August 17, 2025 • 28 mins
A horror and fantasy anthology series that delves into the eerie and the unknown, offering stories that unsettle and provoke thought. Its minimalist production enhances the chilling narratives.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Quire Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And which features Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Quiet Please for today is called Northern Light. This is
a story about the temporal displacement of mass. It is
also a story about teleportation. Do you know what those
terms mean?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I didn't think you did. But you stay right.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Where you are, my charming friends, and you're que likely
to find out. You just stay right there and listen
to tell you everything you want to know, and maybe
maybe a couple of things you're not terribly anxious to know.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Ever.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
See the Northern lights.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Or Aura borealis is the right name.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You don't see them very often below the fiftieth parallel
of latitude in this country, but up in northern Minnesota
and Canada, Upper New York places like that.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
They're quite common of the winter night.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
If you've seen them, you know what they look like.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
If you haven't, there's no use time trying to describe them.
Sometimes they fill a whole northern sky with waves of color,
like a fire burning way beyond the horizon. Sometimes they're
just long streamers of fire filling up the whole sky
and another time you look like gigantic, cringed curtains of
pure light, swaying as if some cold cosmic breeze plucked
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at them, way far off there to than areth. You
can hear them too, sometimes, well maybe not exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Hear them, but.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
There's a sound, the humming u that crackling.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Somewhere inside your head.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Then there are times when you'd swear it's a voice
talking to you, talking in some kind of strange language
you can almost understand, filling your whole being with a
kind of desperate, inescapable terror.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
That night, in the cold.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Night, voices talking and saying things to you that you
can almost understand, filling the night sky with signs and
importance of inescapable and nobody, nobody in the whole world
knows what they are, nobody in this world, at least
except me. And after I get done talking to you,
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you'll know too, and you won't be happy. Uh. Let
me show you something now. This is from a recording
I made on'm uh let's see December thirteenth, nineteen forty eight,
a little more than.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
A month and a half ago.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I started the recorder while Norman and I were just
about finished with our work that afternoon here in the laboratory,
I just set the microphone on top of the five
cabinet there, turned on a machine.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Listen, I'm gonna play it back for you.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
The quality isn't sill very good, but you can recognize
my voice and the normans I think here.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Oh, I got the call rewind Now I guess.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Right, diss it.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
I've got expected.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
When I said, I that's got a rewind ryout, it's
almost six o'clock.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, I wanna start that.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
I didn't realize the time I be a displayed a night.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Just spoke.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
How do I know been a display the last three.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Nights when I was a diner last night? Women? Yeah,
the machine wasn't ready.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
I do you think you can do better than I
can out better?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I stuck my fingers, I did.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Where'd you put the compas selfie?
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Alright?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I was about to sink a right, I got it?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
What are you doing casting the coral? I?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Oh it looks okay.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Hey wait a minute, yeah it's okay.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I'll be right with you.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
Okay, up, what do you understand?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You try might take a red lighter.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
That won't work anyway, I'll I won't visit if we
don't get it back now.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
I don't know how to single work when the northern
lights aren't shining.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Liabe they are shining.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Brent off the red lights.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Let's see U pretty early on here, what's the matter?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Pay look.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
M out earlier than that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Oh boy, that's fine.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
The whole sky look blue and yellow.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I never saw those long.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Princes, I said, you turn on the recorder.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, that's turning over.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Now is the time for all good men to come
to the aid of their party.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Leave it alone that you about ready? Now, it's funny
about the Aurora northern lights. Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Remember what I told you?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
You can almost hear the darn things not here I mean,
but it's uh, it's kind of like somebody talking to
you in the language you can you can almost understand.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
I don't know. I mean you ever, I said, sure,
high frequencies.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I guess something.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Awful lot we don't understand.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well, God, you go there at the recorder and talk
as the light talk.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Well, let't just describe what happens for the record.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I know you're not. Just say what you see so
we'll have any good record Okay.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Now, this is an experiment in the temporal displacement of
a solid object. In other words, the first actual demonstration
of a time machine.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
If it worked, work all right.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
One Paul is now placing his old piece up.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Cigarette later on the stage of the Hypercycambu later, and
he is now saying the micro chronometer to determine how
far into the future he's going to send the lighter. Well,
how far, Paul?
Speaker 8 (06:30):
Ten seconds?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Ten seconds.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
At the end of that time, If our calculations are correct,
and we hope they are, the cigarette light will reappear.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
In that period of time, it will have been into
the future. We could send it farther into the future
if we wanted to, I guess, but we've judged out
to wait that much longer for time to catch up
with it and make it reappear. But ten seconds, well,
I mean, we can prove our point by saying it's
ten seconds.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Into the future just as well as ten years ahead.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
And this will we don't have to wait so long.
