September 1, 2024 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I am the master of the headless dead, I say,
(00:31):
God just called me swiss spilled little.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yes, yes, yes, of course you remind me before what
were you about to say, sir? I was about to
observe that this Tower of London is quite an historic place,
that it is a historic indeed, and want to die
of hotel?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Have you now, sir? Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Don't tell me you haven't heard stories about the tower's ghosts.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Perhaps I am perhaps not, of course.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I don't believe that sort of rubbish, you know, rubbish,
certainly rubbish.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Don't tell me, mister Swift with an E.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Don't tell me you believe in such things as ghosts
and haunts.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
What I believe, said, I believe.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Certainly not the legend of the gambling spook of why
at all the ghost.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Invariably appears whenever gambling games in progress, to why guitar
here in the tar.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
It always wins his taxstairs.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Don't tell me you believe such a fantastic yarn as that,
or such an unbelievable story as the one about the
pig face specter of the Rectory.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
I imagine Brother Randolph would tell you there's nothing fantastic
about the story at all brother random, sir, he's you
overseer directory, He's seen the spectrum many times.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
He's probably just superstitials that Randa says. The thing he's
always dressed in a long black cliffs as the body
of a human deface. Is that some grotesque and re
pulsive animal.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Sounds like an old wives tale.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Mind you say, I'm not trying to convince you about
such seeds. That's the entrance to the choir loft, the
chapel over.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
That, hm hmm. Chapel.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I didn't know there was one in here.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
It's a chapel of Saint Peter Edwin.
Speaker 8 (02:16):
Kira, Is it possible for me to go in there
picking your body?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Say that's what.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
The climb of the Stars was far. We always like
to show visitors.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
The choir loft the chapel.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Well, then let's have a game with the place, shall we.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
Yeah, the key always keep this locked or abbit dinsty else.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Nobody ever times those steps unless they're showing them through
the tower.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Y.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, yeah, I say, yeah, I say, let's dark in there,
how about it?
Speaker 9 (02:59):
Like my man?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Oh no, blimey, I completely forgot to turn the lights on.
Speaker 10 (03:04):
The fuse bugs down below. If you don't mind waiting,
say oh no, no, no, wait. I wouldn't ask anyone to
climb those steps again. It's not like coming through the
stained glass panes. I say, would you read the way?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But it's just just a goss. What's your step?
Speaker 11 (03:18):
Sir?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Ah, he was, sir. Can observe the chapel below, sir?
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Yes, deserted looking, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
It isn't as deserted as you might think, sir, mhmm.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
That was there.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
You see only as far as you permit yourself to see, Sir.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
I don't believe. I understand.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
If you look for emptiness, sir, you see emptiness, but.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
It is empty down there, is it?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Said?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I suppose you're trying to tell me this chapel is hot.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Too, and it are hard to be sair right, Yes,
indeed you see, sir. It's a buried place of.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
The headless game.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
That's another of those idiotic legends.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Hardly a legend.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
You see those flagstones down there in front of the altar?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Faintly yes, those.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Stones far more than just a sanctuary flowers.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
There are also tombstones.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You tell me, such a thing as that, mister.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Swift because it's truth.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You mean people are buried beneath those flagstones.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Gooding, I might add two of England's Queen's.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Not actually Oh yes, actually I've never heard that before.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Few people have said, then that's why you say the
place down there isn't deserted.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
In a londerous speaking, that's what I mean.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Yes, have you observed the huge pipe org the ear
in the loft set?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Oh yes, yes, I noticed when we came in.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
But getting back to what you were doing, it's quite
a famous instrument, I might say, been played by dozens
of famous people.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Oh it could I play it?
Speaker 6 (05:21):
And it's it's against regulations. Yeah, but well if you
play softly, say, I say.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
That's that's my good of you.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I do have somewhat of a reputation for playing the organ.
You play well, hardware, Thank you. The rather old instrument,
isn't it?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
M beautiful?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Tone? Though?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Beautiful?
Speaker 12 (05:53):
They crazy?
Speaker 5 (06:01):
What's that?
