pilot, what's right?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Michael? Oh, in doorder?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
This cabin is locked curtain over the windows, pulled down
inside it.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Pilot ob up, No, he's raised in the curtain, Michael.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Good lord, a thick, hairy arm.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Michael. That's not our pilot at the controls. It's a monkey.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
A gorilla.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Oh, Michael, are we dreaming?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Oh, it's true, a live gorilla piloting our plane.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
But that's impossible.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Oh, confolet door is locked open.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
This door, obna, Michael, be careful.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Look at him peering back at us, those little beady
eyes and an expression on his face that, oh, most human.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
This is fantastic.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
How in the world did we ever come to be
in the air with a creature like that?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
We had our regular pilot when we led at Santella.
I saw him climb down out of the cabbin.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
So did I, but I never did see him again
before we took off. Naturally, his was to me when
I gave him to go ahead signal.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Michael, Michael, now what we're over land.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It's bringing the plane down.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Oh my god, we're on the ground, an absolutely perfect landing.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
He's unlocking a daughter. Michael. What's he going to do?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Just take it easy, don't get excited. Whatever you do
don't run or make a fast movement. Don't let him
know you're afraid of him.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Just standing there looking at her.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Whatever you do, don't let him know you're afraid of him.
You don't have to be afraid of me. Michael, the
creature talked, of course I talk. Oh, we're a.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Couple of fools at just our pilot playing a trick
on us, dressed up in a monkey.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So there is no trickery. I am not your original pilot.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
What I joined you at Santella where I came to
meet you.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
For doctor Luther.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Doctor, doctor Luther.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yes, he's waiting for you.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Come follow me, steady, darling, come on, we'd better follow him.
Here's the doctor now, well, Stepan, I see you brought
our visitors.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yes, doctor, yes, just as I directed you.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Welcome Adelei Rhodes, and welcome to your lovely, lovely voice,
I say, look here, and welcome to you, mister Block.
I am so sorry that you will be of no
assistance to me. However, you may be interested in what
I have planned. I'll listen, doctor Luther. I want to
know what this is all about. You will learn what
it is all about, and without delay, I'll assure you come, Stephan,
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don't be so inhospitable. Show our guests into the laboratory.
Sit down over there, my dear. Over here, mister Block,
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doctor Luther.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
I demand an explanation. Where are we have you brought
us here? You're two full of questions, mister Block. I've
already told you. I'm about to show you why I
brought you here.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Here high in these mountains. Secretly, I've been working for
five years, experimenting, testing, trying to accomplish what every one
would have said was utterly impossible. And I told him
about it, but I didn't tell any one. Instead, I
came here and built this laboratory. You'll see it's fully
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equipped and modern in every detail.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I'll look here, doctor Luther.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
During those five years I trained step in here. I
believe you will agree my training has been very successful.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
You now see an almost.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Full grown gorilla behaving like a human, acting like a human,
even talking like a human. I've been very kind to you,
hadn't i, Stephan, Yes, doctor Luther, of course you've been kind.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yes, just so.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Scientist back there in your world, my dear miss Rhodes,
we'll tell you it's impossible to completely train a gorilla.
That is the second point in which I've proved them wrong.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Stephan sing for us, Yes, doctor.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Sippoopoo singor.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Singor? Doesn't he have an excellent voice?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Michael? Did you hear that?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Impossible? Sing again? Stephan?
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Oh oh ah, you see.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Soon he will be world famous. I shall travel with him,
take him to the four corners of the Earth, and
show people how well my gorilla sings.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Oh my, I can't believe it. That's Stephen Wilder's voice.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It can't be here, but it is.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yes, Now I remember, now, I know who you are,
Doctor Luther. Stephen Wilder had an appointment with you that
day he disappeared five years ago. I'd forgotten all about it,
but I just now remembered.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
So that's what happened to Stephan Wilder. You kidnapped him
and brought him here, and you.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Precisely.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
I brought him here to do what others said could
never be done. I chloroformed him five years ago and
brought him here. I thought I was ready, but my
gorilla wasn't, so I had to wait. Three months ago.