Hey I'm a Dog part commercial.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
When Tall presses a little button, the singer let later
returns to nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That's not rocket.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Yeah, Well, now it's going to happen, Mister Paul mcgellicates
a famous mad Sivius is about to press the big
old button and send his letter into the future.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Ready for here we go?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Yeah, by.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Look, God, by god, it is gone.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
It's just disappeared.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Bad like that.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Hold you want to close? The night falls over?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Retry?
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Yeah, that the risen the time of the letter.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Of the little stage on which Paul place it is.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Empty and it should appear again and in just a
second for really good work three two one.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
This fact.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
It works later.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Oh man, let's see it's all right.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Oh oh, now on the writer cold.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Call, Oh here take take a freezing cold.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
What do you load?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
The turn things like a piece of ice? Where is
the differ?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You supposed it's been in that time going.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Up with it?
Speaker 8 (08:19):
But Paul, where did that come from? What they are
on the stage where the lighter was?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Where did that come from?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
In the member of winter?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
M what is it? Okay, it's a caterpillar.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Paul, a brown and black category.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Hm. Hm. Where do you suppose it came from? Wasn't there?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I'll tell you where it came from, Paul.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
It came from the same place where the cigarette lighter went.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Feel its first?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
See get this gold as ice too.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
A caterpillar, a little brown and black caterpillar, the kind
they call wooly bears, you know, Larva of the tiger month.
I see Isabella in the dead of winter and as
cold as ice.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Where did it come from? Huh?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
You want to know?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Incidentally, you know the old timers say that the wooly
bear caterpillar is a weather propet. If the brown bands
on his pur or narrow, there's a severe winter ahead.
If they're wide, it's going to be a mild winter.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Yeah, maybe this one. You could hardly see.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
The brown band.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It's tough weather ahead, That's what the old timers would say.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
But where'd she come from?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
She wasn't there when we put the cigarette ladder on
the stage. When time caught up again?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Where she was she? Sure?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Isabella? I see it, Isabella, don't you remember? Well?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
She was wiggling happily when she arrived from somewhere in
the future. But as she warmed up, she seemed to
go into a trance, almost a deathlike trance. So Norman said,
put her in the deep freeze. Maybe she'll come to
again in the cold. So we put her in the
deep freeze, and in half.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
An hour when we looked in at her, she was
wiggling happily.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
At ten degrees below zero.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Friend, can you tie that?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
My goodness, she should have been frozen solid. Well, nothing
special happened for a couple of days. Now you remember
it was a month and a half ago, December thirteenth,
nineteen forty eight. Where were you on the night of
December eighteenth, on Saturday night, a week before Christmas?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I'd been Christmas shopping.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
In the afternoon, I remember I came back to the
laboratory to check up on some stuff. Norman was there
fiddling with things.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
I and Alma. I said, how's Isabella? You know something funny? Poor?
The matter with you?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Me?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
He looks so pale. You're sick?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Eat something disagree with you? Paul? Is a bella singing singing?
What there's a bella singing?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You're dotty?
Speaker 5 (11:13):
He's singing.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
The caterpillar's singing, not tap dancing.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I hope I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I got it out.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Open the deep freezing.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Listen you've been at the c two h five?
Speaker 8 (11:22):
Oh, I haven't had a drink on Thursday night?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Well, open the deep freezing. Listen, no kidding, no kidden.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Well, we don't know where she came from. I won't
be surprised as anything. Hello is a bella don't do that,
no matter if French and has to be back.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Well, I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Hell is a fella. Hey here you're singing.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
I told you.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I don't hear anything.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
I listened, Paul, I haven't lost my button. I've been
hearing it all afternoon. I couldn't figure out what was
doing it, and then I noticed it was louder alongside
the deep freeze here, so I opened it up and
stuck my head inside, and it was coming from her.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Well it sound like la. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I mean, it's kind of like a.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
AEI didn't she say AEI O you? And sometimes why
don't rid me?
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I tell you I heard it.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I think you better take a Christmas vacation.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I no kid, I know, but listen, we've been playing
around with some.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Pretty deep cosmic secrets, you and me.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
We've managed temporal displacement, which.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Nobody in the world has ever done. See, maybe we
both need a rest.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
You know what I think, Paul, what I think?
