September 2, 2024 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeahm dark fantasy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I am this gipper of this scene tang And.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I say, sir, and what fe you doing in the
captain's captain? Do get hemmy sir? What for you doing
to sitting there writing on the captain slave? So weing me? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Now look here you this is Captain Strong's own cabins,
and no one's got any business.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I'm sitting here all right, I say, don't not a
member of this crew? Gowing down? What's your face? Gook?
Get you? Why you're not a human? Captain? Can stroll?
(01:34):
H cat stroll? I say, cotten' stroll, cotta stone?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Man?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
What? What's all the rumbers begging your pardon? Sack? But
there's there's someone in your cabin sack? What's that? Isaac?
There's someone in the captain's cabin sack? Who is it?
I don't rightly know?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Sack, But didn't you see who it was? Yes, mister Wilson,
that I did, sack. But the captain always lockses Kevin,
don't you Captain's Strong?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
And I do what I could forgot it wasn't locked.
Just now, Captain, you say, you gotta look at the man.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I say, and pull in the face, Captain, if you
can rightly call it a face? What's that?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
What do you mean, Isaac, Hey, here's man, speaker. Why
what are you trying to tell us? I means that
the man is human, he's nothing but as killing.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
What nonsense? I said, Hell, no sense that it's not.
I seen him, sack, look coming to his face. I did,
and there's nothing there but bones, white bleach bones.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Set.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Oh, that's ridiculous, empty eye sockets and a keeping mouth.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And he was writing on your slate, set riding on
my swede.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Captain, writing with a piece of white chalk held between
his fingers, fingers with no flesh on him.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Set.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
You've been dreaming, isai? Come on, let's get down to
my Kevin. I have come along, mister Weslon right, Captain Isaac,
come on? Why it's impossible for Anny wanted to be
in my cabin. All hands are either on deck or
down the engine room.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
That's what I say, Captain Storm. He ain't one of
the crew.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
He ain't rightly nobody, sir, unless you want to call
a spirit somebody, Isaac, stop, that's sort of twelve. But
it ain't no sort of talk, sir, begging your pardon,
mister Wilson. I seen him with my own eyes, sitting there,
dressed in some sort of get up paint, never laid
eyes on before. He had his back to the door,
and he was writing on your slate with a chalk.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Captain.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I spoke to him, but he didn't pay me no mind,
just kept right on when he's writing. Then I got
closer to him, and he still didn't look up. So
I stooped down and peered into his face. I did,
and then I seen he was nothing but a skeleton.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Second, if you weren't drinking, man, Isaac, i'd have you
five didn't put in irons.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I'm not so sure he hasn't been at the cave, Captain,
and your pardon, sir, You will see for yourself soon.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Enough, is that you first, Captain, That's.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
What I have thought.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Nobody here, Oh, Kevin's empty.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
But I locked this door, Captain, so whoever it was
couldn't get out.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
You must have done that, all right. I certainly don't
want you. Just now you you see yourself. There's no one.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
In here, no nobody, and no way out except through
that door.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I say, Captain, mister wasn't wanted your sleep.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
There is writing on it.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Eh, hey, let me let me see here.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
The Captain's wrong, you see, sir, that's not your writing,
is it?
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Oh? Oh, it isn't.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
All right, then one of the men must have been
in here and wrote that.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
No, I don't think so, because this writing is his
style and a type that was used more than two
hundred years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
What let's see mm hmm. I say that is strange writing.
It's English, all right, such a pecuitious spelling and pleasing.
I can't read it at all.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Isaac, Why can't I'm seeing this. I can't help but
believe that you saw somebody sitting here in my cabin
writing on my slate. But I won't be convinced that
it was a skill it. But I tell you, Sirry,
it was your imagination Isaac.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Oh no, sir, it wasn't no imagination.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
I said it was your imagination. You understand, is said. Now,
I don't want you to open your mouth about this
to the crew.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Hear me.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
There's well, there's there's some explanation. I'm not going to
have you stirn up the crew with this. They're all
superstitious enough without that, is there? Order is Isaac, I'll
have your irons if you breathe a word of it's
to the many. Isa That's all Isaak is.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Well, Captain Song, what do you mean of it wasn't
most extraordinary. I'm positive Isaac did see someone in this cabin,
but truly not a fleshless creature. I don't know. Isaac
is a sober, steady sort of person, but confounded man.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
He hasn't much imagination. Well, whoever heard of his skeleton?
