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May 6, 2025 • 41 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Come in welcome. I'm e. G.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Marshall.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
The race, we are told, is to the swift, likewise
the battle to the strong. There is no substitute for
victory winning, that's the only thing. The only place is
first place. The only guy is top guy. The only
number is numero uno. As a popular philosopher so recently stated,

(00:45):
nice guys finish last. True, perhaps, but there are also
some last guys who finish nice or should we say nicely.
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Speaker 2 (01:06):
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that one.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
There are those people who flatly refuse to recognize the
existence of ghosts, But as Mark Twain once said, those
are the people who never saw one or heard one.
There is something about the sight of a ghost, the
sound of a ghost, and a dark night in a
deserted house that.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Will dissolve the doubts of the most skeptical and make
fervent converts of the most cynical.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
After all, seeing his believing, isn't it well?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Why don't we discuss this matter with a man who's
more or less an.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Authority on the subject. Tattersall's name Thomas Tatum.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Tatasall.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
They'll just blay Tommy suits me fine, been a real
estate agent all alive, though nowadays we have a fancy
name for it, real tour. So you say you're in
the market for final colonials taking back to the revolutionary period, Well,
I got just the thing, the real beauty in the
hard Graves house. Oh you know about that one? You

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hear it's haunted. Would I say you are hearted house? Well,
in fact, the matter is it used to be hearted,
but no more. Can I guarantee that? Well, I suppose
I just tell you the story, no extra charge, and
you can decide for your self.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
And that fair enough.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
And you got to go back.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Away to the war. I guess you'd call it the
First World War.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
I didn't get to go myself.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
It was just to shape too young. I was also
just to shake too young for a beautiful girl named
Felicity aug Anyhow, she was in love with the lieutenant
Bobby like One who was fighting France with the Rainbotivation. Well,
one morning Felicity's mother asked me to drop over to the.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
House Thomas, you have to help me.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Oh, Harmas hugged Bobby.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Bobby Lightfoot is dead.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Bobby light for it.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Felicity was Loify. Bobby fell at a place called Shadow Terry.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Oh she I feel so bad for Felicity.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Eh, Felicity, Thomas.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
I'm frightened.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
You see, when Felicity found out she was standing right
here in this room, she didn't say one word. Not
a solitary tear ran down her cheek. She stood silent
for at least five foot minutes.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
And then she turned around and went upstairs to the.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Room, and and she said nothing at all.

Speaker 4 (04:02):
That was three days ago. She still won't say one word.
She won't touch a bite of fool though, such a
single swallow of water.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Oh, what I suppose I could tell?

Speaker 4 (04:15):
I met my wit riend, who's only her father the
judge was alive, and her uncle Dumont's.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Off in the navy. Thomas, could you talk to her?

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Oh, miss Huggers, What could I say?

Speaker 3 (04:30):
She was always fond of you, Tomas, Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
But cannot keep sitting in that room forever.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Wasn't by going to do?

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Ma'am? I suresh I knew who.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
You'd been a little older.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Perhaps she might have fallen in love with you instead
of Bobby Lightfoot. That's why you've got to help her.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
I wanted to help, ma'am, but I I just don't
know harm.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Just talk to her, Talk to her.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
That might be enough.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Talk to her, Felicity.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Uh, it's me, Tommy. Tommy chat us home, Felicity.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yes, I know, Tommy, Gee, I'm sorry about Bobby.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Bobby.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Who who's Bobby?

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Bobby?

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Eyed for? I don't know anyone named Bobby.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh well, I would you like to go for a walk? No, Tim,
But you've been cooked.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Up in your own So I want to stay here.
It's such a lovely room, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Oh? Yes?

Speaker 3 (05:43):
But the house, it is such a magnificent house. I
was born here. Did you know that?

