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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Inner sanctum, mysteries.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Good evening, friends of the Creaking Door. This is your
host to welcome you again into the amners sank h
kind of dead, did you say?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Well?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yes, but we have our grizzly little as for example,
our museum has the only authentic copy of the Moaning Lizard.
In music, we're very fond of Mendel Groans overture to
a Midsummer Night's Scream. As for the movies, what really
rattled our bones was raises it well, as the dentist said,
(01:13):
when the drill hit bottom and the patient screamed, you've
got a nerve. It begins at night outside the railroad stage.
It's rainy and Anne Winslow has just missed the last
train that were taken to the house.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
She lives in a couple of miles outside the city.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Sassy, sassy be Hatty.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
I know, I get a taxi and the rainers.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
I know, but I've got to get when I missed
my train.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Hatty all taken. Want me to check your bag, you know, for.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I've got to get home.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Hey, there's one with a splayup stop of.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
The light if you run my oh yes, like trees
don't change.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
Don't change, lady, lady, I guess you didn't see me
waiting to hear from the sidewalls against assions.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Well you've got to the lights changed.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Yes, but let's say.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
You see, I missed my train and I lived some
way out.
Speaker 8 (02:05):
It's got me very fat.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
On the Reservoir Road.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
The Reservoir Road, I know it's outside the city, but
I'm willing to pay at the.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Extra And the flag on your meter was upsiday.
Speaker 9 (02:14):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Well, I guess I can relax.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Now, what's the matter.
Speaker 8 (02:23):
There's someone else in the cab.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
He's a friend of mine. Don't bother him, and he
didn't bother you.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
If you already had a passenger, why didn't you turn
your mena.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Down because he ain't paying for the ride.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
I was frightening the.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
Man on the back seat of the cab, which he
didn't say anything or do anything.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
But I was frightened.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
His overcoat collar was turned up around his neck and his.
Speaker 9 (02:49):
Hat was pulled forward over his eyes, and.
Speaker 8 (02:53):
I was frightened.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Driver.
Speaker 8 (02:56):
Yeah, I think you passed the Reservoir Road.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I did.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
It was the road that turned off to the right,
just a little way back.
Speaker 8 (03:04):
I didn't notice.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Until after you passed it.
Speaker 8 (03:06):
Okay, set time? What's eating you?
Speaker 10 (03:10):
Back there?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I have to turn around, don't I?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
The man?
Speaker 8 (03:15):
When you stopped short, he slid over.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
He's leaning on me now.
Speaker 10 (03:19):
So what?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
He won't fight you, He's just tired.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
But I don't know it.
Speaker 11 (03:27):
Believe me, lady, if you're dead, you wouldn't be any happy.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
He leaned against my shoulder, without speaking, without moving.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
His hat was still over his eyes, and the upturned
collar of his coat still around his neck. My shoulder
began to hurt, and the weight grew heavier, and somehow
from the solid knody beside him came a.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Feeling of cold, of deadly, paralyzing cold.
Speaker 8 (03:54):
I straightened up and pushed him away.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
It fell the way the body falls, hung his back
across the seat from his head fell off, and the
color of his coat parton.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
And I saw that.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Hey, yes, what are you yelling about now?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Sting?
Speaker 8 (04:18):
I fell asleep and had a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
We'll stay awake. I don't like that kind of.
Speaker 8 (04:22):
Music, all right, I'll stay awake. Oh listen, Yes, this
is where I live.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Kinda isolated, ain't it?
Speaker 8 (04:33):
How much is it? A couple of bucks?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Thanks?
Speaker 8 (04:37):
Good night. Yeah, thanky, he didn't know.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I knew.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
He didn't know that the door I forgot to lock it.
Speaker 10 (04:56):
Who is it?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
A little pal here?
Speaker 8 (05:00):
He wants to sit down.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yeah, this ought to be nice and.
Speaker 10 (05:04):
Comfortable for him.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You can't, I did you see, lady.
Speaker 11 (05:10):
He got kind of fond of you on the long
ride together. I don't want to go back to the
city with me. He wants to stay here with you.
Speaker 9 (05:21):
No.
Speaker 11 (05:21):
Yeah, he's a very headstrong fellow. I wouldn't care to
argue with him.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
You can't leave him here.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Looks like the rain's coming back.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
Take him with you.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You don't want to go.