The board a ship? Much less one that could.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Ride on a slate. Stranger things than that have happened
at sea? You know that?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Yeah, I do, but I can't convince myself. But what
Isaac saw is rarely some fleshless creature a lot of
brain or heart or eyes.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Can you make out the writing on the sleeve?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I think Jeh says it is not correct the information
you have about the sea fandom change your course six
degrees north northeast to location twenty six degrees seven minutes
(07:33):
longitude eighteen degrees nine minutes latitude. Jonathan Strange, Jonathan Strange.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
No, No, it can't be.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
He was the famous captain of the Spanish Godum the
Sea Fatom, the one we're hoping to locate he was.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Jonathan Strange, dead for two hundred and twenty four years,
lost in a gale in seventeen eighteen.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yes, but not in the position this message on the
slate directs us to no. No.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Indeed, Seafanom was supposed to have founded at twenty degrees longitude.
The message says twenty six degrees in seven minutes.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yes. Could this be a trick?
Speaker 5 (08:27):
A trick, Captain, someone else who's heard of the immense
trader that went down with the Seafandom, Someone who's trying
to steers over our course get to the treasure themselves.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I doubt that. What do you say your daughter it?
Mister Wilson Wells? We've kept the entire expedition completely secret.
Not even the crew know what we're up to. We've
tried to keep the entire expedition a secret. I'm causing
I haven't mentioned to anyone Lulla.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I Captain Strong, but I stumbled upon the information about
the sea Fattom. I knew there was an excellent opportunity
to recover almost a million dollars worth of gold, and
naturally I needed a vote. You were the first one
I thought.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Of neither of us would have had a reason for
disclosing our knowledge about the treasure.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
That's just it. That's why I'm so inclined to believe
Isaac was telling us the truth.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
About the thing without flesh right in this message. Precisely. Ah,
that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Even so, Captain, you must admit that the man who's
been dead more than two hundred years certainly wouldn't be
much more than this skeleton. Isn't that right?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
You mean a good heavens you mean this message was
actually written by Donathan Strange himself.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I mean exactly that.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I wonder what about a captain? Do we change the course?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I don't know what's your advice?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Normally, I'm not superstitious. Well, what can we do? I've
never believed in ghost spirits up now, But that message
on that slate certainly is convincing.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Then you're in favor of following instructions?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I honest, was it? Yes, let's change the course and
go to the spot. The message mentions, if you're willing
to take a chance, I certainly am. Well, who's yes,
(11:10):
who's there? Well?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Come in and stop that noise? Now, wasn't Thunder's gotten
into you, waking me up in the middle of the night.
What time is it anyway, hey, Elsair.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Midnight, midnight, a big day head tomorrow, Oh, con pold man,
what do you want?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I'm I'm standing watch alone to night, sir, And maybe
I should have told this to the captain, but.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I come to you first. Well, I just sided a
boat to the port side, sir. Well if you identify her,
oh nel.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Sir, you see, but she ain't carried no light, sir,
no light, oh Nelsair. And she's not like any ship
I've ever seen, sir. To the port side, you say, ier,
she's riding with full Say what I ser?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
She looks to me like one of those old time
boats you see in Jez. Hand me my boots, the Isaac,
I'll come upon deck and have a look. There she blows, sir.
(12:17):
You see what a sign of life aboard? He said?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
And the moon's full tonight. Look, man, look what, mister
Wilson that name on about? I can't see that far
sell my eyes. That name the sea Phantom, Sea Phantom. Yes,
no wonder, she's carrying no lights, no wonder, there's no
one aboard.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
What do you mean, sir, Isaac if you've never seen
a ghost ship, take a look at that boat out there.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Ghost ship.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yes, the Sea Phantom went down in these waters more
than two hundred years ago. Tell me down set. Are
you having a joke with me, mister Wilson, No, no,
this is no joke. That's a ghost ship, right enough.
You watch, she'll be gone in the minute or two.
And begging your pardon, sair, but that boat's real. Ghost
(13:06):
Ships always look realizing. But look you, Sair, she's close
enough to see. She's within throwing distance.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I do believe.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah, this blaying pin here, mister Wilson, I'll try to
throw it aboard the Sea Fantom.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Good you watch that pin will just go through thin air.
We'll see, sir. Well it goes there, sir.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
You hear that she is real. But that boat's soul.
She should have fallen apart years ago. And besides that,
she's supposed to be at the bottom of the Atlantic.
