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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Inner Sanctum mysteries renaming friends of the Creaking Door. This
is your host to welcome you into the inner Sanctum
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once again. Come in. You know so many people have
asked me to explain the significance of the creaking door,
but I don't really have to.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You see the door creaks for itself.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I was going to have a friend of mine here
tonight to give you a short explanation, being an undertaker
by profession, he's an authority on the subject, but he
couldn't make it. He's been so busy cool chat he's
literally buried in his word. All right, friend, let's get
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dreadful now. Remember, don't scream back at the radio. I'd
want to hear any guy, I said, then listen as
we hear. Our star Anne Seymour in the role of
Katherine Bryan, tell us this story in her own words.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Flash of light me like a giant white electric light
lit up the sky that night as I went up
the walk and Brian Mansion looked like a huge gabled
tune standing.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
There on the hill. For a moment. I wanted to run,
but much.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
As I hated it, I'd come back. Not because I
lived there, not because I wanted to be there, but
because of this house, I should find.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Out if I was going to live or if I
was going to die.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I let myself in quietly made my way to the
living room. There was a rustling of skirts, and Mother
suddenly appeared in the dim, shadowy light.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Kathy, Kathy, dear hello, mother, Oh you're so late. I
was getting worried.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Was my stepfather worried too?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Why?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Yes, dear, Mark is still up here. You've got to
take your coat off. It's so through. Don't you touch me,
Cathy Darling.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
And don't start sniveling over me again. Mother. I can't
stand it.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I was just trying to help you, always trying to
help me. Why didn't you think of helping me before
you married that man upstairs? But no, you're such a
pretty woman, mother, You couldn't possibly be without a husband.
What would people say? Catherine? Please, you can't.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Go on like this. No I can't.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I can't go on very much longer without destroying myself.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
You must not say such things?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
And why not?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
But make you and Mark very happy if I should die,
wouldn't it, Catherine?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
No one in this house wants me to go on
living good?
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Evening, Catherine Mark, I didn't know you were here. I'm
aware of that. I heard you, Mark.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
She didn't mean it. She didn't mean a word of it.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But I did.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Now that you're both here, there's something I must find
out tonight. It's very important. What is it? Ten years ago?
My father died, Catherine.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
We can't discuss that now.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
We must. I've got to know certain things. Why because
if I don't, something quite dreadful might happen to me.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Now, Catherine, you're exaggerated, No, you.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Wells doesn't think so. I've been going to him for
months now. He knows there's grave danger that I'll go
completely out of my mind if I don't find out
about this.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
My poor dog.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Don't biddy me, Mother, help me tell me how my
father died.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
You know you were there, But Catherine, there's nothing to
tell Your father was killed in an accident.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
He was a doctor, Flora Mark.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
We'll call doctor Wells the first thing in the morning
and discuss the matter with him.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Why don't you let her tell me? What have you
got to hide?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
We are not going to discuss this until I speak
to doctor Wells. Ah, Laura, I suggest you come upstairs
as soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Good night, Catle, Mother.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
He's gone.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
You are going to tell me where was this accident,
how did it happen?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Who is involved?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Kathy, You're in no state to get anything right now.
Mark was right. We should speak to doctor Wells about
it first.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yes, speak to him, so you both can make up
an appropriate lie to tell me. I don't want me lies.
I want the truth, mother, and I'm prepared to go
to any length to get it. Look at this now, Cathle,
look at it, I tell you, look at it.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
What what is it?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
A woman sold it to me today, a strange little woman.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
It's a sort of tiny painted tile, not just an
ordinary tile, mather.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
It comes from the Orient, The woman said, do you
see this very odd design? If you look at it
long enough, she said, a strange thing will happen. You'll
find yourself able to talk with the dead, see them
wherever they are, touch them. Catherine, I am going to
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talk to my father.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
You can't be serious.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
You won't tell me what I want to know, then
maybe the dead will.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Mother left the room and I sat down in front
of the fireplace, just as I used to when I
was a child.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I looked at the tile.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
At the design, the parallel lines and dots began to
dance before my eyes stared at it. It seemed to
hold control my gaze, and then almost at once, I
felt an icy chill, and the design vanished. In its place,
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there was black, infinite space, filled with shadows and still
shadows beyond shadows. Then I noticed a speck of gray
come out of that blackness. There was a strange, sulfurous
odor in the air as it came towards me, at
first very slowly, and gradually faster and faster, as though
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it were coming to me through endless years of space.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Suddenly there was an ear shattering thunderclap.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
A streak of lightning zigzagged through the room in an
insane dance, and.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I heard the front door close. I heard footsteps approaching.