I performed the operation. Operation I removed the vocal cords
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from the man and rafted them into the gorilla.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Ah, this is ridiculous. A thing like that can't be done.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Oh, surely you don't deny the proof I'd just given you,
mister Block, Stephan sing. Oh you recognized that voice, Miss
Rhodes the moment you heard it, because you'd sung operas
with mister Wilders so much.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
That was the way he said to exercise his voice.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Don't you both realize what I have here? The secret
of an untold wealth. Why, besides knowing how to train
this ferocious and morose type of animal, besides knowing how
to transfer vocal cords successfully, I have something I can
exhibit to the world to prove my knowledge.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Think.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Think of the fortune I can amass because people will
pay immense sums to see and hear my singing gorilla.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Why have you brought me here? Surely you could have
spared me this.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I will tell you why, Miss Rhodes. If you and
mister Block will step over here.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
The only place we're going to step is out of
this place.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Will do as I ask, Stephan. These people are not
to leave very.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Well, Doctor Luther over here, if you please better do
what he says, Adler, Yeah, plate glass, look into the
next room.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
Yes, isn't it a fine specimen, fine specimen, Yes, she she.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
No, you're not planning.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I've trained her very carefully. She was so much more
responsive than the male.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Now that she's able to obey me, I'm quite ready
for the rest of my plans for her.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Oh no, no, you cannot. I won't let you.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I'll say. If you can, I hope you will be
able to prevent it. Soon.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Soon I'll tour the world with the most amazing exhibition.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
On earth, a male and a female.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Gorilla singing all the world famousopolis.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Wait a minute, I just happened to think of something, doctor. Yes,
do you remember the day Stephen Wilde had that appointment
with you five years ago?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yes, certainly, I remember.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
I've been planning to obtain possession of him so I
could bring him here. I was most pleased when he
called an ask for an appointment.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
But did he tell you why he was calling upon you?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I know no, he didn't.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
He came to you, Doctor Luther because he was losing
his voice.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
You you must be wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I am not wrong. I am the only one he
told about it. It had been worrying him for a
long time. You see, the more he sang. The worse
his voice became. He was gradually losing it.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
But that's impossible.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Do you think so, doctor, you're a specialist on that subject,
that's why he was coming to you.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Then you must be wrong. After all the work, like Tom.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Your gorilla will lose his voice, Doctor Luther, And I
assure you, before you'll do anything to me, I'll see
to it that my voice is ruined too. He won't.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
He can't. He's an excellent voice. Excellent, he said the
glass he is. We've worked together. I trained him his
voice tongul bet.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I mean now, not now, just when it's finally successful.
How you'll see, doctor, No, you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You're mistaken. He'll sing all right, he won't lose his voice.
Will you step him?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Goss, No, you're in an excellent voice, stepping.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Sing, sing your head standing shot him.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Sleep, wall sip wall se.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
D you see? Did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
A beautiful quality? Dautiful tones?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Oh more?
Speaker 7 (21:52):
What's wrong?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Frag him? Oh?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Now you say I'm wrong?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
So through stelling you your channels? After all, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
After all I want.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
This is what I jet as the reward, I tuckle
as everything, my position, my career, all.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
My money, and this is what happens.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Well, there's one way. Stipping by hidden is one way.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Got no no do.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
That's want to hit that beast, but look at it.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Stop no say.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Up die Fantasy.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
You have heard Spawn of the sub Human. Tonight's original
tale of dark Fantasy by Scott Bishop. Then Marris was
heard as Michael Brock eleanor Neylacorn was Adler Rhodes Garland
Moss played Doctor Luther and Mure Height was the Gorilla.