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Oh yeah, I was my dad and his dad before him.
I never want to leave this house for Felicity. Why not?
Because death outside death, death lying and wait everywhere. Death.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Pobby, my own Bobby light Foot, didn't I please with him,
don't go, Bobby, don't leave. Death is waiting there outside.
But he didn't listen. My Bobby didn't listen. But I
won't leave this house.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
I won't go out there, out where death is waiting.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
No, I could I have you something? These rooms, these walls,
these floors and ceilings, they.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
All know me, they all love me.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Look through the windows, look out on the street, and
see how bright and how clean and how lovely.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Ever there is house sheltered.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
They could get me.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
I'll never the street.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
You see my dad's od.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
You see I don't want to look out on the street.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
I go to work there.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Why don't you come buy earlier in the day. You
can trust me, Felicity. I wouldn't let anything bad happen.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
He's just staying.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
And look to me at the office tomorrow. Take a
take a walk over.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Well, it'll have to be a very short walk. I'm
so afraid to be outside. There's so much death.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
And that's how it all began. Every morning she'd come by,
stay alone, and she can rush right back home. Poor Felicity.
I was the only one she ever talked to. And
what did we talk about?

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yes, good morning, Tommy morning for Lisity.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
How do you feel this morning?

Speaker 3 (07:52):
I don't feel well. I did a terrible thing.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
Oh not you, Felicity, Yes I did.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
I stepped then, and oh I saw him.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
I should have waited till he'd gone by, and I
did stop, but then so did he, and I thought
he was just going to stay there and it would
be safe for me to And then I just as
I stepped forward, so did he, and and my foot.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
I think it was too late.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
I'm sorry, Felicity, I'm I'm really truly sorry.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
And he's a living thing.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
It's one of God's crib It wasn't your fault of
God's plan that he won't be against you?

Speaker 3 (08:33):
You mean that, Tony, of course, then you're not just
saying it to make me feel better?

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Would I lie to you?

Speaker 3 (08:41):
And I'll be forgiven?

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Someday You've been forgiven already. Solicity are Graves once the loveliest,
liveliest young lady in the county. As time went on,
she got no better. I guess she could say she

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got even worse. So the years went by, she was
so tall, so beautiful, and I was so much in
love with her, but that him could ever come of that.
So anyway, one one night I got a call from

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missus Hargras and seeing her with a shock. I mean,
she'd been such a steady, well built, strong woman. Philicopy's
mother and here and now all of a sudden it was.
It was like as if she had shrunk to almost nothing.
Tell me, oh, missus, hargh, grace.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
You don't know what to make of me. I can't
understand it myself. It happened almost overnight.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
But what's wrong?

Speaker 3 (09:59):
And I and Felicity is going to need a friend
more than ever.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, she's always got a friend in me.

Speaker 4 (10:09):
Her uncle of Dumont will take care of her financial affairs.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Dumont, Yes, the judge has him named.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Executor of the estate.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
When I die.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Oh, I.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
Know you'll say her bills and see that she always
has this house. But Tommy, he won't have time for her, Felicity.
He needs someone to talk to her, someone who will
worry about her. Promise me, Tommy, promise.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Less than months later, that fine lady was dead and
Dumont Hargraves took active charge of the family money. Maybe
what I'm the next story you might have heard before?
Why not don't to occur all the time? That was
all kinds of talk in tom that Dumont was running through. Yes,

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he was making unwise investments, that he was gambling of
course losing heavy. Well, none of this could be proved.
But one day Dumont came into the office.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Lawrence Toney like to throw a little bit of business
your way.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Oh yes, oh that yes.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
You ever see a bird look at a snake?

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Well, Dumont watching you, I now see how a snake
looks at the bird.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
You don't like me, Tommy, that's true. You think I
am robbing felicidee.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Of her inheritance. Well you are, aren't you?

Speaker 2 (11:55):
But it looks that way. I admit, Tommy, it's not
my fault.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Eh, So what's this business you want to throw my way? First?

Speaker 2 (12:06):
I wanted you to understand that I didn't ask for
the job of exacting.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
All right, I do want get to it.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well, I.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Had to sell a house, the house, the old hard
Graves homestead. But you can't sell a house.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Why not?

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Well because Phylicity.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Well what about Felicity?

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Where will she live where? Once she belonged in the sanitarium?

Speaker 1 (12:29):
How could you say that? What's true?