I turned around, faced the doorway, and then I saw him.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Don't scream?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Who who are you?
Speaker 6 (07:05):
You are?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Kathy, Kathy Brian. You know me I did ten years ago.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Where did you come from?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Tell me? How do I appear to you?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
How you appear?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (07:21):
Please you you have white here, white beard, But your
eyes know it can't.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Be What canth be that My eyes are the eyes
of a corpse, that I look more like a dead
man than a living one.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yes, that should not be so strange.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Who are you? Did you know my father, doctor Brian?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Very well? Very well?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Indeed, how do they die? I want to know that
he was murdered? Murder?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yes, murdered.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
How do you know?
Speaker 7 (08:01):
I saw it all you. I was punished for it,
your murder. He No, I didn't kill him. He was
the only friend I had in the world. That's why
I came back here to night. Didn't you ever know
how your father died?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Would you like to know?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
More than anything in the world.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
He was the kindest of men, and that's what led
to his destruction. He took a man under his care,
a man who had been given up as a railing maniac,
and rather than see this man placed in an institution,
he kept him in the guest cottage of his house.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Wat wait, I remember now? The man was a poet.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Yes, his name was Denis de Moore. Your father believed
this man was a great poet and struggled to save him.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Did this man murder my father?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
No one evening When your father came in to treat more.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
There was a third man in the darkened cottage. This
man leaped at your father and drove a knife into
his back. The poor madman, frightened, ran over the country
side until he was caught by the police, and he
was charged with the murder of your father.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
You who said you saw this?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I did? Then you are the madman, Dennis.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
The more.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
You you're dead, Perhaps I am the murderer.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Who was the person who murdered my father?
Speaker 7 (09:36):
You know him quite well. He's the man who is
now married to your mother, Mark Weldon.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Now can you prove this?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Your father is the only one who can prove this?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
My father? Can you bring him back here?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Bring him back?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
You came back. If you could only bring him and
prove this.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Prove it, perhaps I can. Perhaps I will bring him
back to night.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Why just then there was a tremendous thunderclap, and the
electric lights failed. I tried to see him by the firelight,
but he wasn't in the room. I ran to the door,
stumbling over furniture in the shadows and screaming for him
to wait. I opened the front door, but he wasn't there. Cathy,
we heard you screaming, Did you mother?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I I found out how my father died, really, how
he was murdered, Laura, did you tell her anything?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
No, not a word, Mark, I swear, Cathy, how did
you find out?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I told you how I'd find out that that child?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Yes, it worked, that's impossible, should say that.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
But I discovered to night that you Mark murdered my father,
that you cleverly arranged that a poor patient of his
named Dennis dair Moore would be arrested for the crime
that you committed.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Who told you this, Denis Demour the more was he here?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
He told me everything and you believed him.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Why shouldn't I?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Why?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
The man's a maniac. I don't know how he ever
got here. He should be at the State Institution for
the Criminally Insane. Please, hello, operator, will you put through
a call to the State Institution for the Criminally Insane
at Blyton. I wish to speak to whomever is in
charge and call me back as soon as you get them.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It's urgent. Yes, thank you.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Now, Catherine, you claim you actually spoke to this man?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yes, Mark, he told me he saw you murdered my father.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Why you're lucky you escape with your life. The man
is a homicidal maniac.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I find it.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Shocking that you should even begin to believe this fantastic story.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
But it seems to be true, Mark, doesn't it. My
father was murdered and Dennis Damour was sent away.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
For the crime.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Yes, yes, that part of it is true. But to
accuse me, Laura, we tolerated her in this enough.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
But this is hello.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Hello, this is doctor King, the night supervisor of State Institution.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Oh, yes, hello, doctor King. This is Mark Weldon speaking.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Has one of your patients, Ah, Dennis Damour escaped.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
The poet? Yes, that's right, a homicidal maniac.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
He has an escaped at Weldon.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
He was one of the patients who was killed in
a fire that broke out in this place two years ago.
What's that? Didn't you hear me? Yes? Yes, I heard you.
Thank you, goodbye Mark.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Dennis Damour is dead?