Speaker 8 (12:43):
We've managed teleportation too, and.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
We don't know it. Teleportation? Do you mean like Charles
Ford talks about, I.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Mean transporting tangible objects from one place to another without
any mechanical means electronically.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I don't know, Paul.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
All I know is that that cigarette lighter was someplace
where it was awful cold, and it wasn't cold here
in this room.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
WHOA And where did that caterpillar come from? I don't
know it came from. Wherever that cigarette lighter.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Went, Paul, But where I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Somewhere?
Speaker 8 (13:13):
And you know what, I'm going to find out where
it came from.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
You are, and how may I ask you?
Speaker 8 (13:20):
I'm going to modify this gadget of ours, this hypercucanbulator,
so it'll carry a man, and then, my dear boss,
I'm going to sit down in it and have you
send me out there somewhere in time and space.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
And come back and tell you all about it. That's
all for tonight, Bud.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Come on, I'll take you out and buy you a drinks.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
I'm not pooling, Paul. Okay, okay, you're not fooling.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Long.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Get your having cold and come on, I prescribe hot
buttered rum.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Well, turn off the lights.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Will you listen to me?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Turn off the lights.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I want hot buttered drum. Kay, okay, guys, look out
of that window.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
The northern lights.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
They are really bright tonight.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Sure, Look how they up.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Down, up down, Norm houp n look at the deep
freeze there in the dark.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
What about.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Do you see it?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Light ball light, get it? I see it, Norm, it's right,
and step with the northern lights and the same.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Color red, red, blue, blue, hop down up coming from
the deep freeze where our little friend.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Isabella was singing to me.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Now, what are you all listen? I don't think.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
We never did get that hot brooded rum.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
We stayed there in the laboratory for a long time,
listening to the voice of a thing, a fox, endlessly repeating.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Aiou the vowel sounds.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Of our speech, and watching the light that pouch stuck
from the deep treets and perfect lifting with the flickering.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Of the northern lights.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Were watching the wind, and we thought long, long thoughts
that I don't remember, and it took clearly in no
I do know. We both of us thought of ways
to confect our little mechanism, our time machine, how machine
that brought back a little cold, brown and black caterpillar
from somewhere. And when it was morning, when the lights
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had faded from the autumn skies, we found that our
machine was very different. The stage where we found the
caterpillar was large. You know, I had only a vague
recollection of.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
What had happened in the night.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I said to Norman. Norman, I said it, what do
we do last night? I don't know for sure that could.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
We rebuild that thing? Make it larger?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
I it too well.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
I mean, I think I dreamed I was working on it.
I think I hit my finger with a hammer, and
I see M comes all bruised. Certainly looks it. Nobody
could have gotten in here.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
The doors locked, and the machine is certainly different.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
It's coil. I look, if we wound it, would I
do that?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
My head hurts, I do M.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
I don't get it. I don't either. I wish I
could listen normal.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
What maybe we did change it?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
But I well, how could we have done all that
by ourselves?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I got an idea. Why maybe Isabella helped it?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Yes, the caterpillar? Oh, let me shall we opened the
d tree?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Well? I opened it. It was empty.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
There wasn't any brown and black caterpillar in the d trees.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
It took a flashlight and looked over every inch of it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Stood there and looked at each other for a whole minute.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Fauman said, well, I just shook my head and we
went over and sat down. All of a sudden, I said,
I found in on them, And there she was. There
was little Isabella, the caterpillar, crumpled up. Don't get on
the floor of the lamberte. And you know caterpillars have
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a little tiny paws, and one of Isabella's paws was
the end of a long piece of wire that ran.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Up to the general recall.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
How did she get out?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
And I said the thing couldn't be opened from the inside.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I said, it was fastened down tight when I took
the lid off just now.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
But she be a get out right man. Maybe she
did help us, no.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I said, And he got stap here and stared at me,
and I got up and put on my overcoat.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Where are you going? Where are you going, Paul?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I said, I'm going to find out something on Where
I'm going it's cold, I said, I know that, And
I'm going to find out what's been going on and
where that cattilla came from.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
No one goggle at me. I stepped in the stage.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Machine was to take me away somewhere in time space.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I said, nor.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Turn it on.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
He reached over and touched the switch. He didn't say
a word, and I braced myself. I nodded at him,
go ahead, and I said, dad.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
He pressed the switch and nothing happened at all. Nothing.
Why I know, Paul, I know it's daylight. I know
aren't any northern life.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Well it was just as well.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
So I had a chance to think about it a little,
and I realized that justin overcoat wouldn't do me any
good where I might be going. And so when it
was dark night again, and northern lights were flickering and
dancing in the sky, I put on a high altitude
aviators too, that had its own source of heat supply.
Robin shook his head as I got back on the stage.