Speaker 9 (06:03):
Ah? In breens BeO ah the.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Place play quickly quickly, sir, happy for us to late pay.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
And test steam.
Speaker 12 (06:25):
O me on.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
The voice? What is it?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
No one knows it?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
He always speaks like that in Latin.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Every stranger praise his organ for the first time he
steamo on the name. Can you see who is?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
No one who has ever seen who is.
Speaker 11 (06:56):
Za a away?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Is he gone? Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
He know more of him.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Today, But what's the explanation? Who is it? Why does
he do that?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
He is the explanation?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I must a bit say.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
I've often urdered the ghost of Saint Peter's Chapel, but
this is.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
The first time.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
I'm actually ardie.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
He always does that whenever a stranger plays his argan
for the first time, will.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
You return if I play a game?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I know he alreadys speaks just once and he's never
heard again until another organ is plays the first time.
Speaker 11 (07:40):
Amazing, absolutely incredible, And I say, sir, it's about closing time.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Do you mind if I leave you now?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
But I know no, because now you recall your way
out of the guitar.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
I trust look around her longer if you wish, and
I had return later to lock this far lost.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
But I don't know whether I want to remain here.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
For don't worry said, you're quite all right.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Besides, you don't believe in such rubbish as ghosts.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Yes, but I'm happy to show you a answer. By
the way, what did you say your name is Colman,
Frederick J.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Holman.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Then I'm very.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Happetive known you, mister Norman, who knows perhaps your villa.
I will make you a changed man.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 13 (08:38):
Whatever did he mean by that? I say, what's come
over me? I feel so sleepy?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Yes, sleepy?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
H kah uh.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I'd best sit here here in this pew mm HMMs strange.
Speaker 11 (09:12):
Hm.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Never felt like this before.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Last.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Sleep in a while and go home. Oh oh, wait
(09:41):
to sleep. I remember now I slept here in this
chapel pew.
Speaker 14 (09:47):
I say the doors closed now, mister Swift, Ever they
returned knucked me in.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
That's strange. Why didn't you awaken me? What's that? No? No,
it could be. There's stones, the fiddle, the altar.
Speaker 14 (10:12):
They're being pushed up by someone underneath, hands and arms,
long bony arms pushing up the flagstones, and over to
the right, two ghostly figures rising out of the tombs
(10:32):
on the floor.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, no, it's not possible. It could be.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Figures.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Dozens of them now.
Speaker 14 (10:47):
Leaving their tombs, forming a procession down the middle aisle
of the chapel, and each of them is headless.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
And carrying his head before him in his hands. Look
at Archie and the slow procession down the set of.
Speaker 11 (11:17):
Aisle Archie, Marchie, Marchie, Margie.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
On soundless feet. That man in front the one an
ancient timer. He seems to be the leader of those
fantastic creatures.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Oh is this a dream? Is this a nightmare? Now?
That is not a dream.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
H How did you get up here?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Just a moment ago you were down below the procession.
It is not our.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Custom to hold our rights while an intruder is present.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
But I was locked in here. I didn't intend to
be here. Now that you are here, I must make
the most of it.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
But what do you mean? Well?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Now?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
As one of us, it was you who played when
I played the organ earlier today.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yes, I always pray when a stranger sits at the console.
Speaker 15 (12:31):
You see, it was I who.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
First played this organ, and it was installed. Don't you
think I play well?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Why do you return when others play?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Because no one could ever play it as well as I.
Therefore i'd pray for them.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
You're dead, and yet and yet.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
You play the instrument now.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yes, I always provide the music for our nightly meetings.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I don't understand all this. There's others down.
Speaker 14 (13:10):
There ghastly creatures headless.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yes, they were less fortunate than I. You see I
managed to keep my head.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
They were executed. How else would they have come to
be headless?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
You see, we will become quite uncomfortable lying in our
grades beneath the blackstone floor if we didn't arise occasionally
and stretch ourselves.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Good, look you down below there? Will it amaze you
for me to tell you that in.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
That procession of some of histories most famous people.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Surely this hasn't happened, indeed.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Believe me, or quite mistaken? Didn't you know that here
in the chapel of Saint Peter had vencula that in
such famous people as Sir Thomas More, Henry the Eighth, Queens, Anne.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Boleyn and Catherine Howard.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I do remember that, but as well as Lady Jane
Gray and Dudley her husband, and Sir Walter Raleigh and
the Duke of Munn.