Speaker 6 (12:41):
He was killed two years ago.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Well, friend, how would you like to have a little
Chinese tire that can produce dead men for you? M
don't you think that Dennis de mort is a ghost?
Perhaps you think he's just an old pope eyed polder
guyst Well we'll learn a moment, as we hear Catherine
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Bryan tell us the second half of her weird story.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
My stepfather's hand trembled as he hung up the phone,
and even in the red blow of the firelight, I
could see his face it suddenly turned snowy white.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It's impossible.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
The dead can't come back unless you're making up this
whole thing, Kathy.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Why should I in get a story like.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
This because you've always been insanely jealous. You've always hated
your mother for marrying me. Isn't that true, Laura?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Isn't it?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Yes, it's true.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
There you see, Catherine, your mother loves you. She wouldn't lie.
Now tell us the truth. You made up this whole
wild tale about Dennis Damore, didn't you?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Now, Mark, I didn't invent it. Dennis Damore was here.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
He couldn't have been. He's been dead for two years.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
And how would I know the things I told you?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I don't know. And that's what you've got to explain.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Mark. Why does this upset you so if you didn't
murder him, what difference does it make about Demo?
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Why are you so fight I'm not frightened. I'm just
determined to get to the bottom of this thing.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
What was that?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Just the thunder Mark.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Laura, why are you looking at me like that? Like what?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Staring at me as though you've seen me for the
first time? Do you believe this mad story Catherine's told us?
Do you think I murdered her father? I?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
I just remembered certain things, Mark, I can't help it
if I think of them now.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
What things tell me? What things?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Days before the murder, you told me you were in
love with me. I sent you away, told you never
to come to this house again. Go on, on the
night of the murder, I saw you standing in the
moonlight near the guest cottage. You did, I thought I
was mistaken a specialist, since you claimed you were at
home that night. Oh, Mark, don't be angry with me.
I can't help but thinking of these things now, it's
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only natural natural?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Is it natural for a man's wife to accuse him
of a crime like murder?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
And on the basis of what the word of a
psychopathic girl who should have been confined long ago she
taught to a man who's been dead for two years.
I suppose you believe that too. And who is this man,
even assuming that he's alive? A madman, a homicidal maniac
who took your first husband's life when your husband tried
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to cure him.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I've had enough of this, Mark.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
What are you taking out of that drawer?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Kathy? Come here?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Why Mark?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Put the gun away?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Shut up?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Allah, oh Kathy. I won't hurt you unless you try
something dangerous.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
I am holding this gun because I believe your mother
and I are no longer safe in the same room
with you.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Now. I want the truth.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
You were lying to us before, weren't you. No? Very well,
then where is this man you saw? I'd like to
see him too. I don't know, of course you don't,
because he doesn't exist.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
He does. He appeared when I looked at the Chinese.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Tile, the Chinese tile. Good, look at your Chinese tile.
Now make him appear.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
You're trying to make a fool of a liar.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You'll do it, I tell you, look at that tile.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Go on, all right, I I will.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Now, what do you see?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Nothing but the design?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yes, all you're going to see.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
The design is stay. It's getting dark dark, Nothing but blacks.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Mark.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
I heard the front door. Someone just came in.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yes, those footsteps, that's just how he came in the
last time.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Perhaps, but I doubt if it's.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Good evening.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Oh, it is the more you remember me, Laura.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Yes, you you've changed a great deal.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
But it is you, mister Weldon. It's been ten years
since I've seen you. The more then you're not dead.
There must have been some mistake when they identified you.
Now then you escaped.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Someone must have been identified instead of you. That's the
only explanation. It depends on what you choose to believe.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Mister Weldon. I brought a guest with me, my father,
Doctor Bryan. I'm sure you know these people quite well,
of course you do.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
What's he saying?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
He's talking to my father, that's right, Cathay.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
Unfortunately you cannot see him, but he's here, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Doctor DeMar, What are you up to?