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Nodded for him to press the switch.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Cold.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
You've never been cold, d.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Dark. You wouldn't know how dark.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
At Tandex, when I was standing on an immense plane
that stretched so far, so far into the distance, the
plane of snow and eternal ice, a dead, cold, white
world with the blackest sky above me, and the Northern.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Lights reached from horizon to horizon.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Even through the high altitude suit, I could feel a
biting cold, and I was afraid.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Shifting me, abjectly afraid. The streamers of the Northern Lights.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Reached down part me and wrapped without me. I heard
a sound of voices of streaming into my mind.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
I could understand them.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I wished hardly had that I played around with cosmic forces.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I yelled inside the heavy helmet of held Norman. Norman,
bring me back, and there was nobody to hear me. No,
I don't know what I was, and not a planet.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Maybe the North Cold.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Maybe the lights were all around me. Maybe that's what
it was. But you know, it is the most.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Terrible, awful, cold, lonely place you could imagine in a
hundred years.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
The lights and the flickering.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Living lights crawl over me and beat at me.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I could almost understand what they had saved. And then
the crash, the sudden blackness. I was standing again in
the laboratory I'd left only a few short seconds ago, and.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Norman was tearing at the fastenings in my suit and
beating at me with.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Both hands, And I wondered what in the world he
was doing? And when I got the helmet off, he
was rushing catnip to this offening, thousands of cold, freezing cold,
brown and black Isabella caterpillar.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
I was little bed for a.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Week or more. I don't know how long.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Wherever it was I've been, I've barely frozen to that
in those short seconds, and at last I.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Was able to come back to the laboratory.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I sat there that night with Norman, and outside the winters,
the northern.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Lights were trying than they'd ever been before.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Purple green, yellow, black lights even, and there was a
new rhythm to night. What kind of cold.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Almost words, thoughts, not quite foreign, and yet curiously disturbing.
Roma though didn't seem the beast disturbed as I was.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
He he just sat quietly.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I looked at me.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Where did those caterpillars come from?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
For I don't know where I was, That's all I am.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Did you Did they attack you? Or?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
They came through the lights, the light, the northern lights.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Where are they normal? A catillar?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yes? Where are they?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
In the deep freeze?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Where Isabella was? Poor Isabella?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
What's the matter?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Will you Paul? Are you listening listening to what don't
you hear them?
Speaker 8 (23:08):
I don't hear anything, don't you I don't hear anything. Listen, listen,
I don't hear anything.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Turn on the recording machine.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I want to see if we could pick up their voices.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Turn it on.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I want to recording, quick, quick, normal, and they're talking
to us. Listen friendly, I want to play another recording.
This is what came out of our tape recorder that
night when I was listening to the voices and Norman
(23:47):
couldn't hear anything.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Just listen.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I still don't hear anything, Paul, I tell you, what's that?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Look at the deep treats, but the top's coming over.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Look at the light around it.
Speaker 8 (24:05):
Paul quiet?
Speaker 5 (24:07):
What how did they?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Good? Lord?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Look the catacory're coming on.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Paul mcat them mean he's still going.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
But Paul, your voice still?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I said, what's the matter with your voice?
Speaker 6 (24:19):
We want to talk to you?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
What he said?
Speaker 8 (24:23):
We why?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Of course, Morman, We pove for that.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
It is Paul's voice, moment, Paul's voice voice, but it
is not Paul speaking. Listen, we speak to Paul, not Paul.
We the people of the lights, We from the colde
(24:49):
we are speaking to you with Paul's voice. I tell
you that Paul's voice will tell you what to do.
When the time comes from me.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
We go to the machine.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Paul's mind is ours for a little time.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
Now, we go to the machine, the machine that brought
us to your world from the world of the lights.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Who are you?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Who the people of the lights?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
To take over this world of yours? Only this world
of yours is so hot.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
We must have the cold world.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
And we know how to make it cold.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
What's the matter, Paul?
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Paul?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Soon not No, No quick, Normans, turn on the machine.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Send us to places in your world.
Speaker 8 (25:28):
No our world.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Hurry, so hot, hurry, so hot.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Off, hurry, hurry, turn on machine.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
That's the end of the recording.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
No, I don't know. I don't have any recollection of
it at all. That the recordings there isn't it.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
That must be what happened.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Anyway, When I woke up, the Norman was gone, and
there were no cadpor lives in the place here, and
on machine, a machine that took people and things away
in the time and space, was wrecked. I don't know
why began. You heard what I said about my voice.