Speaker 2 (12:31):
How can she live all by herself in that big
old house.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
She manages very nicely.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Tom I'm myr uncle.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
I love her.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
I want to do what's best for her. Felicity simply
is not right in the head.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
To do.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Mom, don't you say that? Oh, poor tom you had
a crush on her all your life, and then when
Bobby Lightfoot got killed, you might have had a chance,
but she went crazy.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
And tell you don't choose that work.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Can you suggest another one that describes the situation more accurately?
For the house that it means so much to her,
It's all she has in the world.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
It's all I have in the world too. What do
you mean there's nothing left but the house?

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Nothing? How can that be?

Speaker 2 (13:13):
I don't know, Tommy, Here and there, it's in there.
It all adds up to it's nothing, domant.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
I'm want to let you sell that toss. I'll go
to court. I'll have you declared I'm fit to continuous executive.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Sure, and you'd probably and win.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
But it's too late. Everything else is gone. The court
would have to sell the house in.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Any event to satisfy the debts. I'm sorry, Tommy. Somebody
has to tell her, tell her what that she has
to leave the house.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Oh sure, that's right.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
Somebody does. Somebody has to break her.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Heart, destroy a spurt, and turn her whole world into
ashes and ruins. And you know who that somebody is?
Gonna be do mont you Tommy you, oh ah, this
is all you're doing. You're gonna tell her justice demands it.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
If I tell her, it'll kill her.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
But if you tell her, well you can quite and
SESSU wight it, she'll believe you. She'll actually think it's
all for the best.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
There are those people who are always pulling chestnuts out
of the fire somebody else's chestnuts, we might add, why
do they do it? What makes the Tommy tatters alls
of this world take Since there's a little bit of
Tommy in so many of us, perhaps even in you,
why not ponder the problem for a few moments until

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I returned shortly with that too. Someone said once that
a house is not necessarily a home. That may not
be true, but what can hardly.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Be in dispute is the fact that.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
A home has to be a house of some kind
in all, it has to have form and structure. It
must protect and shelter, It must be fortress and sanctuary.
Felicity hard Graves is about to be evicted.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
But I I can't leave here, tell me I can't.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
I know it's difficult, for it's more than difficult time,
it's impossible.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Look Felicity, just close.

Speaker 4 (15:31):
No, oh, yes, there's death outside. You know that I'm
not safe anywhere else, Tommy, Safe with me.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Felicity, I've spoken over with my mother.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
You stay at our house for no.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
I want to stay at my house.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Mother's alone all day, and you'll you'll be such a
good company for each other. You always like my mother,
didn't you?

Speaker 4 (15:46):
Yes, tell me very much. I have a wonderful idea.
Let her come and stay with me at my house.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
But Felicity, she's good. Please, won't you try to understand?

Speaker 6 (15:58):
Understand what.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
It Isn't your house anymore?

Speaker 3 (16:04):
How can it not be in my house?

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Got to be sold.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Every part of his house is a part of me, Tommy.
It knows me.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
It shot at me.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
It kept me warm, that kept me dry, It kept
me safe. No, no house. Could I sell part of myself?

Speaker 4 (16:19):
Could I sell my heart? Could I?

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Tommy?

Speaker 4 (16:23):
Yes, I could, But I die.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
I only want to help you now because you know that,
and you believe me. The war in France will be
over and Bobby will be back, and if I'm not here,
he won't know where to look for me.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
I'll keep an eye out for Bobby, and if he
comes along, don't say if when well, when he comes,
i'll bring him to you. Come on, so listen, you
you come with me now.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
It'd be best.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
Tommy, Please let me just stay here one more night. Three.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
Let me stay here tonight and say goodbye to the house,
and then in the morning I'll go away with you.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Please, all right, Felicity, I'll come by for you.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Early in the morning. Oh, maybe I shouldn't let us stay,
but how could I refuse? Said? What could happen? Well,
a great deal happened. I came by for her in
the morning and she was gone.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Felicity, Felicity, Where are you?

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Felicity? Sheriff said that Tommy ketters off.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, it's Felicity.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Had she's gone?

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yeah, so that's what I mean.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
She disappeared. Oh oh I'm here now.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
I searched the house from top of the bottom. I
was not a sign up.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
But I don't know where she went. Where did you go?