Speaker 6 (18:23):
What do you think if you come back here to
make troubleable?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
No, I've come back because someone wanted to know the truth,
and I've brought the doctor back for the same reason. Doctor,
before these others, I want you to tell us.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Who murdered you. Who murdered you, sir.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
You shot him?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Why?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Why? He's dangerous? A maniac?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
That's not the reason. It's because you murdered my father
and you don't want us to.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Know all right, Cathy, I did kill him Mark.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
It doesn't make any difference now this maniac has planted
suspicion in your minds.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You would have found out sooner or later. Mark. Yes,
I killed him for.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
You, Laura.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I loved you. But that's over now. It's been over
for a long time.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
I know what to do now, and it's going to
be very simple, thanks to our friend lying there. What
are you going to do, don't you know, Laura, it's
so simple. Your bodies must be found in such a
condition that they will be certain. Then more killed you,
and then I'll tell them how I shot the homicidal
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maniac to protect myself.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
It's the same way he killed my father.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Yes, Cathy won't die, Catherine did Did you think you
could kill me?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Welden?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Do you think those shots were stop me? Don't you
come near me? Stand back? Nothing to stop me? Weldo
the gun? No, don't thank you for me.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I saw the bullets strike them.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
They hit him, but they didn't stop him from lurching
toward Mark and seizing him by the throat. As they
fell to the floor, the kerostine lamp fell off its table.
It might have been the wind, but I believe otherwise.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I'm almost certain it was my father. In a moment
that Drake threw on fire and the whole place was blazing.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
I screamed to my mother to leave, she claimed, with
me out of the blazing building into the storm that
raged outside.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Two weeks later, my mother came into the hotel room
where we were staying.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
I've just come from the police, Cathy. Well, mother, only
one body is passedatively identified.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Who's Marx.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
The other body, they haven't been able to find it
in the rubble.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
I don't believe they ever will.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
But Cathy, the police checked with the authorities at the
state institution. It seems that some of the patients did
escape at the time they had the fire there two
years ago. It's possible that the Moor was among them.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
It's possible, but I doubt it.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
You think the more died two years ago?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Yes, mother, don't you.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Friends, I guess you've met ghosts before, but I'm sure
this is the first time you've ever met her crazy spook.
Oh don't you think Dennis Demardmother goes, hm, Well, there's
only one way to find out if ghosts really exist,
just to ask and haunches sometimes you'll be sure to listen,
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don't you until next week, and good night, pleasant screens.
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Inner Sanctum mysteries renaming friends of the Creaking Door. This
is your host to welcome you into the inner Sanctum
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once again. Come in. You know so many people have
asked me to explain the significance of the creaking door,
but I don't really have to.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You see the door creaks for itself.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I was going to have a friend of mine here
tonight to give you a short explanation, being an undertaker
by profession, he's an authority on the subject, but he
couldn't make it. He's been so busy cool chat he's
literally buried in his word. All right, friend, let's get
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dreadful now. Remember, don't scream back at the radio. I'd
want to hear any guy, I said, then listen as
we hear. Our star Anne Seymour in the role of
Katherine Bryan, tell us this story in her own words.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Flash of light me like a giant white electric light
lit up the sky that night as I went up
the walk and Brian Mansion looked like a huge gabled
tune standing.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
There on the hill. For a moment. I wanted to run,
but much.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
As I hated it, I'd come back. Not because I
lived there, not because I wanted to be there, but
because of this house, I should find.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Out if I was going to live or if I
was going to die.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
I let myself in quietly made my way to the
living room. There was a rustling of skirts, and Mother
suddenly appeared in the dim, shadowy light.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Kathy, Kathy, dear hello, mother, Oh you're so late. I
was getting worried.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Was my stepfather worried too?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Why?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Yes, dear, Mark is still up here. You've got to
take your coat off. It's so through. Don't you touch me,
Cathy Darling.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
And don't start sniveling over me again. Mother. I can't
stand it.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I was just trying to help you, always trying to
help me. Why didn't you think of helping me before
you married that man upstairs? But no, you're such a
pretty woman, mother, You couldn't possibly be without a husband.
What would people say? Catherine? Please, you can't.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Go on like this. No I can't.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I can't go on very much longer without destroying myself.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
You must not say such things?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
And why not?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
But make you and Mark very happy if I should die,
wouldn't it, Catherine?
Speaker 4 (03:07):
No one in this house wants me to go on
living good?
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Evening, Catherine Mark, I didn't know you were here. I'm
aware of that. I heard you, Mark.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
She didn't mean it. She didn't mean a word of it.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
But I did.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Now that you're both here, there's something I must find
out tonight. It's very important. What is it? Ten years ago?