Next Friday Night, at the same time, listen to the
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sixteenth in this series of dark fantasy dramas created by
Scott Bishop, The Man with the Scarlet Satchel, the story
of an aged millionaire who receives a child set of
modeling play as a practical joke, but who turns the
gift into an incredible and weird instrument of destruction. Don't
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miss this unusual story. Next Friday Night, The Man with
the Scarlet Satchel. Tom Paxton speaking Dark Fantasy comes to
you from w k Y, Oklahoma, Ciday.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
This is the National Broadcasting Company
God, and just see.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
On of this.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
View man, beautiful take off?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yes, good pilot. Why did you charge such a large
plane for just the two of us, Michael, isn't this
being just a bit too pretentious?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Nothing but the best from now on ATLA.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Besides, this was the only plane available, and you can
unmotion your safety belt now.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I might as well confessed that the real reason I
was late was because I took so much time reading
the notices in the paper this morning. They excellent. The
audience was quite nice to me last night, extremely appreciative.
But I didn't expect such fine reports from the press.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
And didn't I tell you before the concert that you'd
be a hit today, my dea, you were recognized as
the outstanding soprano.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Of the nation.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
You've had a lot of faith in me.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Handing to Michael, well off hand, i'd say I have.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yes, you spent a lot of money to make me
a success.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Uh huh, I don't worry.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I'll collect every cent of it back if we get
as good house as we had last night.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Michael. Yes, Donny, do you feel well rather as strange?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Strange?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
No, Dear, why, I I feel like something is going
to happen hm.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
What makes you say that?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I don't know. A feeling of impending danger just seemed
to come over me, all of a sudden danger.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
What possible danger could we be in?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I don't Oh, but I've had this feeling before. It's
like like someone had spread a shroud down over this aeroplane.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Now that's a peculiar way to talk, Adlin.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
It's the same sort of feeling I had that day
Stephan disappeared stefan wildly, Yes, Adler, I was riding in
my car that day. I'd been to a matinee with
several of my friends. We'd had a glorious time. I
was quite happy. So I drove out into the country
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with the top down on my car. The wind was
blowing against the car, just as it's blowing against the
plane now. And the sun was glistening on the bright
metal of the car, just as it's glistening on the
wing out there.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Darling, Please don't think of that now. Oh.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It was a lovely day, just like today. My heart
was very light. I was happy, thrillingly happy. Stephan and
I were to be married within a week. I love please,
And then, for no reason at all, I had that
strange feeling. It just came out of nowhere and settled
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down around me, like a a huge cloth might cover
the body of someone who had just died.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
M talk that way dying.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
It was the strangest feeling I'd ever experienced, weird, terrible.
It gave me the feeling that a hundred thousand evil
spirits were racing at a maddening pace behind my car,
trying to catch up with me, clutch me and their bony,
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fiendish hands.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Something was so long ago, five years.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
So long ago, seems like yesterday. Then when I speeded
up the car, something began to pound in my ears.
It's ponding there now, Michael, it's pounding there now. Huddler,
please the clouster. I drove the more that evil shroud
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hung over me. I gave the car more gas, more,
more more.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
And then when they found you in the wreckage, they
thought you were dead.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I couldn't make the curve. The motor had reached full speed.
I could think of but one single danger, the invisible
danger that raced there behind me, striving to catch me
in its hold.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
There was no one, nothing, Oh, but.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
There seemed to be. And what was so strange? All
of a sudden, that bright day vanished, just vanished. Clouds
came out of nowhere and hid the sun from sight.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Darning, I I'd better pull down the shade on the window.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh, Michael, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Look look at that.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Clouds were flying below of 'em, and they've completely blotted
out the sun.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
The sun will be out in the minute.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's just like that day. Clouds hiding the sun, just
like they did that day.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Oh, just a coincidence, dark, dreary.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Gods, Oh my lad, busts up, ponder listen, Oh my god,
what does it mean?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Nothing, nothing at all, just a thunderstorm. I I'll go
up and fly above it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Why didn't he go up above the storm when he sides? Oh,
I don't know, because he didn't see it. That's why.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Certainly.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
No. Well, it came up just like that day five
years ago, out of nowhere, came up before the pilot
wasn't even aware of it. Oh nonsense, It wasn't nonsense.