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Where did she go? Well? It was not coming to
talk foul play. Or maybe she might have just wandered
off into the woods and beyond them down into the swamp.
If she'd gone done that, then she'd be lost forever.
That's what I told people because I realized what Felicity
E been trying to tell me, that if she had

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to leave that house, and she'd kill herself. That's what
all are talking about death and and honor too. And
I felt it was my fault. Why had I let
her stay that final night? Why had I left her alone?
She might imagine the disappearance of Felicity hard. It was

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a sensation, but like all such sensations, had only lasted
a while. We had the elections and the circus come
to town, and one thing and another, and gradually Plisope
Odders was forgotten by almost everyone.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
Shipped me, tell me me, you're gonna help me here?

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Yeah, oh, that is where I'd like to help you.
Doum on right out the door.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Don't be angry, Tommy, it goes against your better nature.
I'm in trouble now.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
I'm glad to hear it.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
No, you're not. You're a very kind hearted person. I
still have to sell that house.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
I'm not stummy. Don't you hear what's being said around town?
The house is haunted. It's impossible for our house to
be auted, though.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
The way it started was I advertised in the Philadelphia
New York papers. No, I admit I was trying to
save your broker's commission.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
I admit that.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Well, these folks came down and I took him into
the house, and they just loved it. I almost had
a deal. And then we heard it.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
And what the ghost?

Speaker 1 (19:55):
What do you mean? Ghost?

Speaker 3 (19:56):
How could you hear?

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Is moaning and crying?

Speaker 1 (19:59):
Who monit said? Pass?

Speaker 2 (20:00):
There were three of us, this man, his wife, and myself.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
All three of us we heard it. I still, that's impossible.
Instead of standing there and saying impossible, why don't you
going here for yourself? All right, doumon, where's your ghost?

Speaker 3 (20:19):
I tell you we heard it.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
I tell you what you heard. You heard the voice
of your guilty conscience. You rubbed a troubled girl out
of everything she owned in this world.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
It leads me, Tommy, it wasn't intentional.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Ever comes to the same thing. Money meant nothing to her,
but then you took away the one thing she couldn't
live without.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
The souls.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Please, Tommy, I go ahead and suffer because you deserve it.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Tommy. My conscience is one thing, but a ghost is
something else.

Speaker 6 (20:47):
Here.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
He is a ghost. It's the ghost of Felicity our Graves.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Felicity is dead. She gummy, Oh Gord, hear.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
That, Tommy, it's not your imagination. It's not the terror
on my face.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
C your eyes.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Don't you hear it?

Speaker 2 (21:18):
There?

Speaker 3 (21:19):
Tell me?

Speaker 2 (21:19):
There is it?

Speaker 3 (21:21):
My imagination?

Speaker 1 (21:25):
It was a ghost. It was just the way a
ghostly voice was supposed to sound. So I'd been wrong
all my life. There was such a thing as a
ghost of This was a ghost of Philicity at her grave.
She'd come home, I believed. Do something, Tommy, do something?

Speaker 4 (21:43):
Do what?

Speaker 1 (21:44):
Tell her to stop?

Speaker 2 (21:45):
How can I tell her? She she always liked you, Tommy,
that's a fact. Then no, no, no, explained to her.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Don't you're crazy? Please, Tommy, I have to sell this
house high on her. Felicity. It's me, Tommy. Felicity.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Are you here?

Speaker 3 (22:03):
You do that?

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Ye too?

Speaker 1 (22:06):
Money?

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Felicity.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
You shouldn't be here. You only scare folks.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Felicity. I can't you forget it?

Speaker 1 (22:18):
Too many Felicity's house solicities her I'll dead or alive,
And if she wants to live in it, I say
more power to her. It was no longer the hard
Graves house. It had now become a haunted house. No
one will be near it. Well, one day Dumon came

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into the office and with him was a woman, a
tall woman with a sharp and bony face and long
jet black hair, and she wore her dress. It was
also black, but the blackest black you could imagine. She
was the kind of woman you didn't mean in a nightmare.
It was broad daylight and we were in my office.

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Student woman sounder too up and down my spine. Tell me,
may I present the Countess de Genera? How are you,
doman child?