She looks old enough, all right, sir, But I don't
understand what you mean about it. He supposed to Isaac
Laura boat a boat, Yes, confounded the boat Laura one
at once?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Are we going aboard the Seafantom, mister Wilson.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I am yes, now, Laura, boat to the ports right,
then double quick about it?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Stop rowing now, Isaac, he's up a long time, yah,
tied to that rope hanging after there? All set, sir, Right,
you stay here and watch, Isaac for go aboard. If
I'm not back in a half hour, come aboard looking
for me. Why isa have an hour, sir. If you're
(14:30):
not back by denser, I'll come aboard after you. Keep
a sharp look out, Isaac. Let me know if you
see anybody aboard. H so quiet aboard, you can't even
(15:01):
hear the wind, no sign of life, no sign of life,
having been here for score upon score of years, rotting timbers,
seasoaked deck, twisted tangled ropes, empty kegs with rusted hoops
(15:25):
and warped staves, strips of time worn sails, and canvas
swaying on the masts. Everything so quiet, quiet, as though
in reverence of the dead.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Er.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, the hatch captain Squatters must be down here. Yes, yes,
this must have been his hangout. And let's have a look.
(16:07):
M a light burning in here? Can you say? What's that? Oh? Booms?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
An entire human skeleton slumped here in the corner of
the cabin, as though a man had propped himself up.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
There and died.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Exactly, my friend?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Who's that?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Did someone speak? Certainly me?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
But where are you over here? But I don't see you.
There's no one in this room but myself.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yourself and that Jaqueline start there in the corner.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
My name is Jonathan Strange.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Jonathan Strange? Why but you're the skipper of the sea Fatom.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
That I am Jonathan Strange, Cabin of the sea, Fattom,
staying with a cargo of.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Gold, of the Spanish room. But what you were?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Both went down in a gale two hundred years ago?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
History says, yes, but men do not know everything.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
See that there was no victim of a starm at sea.
Oh no, my friend, she was the victim of a
cruel and vicious man.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I still don't understand. Look, we see the lostyed iron
gree now on the floor by your feet.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Yes, take hold of it.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Pulled the trap door to my cabin.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Maybe difficult, you just street die the more fos now, Ah,
that's it.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, we see cool bar upon bar of solid gold.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yes, go on the quenus tape and just some coins
and jewels and now the queen, but Hosey.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Would have them pull it home.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Intends to live withy the crew and steal the treasures
that have been entrusted to us.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Who's this, jose Hosey? They now wicked and cold?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Honey them. Now the crew is waiting for me to
leave this cabin. They know they're never in the hair
while lighted in my body. Put surely there's some escape?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
No non?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
They think I remain here for starve to death.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
They're fools.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
They do not know that they're about to perish like
the rats they are. What do you mean there should
smell the smoke listen the hill of flames?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Yes, yes I do.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
They cannot escape in the boats because I both saw
this huminet and put the.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Lifeboats up of commission.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
But can't you escape?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
No cost? Not for you to escape them with me?
Taste my fad.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Home the same way with of here, of course. Hurry
now I've been to take this with you.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (19:07):
What are you giving me?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You see?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Hurry now as they're trying to waste. Soon the ship
will be one mass of growing plains, and none of
us will be left alive.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Can I take you with me? Can't you make yourself
apparent so I can see you and take you along?
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Now it doesn't matter, but let me warn you with
my life, I protected the treasures of the King and
queens throughout all eternity.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I have got those treasures.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
It will not be wise for any man to attend
to obtain them for it own.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yes, Jonathan Strange, I believe I understand exactly what you mean.
That's why you block me here.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
To show me exactly dis hurry, mister West said, why
are you went now?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Mister Wellston, Isaac, is that you who I sat? Throw
me down, mister Wilson. It's weekly both the fire. If
we don't get over here on the tivvy. Well, we're
saying a minute to Davy.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Gone block of it, call me down for us.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
And so Captain Strong, that's exactly what happened. I repeat,
it was no nightmare, Isaac. Care can vouch for that.