(26:16):
They're going to take over this world or make it
a cold world like the one they.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Came from, whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And wherever they went, you know, I don't know where
they went, where the machine sent them. I do have ideas, Yes,
are you Cold's reason in here? And just for example,
(26:43):
you read the papers, look at the newsreels. Did you
see the pictures of the snow in Los Angeles? In
subtropical Los Angeles where it hasn't snowed for so many
many years.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
I wanted about it too.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I wonder if anybody.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Sony Brown and black Willie bear caterpillars from Los Angeles,
a mob I see Isabella. The title of today's Quiet
(27:41):
These story is Northern Lights. It was written and directed
by Willis Cooper. The man who spoke to you was
Ernest Chappell, and my laboratory assistant Ramman was played by
Dan Sutter. The voices of Isabella and her friends was
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that of Cecil Roy.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
As usual. Music for Quiet Less played by Albert Burman.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Now for worried about next week, all writer directly my
good friend Willis Cooper.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Thank you for listening to quiet play for next week.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
I have a story for it that comes from the
Steel Mills out South Chicago.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
It's called Catta heat, go.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Done, and so until next week.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
At the same time, I am quietly or a Durness Chapel.
And now a listening reminder. How are your predictions of
things to come? What's your batting average? Compare your average
with a man who has made predicting his business. Listen
to Drew Pearson tonight on ABC. This is ABC, the
(28:54):
American broadcasting company
Quire Please, Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And which features Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Quiet Please for today is called Northern Light. This is
a story about the temporal displacement of mass. It is
also a story about teleportation. Do you know what those
terms mean?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I didn't think you did. But you stay right.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Where you are, my charming friends, and you're que likely
to find out. You just stay right there and listen
to tell you everything you want to know, and maybe
maybe a couple of things you're not terribly anxious to know.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Ever.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
See the Northern lights.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Or Aura borealis is the right name.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You don't see them very often below the fiftieth parallel
of latitude in this country, but up in northern Minnesota
and Canada, Upper New York places like that.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
They're quite common of the winter night.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
If you've seen them, you know what they look like.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
If you haven't, there's no use time trying to describe them.
Sometimes they fill a whole northern sky with waves of color,
like a fire burning way beyond the horizon. Sometimes they're
just long streamers of fire filling up the whole sky
and another time you look like gigantic, cringed curtains of
pure light, swaying as if some cold cosmic breeze plucked
(01:55):
at them, way far off there to than areth. You
can hear them too, sometimes, well maybe not exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Hear them, but.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
There's a sound, the humming u that crackling.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Somewhere inside your head.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Then there are times when you'd swear it's a voice
talking to you, talking in some kind of strange language
you can almost understand, filling your whole being with a
kind of desperate, inescapable terror.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
That night, in the cold.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Night, voices talking and saying things to you that you
can almost understand, filling the night sky with signs and
importance of inescapable and nobody, nobody in the whole world
knows what they are, nobody in this world, at least
except me. And after I get done talking to you,
(02:56):
you'll know too, and you won't be happy. Uh. Let
me show you something now. This is from a recording
I made on'm uh let's see December thirteenth, nineteen forty eight,
a little more than.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
A month and a half ago.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I started the recorder while Norman and I were just
about finished with our work that afternoon here in the laboratory,
I just set the microphone on top of the five
cabinet there, turned on a machine.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Listen, I'm gonna play it back for you.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
The quality isn't sill very good, but you can recognize
my voice and the normans I think here.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Oh, I got the call rewind Now I guess.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Right, diss it.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
I've got expected.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
When I said, I that's got a rewind ryout, it's
almost six o'clock.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, I wanna start that.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
I didn't realize the time I be a displayed a night.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Just spoke.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
How do I know been a display the last three.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Nights when I was a diner last night? Women? Yeah,
the machine wasn't ready.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
I do you think you can do better than I
can out better?
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I stuck my fingers, I did.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Where'd you put the compas selfie?
Speaker 8 (04:11):
Alright?
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I was about to sink a right, I got it?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
What are you doing casting the coral? I?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Oh it looks okay.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Hey wait a minute, yeah it's okay.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I'll be right with you.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
Okay, up, what do you understand?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You try might take a red lighter.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
That won't work anyway, I'll I won't visit if we
don't get it back now.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
I don't know how to single work when the northern
lights aren't shining.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Liabe they are shining.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Brent off the red lights.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Let's see U pretty early on here, what's the matter?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Pay look.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
M out earlier than that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Oh boy, that's fine.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
The whole sky look blue and yellow.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I never saw those long.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Princes, I said, you turn on the recorder.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, that's turning over.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Now is the time for all good men to come
to the aid of their party.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Leave it alone that you about ready? Now, it's funny
about the Aurora northern lights. Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Remember what I told you?