Speaker 2 (23:12):
The Countess is an exorcist.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
An extra feast. I am the one who vanishes the
evil spirit. Look what kind of joke is this, Dumont Hoddan.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
This lady is a great artist.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
What is she here for?

Speaker 7 (23:28):
I am to exercise the evil spirit from the house
of our grave, Haman, there's no evil spirit in the
house of our graves.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
There is a spirit.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
You will have heard the spirits. Now that's Dumont. You
just get taken in by his mumbo jumble.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
Tell me I'm death mumbo jumble mumbo done.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
You irritated her.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
You do not be deieve in spirit?

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well, I she must return to the grave.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
She will never know peace, I cried, Tommy.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
We're doing this for their own good.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
What do you want with me?

Speaker 2 (24:05):
Somebody has got to go into the house with Countess Dejonnara.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
All right, but your dumont oh no, no, no, I
would create a spiritual climate of little violence which the
countists couldn't overcome. Sure, and you're also scared out of
your wits to walk into that house.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
And that's the secondary consideration.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Why does somebody have to go into the house with
a countess a weakness?

Speaker 3 (24:26):
He's required by astra law?

Speaker 1 (24:30):
All right, folks, go ahead, I just have a witness.
I respectfully decline the honor. Tommy, Tummy, You've got to
do it. Everyone else in town turned me down. Now
do it for Felicity, for Liucity. Yes, let his spirit
find peace. She can't keep wandering around that house forever.
Do you want to be guilty of depriving Felicity of

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arrest and peace throughout all eternity?

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (24:55):
But this access is business?

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Is this business?

Speaker 2 (25:00):
He is to call it business?

Speaker 1 (25:01):
It is the sacred professions of fake?

Speaker 4 (25:04):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (25:06):
And do you know everything, young man?

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Can you swear that Felicite's ghost isn't in the house,
or come on tell him? Or did he get to lose?
He has a great deal to lose. He's arrogance, He
isn't politans, he's ignor right, all right, I'll go, I'll go,

(25:38):
And here he goes again. Over time, as you have
already seen, he does get to run a great many
errands for people. But this one coming up.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Looks like an authentic First, join us for dinner this evening.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Tommy, No thanks, I have work to do.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
What kind of work?

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Exercising a ghost? How's that for a conversation piece. Well,
our exercise in exorcism is scheduled for act two, which
is only a few moments away. Exorcising spirits is a

(26:17):
practice that's as old as mankind. However, in practically all
recorded cases, the spirits were evil and therefore deserved to
be driven out. We have a slightly different problem here.
We have a spirit that's kind and gentle, the ghost
of a beautiful lady. But evidently that won't help her.

(26:39):
Since she's a ghost out, she must go a madame doja?
When do we go to the house of sartry?

Speaker 7 (26:46):
Little con game, mister Harker, I simply can appollulate the
attacks of this This Boris.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Is gonna and Mount Tommy. In the first place, she's
a countess in the second. It's an ancient and honorable guess.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
But since I'm to be a partner in list deal,
all I want to know is when it starts, when
the moon has reason and Venus has approached perry Helium.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
All right, just give me the time this stroke of midnight.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
You and I shall stand in the geocentric Ordaine perimeter
of the presence.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
And you shall be king.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Well, I tell you, it's easy enough to laugh at
this game. But the more she got herself involved in
what she was doing, the more she started, I want
to scare you. Her black eyes began to send of sparks.
She could feel fire in her voice, and before you
knew it, she kind of began to believe it wasn't
a lac but that there was something dark and mysterious

(27:49):
and scary about it. She closed her eyes and pressed
her hands against her head, as if her mind was
on fire, trying to burn through a skin.

Speaker 7 (28:00):
Go out, out, I command you, out, go, go, sever
the bonds, cut crack, break, go hear it, your queen

(28:21):
life were Felicity hard Graves, I command you to leave.
Within me is the soul of the high Priest of
the Temple.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
I will now.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
Exercise you.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Leave go.

Speaker 7 (28:47):
I shall pronounce the enoffable for vision tetra Gramaton.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
I shall thunder under the name of who eats that.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
The ghost cast the ghost?

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Who no.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Come?

Speaker 3 (29:14):
Just one?