It's the very truth, Captain Strong, word for red, so
help me Heaven.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
And that was fair warning. Do you ever attempts to
get the traders of the sea. Adam is doomed my.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Set, just as those mutineers were doomed two hundred years ago.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Sir, there you are.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I'm amazed you or the others of the crew went
awakened by the sound of the fire.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
No, when I was heard a sound, man, I don't
even know about it.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Now.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
I wouldn't have known it about it myself if you
two hadn't told me your story, if I hadn't seen
those bits of charred wood floating on the surface this morning.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
It was a huge treasure, Captain. I saw it in
its hiding place beneath the skipper's cabin. And you've got
none of it, not a single bit. Oh wait, I
almost forgot. Just before I left the boat. This thing
was handed to.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Me handed, do you But I thought you said there
was nothing in that cabin but a pile of bones.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yes, as that is right.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
But this seemed to come well, almost out of nowhere,
and it was placed very firmly in my hand.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
He shouldn't have had in his hands when I broke
into the cabin, sir and said.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Well, look, hm, why this was the ship's log the log, yes,
the complete log, and the sea fantom's voyage, and the
date of sailing right on up through the motony Luke's writing.
It's the same hand. The writing on my slate and
(22:12):
the writing on this paper are the very same. Curve
for curve, angle for angle.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Here let me see, oh, I say, Captain, Yes, mister Wilson.
Look here on this last page.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
It reads.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Now that it has become my solemn duty to protect
the treasures which have been entrusted to me. I will
send the Sea Phantom to her ocean grave together with
the treasure.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
This is my course as I see it. God assists me.
Jonathan Strange May twenty nine, seventeen eighteen, Tar Fantasy.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
You have heard the Sea Fatom tonight's tale of dark
Fantasy by Scott Fish. Then Morris was heard tonight as
mister Wilson. Fred Wayne played Captain Strong, Your Height was Isaac,
and Garland Moss was Captain Jonathan Strange, skipper of.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
The Sea Fatom.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Next Friday, at this time we'll bring you another dark
fantasy drama. Being the thirteenth story in this series, and
next Friday being Friday the thirteenth, Scott Bishop defies superstition
utterly and completely to bring you one of his most
exciting and unusual tales.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Listen for.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
W is for Werewolf, a weird adventure laid upon a
sunny tropical island where all seems peaceful and serene, but
where a grim and vicious destiny festers slowly into breathtaking,
unbelievable reality. Dark Fantasy originates each Friday night in the
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wk Y Studios, Oklahoma. Today, Tom Paxton speaking. This is
the National Broadcasting Company
Yeahm dark fantasy.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I am this gipper of this scene tang And.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I say, sir, and what fe you doing in the
captain's captain? Do get hemmy sir? What for you doing
to sitting there writing on the captain slave? So weing me? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Now look here you this is Captain Strong's own cabins,
and no one's got any business.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I'm sitting here all right, I say, don't not a
member of this crew? Gowing down? What's your face? Gook?
Get you? Why you're not a human? Captain? Can stroll?
(01:34):
H cat stroll? I say, cotten' stroll, cotta stone?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Man?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
What? What's all the rumbers begging your pardon? Sack? But
there's there's someone in your cabin sack? What's that? Isaac?
There's someone in the captain's cabin sack? Who is it?
I don't rightly know?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Sack, But didn't you see who it was? Yes, mister Wilson,
that I did, sack. But the captain always lockses Kevin,
don't you Captain's Strong?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
And I do what I could forgot it wasn't locked.
Just now, Captain, you say, you gotta look at the man.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I say, and pull in the face, Captain, if you
can rightly call it a face? What's that?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
What do you mean, Isaac, Hey, here's man, speaker. Why
what are you trying to tell us? I means that
the man is human, he's nothing but as killing.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
What nonsense? I said, Hell, no sense that it's not.