Speaker 14 (14:13):
But they have all been dead for hundreds of years?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Are true?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
How very true?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Grick Holman, You will join us, I said, you will
join in the procession with us.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
It must be so.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
No one can look upon the possession of the headless
dead unless he joined them to save himself, save myself.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
You will discover what I mean if you refuse to
take part in the ceremony.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
But not now, not tonight. Perhaps later, Yes, some other time.
It will be more satisfactory. You to join us tonight.
Speaker 14 (15:01):
I can't tonight. Can't we make it some other night? Honestly,
I fell asleep here.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
It's later than I thought. It's exactly midnight.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
I must return home. My family will be frantic.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll return to join
you tomorrow at midnight. What tomorrow at midnight?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
To well, return to join in the possession.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yes, yes, that's fine. You can turn on it. Raise
your right hand, right right hand. Yes, praise it. Now
repeat after me. I solemnly swear, I solemnly swear, by
(15:48):
the souls of the sacred Dead, by the souls of
the sacred Dead, to return to this chapel tomorrow at midnight.
To return to this chapel well tomorrow at midnight.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
So help me, Heaven, So.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Help me Heaven.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Now I'm gonna go. Yes, but the doors the choir
lot is lock. It is locked.
Speaker 15 (16:20):
But you will have no trouble going out through it.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And remember Frederick Holman tomorrow night at midnight.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Fredie, dear, you are worried about something. I know you are.
It was one to talk when you came home last night.
You've never done that before.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
No, I know, Laura, my dear, I know you.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
Happy so strangely when you did get home. Now, you
didn't sleep. You tossed all night long.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Laura, I must tell you something.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
I certainly think I had some explanation coming.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Yes, yes you have.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I don't know how you're going to accept this, but well,
here goes.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I went to visit the Toll of London yesterday.
Speaker 13 (17:34):
I saw the prison cells and the execution torture chambers.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Finally, the guard.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Took me to the little chapel of Saint Peter rudbak So.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I promised to return to the chapel tonight at midnight.
They permitted me to leave the chapel. Sure you would, No,
I'm sure it was no dream. It was all too realistic.
I saw those people and heard them.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
But things like that don't happen.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I'm very positive this happened, Laura.
Speaker 9 (18:09):
Oh nonsense, you were just affected of those ghost stories
that guy told you about the tower.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Oh there you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I've never believed in such things before.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
No.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Wow, But surely you don't intend to go back there
to night, do you.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
I don't know, Laura, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Hello, Hello, Laura, I say, Laura, are you there?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Laura?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Oh, I'm sorry, dear. I thought for a moment we've
been disconnected. Yes, I can hear you, law And what
I called for, dear was to say, I'm dining at
the club tonight. Yes, old Simon Joster is off to
the audience. We're having a dinner for him. Yes, I'll
be Homerly.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Huh, what's that?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
No, Laura, I've decided not to go to the tower tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I think you're probably right. It all must have been
a dreamed.
Speaker 16 (20:02):
Good evening, mister Holman.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Your cry say thank you, Henry.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Shall I drive you to the.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Tower, sir, Tower?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
But of course not, Henry, drive me straight home. What
have it made you think I want to go to
the tower at this time of night?
Speaker 8 (20:22):
I don't rightly know, sir, begging your pardon, mister Homer
and I I don't know what made me ask you that.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Really, I don't don't.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Drive me home, Henry, Yes, sir, by the way, what
time do you have, Henry, it's just a minute or
two before midnight, said, oh, very well, take me home
at once.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
It did you say something?
Speaker 16 (20:56):
Say?
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Did you hear something, Henry?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Hear something?
Speaker 16 (21:09):
Yes, the voice voice, mister Holme.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Don't you hear that voice?