Speaker 1 (29:15):
What's wrong?

Speaker 3 (29:18):
She fainted?

Speaker 1 (29:20):
I somehow managed to get her outside. There was a
rickety whole rocket chair on the porch, and set her
down on it, and I waited for her to come
to When she woke up finally, it was obviously the
profound change taking place within her?

Speaker 6 (29:40):
What hit me?

Speaker 1 (29:42):
I beg your pardon?

Speaker 3 (29:43):
The flicker flick, the flim flammer, not flim flams.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
You were right about me.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Pal back down the office.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
When you call it a calm game, that's all.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
It was a rocket go figure the rocos.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
What do you say?

Speaker 3 (30:00):
I'm saying, Powell, that you just heard the real Artico.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
You heard a ghost.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
You know there's no such thing as a ghost range.
What do you think they inside the house here?

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Now?

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Look Condor's digital all right? Can that countless label?

Speaker 4 (30:14):
Pal the square handles Morley Maguire from Union City, New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
This ghost racket. Now it's a gimmick, a hawk to catch.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
The rooms with. Do you know something?

Speaker 4 (30:25):
Because you now the rooms were right, David, The rooms
were always right.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
Because there are ghosts and the last on the flickers
like me.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
And surely time went by and the house became more
harder than ever. And then one day do want came in.
Oh he was considerably older now, and he looked the
worst aware horror. I should say it the worse for work,
because these days he had to learn a living learn.

(31:06):
In many respects, he was still the same old duke.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Ont tell me, tell me you you've got to help me.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
I've got a chance, a one in a million, once
in a lifetime chance to recoup.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah, I've been working, tell me you know, I've been
working for years now, ever since Felicity left us.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Now whose fault was up to me?

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Tom, I didn't come to two open old wounds. But
not his chance. Some folks from New York want.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
To buy the house, all right, sell it.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
How the house now has a national reputation.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
So what can I do about something?

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Don't ask me what but something? Do you, in your
heart honestly believe in ghosts?

Speaker 4 (31:55):
No?

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Because it's because it's impossible.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
For how do you come to the fact that people
actually hear.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
They goes where they're inside that house? Who wants you
want to know what folks here in that house they hear?
A loose board on the floor, or a gap on
the mortar of a chimney, a missing time on the roof.
Every house has creaks and moans and strains, and the
fellow's imagination takes.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
It from there, and you've got to find him. You've
got to find that loose board, that missing mortar, that
bust entire, whatever.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
It is, You've got to find it. Give me a
chance to live out the rest of my life comfortably. Now,
please tell me, well, sir, I wanted to work in
that house. I looked her over from top to bottom. Oh,
Colonel Nathaniel Hargraves, he sure knew how to build beams

(32:42):
of solid oak, walls of thick and heavy plaster. After
all these years, everything was still sound and true. I
put it up the window so nowhere it could roll through,
and make sure the shutters hung firm and steady. I
oiled all the hardware and the doors, and I was
through tighter sound of lordship shape house simper didn't exist,

(33:05):
and the coat of paint made it so fresh and
clean and bright. And he put in telephone. No, that
was for psychological reasons, after all, a practical thing that
the phone works against, the very idea for ghost. Oh, yes,
two month, what is it.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Prospective buyer, he said, waiting this hotel. Yes, tell you
he didn't take care of the ghost house. It's it's
not all bad.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
I'll uh, I'll see you in a little while.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Du month. Oh, bless you, Tommy, that's just for that.
I'm going to give you your full.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
Brokers coss I looked around the house, a right place
and cheerful, sunny place. How could anyone possibly believe? It
was hard? And it proved as no, this thing as
a ghost.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
And then.

Speaker 6 (34:05):
Then I heard her, opsity, Felicity, it's me, It's Tommy,
said Tommy Tannyson.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
Talk to me, Felicity.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Don't you remember Tommy, Felicity, Not another word? She didn't
speak another word.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
I ran through the hours. I searched every room, memory
cloud that I called through, look and cranny cellar, the heading.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
There was nothing, nothing, no one.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
And then I decided to try something else. Stood by
the fireplace. Very quietly, I said, Felicity, it's it's Bobby, Felicity.
It's your own true love, Bobby Lightfoot, come back from

(35:08):
the war. It's me, Bobby.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
Bobby, Bobby, you're listen.