Five years ago. First clouds, then the thunder. Then it
began to rain.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Well look for yourself.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Oh it's not raining now, it's nothing but an electrical storm.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
See you were going above.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It, Michael, I'm frightened.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
There's nothing to be frightened. Aboy there, Look there's a
sun again.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
It's all so strange, that feeling the cloud's hiding behind
the sun. The thunder, sure, but.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
No rain, Oh, Michael, to just the pilot talking to
us over the talkback system.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Uh, push that button right there so I can answer it. Yes, pilot,
what is it now? Don't be alarmed about the storm.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Or about it now?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Yes, thank you. Uh just an electrical storm, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Oh sir, it's modernize.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
It's raining cats and.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Dogs down then my card rain, Oh mir, we're up
above the storm.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Nothing can harm us here.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You remember, don't you? I never saw Stephen Wilder again
after that experience I had five years ago.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yes, is that? Remember?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
No one ever saw him again. He just disappeared.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Please, darling, don't think about it anymore. Today. You're tired.
Perhaps a little rest would do you good.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Oh, yes, you're right, I am tired.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Just lie back and relax then, honestly, sweet, there's nothing
to be worried about. We just happened to run into
a storm, and you've thought about that or experience of yours.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I wonder, Michael, I wondered if we did just happen
into the storm. Michael, Well, you dolly over here?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Did do you have a good sleep?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Oh? I did sleep after all? Why are the lights out? Why?
Speaker 4 (08:07):
I turned them out so you could sleep as long
as you could, and I'll switch 'em back on.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Eh.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
What time is it? Huh hm? Nine thirty nine thirty? Oh, Michael,
I've been asleep more than eight hours.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I thought you'd never wake up after.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Dark, and you've had the lights off all this time.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Just for me.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Well, I guess i'd better admit I got a little
sleep too.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
We now over Mexico. Hey, hungry do?
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I vamished? You know, I can't imagine what made me
sleep so long.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
We landed Sintella. We can get food there?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Have we landed it all since I retired?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Oh, we're circling now. Well that's Sintella down there. They
better pretty up of it. This is a secluded part
of the country, but you'll never know who you're gonna
run into.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Well that was Sintella.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
How long before we were in Monterey for about an hour?
Did you get good reservation rest?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Did you enjoy your dinner?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Oh? Immensely. It was a nice place. Certainly a rough landing.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Field, though, well it's not actually a landing field. We
had to land someplace to refuel before we got to Monterey,
so I picked Santella.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I enjoyed. It's a quaint little place. Mm it's a
funny thing, Michael. Did you notice the plane?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
What do you mean, dear?
Speaker 3 (09:50):
It didn't look a bit like it had been in
a rain storm.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I thought you'd forgotten all about that. Course, it didn't
look like it. We flew above the rain before it started.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Oh, yes, that's right. Well, if you don't mind, I'm
going to spend the next hour looking through my fashion
magazines before we land at Monterey. M Michael. Yes, should
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we be over water?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Water? Well? No, of course not.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Well we are, there's water all around us.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Uh, let's see why heaven Aatly you're right, pilot's office.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Course, surely you must realize it.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Oh, you better go up and find out.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yes, I will. I'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I have it, hurried, Michael.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
For Heaven's sake, right, doords the pilot's captain's locked?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I say, pilot pilot, what's right?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Michael? Oh, in doorder?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
This cabin is locked curtain over the windows, pulled down
inside it.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Pilot ob up, No, he's raised in the curtain, Michael.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Good lord, a thick, hairy arm.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Michael. That's not our pilot at the controls. It's a monkey.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
A gorilla.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Oh, Michael, are we dreaming?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Oh, it's true, a live gorilla piloting our plane.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
But that's impossible.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Oh, confolet door is locked open.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
This door, obna, Michael, be careful.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Look at him peering back at us, those little beady
eyes and an expression on his face that, oh, most human.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
This is fantastic.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
How in the world did we ever come to be
in the air with a creature like that?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
We had our regular pilot when we led at Santella.