Speaker 8 (21:13):
No, sir, I don't hear nothing, sir.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
They see.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
It's him. Listen to it.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
You must be tired.
Speaker 16 (21:30):
So there's nobody voice, really.
Speaker 17 (21:33):
Sir, don't tell me you have heard the gambling Spook
work with on Tring tb all their album.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
No, oh, it can't be a.
Speaker 17 (21:50):
A rondouphstak face spector director.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
No one could ever play the organ as well as I.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
That's what he said.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
The man and I.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
You see only as far as you permit yourself to see.
Speaker 16 (22:07):
Say you see I needed to keep my head.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
If you look for anchiness.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
T you see emginess them.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
But it wasn't a dream.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
The drag stones a sanctuary flower are also tombstones.
Speaker 12 (22:28):
It's true, it wasn't a dream. You must join our procession.
The estep, join our procession. This stay, join our procession.
This day my name, I have a name?
Speaker 14 (22:42):
What will you drive?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
You can't stop sat about it?
Speaker 8 (22:44):
I must be the hold.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Mister Holman, are you all right, sir?
Speaker 8 (23:06):
We hit that truck, mister Holman, We hit that truck
broadside and m.
Speaker 16 (23:16):
Mister Holman, Oh.
Speaker 15 (23:19):
God, greeting Steaderiy Coleman, and welcome. I am pleased that
you have kept your appointment with us.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
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dark Fantasy by Scott Bishop.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Van Morris played Frederick Coleman.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Eleanor naylo'corn was Missus Holman, Fred Wayne.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Was Swift, Garland Moss was the leader of the Headless Dead,
and Murillo Schofield was heard of the chauffeur. Next Friday Night,
at the same time, We'll bring you a strange and
weird tale of the Unusual. Death is a savage deity
based upon Scott Bishop's novel of the same name.
Speaker 14 (24:14):
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Speaker 2 (24:19):
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Speaker 3 (24:38):
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I am the master of the headless dead, I say,
(00:31):
God just called me swiss spilled little.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yes, yes, yes, of course you remind me before what
were you about to say, sir? I was about to
observe that this Tower of London is quite an historic place,
that it is a historic indeed, and want to die
of hotel?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Have you now, sir? Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Don't tell me you haven't heard stories about the tower's ghosts.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Perhaps I am perhaps not, of course.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I don't believe that sort of rubbish, you know, rubbish,
certainly rubbish.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Don't tell me, mister Swift with an E.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Don't tell me you believe in such things as ghosts
and haunts.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
What I believe, said, I believe.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Certainly not the legend of the gambling spook of why
at all the ghost.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Invariably appears whenever gambling games in progress, to why guitar
here in the tar.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
It always wins his taxstairs.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Don't tell me you believe such a fantastic yarn as that,
or such an unbelievable story as the one about the
pig face specter of the Rectory.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
I imagine Brother Randolph would tell you there's nothing fantastic
about the story at all brother random, sir, he's you
overseer directory, He's seen the spectrum many times.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
He's probably just superstitials that Randa says. The thing he's
always dressed in a long black cliffs as the body
of a human deface. Is that some grotesque and re
pulsive animal.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Sounds like an old wives tale.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Mind you say, I'm not trying to convince you about
such seeds. That's the entrance to the choir loft, the
chapel over.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
That, hm hmm. Chapel.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
I didn't know there was one in here.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
It's a chapel of Saint Peter Edwin.
Speaker 8 (02:16):
Kira, Is it possible for me to go in there
picking your body?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Say that's what.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
The climb of the Stars was far. We always like
to show visitors.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
The choir loft the chapel.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Well, then let's have a game with the place, shall we.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 7 (02:33):
Yeah, the key always keep this locked or abbit dinsty else.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Nobody ever times those steps unless they're showing them through
the tower.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Y.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, yeah, I say, yeah, I say, let's dark in there,
how about it?
Speaker 9 (02:59):
Like my man?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Oh no, blimey, I completely forgot to turn the lights on.