My father died, Catherine.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
We can't discuss that now.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
We must. I've got to know certain things. Why because
if I don't, something quite dreadful might happen to me.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Now, Catherine, you're exaggerated, No, you.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Wells doesn't think so. I've been going to him for
months now. He knows there's grave danger that I'll go
completely out of my mind if I don't find out
about this.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
My poor dog.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Don't biddy me, Mother, help me tell me how my
father died.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
You know you were there, But Catherine, there's nothing to
tell Your father was killed in an accident.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
He was a doctor, Flora Mark.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
We'll call doctor Wells the first thing in the morning
and discuss the matter with him.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Why don't you let her tell me? What have you
got to hide?
Speaker 6 (04:07):
We are not going to discuss this until I speak
to doctor Wells. Ah, Laura, I suggest you come upstairs
as soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Good night, Catle, Mother.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
He's gone.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
You are going to tell me where was this accident,
how did it happen?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Who is involved?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Kathy, You're in no state to get anything right now.
Mark was right. We should speak to doctor Wells about
it first.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yes, speak to him, so you both can make up
an appropriate lie to tell me. I don't want me lies.
I want the truth, mother, and I'm prepared to go
to any length to get it. Look at this now, Cathle,
look at it, I tell you, look at it.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
What what is it?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
A woman sold it to me today, a strange little woman.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
It's a sort of tiny painted tile, not just an
ordinary tile, mather.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
It comes from the Orient, The woman said, do you
see this very odd design? If you look at it
long enough, she said, a strange thing will happen. You'll
find yourself able to talk with the dead, see them
wherever they are, touch them. Catherine, I am going to
(05:24):
talk to my father.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
You can't be serious.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
You won't tell me what I want to know, then
maybe the dead will.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Mother left the room and I sat down in front
of the fireplace, just as I used to when I
was a child.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I looked at the tile.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
At the design, the parallel lines and dots began to
dance before my eyes stared at it. It seemed to
hold control my gaze, and then almost at once, I
felt an icy chill, and the design vanished. In its place,
(06:11):
there was black, infinite space, filled with shadows and still
shadows beyond shadows. Then I noticed a speck of gray
come out of that blackness. There was a strange, sulfurous
odor in the air as it came towards me, at
first very slowly, and gradually faster and faster, as though
(06:33):
it were coming to me through endless years of space.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Suddenly there was an ear shattering thunderclap.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
A streak of lightning zigzagged through the room in an
insane dance, and.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
I heard the front door close. I heard footsteps approaching.
I turned around, faced the doorway, and then I saw him.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Don't scream?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Who who are you?
Speaker 6 (07:05):
You are?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Kathy, Kathy Brian. You know me I did ten years ago.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Where did you come from?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Tell me? How do I appear to you?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
How you appear?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (07:21):
Please you you have white here, white beard, But your
eyes know it can't.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
Be What canth be that My eyes are the eyes
of a corpse, that I look more like a dead
man than a living one.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yes, that should not be so strange.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Who are you? Did you know my father, doctor Brian?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Very well? Very well?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Indeed, how do they die? I want to know that
he was murdered? Murder?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yes, murdered.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
How do you know?
Speaker 7 (08:01):
I saw it all you. I was punished for it,
your murder. He No, I didn't kill him. He was
the only friend I had in the world. That's why
I came back here to night. Didn't you ever know
how your father died?
Speaker 5 (08:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Would you like to know?
Speaker 4 (08:21):
More than anything in the world.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
He was the kindest of men, and that's what led
to his destruction. He took a man under his care,
a man who had been given up as a railing maniac,
and rather than see this man placed in an institution,
he kept him in the guest cottage of his house.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Wat wait, I remember now? The man was a poet.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Yes, his name was Denis de Moore. Your father believed
this man was a great poet and struggled to save him.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Did this man murder my father?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
No one evening When your father came in to treat more.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
There was a third man in the darkened cottage. This
man leaped at your father and drove a knife into
his back. The poor madman, frightened, ran over the country
side until he was caught by the police, and he
was charged with the murder of your father.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
You who said you saw this?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I did? Then you are the madman, Dennis.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
The more.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
You you're dead, Perhaps I am the murderer.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Who was the person who murdered my father?
Speaker 7 (09:36):
You know him quite well. He's the man who is
now married to your mother, Mark Weldon.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Now can you prove this?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Your father is the only one who can prove this?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
My father? Can you bring him back here?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Bring him back?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
You came back. If you could only bring him and
prove this.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Prove it, perhaps I can. Perhaps I will bring him
back to night.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Why just then there was a tremendous thunderclap, and the
electric lights failed. I tried to see him by the firelight,
but he wasn't in the room. I ran to the door,
stumbling over furniture in the shadows and screaming for him
to wait. I opened the front door, but he wasn't there. Cathy,
we heard you screaming, Did you mother?