I saw him climb down out of the cabbin.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
So did I, but I never did see him again
before we took off. Naturally, his was to me when
I gave him to go ahead signal.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Michael, Michael, now what we're over land.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It's bringing the plane down.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Oh my god, we're on the ground, an absolutely perfect landing.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
He's unlocking a daughter. Michael. What's he going to do?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Just take it easy, don't get excited. Whatever you do
don't run or make a fast movement. Don't let him
know you're afraid of him.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Just standing there looking at her.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Whatever you do, don't let him know you're afraid of him.
You don't have to be afraid of me. Michael, the
creature talked, of course I talk. Oh, we're a.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
Couple of fools at just our pilot playing a trick
on us, dressed up in a monkey.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
So there is no trickery. I am not your original pilot.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
What I joined you at Santella where I came to
meet you.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
For doctor Luther.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Doctor, doctor Luther.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yes, he's waiting for you.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Come follow me, steady, darling, come on, we'd better follow him.
Here's the doctor now, well, Stepan, I see you brought
our visitors.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yes, doctor, yes, just as I directed you.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Welcome Adelei Rhodes, and welcome to your lovely, lovely voice,
I say, look here, and welcome to you, mister Block.
I am so sorry that you will be of no
assistance to me. However, you may be interested in what
I have planned. I'll listen, doctor Luther. I want to
know what this is all about. You will learn what
it is all about, and without delay, I'll assure you come, Stephan,
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don't be so inhospitable. Show our guests into the laboratory.
Sit down over there, my dear. Over here, mister Block,
(14:10):
doctor Luther.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
I demand an explanation. Where are we have you brought
us here? You're two full of questions, mister Block. I've
already told you. I'm about to show you why I
brought you here.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Here high in these mountains. Secretly, I've been working for
five years, experimenting, testing, trying to accomplish what every one
would have said was utterly impossible. And I told him
about it, but I didn't tell any one. Instead, I
came here and built this laboratory. You'll see it's fully
(14:43):
equipped and modern in every detail.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I'll look here, doctor Luther.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
During those five years I trained step in here. I
believe you will agree my training has been very successful.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
You now see an almost.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Full grown gorilla behaving like a human, acting like a human,
even talking like a human. I've been very kind to you,
hadn't i, Stephan, Yes, doctor Luther, of course you've been kind.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yes, just so.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Scientist back there in your world, my dear miss Rhodes,
we'll tell you it's impossible to completely train a gorilla.
That is the second point in which I've proved them wrong.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Stephan sing for us, Yes, doctor.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Sippoopoo singor.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Singor? Doesn't he have an excellent voice?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Michael? Did you hear that?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Impossible? Sing again? Stephan?
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Oh oh ah, you see.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Soon he will be world famous. I shall travel with him,
take him to the four corners of the Earth, and
show people how well my gorilla sings.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Oh my, I can't believe it. That's Stephen Wilder's voice.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
It can't be here, but it is.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yes, Now I remember, now, I know who you are,
Doctor Luther. Stephen Wilder had an appointment with you that
day he disappeared five years ago. I'd forgotten all about it,
but I just now remembered.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
So that's what happened to Stephan Wilder. You kidnapped him
and brought him here, and you.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Precisely.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
I brought him here to do what others said could
never be done. I chloroformed him five years ago and
brought him here. I thought I was ready, but my
gorilla wasn't, so I had to wait. Three months ago.