Speaker 11 (05:35):
Besides, you wouldn't send him into the storm, would you
in his condition?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
And no, no.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
He's gone and I'm alone except.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
No phone the poon. Of course, I'm.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Going to police and they'll take him away. Hello, Hello, Hello,
it said, is said.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
The room.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
I'm coming to the man whose thought has been cut,
and he and.
Speaker 8 (06:19):
I are alone in his house. I won't rekut. If
I cur in my head that I could see you,
I won't.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
He's he's moving out of a chair.
Speaker 11 (06:44):
H h.
Speaker 8 (06:46):
Huh, huh.
Speaker 12 (06:50):
Oh the belts and let it get up, and the
man short up the door.
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Good morning this morning. Yes, I would have come earlier,
but I must have been unconscious all night.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
Who are you?
Speaker 9 (07:14):
Manson Detective, second grade County Police.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
From the police.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Yes, oh, but I couldn't reach you last night. The
phone was jedi to.
Speaker 13 (07:22):
Our lines were out all through this area. That's why
Missus Blaine didn't get through to us till this morning.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Missus Blaine, the old Paradife woman down.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
The road, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 13 (07:30):
As soon as the telephone lines were working against you
phoned us.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
She was worried about what she'd heard during the night.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
She read something during the night.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
A woman screaming this from this house.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That was me.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Well, you seem to be all right. Why did you scream.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
The dead man in the living room.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
The dead man in the living room, I see. I
suppose we go take a look at him. Huh.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
You don't believe me, do you.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Well? It's not an easy story to believe, is it.
But we don't have to argue about it. All we
have to do is go into the living room.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
All right.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
Commit I feel sort of shaky. You see, I fainted
my when he moved it. I've been on the floor
all night.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
This is the living room.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Yes, I think I'll stay out here if you don't mind.
Speaker 9 (08:23):
I'd try to not look at him again.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
There's nothing to be afraid of now. The policeman's here and.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
It's stay light and they'll take him away.
Speaker 13 (08:34):
Well, miss, I guess you must have been dreaming, dreaming
mm hmmm, because you see there is.
Speaker 10 (08:41):
No dead man in the living room.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
There's nobody there at all. Try looking under the sofa necks. Oh,
you weren't looking around for the cause. You were just
handing of that color. But in your last last spring.
All right, have it your runway. But if you happen
to reach in under a hunk of furniture and your
(09:06):
hand touches something cold and wet, i'd won't be a
collar button for her. Well, let's get back to Anne Winslow,
who was a nice girl, but who had corpses walk
out on her.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
No dead man in the living room, but he must
be there. I don't believe he was in that chair.
Speaker 8 (09:26):
I'll miss it.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
It was just a dream or maybe a shock you
had at some kind.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Don't call me miss. My name is Anne Winslow.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
That's a pretty name for a pretty girl was there.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
I took a taxi in the city last night when
I missed my train, and he was. He was on
the back seat, and when I pushed him he fell over.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
I saw that he stot d cut And when we
got here, the taxi driver brought him into the living room.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
And went away and left him here with me.
Speaker 13 (09:48):
Well, sometimes it's hard to tell a difference between what
your dream and what really happened.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Stop trying to be kind to me.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
He was here.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
If he was, he'd still be here. Corps has had
a habit of staying.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
With the poor.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Wait it was there was blood on him. There'll be
someone on the chair, on the fact maybe, or the
seat cushion.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Well, nothing.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
How'd you happen to miss the train last night?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I was at a party.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Did you get the taxi's license number? No, the driver's
name or number.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
No.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
I was too frightened to think. I would you recognize
the driver if you saw him again?
Speaker 8 (10:29):
I'm not sure it was dark enough.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
I might be.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
I'm not giving me anything at all.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Are thousands of cabs, thousands of drivers.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
And I've got nothing to go on.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
I'm sorry, mister Manson.
Speaker 13 (10:39):
Well forget it. The drive out here wasn't bad, and
I met someone night.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 13 (10:44):
I just wish I could be of more help. Well,
if anything comes up, don't be shy about yelling for me.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
It's my job.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
You don't think I'm crazy.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Of course, this whole business, well, it was just one
of those things.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Well, I better get back to him.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yes, you've been very patient.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
That's all right, so hard goodbye.
Speaker 9 (11:06):
Just one of those things.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
One of what things?
Speaker 7 (11:11):
He wasn't that chair? It's all right now, there's nothing
nobody in it, but I can't sit it.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Seat Christians getting shabby.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Maybe if I turn it over from the other side,
someone already had turned it over because it wasn't a dream.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
It wasn't a dream, because it is blood.