I seen him, sack, look coming to his face. I did,
and there's nothing there but bones, white bleach bones.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Set.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Oh, that's ridiculous, empty eye sockets and a keeping mouth.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And he was writing on your slate, set riding on
my swede.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Captain, writing with a piece of white chalk held between
his fingers, fingers with no flesh on him.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Set.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
You've been dreaming, isai? Come on, let's get down to
my Kevin. I have come along, mister Weslon right, Captain Isaac,
come on? Why it's impossible for Anny wanted to be
in my cabin. All hands are either on deck or
down the engine room.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
That's what I say, Captain Storm. He ain't one of
the crew.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
He ain't rightly nobody, sir, unless you want to call
a spirit somebody, Isaac, stop, that's sort of twelve. But
it ain't no sort of talk, sir, begging your pardon,
mister Wilson. I seen him with my own eyes, sitting there,
dressed in some sort of get up paint, never laid
eyes on before. He had his back to the door,
and he was writing on your slate with a chalk.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Captain.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I spoke to him, but he didn't pay me no mind,
just kept right on when he's writing. Then I got
closer to him, and he still didn't look up. So
I stooped down and peered into his face. I did,
and then I seen he was nothing but a skeleton.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Second, if you weren't drinking, man, Isaac, i'd have you
five didn't put in irons.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I'm not so sure he hasn't been at the cave, Captain,
and your pardon, sir, You will see for yourself soon.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Enough, is that you first, Captain, That's.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
What I have thought.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Nobody here, Oh, Kevin's empty.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
But I locked this door, Captain, so whoever it was
couldn't get out.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
You must have done that, all right. I certainly don't
want you. Just now you you see yourself. There's no one.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
In here, no nobody, and no way out except through
that door.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I say, Captain, mister wasn't wanted your sleep.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
There is writing on it.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Eh, hey, let me let me see here.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
The Captain's wrong, you see, sir, that's not your writing,
is it?
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Oh? Oh, it isn't.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
All right, then one of the men must have been
in here and wrote that.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
No, I don't think so, because this writing is his
style and a type that was used more than two
hundred years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
What let's see mm hmm. I say that is strange writing.
It's English, all right, such a pecuitious spelling and pleasing.
I can't read it at all.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Isaac, Why can't I'm seeing this. I can't help but
believe that you saw somebody sitting here in my cabin
writing on my slate. But I won't be convinced that
it was a skill it. But I tell you, Sirry,
it was your imagination Isaac.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Oh no, sir, it wasn't no imagination.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
I said it was your imagination. You understand, is said. Now,
I don't want you to open your mouth about this
to the crew.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Hear me.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
There's well, there's there's some explanation. I'm not going to
have you stirn up the crew with this. They're all
superstitious enough without that, is there? Order is Isaac, I'll
have your irons if you breathe a word of it's
to the many. Isa That's all Isaak is.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Well, Captain Song, what do you mean of it wasn't
most extraordinary. I'm positive Isaac did see someone in this cabin,
but truly not a fleshless creature. I don't know. Isaac
is a sober, steady sort of person, but confounded man.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
He hasn't much imagination. Well, whoever heard of his skeleton?
The board a ship? Much less one that could.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Ride on a slate. Stranger things than that have happened
at sea? You know that?
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Yeah, I do, but I can't convince myself. But what
Isaac saw is rarely some fleshless creature a lot of
brain or heart or eyes.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Can you make out the writing on the sleeve?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
I think Jeh says it is not correct the information
you have about the sea fandom change your course six
degrees north northeast to location twenty six degrees seven minutes
(07:33):
longitude eighteen degrees nine minutes latitude. Jonathan Strange, Jonathan Strange.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
No, No, it can't be.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
He was the famous captain of the Spanish Godum the
Sea Fatom, the one we're hoping to locate he was.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Jonathan Strange, dead for two hundred and twenty four years,
lost in a gale in seventeen eighteen.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yes, but not in the position this message on the
slate directs us to no. No.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Indeed, Seafanom was supposed to have founded at twenty degrees longitude.
The message says twenty six degrees in seven minutes.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yes. Could this be a trick?
Speaker 5 (08:27):
A trick, Captain, someone else who's heard of the immense
trader that went down with the Seafandom, Someone who's trying
to steers over our course get to the treasure themselves.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I doubt that. What do you say your daughter it?
Mister Wilson Wells? We've kept the entire expedition completely secret.
Not even the crew know what we're up to. We've
tried to keep the entire expedition a secret. I'm causing
I haven't mentioned to anyone Lulla.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I Captain Strong, but I stumbled upon the information about
the sea Fattom. I knew there was an excellent opportunity
to recover almost a million dollars worth of gold, and
naturally I needed a vote. You were the first one
I thought.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Of neither of us would have had a reason for
disclosing our knowledge about the treasure.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
That's just it. That's why I'm so inclined to believe
Isaac was telling us the truth.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
About the thing without flesh right in this message. Precisely. Ah,
that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Even so, Captain, you must admit that the man who's
been dead more than two hundred years certainly wouldn't be
much more than this skeleton. Isn't that right?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
You mean a good heavens you mean this message was
actually written by Donathan Strange himself.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I mean exactly that.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I wonder what about a captain? Do we change the course?