Speaker 7 (05:24):
You can almost hear the darn things not here I mean,
but it's uh, it's kind of like somebody talking to
you in the language you can you can almost understand.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
I don't know. I mean you ever, I said, sure,
high frequencies.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
I guess something.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Awful lot we don't understand.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well, God, you go there at the recorder and talk
as the light talk.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Well, let't just describe what happens for the record.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
I know you're not. Just say what you see so
we'll have any good record Okay.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
Now, this is an experiment in the temporal displacement of
a solid object. In other words, the first actual demonstration
of a time machine.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
If it worked, work all right.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
One Paul is now placing his old piece up.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Cigarette later on the stage of the Hypercycambu later, and
he is now saying the micro chronometer to determine how
far into the future he's going to send the lighter. Well,
how far, Paul?
Speaker 8 (06:30):
Ten seconds?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Ten seconds.
Speaker 8 (06:32):
At the end of that time, If our calculations are correct,
and we hope they are, the cigarette light will reappear.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
In that period of time, it will have been into
the future. We could send it farther into the future
if we wanted to, I guess, but we've judged out
to wait that much longer for time to catch up
with it and make it reappear. But ten seconds, well,
I mean, we can prove our point by saying it's
ten seconds.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Into the future just as well as ten years ahead.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
And this will we don't have to wait so long.
Hey I'm a Dog part commercial.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
When Tall presses a little button, the singer let later
returns to nothing.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
That's not rocket.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Yeah, Well, now it's going to happen, Mister Paul mcgellicates
a famous mad Sivius is about to press the big
old button and send his letter into the future.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Ready for here we go?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Yeah, by.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Look, God, by god, it is gone.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
It's just disappeared.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Bad like that.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Hold you want to close? The night falls over?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Retry?
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Yeah, that the risen the time of the letter.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Of the little stage on which Paul place it is.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Empty and it should appear again and in just a
second for really good work three two one.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
This fact.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
It works later.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Oh man, let's see it's all right.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
Oh oh, now on the writer cold.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
Call, Oh here take take a freezing cold.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
What do you load?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
The turn things like a piece of ice? Where is
the differ?
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You supposed it's been in that time going.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Up with it?
Speaker 8 (08:19):
But Paul, where did that come from? What they are
on the stage where the lighter was?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Where did that come from?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
In the member of winter?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
M what is it? Okay, it's a caterpillar.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Paul, a brown and black category.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Hm. Hm. Where do you suppose it came from? Wasn't there?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I'll tell you where it came from, Paul.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
It came from the same place where the cigarette lighter went.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Feel its first?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
See get this gold as ice too.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
A caterpillar, a little brown and black caterpillar, the kind
they call wooly bears, you know, Larva of the tiger month.
I see Isabella in the dead of winter and as
cold as ice.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Where did it come from? Huh?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
You want to know?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Incidentally, you know the old timers say that the wooly
bear caterpillar is a weather propet. If the brown bands
on his pur or narrow, there's a severe winter ahead.
If they're wide, it's going to be a mild winter.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Yeah, maybe this one. You could hardly see.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
The brown band.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
It's tough weather ahead, That's what the old timers would say.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
But where'd she come from?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
She wasn't there when we put the cigarette ladder on
the stage. When time caught up again?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Where she was she? Sure?
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Isabella? I see it, Isabella, don't you remember? Well?
Speaker 2 (09:57):
She was wiggling happily when she arrived from somewhere in
the future. But as she warmed up, she seemed to
go into a trance, almost a deathlike trance. So Norman said,
put her in the deep freeze. Maybe she'll come to
again in the cold. So we put her in the
deep freeze, and in half.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
An hour when we looked in at her, she was
wiggling happily.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
At ten degrees below zero.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Friend, can you tie that?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
My goodness, she should have been frozen solid. Well, nothing
special happened for a couple of days. Now you remember
it was a month and a half ago, December thirteenth,
nineteen forty eight. Where were you on the night of
December eighteenth, on Saturday night, a week before Christmas?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I'd been Christmas shopping.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
In the afternoon, I remember I came back to the
laboratory to check up on some stuff. Norman was there
fiddling with things.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
I and Alma. I said, how's Isabella? You know something funny? Poor?
The matter with you?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Me?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
He looks so pale. You're sick?
Speaker 5 (11:03):
Eat something disagree with you? Paul? Is a bella singing singing?
What there's a bella singing?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
You're dotty?