Speaker 2 (10:30):
What happened?
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I I found out how my father died, really, how
he was murdered, Laura, did you tell her anything?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
No, not a word, Mark, I swear, Cathy, how did
you find out?
Speaker 4 (10:43):
I told you how I'd find out that that child?
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Yes, it worked, that's impossible, should say that.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
But I discovered to night that you Mark murdered my father,
that you cleverly arranged that a poor patient of his
named Dennis dair Moore would be arrested for the crime
that you committed.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Who told you this, Denis Demour the more was he here?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
He told me everything and you believed him.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Why shouldn't I?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Why?
Speaker 6 (11:08):
The man's a maniac. I don't know how he ever
got here. He should be at the State Institution for
the Criminally Insane. Please, hello, operator, will you put through
a call to the State Institution for the Criminally Insane
at Blyton. I wish to speak to whomever is in
charge and call me back as soon as you get them.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
It's urgent. Yes, thank you.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Now, Catherine, you claim you actually spoke to this man?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yes, Mark, he told me he saw you murdered my father.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Why you're lucky you escape with your life. The man
is a homicidal maniac.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I find it.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Shocking that you should even begin to believe this fantastic story.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
But it seems to be true, Mark, doesn't it. My
father was murdered and Dennis Damour was sent away.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
For the crime.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Yes, yes, that part of it is true. But to
accuse me, Laura, we tolerated her in this enough.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
But this is hello.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Hello, this is doctor King, the night supervisor of State Institution.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Oh, yes, hello, doctor King. This is Mark Weldon speaking.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Has one of your patients, Ah, Dennis Damour escaped.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
The poet? Yes, that's right, a homicidal maniac.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
He has an escaped at Weldon.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
He was one of the patients who was killed in
a fire that broke out in this place two years ago.
What's that? Didn't you hear me? Yes? Yes, I heard you.
Thank you, goodbye Mark.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Dennis Damour is dead?
Speaker 6 (12:41):
He was killed two years ago.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Well, friend, how would you like to have a little
Chinese tire that can produce dead men for you? M
don't you think that Dennis de mort is a ghost?
Perhaps you think he's just an old pope eyed polder
guyst Well we'll learn a moment, as we hear Catherine
(13:17):
Bryan tell us the second half of her weird story.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
My stepfather's hand trembled as he hung up the phone,
and even in the red blow of the firelight, I
could see his face it suddenly turned snowy white.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
It's impossible.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
The dead can't come back unless you're making up this
whole thing, Kathy.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Why should I in get a story like.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
This because you've always been insanely jealous. You've always hated
your mother for marrying me. Isn't that true, Laura?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Isn't it?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Yes, it's true.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
There you see, Catherine, your mother loves you. She wouldn't lie.
Now tell us the truth. You made up this whole
wild tale about Dennis Damore, didn't you?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Now, Mark, I didn't invent it. Dennis Damore was here.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
He couldn't have been. He's been dead for two years.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
And how would I know the things I told you?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I don't know. And that's what you've got to explain.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Mark. Why does this upset you so if you didn't
murder him, what difference does it make about Demo?
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Why are you so fight I'm not frightened. I'm just
determined to get to the bottom of this thing.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
What was that?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Just the thunder Mark.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Laura, why are you looking at me like that? Like what?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Staring at me as though you've seen me for the
first time? Do you believe this mad story Catherine's told us?
Do you think I murdered her father? I?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
I just remembered certain things, Mark, I can't help it
if I think of them now.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
What things tell me? What things?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Days before the murder, you told me you were in
love with me. I sent you away, told you never
to come to this house again. Go on, on the
night of the murder, I saw you standing in the
moonlight near the guest cottage. You did, I thought I
was mistaken a specialist, since you claimed you were at
home that night. Oh, Mark, don't be angry with me.
I can't help but thinking of these things now, it's
(15:21):
only natural natural?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Is it natural for a man's wife to accuse him
of a crime like murder?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
And on the basis of what the word of a
psychopathic girl who should have been confined long ago she
taught to a man who's been dead for two years.