Speaker 4 (35:19):
Oh my good lord, w whit you?

Speaker 1 (35:25):
It's Felicity.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
You keep the girl alive. You're You're not a girl.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Bobby.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
You've come back to me, You've come back.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
How did you I had to stay here, Bobby, you'd
never find me if i'd lend just befohere. Did you
you remember the room, the hidden room beside the chimney.
We found it when we were children, where.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
They used to hide the runaway slaves.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Remember, but everyone says it's a haunted houser.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
How did.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (35:57):
You know how sounds go in this place?

Speaker 4 (36:00):
I was crying.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
I was calling to you, Bobby.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
How did you live live?

Speaker 3 (36:06):
I didn't have to live, Bobby. I'm dead just as
you were dead. I'm so happy, I mean, I mean,
fool oh, how funny?

Speaker 4 (36:17):
How I still need food even if I'm dead On
the dark night. You know, folks around here, no one
ever locks a door, or I haven't needed.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
Was a crust of bread, a swallow of milk. No
one ever missed him. You must never take me anywhere, Bobby.
Someone always wants to take the house away from me.
Don't let them.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Promise.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
You'll never let anyone take this house away from me.
Never pro I I promise, and you'll come and you'll
visit me every day. You can't stay here until we're married.
Thou plan for a big wedding.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
Oh yes, it could be your big wedding, the biggest
this town ever saw.

Speaker 3 (37:04):
Yes, people, let anyone ever take his house away from me.
You won't.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
I won't, Yes, mister Hastings. I'm sitting in mister Tattersall's
office right now.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
We'll be a boy to pick you up. Why, here's
mister Tattersall walking in right now?

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Hang off the phone.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Do we shouldn't take us more than five minutes?

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Hang out of the phone.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Sorry, you just have your check book ready?

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Hang up, will you?

Speaker 2 (37:37):
We'll see you right away.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
He you will not see him.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Will you realize what a deal I just worked out
for the house. You have to call it off, the
house and property for three hundred and fifty dollars. What
do you mean call it off?

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Well, it's all contingent on my house not being haunted. Right, yes, yes,
but that's what you want me to ascertain. Approve to
establish the out the shadow of a dollar, and it's hanted.
Dumont it was haunted.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Nonsense. There's no such three as a fire here.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
I guarantee you here enough to run screaming out of
the premises. No, no, tell me.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
I can't work anymore. I just can't.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
I'm afraid you're gonna act. I've got to sell that
house that you can't sell. A haunted house, doomandol and
the home of Purusity. Hard Graves is haunted. Lucif he
died last year, very very old lady. She died in

(38:44):
that house. She loved. She died and Bobby liked foot songs,
and late that night Bobby buried in a sheks. Well,
now that we have all that ghost story business out

(39:06):
of the way, let me show you the finest, the
most nicely kept, the best constructed, the most attractive colonial
period homes in the entire USA. The hard Graves House. Oh,
I vouch for each of every beam, board and brick,
and I'll even show you the secret chamber. Well, if our.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
Animal oriented friends will forgive the expression.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
There are many ways to skin a cat, and just
as many ways to sell a house. People who pill
large ticket items like automobiles and houses are known for
their enthusiasm and optimism, as indeed they should be. They
are also incurably romantic, and in many cases they tell
us story so convincingly they actually believe it themselves.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
I'll be back shortly. You have just heard a ghost story.
But what is a ghost story?

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Indeed, what is a ghost? Mister Ibsen says, We are
all ghosts. We are what we have inherited from our
departed ancestors. We are all sorts of dead ideas and beliques.
Who knows what lies dormant in each of us? Who
knows what we keep locked up in the dark of

(40:39):
the soul. Our cast included Ian Martin, Marinceldie's, Joam Shay,
and Leon Jenny. The entire production was under the direction
of Hymon Brown Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored in part
by Certainty Fiberglass Attic Insulation. Missus E. G. Marshall inviting
you to return to our Mystery Theater for another adventure.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Sure in the macabre.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Until next time, Pleasant Dreams,
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