Speaker 5 (11:13):
He's singing.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
The caterpillar's singing, not tap dancing.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
I hope I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I got it out.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Open the deep freezing.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Listen you've been at the c two h five?
Speaker 8 (11:22):
Oh, I haven't had a drink on Thursday night?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Well, open the deep freezing. Listen, no kidding, no kidden.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Well, we don't know where she came from. I won't
be surprised as anything. Hello is a bella don't do that,
no matter if French and has to be back.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Well, I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Hell is a fella. Hey here you're singing.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
I told you.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I don't hear anything.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
I listened, Paul, I haven't lost my button. I've been
hearing it all afternoon. I couldn't figure out what was
doing it, and then I noticed it was louder alongside
the deep freeze here, so I opened it up and
stuck my head inside, and it was coming from her.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Well it sound like la. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I mean, it's kind of like a.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
AEI didn't she say AEI O you? And sometimes why
don't rid me?
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I tell you I heard it.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I think you better take a Christmas vacation.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I no kid, I know, but listen, we've been playing
around with some.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Pretty deep cosmic secrets, you and me.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
We've managed temporal displacement, which.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Nobody in the world has ever done. See, maybe we
both need a rest.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
You know what I think, Paul, what I think?
Speaker 8 (12:43):
We've managed teleportation too, and.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
We don't know it. Teleportation? Do you mean like Charles
Ford talks about, I.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Mean transporting tangible objects from one place to another without
any mechanical means electronically.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I don't know, Paul.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
All I know is that that cigarette lighter was someplace
where it was awful cold, and it wasn't cold here
in this room.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
WHOA And where did that caterpillar come from? I don't
know it came from. Wherever that cigarette lighter.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Went, Paul, But where I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Somewhere?
Speaker 8 (13:13):
And you know what, I'm going to find out where
it came from.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
You are, and how may I ask you?
Speaker 8 (13:20):
I'm going to modify this gadget of ours, this hypercucanbulator,
so it'll carry a man, and then, my dear boss,
I'm going to sit down in it and have you
send me out there somewhere in time and space.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
And come back and tell you all about it. That's
all for tonight, Bud.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Come on, I'll take you out and buy you a drinks.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
I'm not pooling, Paul. Okay, okay, you're not fooling.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Long.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Get your having cold and come on, I prescribe hot
buttered rum.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Well, turn off the lights.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Will you listen to me?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Turn off the lights.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I want hot buttered drum. Kay, okay, guys, look out
of that window.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
The northern lights.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
They are really bright tonight.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
Sure, Look how they up.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Down, up down, Norm houp n look at the deep
freeze there in the dark.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
What about.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Do you see it?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Light ball light, get it? I see it, Norm, it's right,
and step with the northern lights and the same.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Color red, red, blue, blue, hop down up coming from
the deep freeze where our little friend.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Isabella was singing to me.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Now, what are you all listen? I don't think.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
We never did get that hot brooded rum.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
We stayed there in the laboratory for a long time,
listening to the voice of a thing, a fox, endlessly repeating.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Aiou the vowel sounds.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Of our speech, and watching the light that pouch stuck
from the deep treets and perfect lifting with the flickering.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Of the northern lights.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Were watching the wind, and we thought long, long thoughts
that I don't remember, and it took clearly in no
I do know. We both of us thought of ways
to confect our little mechanism, our time machine, how machine
that brought back a little cold, brown and black caterpillar
from somewhere. And when it was morning, when the lights
(15:43):
had faded from the autumn skies, we found that our
machine was very different. The stage where we found the
caterpillar was large. You know, I had only a vague
recollection of.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
What had happened in the night.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I said to Norman. Norman, I said it, what do
we do last night? I don't know for sure that could.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
We rebuild that thing? Make it larger?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
I it too well.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
I mean, I think I dreamed I was working on it.
I think I hit my finger with a hammer, and
I see M comes all bruised. Certainly looks it. Nobody
could have gotten in here.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
The doors locked, and the machine is certainly different.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
It's coil. I look, if we wound it, would I
do that?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
My head hurts, I do M.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
I don't get it. I don't either. I wish I
could listen normal.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
What maybe we did change it?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
But I well, how could we have done all that
by ourselves?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I got an idea. Why maybe Isabella helped it?