I performed the operation. Operation I removed the vocal cords
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from the man and rafted them into the gorilla.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Ah, this is ridiculous. A thing like that can't be done.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Oh, surely you don't deny the proof I'd just given you,
mister Block, Stephan sing. Oh you recognized that voice, Miss
Rhodes the moment you heard it, because you'd sung operas
with mister Wilders so much.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
That was the way he said to exercise his voice.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Don't you both realize what I have here? The secret
of an untold wealth. Why, besides knowing how to train
this ferocious and morose type of animal, besides knowing how
to transfer vocal cords successfully, I have something I can
exhibit to the world to prove my knowledge.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Think.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
Think of the fortune I can amass because people will
pay immense sums to see and hear my singing gorilla.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Why have you brought me here? Surely you could have
spared me this.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I will tell you why, Miss Rhodes. If you and
mister Block will step over here.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
The only place we're going to step is out of
this place.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Will do as I ask, Stephan. These people are not
to leave very.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Well, Doctor Luther over here, if you please better do
what he says, Adler, Yeah, plate glass, look into the
next room.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
Yes, isn't it a fine specimen, fine specimen, Yes, she she.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
No, you're not planning.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I've trained her very carefully. She was so much more
responsive than the male.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Now that she's able to obey me, I'm quite ready
for the rest of my plans for her.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Oh no, no, you cannot. I won't let you.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I'll say. If you can, I hope you will be
able to prevent it. Soon.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Soon I'll tour the world with the most amazing exhibition.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
On earth, a male and a female.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Gorilla singing all the world famousopolis.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Wait a minute, I just happened to think of something, doctor. Yes,
do you remember the day Stephen Wilde had that appointment
with you five years ago?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yes, certainly, I remember.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
I've been planning to obtain possession of him so I
could bring him here. I was most pleased when he
called an ask for an appointment.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
But did he tell you why he was calling upon you?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I know no, he didn't.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
He came to you, Doctor Luther because he was losing
his voice.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
You you must be wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I am not wrong. I am the only one he
told about it. It had been worrying him for a
long time. You see, the more he sang. The worse
his voice became. He was gradually losing it.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
But that's impossible.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Do you think so, doctor, you're a specialist on that subject,
that's why he was coming to you.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Then you must be wrong. After all the work, like Tom.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Your gorilla will lose his voice, Doctor Luther, And I
assure you, before you'll do anything to me, I'll see
to it that my voice is ruined too. He won't.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
He can't. He's an excellent voice. Excellent, he said the
glass he is. We've worked together. I trained him his
voice tongul bet.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I mean now, not now, just when it's finally successful.
How you'll see, doctor, No, you're wrong.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
You're mistaken. He'll sing all right, he won't lose his voice.
Will you step him?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Goss, No, you're in an excellent voice, stepping.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Sing, sing your head standing shot him.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Sleep, wall sip wall se.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
D you see? Did you hear that?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
A beautiful quality? Dautiful tones?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Oh more?
Speaker 7 (21:52):
What's wrong?
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Frag him? Oh?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Now you say I'm wrong?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
So through stelling you your channels? After all, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
After all I want.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
This is what I jet as the reward, I tuckle
as everything, my position, my career, all.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
My money, and this is what happens.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Well, there's one way. Stipping by hidden is one way.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Got no no do.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
That's want to hit that beast, but look at it.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Stop no say.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Up die Fantasy.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
You have heard Spawn of the sub Human. Tonight's original
tale of dark Fantasy by Scott Bishop. Then Marris was
heard as Michael Brock eleanor Neylacorn was Adler Rhodes Garland
Moss played Doctor Luther and Mure Height was the Gorilla.
Next Friday Night, at the same time, listen to the
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sixteenth in this series of dark fantasy dramas created by
Scott Bishop, The Man with the Scarlet Satchel, the story
of an aged millionaire who receives a child set of
modeling play as a practical joke, but who turns the
gift into an incredible and weird instrument of destruction. Don't
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miss this unusual story. Next Friday Night, The Man with
the Scarlet Satchel. Tom Paxton speaking Dark Fantasy comes to
you from w k Y, Oklahoma, Ciday.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
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