Speaker 10 (03:04):
The fuse bugs down below. If you don't mind waiting,
say oh no, no, no, wait. I wouldn't ask anyone to
climb those steps again. It's not like coming through the
stained glass panes. I say, would you read the way?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But it's just just a goss. What's your step?
Speaker 11 (03:18):
Sir?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Ah, he was, sir. Can observe the chapel below, sir?
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Yes, deserted looking, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
It isn't as deserted as you might think, sir, mhmm.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
That was there.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
You see only as far as you permit yourself to see, Sir.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
I don't believe. I understand.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
If you look for emptiness, sir, you see emptiness, but.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
It is empty down there, is it?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Said?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I suppose you're trying to tell me this chapel is hot.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Too, and it are hard to be sair right, Yes,
indeed you see, sir. It's a buried place of.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
The headless game.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
That's another of those idiotic legends.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Hardly a legend.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
You see those flagstones down there in front of the altar?
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Faintly yes, those.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Stones far more than just a sanctuary flowers.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
There are also tombstones.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You tell me, such a thing as that, mister.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Swift because it's truth.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
You mean people are buried beneath those flagstones.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Gooding, I might add two of England's Queen's.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Not actually Oh yes, actually I've never heard that before.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Few people have said, then that's why you say the
place down there isn't deserted.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
In a londerous speaking, that's what I mean.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Yes, have you observed the huge pipe org the ear
in the loft set?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Oh yes, yes, I noticed when we came in.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
But getting back to what you were doing, it's quite
a famous instrument, I might say, been played by dozens
of famous people.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Oh it could I play it?
Speaker 6 (05:21):
And it's it's against regulations. Yeah, but well if you
play softly, say, I say.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
That's that's my good of you.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
I do have somewhat of a reputation for playing the organ.
You play well, hardware, Thank you. The rather old instrument,
isn't it?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
M beautiful?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Tone? Though?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Beautiful?
Speaker 12 (05:53):
They crazy?
Speaker 5 (06:01):
What's that?
Speaker 9 (06:03):
Ah? In breens BeO ah the.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Place play quickly quickly, sir, happy for us to late pay.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
And test steam.
Speaker 12 (06:25):
O me on.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
The voice? What is it?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
No one knows it?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
He always speaks like that in Latin.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Every stranger praise his organ for the first time he
steamo on the name. Can you see who is?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
No one who has ever seen who is.
Speaker 11 (06:56):
Za a away?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Is he gone? Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
He know more of him.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Today, But what's the explanation? Who is it? Why does
he do that?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
He is the explanation?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I must a bit say.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
I've often urdered the ghost of Saint Peter's Chapel, but
this is.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
The first time.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
I'm actually ardie.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
He always does that whenever a stranger plays his argan
for the first time, will.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
You return if I play a game?
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I know he alreadys speaks just once and he's never
heard again until another organ is plays the first time.
Speaker 11 (07:40):
Amazing, absolutely incredible, And I say, sir, it's about closing time.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Do you mind if I leave you now?
Speaker 5 (07:50):
But I know no, because now you recall your way
out of the guitar.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
I trust look around her longer if you wish, and
I had return later to lock this far lost.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
But I don't know whether I want to remain here.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
For don't worry said, you're quite all right.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Besides, you don't believe in such rubbish as ghosts.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Yes, but I'm happy to show you a answer. By
the way, what did you say your name is Colman,
Frederick J.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Holman.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Then I'm very.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Happetive known you, mister Norman, who knows perhaps your villa.
I will make you a changed man.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 13 (08:38):
Whatever did he mean by that? I say, what's come
over me? I feel so sleepy?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Yes, sleepy?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
H kah uh.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
I'd best sit here here in this pew mm HMMs strange.
Speaker 11 (09:12):
Hm.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Never felt like this before.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Last.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Sleep in a while and go home. Oh oh, wait
(09:41):
to sleep. I remember now I slept here in this
chapel pew.
Speaker 14 (09:47):
I say the doors closed now, mister Swift, Ever they
returned knucked me in.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
That's strange. Why didn't you awaken me? What's that? No? No,
it could be. There's stones, the fiddle, the altar.