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I don't know what's your advice?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Normally, I'm not superstitious. Well, what can we do? I've
never believed in ghost spirits up now, But that message
on that slate certainly is convincing.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Then you're in favor of following instructions?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
I honest, was it? Yes, let's change the course and
go to the spot. The message mentions, if you're willing
to take a chance, I certainly am. Well, who's yes,
(11:10):
who's there? Well?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Come in and stop that noise? Now, wasn't Thunder's gotten
into you, waking me up in the middle of the night.
What time is it anyway, hey, Elsair.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Midnight, midnight, a big day head tomorrow, Oh, con pold man,
what do you want?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I'm I'm standing watch alone to night, sir, And maybe
I should have told this to the captain, but.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I come to you first. Well, I just sided a
boat to the port side, sir. Well if you identify her,
oh nel.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Sir, you see, but she ain't carried no light, sir,
no light, oh Nelsair. And she's not like any ship
I've ever seen, sir. To the port side, you say, ier,
she's riding with full Say what I ser?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
She looks to me like one of those old time
boats you see in Jez. Hand me my boots, the Isaac,
I'll come upon deck and have a look. There she blows, sir.
(12:17):
You see what a sign of life aboard? He said?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
And the moon's full tonight. Look, man, look what, mister
Wilson that name on about? I can't see that far
sell my eyes. That name the sea Phantom, Sea Phantom. Yes,
no wonder, she's carrying no lights, no wonder, there's no
one aboard.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
What do you mean, sir, Isaac if you've never seen
a ghost ship, take a look at that boat out there.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Ghost ship.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yes, the Sea Phantom went down in these waters more
than two hundred years ago. Tell me down set. Are
you having a joke with me, mister Wilson, No, no,
this is no joke. That's a ghost ship, right enough.
You watch, she'll be gone in the minute or two.
And begging your pardon, sair, but that boat's real. Ghost
(13:06):
Ships always look realizing. But look you, Sair, she's close
enough to see. She's within throwing distance.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I do believe.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah, this blaying pin here, mister Wilson, I'll try to
throw it aboard the Sea Fantom.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Good you watch that pin will just go through thin air.
We'll see, sir. Well it goes there, sir.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
You hear that she is real. But that boat's soul.
She should have fallen apart years ago. And besides that,
she's supposed to be at the bottom of the Atlantic.
She looks old enough, all right, sir, But I don't
understand what you mean about it. He supposed to Isaac
Laura boat a boat, Yes, confounded the boat Laura one
at once?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Are we going aboard the Seafantom, mister Wilson.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I am yes, now, Laura, boat to the ports right,
then double quick about it?
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Stop rowing now, Isaac, he's up a long time, yah,
tied to that rope hanging after there? All set, sir, Right,
you stay here and watch, Isaac for go aboard. If
I'm not back in a half hour, come aboard looking
for me. Why isa have an hour, sir. If you're
(14:30):
not back by denser, I'll come aboard after you. Keep
a sharp look out, Isaac. Let me know if you
see anybody aboard. H so quiet aboard, you can't even
(15:01):
hear the wind, no sign of life, no sign of life,
having been here for score upon score of years, rotting timbers,
seasoaked deck, twisted tangled ropes, empty kegs with rusted hoops
(15:25):
and warped staves, strips of time worn sails, and canvas
swaying on the masts. Everything so quiet, quiet, as though
in reverence of the dead.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Er.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, the hatch captain Squatters must be down here. Yes, yes,
this must have been his hangout. And let's have a look.
(16:07):
M a light burning in here? Can you say? What's that? Oh? Booms?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
An entire human skeleton slumped here in the corner of
the cabin, as though a man had propped himself up.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
There and died.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Exactly, my friend?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Who's that?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Did someone speak? Certainly me?
Speaker 1 (16:28):
But where are you over here? But I don't see you.
There's no one in this room but myself.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yourself and that Jaqueline start there in the corner.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
My name is Jonathan Strange.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Jonathan Strange? Why but you're the skipper of the sea Fatom.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
That I am Jonathan Strange, Cabin of the sea, Fattom,
staying with a cargo of.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Gold, of the Spanish room. But what you were?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Both went down in a gale two hundred years ago?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
History says, yes, but men do not know everything.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
See that there was no victim of a starm at sea.