I suppose you believe that too. And who is this man,
even assuming that he's alive? A madman, a homicidal maniac
who took your first husband's life when your husband tried
(15:48):
to cure him.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I've had enough of this, Mark.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
What are you taking out of that drawer?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Kathy? Come here?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Why Mark?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Put the gun away?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Shut up?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Allah, oh Kathy. I won't hurt you unless you try
something dangerous.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
I am holding this gun because I believe your mother
and I are no longer safe in the same room
with you.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Now. I want the truth.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
You were lying to us before, weren't you. No? Very well,
then where is this man you saw? I'd like to
see him too. I don't know, of course you don't,
because he doesn't exist.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
He does. He appeared when I looked at the Chinese.
Speaker 6 (16:34):
Tile, the Chinese tile. Good, look at your Chinese tile.
Now make him appear.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
You're trying to make a fool of a liar.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You'll do it, I tell you, look at that tile.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Go on, all right, I I will.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Now, what do you see?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Nothing but the design?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yes, all you're going to see.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
The design is stay. It's getting dark dark, Nothing but blacks.
Speaker 6 (17:17):
Mark.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
I heard the front door. Someone just came in.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yes, those footsteps, that's just how he came in the
last time.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Perhaps, but I doubt if it's.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Good evening.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Oh, it is the more you remember me, Laura.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Yes, you you've changed a great deal.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
But it is you, mister Weldon. It's been ten years
since I've seen you. The more then you're not dead.
There must have been some mistake when they identified you.
Now then you escaped.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Someone must have been identified instead of you. That's the
only explanation. It depends on what you choose to believe.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
Mister Weldon. I brought a guest with me, my father,
Doctor Bryan. I'm sure you know these people quite well,
of course you do.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
What's he saying?
Speaker 4 (18:13):
He's talking to my father, that's right, Cathay.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
Unfortunately you cannot see him, but he's here, aren't you.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Doctor DeMar, What are you up to?
Speaker 6 (18:23):
What do you think if you come back here to
make troubleable?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
No, I've come back because someone wanted to know the truth,
and I've brought the doctor back for the same reason. Doctor,
before these others, I want you to tell us.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Who murdered you. Who murdered you, sir.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Mark?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
You shot him?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Why?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Why? He's dangerous? A maniac?
Speaker 4 (18:53):
That's not the reason. It's because you murdered my father
and you don't want us to.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Know all right, Cathy, I did kill him Mark.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
It doesn't make any difference now this maniac has planted
suspicion in your minds.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
You would have found out sooner or later. Mark. Yes,
I killed him for.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
You, Laura.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I loved you. But that's over now. It's been over
for a long time.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
I know what to do now, and it's going to
be very simple, thanks to our friend lying there. What
are you going to do, don't you know, Laura, it's
so simple. Your bodies must be found in such a
condition that they will be certain. Then more killed you,
and then I'll tell them how I shot the homicidal
(19:42):
maniac to protect myself.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
It's the same way he killed my father.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
Yes, Cathy won't die, Catherine did Did you think you
could kill me?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Welden?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Do you think those shots were stop me? Don't you
come near me? Stand back? Nothing to stop me? Weldo
the gun? No, don't thank you for me.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I saw the bullets strike them.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
They hit him, but they didn't stop him from lurching
toward Mark and seizing him by the throat. As they
fell to the floor, the kerostine lamp fell off its table.
It might have been the wind, but I believe otherwise.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
I'm almost certain it was my father. In a moment
that Drake threw on fire and the whole place was blazing.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
I screamed to my mother to leave, she claimed, with
me out of the blazing building into the storm that
raged outside.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Two weeks later, my mother came into the hotel room
where we were staying.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
I've just come from the police, Cathy. Well, mother, only
one body is passedatively identified.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Who's Marx.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
The other body, they haven't been able to find it
in the rubble.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
I don't believe they ever will.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
But Cathy, the police checked with the authorities at the
state institution. It seems that some of the patients did
escape at the time they had the fire there two
years ago. It's possible that the Moor was among them.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
It's possible, but I doubt it.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
You think the more died two years ago?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Yes, mother, don't you.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Friends, I guess you've met ghosts before, but I'm sure
this is the first time you've ever met her crazy spook.
Oh don't you think Dennis Demardmother goes, hm, Well, there's
only one way to find out if ghosts really exist,
just to ask and haunches sometimes you'll be sure to listen,
(22:04):
don't you until next week, and good night, pleasant screens.
(22:45):
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