Speaker 14 (10:12):
They're being pushed up by someone underneath, hands and arms,
long bony arms pushing up the flagstones, and over to
the right, two ghostly figures rising out of the tombs
(10:32):
on the floor.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, no, it's not possible. It could be.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Figures.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Dozens of them now.
Speaker 14 (10:47):
Leaving their tombs, forming a procession down the middle aisle
of the chapel, and each of them is headless.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
And carrying his head before him in his hands. Look
at Archie and the slow procession down the set of.
Speaker 11 (11:17):
Aisle Archie, Marchie, Marchie, Margie.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
On soundless feet. That man in front the one an
ancient timer. He seems to be the leader of those
fantastic creatures.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Oh is this a dream? Is this a nightmare? Now?
That is not a dream.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
H How did you get up here?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Just a moment ago you were down below the procession.
It is not our.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Custom to hold our rights while an intruder is present.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
But I was locked in here. I didn't intend to
be here. Now that you are here, I must make
the most of it.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
But what do you mean? Well?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Now?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
As one of us, it was you who played when
I played the organ earlier today.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yes, I always pray when a stranger sits at the console.
Speaker 15 (12:31):
You see, it was I who.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
First played this organ, and it was installed. Don't you
think I play well?
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Why do you return when others play?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Because no one could ever play it as well as I.
Therefore i'd pray for them.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
You're dead, and yet and yet.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
You play the instrument now.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yes, I always provide the music for our nightly meetings.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I don't understand all this. There's others down.
Speaker 14 (13:10):
There ghastly creatures headless.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yes, they were less fortunate than I. You see I
managed to keep my head.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
They were executed. How else would they have come to
be headless?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
You see, we will become quite uncomfortable lying in our
grades beneath the blackstone floor if we didn't arise occasionally
and stretch ourselves.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Good, look you down below there? Will it amaze you
for me to tell you that in.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
That procession of some of histories most famous people.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Surely this hasn't happened, indeed.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Believe me, or quite mistaken? Didn't you know that here
in the chapel of Saint Peter had vencula that in
such famous people as Sir Thomas More, Henry the Eighth, Queens, Anne.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Boleyn and Catherine Howard.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I do remember that, but as well as Lady Jane
Gray and Dudley her husband, and Sir Walter Raleigh and
the Duke of Munn.
Speaker 14 (14:13):
But they have all been dead for hundreds of years?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Are true?
Speaker 4 (14:21):
How very true?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Grick Holman, You will join us, I said, you will
join in the procession with us.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
It must be so.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
No one can look upon the possession of the headless
dead unless he joined them to save himself, save myself.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
You will discover what I mean if you refuse to
take part in the ceremony.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
But not now, not tonight. Perhaps later, Yes, some other time.
It will be more satisfactory. You to join us tonight.
Speaker 14 (15:01):
I can't tonight. Can't we make it some other night? Honestly,
I fell asleep here.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
It's later than I thought. It's exactly midnight.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
I must return home. My family will be frantic.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll return to join
you tomorrow at midnight. What tomorrow at midnight?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
To well, return to join in the possession.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yes, yes, that's fine. You can turn on it. Raise
your right hand, right right hand. Yes, praise it. Now
repeat after me. I solemnly swear, I solemnly swear, by
(15:48):
the souls of the sacred Dead, by the souls of
the sacred Dead, to return to this chapel tomorrow at midnight.
To return to this chapel well tomorrow at midnight.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
So help me, Heaven, So.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Help me Heaven.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Now I'm gonna go. Yes, but the doors the choir
lot is lock. It is locked.
Speaker 15 (16:20):
But you will have no trouble going out through it.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
And remember Frederick Holman tomorrow night at midnight.
Speaker 9 (16:52):
Fredie, dear, you are worried about something. I know you are.
It was one to talk when you came home last night.
You've never done that before.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
No, I know, Laura, my dear, I know you.