Oh no, my friend, she was the victim of a
cruel and vicious man.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I still don't understand. Look, we see the lostyed iron
gree now on the floor by your feet.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Yes, take hold of it.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Pulled the trap door to my cabin.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Maybe difficult, you just street die the more fos now, Ah,
that's it.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Yeah, we see cool bar upon bar of solid gold.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yes, go on the quenus tape and just some coins
and jewels and now the queen, but Hosey.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Would have them pull it home.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Intends to live withy the crew and steal the treasures
that have been entrusted to us.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Who's this, jose Hosey? They now wicked and cold?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Honey them. Now the crew is waiting for me to
leave this cabin. They know they're never in the hair
while lighted in my body. Put surely there's some escape?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
No non?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
They think I remain here for starve to death.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
They're fools.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
They do not know that they're about to perish like
the rats they are. What do you mean there should
smell the smoke listen the hill of flames?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Yes, yes I do.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
They cannot escape in the boats because I both saw
this huminet and put the.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Lifeboats up of commission.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
But can't you escape?
Speaker 1 (18:57):
No cost? Not for you to escape them with me?
Taste my fad.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Home the same way with of here, of course. Hurry
now I've been to take this with you.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (19:07):
What are you giving me?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You see?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Hurry now as they're trying to waste. Soon the ship
will be one mass of growing plains, and none of
us will be left alive.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Can I take you with me? Can't you make yourself
apparent so I can see you and take you along?
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Now it doesn't matter, but let me warn you with
my life, I protected the treasures of the King and
queens throughout all eternity.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I have got those treasures.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
It will not be wise for any man to attend
to obtain them for it own.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yes, Jonathan Strange, I believe I understand exactly what you mean.
That's why you block me here.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
To show me exactly dis hurry, mister West said, why
are you went now?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Mister Wellston, Isaac, is that you who I sat? Throw
me down, mister Wilson. It's weekly both the fire. If
we don't get over here on the tivvy. Well, we're
saying a minute to Davy.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Gone block of it, call me down for us.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
And so Captain Strong, that's exactly what happened. I repeat,
it was no nightmare, Isaac. Care can vouch for that.
It's the very truth, Captain Strong, word for red, so
help me Heaven.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
And that was fair warning. Do you ever attempts to
get the traders of the sea. Adam is doomed my.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Set, just as those mutineers were doomed two hundred years ago.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Sir, there you are.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
I'm amazed you or the others of the crew went
awakened by the sound of the fire.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
No, when I was heard a sound, man, I don't
even know about it.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Now.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
I wouldn't have known it about it myself if you
two hadn't told me your story, if I hadn't seen
those bits of charred wood floating on the surface this morning.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
It was a huge treasure, Captain. I saw it in
its hiding place beneath the skipper's cabin. And you've got
none of it, not a single bit. Oh wait, I
almost forgot. Just before I left the boat. This thing
was handed to.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Me handed, do you But I thought you said there
was nothing in that cabin but a pile of bones.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yes, as that is right.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
But this seemed to come well, almost out of nowhere,
and it was placed very firmly in my hand.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
He shouldn't have had in his hands when I broke
into the cabin, sir and said.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Well, look, hm, why this was the ship's log the log, yes,
the complete log, and the sea fantom's voyage, and the
date of sailing right on up through the motony Luke's writing.
It's the same hand. The writing on my slate and
(22:12):
the writing on this paper are the very same. Curve
for curve, angle for angle.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Here let me see, oh, I say, Captain, Yes, mister Wilson.
Look here on this last page.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
It reads.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Now that it has become my solemn duty to protect
the treasures which have been entrusted to me. I will
send the Sea Phantom to her ocean grave together with
the treasure.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
This is my course as I see it. God assists me.
Jonathan Strange May twenty nine, seventeen eighteen, Tar Fantasy.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
You have heard the Sea Fatom tonight's tale of dark
Fantasy by Scott Fish. Then Morris was heard tonight as
mister Wilson. Fred Wayne played Captain Strong, Your Height was Isaac,
and Garland Moss was Captain Jonathan Strange, skipper of.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
The Sea Fatom.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Next Friday, at this time we'll bring you another dark
fantasy drama. Being the thirteenth story in this series, and
next Friday being Friday the thirteenth, Scott Bishop defies superstition
utterly and completely to bring you one of his most
exciting and unusual tales.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Listen for.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
W is for Werewolf, a weird adventure laid upon a
sunny tropical island where all seems peaceful and serene, but
where a grim and vicious destiny festers slowly into breathtaking,
unbelievable reality. Dark Fantasy originates each Friday night in the
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