Speaker 8 (11:43):
I help your mess.
Speaker 13 (11:44):
I know you've been standing out here in front of
the terminof for quite a while, but oh.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
No, thanks Pard, there's nothing you can do a surly younglady.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Oh mister train last night, aren't you.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Yes, of course you're a reporter who helped me.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
One of your jaxis are on now.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I know, but I'm trying to find the one I
had last night.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Yes, yes, you see, I left.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Something in the cab I thought if I could find
the taxi again. Well, but tax is usually work in
the same neighborhood all the time, don't they.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
I mean they had their special stand more Las traumas.
But you didn't get your cab last night at a stand.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
It was cruisy.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Oh you didn't happen to notice the license number?
Speaker 6 (12:21):
That you know much.
Speaker 8 (12:21):
I didn't or recognize the driver. I didn't even say.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
I'm beginning to wonder if I saw him.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Nothing.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
I guess i'd better go.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I don't want to miss my train again tonight.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Goodbye, good night, I lost the donor.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
It's funny the lights on.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Hello the cab driver?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
What you said you were looking for me?
Speaker 10 (12:54):
Miss?
Speaker 11 (12:55):
Yeah, yeah, I'm the cab driver who drove you out
here last night and a friend.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Then hey, I noticed heing around? No, where is he?
Speaker 5 (13:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (13:06):
I was awful fond of him. I wouldn't like to
think of him wandering around. Called maybe and why were
you looking for me?
Speaker 8 (13:15):
The police didn't believe it.
Speaker 11 (13:17):
Policeman, eh, didn't believe.
Speaker 13 (13:20):
What that.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
There had ever been across Still bad, So.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
No harm's been done. You haven't anything to worry about
because the policeman probably thinks I'm crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Maybe he'll change his mind.
Speaker 11 (13:35):
Maybe one of these days you'll spot me and call
a cop. Maybe the cop will start asking questions. And
I ain't good.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
At answering questions. They won't once you put the finger
on me, they will.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I won't do that.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
I'll forget the whole thing, honestly, I will.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Maybe, But will the cop you called.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
He thinks I'm crazy.
Speaker 11 (13:57):
You're a good looking girl, miss, which means the CoP's
gonna back, and if he comes back, he's gonna find
out you're not crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Because you're not crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Stay away from me.
Speaker 11 (14:07):
There was a corpse and he had his throat cut,
and he was in this room and you saw him.
And if a cop starts believing, yeah, you'll look for
that corpse and he'll find it sooner or later, and
then he'll ask me questions.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
It's I want to be a lot better.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
If you went away, I'll go.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
I'll do anything you said don't touch me.
Speaker 11 (14:23):
You'll go, but further than you have said.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Come on a second half to.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Start. Maybe you better go by back for a while.
You're like to get better. The guy at the door,
I'll leave you for a while. Okay, okay, yeah, oh
are you.
Speaker 10 (14:57):
For a minute?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I thought maybe he was a cop. M hmm, what's
the matter. I don't like the way you're looking at me. Listen, listen.
Speaker 11 (15:05):
Maybe maybe things were loust up a little bit last night,
but I'm cleaning it up.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Hey, what's that in your hand? Now?
Speaker 11 (15:13):
Get away from it.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I'll do anything.
Speaker 9 (15:27):
Hum.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Oh the door, the doorbell, yes, the door, No word?
Speaker 12 (15:42):
I thought, oh was it last night?
Speaker 5 (15:47):
I thought the driver he came back from me.
Speaker 9 (15:51):
I've got to get away, get away, someone.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Mine up doorstep the driver.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
And hell, get away round.
Speaker 10 (16:10):
On the other way, A.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Way, No stop, you need to stop too smart to
stop talking. Then he'd clod.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I can't.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
I can't let me.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Die tired, lying.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
Mis Winslow stopped Winslow.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Don't miss Winslow. What's the matter, mister man?
Speaker 8 (16:45):
I thought you.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
That may help you out?
Speaker 6 (16:52):
It was so you better get back to your house.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
It's cold, you have no code.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Come on, all right, he's there, the dragon.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I see.
Speaker 9 (17:04):
I'll care of him.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
He doesn't. He doesn't need care.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
He's dead.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Did you need somebody?
Speaker 7 (17:12):
He throwed?