Speaker 9 (17:05):
Happy so strangely when you did get home. Now, you
didn't sleep. You tossed all night long.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Laura, I must tell you something.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
I certainly think I had some explanation coming.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Yes, yes you have.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I don't know how you're going to accept this, but well,
here goes.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I went to visit the Toll of London yesterday.
Speaker 13 (17:34):
I saw the prison cells and the execution torture chambers.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Finally, the guard.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Took me to the little chapel of Saint Peter rudbak So.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
I promised to return to the chapel tonight at midnight.
They permitted me to leave the chapel. Sure you would, No,
I'm sure it was no dream. It was all too realistic.
I saw those people and heard them.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
But things like that don't happen.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I'm very positive this happened, Laura.
Speaker 9 (18:09):
Oh nonsense, you were just affected of those ghost stories
that guy told you about the tower.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Oh there you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I've never believed in such things before.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
No.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Wow, But surely you don't intend to go back there
to night, do you.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
I don't know, Laura, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Hello, Hello, Laura, I say, Laura, are you there?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Laura?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Oh, I'm sorry, dear. I thought for a moment we've
been disconnected. Yes, I can hear you, law And what
I called for, dear was to say, I'm dining at
the club tonight. Yes, old Simon Joster is off to
the audience. We're having a dinner for him. Yes, I'll
be Homerly.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Huh, what's that?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
No, Laura, I've decided not to go to the tower tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I think you're probably right. It all must have been
a dreamed.
Speaker 16 (20:02):
Good evening, mister Holman.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Your cry say thank you, Henry.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
Shall I drive you to the.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Tower, sir, Tower?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
But of course not, Henry, drive me straight home. What
have it made you think I want to go to
the tower at this time of night?
Speaker 8 (20:22):
I don't rightly know, sir, begging your pardon, mister Homer
and I I don't know what made me ask you that.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Really, I don't don't.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Drive me home, Henry, Yes, sir, by the way, what
time do you have, Henry, it's just a minute or
two before midnight, said, oh, very well, take me home
at once.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
It did you say something?
Speaker 16 (20:56):
Say?
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Did you hear something, Henry?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Hear something?
Speaker 16 (21:09):
Yes, the voice voice, mister Holme.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Don't you hear that voice?
Speaker 8 (21:13):
No, sir, I don't hear nothing, sir.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
They see.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
It's him. Listen to it.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
You must be tired.
Speaker 16 (21:30):
So there's nobody voice, really.
Speaker 17 (21:33):
Sir, don't tell me you have heard the gambling Spook
work with on Tring tb all their album.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
No, oh, it can't be a.
Speaker 17 (21:50):
A rondouphstak face spector director.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
No one could ever play the organ as well as I.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
That's what he said.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
The man and I.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
You see only as far as you permit yourself to see.
Speaker 16 (22:07):
Say you see I needed to keep my head.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
If you look for anchiness.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
T you see emginess them.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
But it wasn't a dream.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
The drag stones a sanctuary flower are also tombstones.
Speaker 12 (22:28):
It's true, it wasn't a dream. You must join our procession.
The estep, join our procession. This stay, join our procession.
This day my name, I have a name?
Speaker 14 (22:42):
What will you drive?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
You can't stop sat about it?
Speaker 8 (22:44):
I must be the hold.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Mister Holman, are you all right, sir?
Speaker 8 (23:06):
We hit that truck, mister Holman, We hit that truck
broadside and m.
Speaker 16 (23:16):
Mister Holman, Oh.
Speaker 15 (23:19):
God, greeting Steaderiy Coleman, and welcome. I am pleased that
you have kept your appointment with us.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
You have heard The Headless Dead Tonight's original tale of
dark Fantasy by Scott Bishop.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Van Morris played Frederick Coleman.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Eleanor naylo'corn was Missus Holman, Fred Wayne.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Was Swift, Garland Moss was the leader of the Headless Dead,
and Murillo Schofield was heard of the chauffeur. Next Friday Night,
at the same time, We'll bring you a strange and
weird tale of the Unusual. Death is a savage deity
based upon Scott Bishop's novel of the same name.
Speaker 14 (24:14):
Listen for this breathtaking tale of witchcraft and black magic.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
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