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Don't talk anymore.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
He started to draggle, sh here's the house?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
How did you get here?
Speaker 8 (17:23):
My car sut in the road.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I was worried about you.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
I watched the steps.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
I can't go through that door flying across.
Speaker 13 (17:31):
You've been very brave, just stepped past him.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
He's there now, I wos have the door?
Speaker 10 (17:41):
Sit down the chair?
Speaker 6 (17:43):
Not the chair?
Speaker 10 (17:44):
HiT's the money? All right?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
The couch?
Speaker 12 (17:48):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
How to get the body away from your door?
Speaker 8 (17:51):
Not if I hit?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Where's your phone.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
In the hallway?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Right outside of letting him?
Speaker 8 (17:55):
Do good?
Speaker 4 (18:01):
The phone's dead? They're all right, but the wire on
this phone must have been cut. But the driver. Maybe
I gotta get word to town though, Yes, can you drive?
Speaker 6 (18:11):
No, that's too bad.
Speaker 9 (18:12):
Otherwise you could hop into my car and look, I'll
be gone only a little while.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
None.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
Oh man was murdered, and his murderer must be found.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
We can't waste time. You're right, but I leave you.
Lock the door of this room behind me.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
See, nobody can get those windows, so when the door locked.
Speaker 13 (18:26):
You'd be perfectly safe. All right, all right, I'll lock
it and don't open it for anyone but me. Yes,
then I'll be seeing.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Off the door and don't open it for anyone but
mister Manson.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
All right, and.
Speaker 13 (18:45):
I'll be perfectly safe.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
Perfect.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Oh, I dropped off the phone. Not I remember. Wait,
he told me not to open it for anyone but himself.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Still, this isn't anyone, this is the phone.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
No, I'll let it ring. I won't leave this room.
Speaker 10 (19:15):
Let it ring.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Let he said the phone was dead.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Not the line, but only my phone. Mister Manson said
the word had been cut it. If it really had.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
Been cut it, it couldn't ring. And is this ringing?
Speaker 5 (19:29):
It's ring?
Speaker 8 (19:32):
That means me he was lying.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
And if he was lying, he runted me left in
this room so I wouldn't tell me when it stop? Hello, hello, stop,
I can call it. Please?
Speaker 8 (19:47):
How good?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Somebody put the receiver back, I said, put it back, but.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
Thank god?
Speaker 9 (19:59):
Well that's better, living room? Please?
Speaker 6 (20:06):
How come you tried to form git right?
Speaker 9 (20:09):
Too bad I didn't rip the wire out as I
should have. Careless of me, but too bad for you.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
What do you mean I haven't much choice?
Speaker 9 (20:19):
The drivers buried alongside of the corpse you met last night.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Back in the woods.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
That's where I went.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I'm not a policeman.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
I'm a murderer. The corpse you saw last night was
an old friend of mine who had ideas about sharing
my profits and a little.
Speaker 9 (20:35):
Rocket eye run.
Speaker 13 (20:37):
I cut his throat and fixed things with that cab
driver to take the body out into the country and
bury him. You hopped his cab, and the gooon didn't
have brains to get rid of you. Before you spotted
the corpse, he got panickin, left it with you and
told me about it.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
I rushed out here to sell you a bill of goods.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
You bought all right, except the.
Speaker 13 (20:55):
Cab driver got scared when he spotted your watching for
him at the railroad tunnel. To shut you up, I
trailed him and, realizing you know easily, he lost his.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Head and I took care of him, and now I'll
have to take care of you.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You can't go around killing.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
I've done all right so far. What's that the door?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You did?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Call somebody before I got back the door.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
I forgot to lock the door.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
I gotta get out to stay poor.
Speaker 8 (21:23):
You won't get.
Speaker 10 (21:28):
Yeah, hey you, he said, yeah, it's a door nail.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
He was a murderer.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
He was. That's why he started shooting without waiting to
find out.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
M oh I wanted was to tell.
Speaker 8 (21:48):
Him to move that car of it.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
It was blocking the road.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Glad to cut up mister Hanson, wasn't he and ambitious too,
wanted to leave his mark.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
On somebody's throat.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
He probably believed wholeheartedly, And i'd probably you're not the one.
All work and no sleigh makes Jack a dull boy.
Speaker 9 (22:17):
Oh that remind me.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I'd better hurry out and turn the motor up. And
that taxi, oh yeah, it'll be still going. You can
rely on that, because nothing's sure but death and taxis
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of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.