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Yes, the caterpillar? Oh, let me shall we opened the
d tree?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Well? I opened it. It was empty.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
There wasn't any brown and black caterpillar in the d trees.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
It took a flashlight and looked over every inch of it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Stood there and looked at each other for a whole minute.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Fauman said, well, I just shook my head and we
went over and sat down. All of a sudden, I said,
I found in on them, And there she was. There
was little Isabella, the caterpillar, crumpled up. Don't get on
the floor of the lamberte. And you know caterpillars have
(17:44):
a little tiny paws, and one of Isabella's paws was
the end of a long piece of wire that ran.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Up to the general recall.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
How did she get out?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
And I said the thing couldn't be opened from the inside.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I said, it was fastened down tight when I took
the lid off just now.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
But she be a get out right man. Maybe she
did help us, no.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I said, And he got stap here and stared at me,
and I got up and put on my overcoat.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
Where are you going? Where are you going, Paul?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
I said, I'm going to find out something on Where
I'm going it's cold, I said, I know that, And
I'm going to find out what's been going on and
where that cattilla came from.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
No one goggle at me. I stepped in the stage.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Machine was to take me away somewhere in time space.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I said, nor.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Turn it on.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
He reached over and touched the switch. He didn't say
a word, and I braced myself. I nodded at him,
go ahead, and I said, dad.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
He pressed the switch and nothing happened at all. Nothing.
Why I know, Paul, I know it's daylight. I know
aren't any northern life.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Well it was just as well.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
So I had a chance to think about it a little,
and I realized that justin overcoat wouldn't do me any
good where I might be going. And so when it
was dark night again, and northern lights were flickering and
dancing in the sky, I put on a high altitude
aviators too, that had its own source of heat supply.
Robin shook his head as I got back on the stage.
(19:41):
Nodded for him to press the switch.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Cold.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
You've never been cold, d.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Dark. You wouldn't know how dark.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
At Tandex, when I was standing on an immense plane
that stretched so far, so far into the distance, the
plane of snow and eternal ice, a dead, cold, white
world with the blackest sky above me, and the Northern.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
Lights reached from horizon to horizon.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Even through the high altitude suit, I could feel a
biting cold, and I was afraid.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Shifting me, abjectly afraid. The streamers of the Northern Lights.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Reached down part me and wrapped without me. I heard
a sound of voices of streaming into my mind.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
I could understand them.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I wished hardly had that I played around with cosmic forces.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
I yelled inside the heavy helmet of held Norman. Norman,
bring me back, and there was nobody to hear me. No,
I don't know what I was, and not a planet.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Maybe the North Cold.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Maybe the lights were all around me. Maybe that's what
it was. But you know, it is the most.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Terrible, awful, cold, lonely place you could imagine in a
hundred years.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
The lights and the flickering.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Living lights crawl over me and beat at me.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I could almost understand what they had saved. And then
the crash, the sudden blackness. I was standing again in
the laboratory I'd left only a few short seconds ago, and.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Norman was tearing at the fastenings in my suit and
beating at me with.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Both hands, And I wondered what in the world he
was doing? And when I got the helmet off, he
was rushing catnip to this offening, thousands of cold, freezing cold,
brown and black Isabella caterpillar.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
I was little bed for a.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Week or more. I don't know how long.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Wherever it was I've been, I've barely frozen to that
in those short seconds, and at last I.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Was able to come back to the laboratory.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I sat there that night with Norman, and outside the winters,
the northern.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Lights were trying than they'd ever been before.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Purple green, yellow, black lights even, and there was a
new rhythm to night. What kind of cold.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Almost words, thoughts, not quite foreign, and yet curiously disturbing.
Roma though didn't seem the beast disturbed as I was.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
He he just sat quietly.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
I looked at me.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Where did those caterpillars come from?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
For I don't know where I was, That's all I am.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Did you Did they attack you? Or?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
They came through the lights, the light, the northern lights.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Where are they normal? A catillar?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yes? Where are they?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
In the deep freeze?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Where Isabella was? Poor Isabella?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
What's the matter?
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Will you Paul? Are you listening listening to what don't
you hear them?
Speaker 8 (23:08):
I don't hear anything, don't you I don't hear anything. Listen, listen,
I don't hear anything.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Turn on the recording machine.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I want to see if we could pick up their voices.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Turn it on.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I want to recording, quick, quick, normal, and they're talking
to us. Listen friendly, I want to play another recording.
This is what came out of our tape recorder that
night when I was listening to the voices and Norman
(23:47):
couldn't hear anything.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Just listen.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I still don't hear anything, Paul, I tell you, what's that?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Look at the deep treats, but the top's coming over.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Look at the light around it.
Speaker 8 (24:05):
Paul quiet?
Speaker 5 (24:07):
What how did they?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Good? Lord?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Look the catacory're coming on.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Paul mcat them mean he's still going.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
But Paul, your voice still?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I said, what's the matter with your voice?
Speaker 6 (24:19):
We want to talk to you?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
What he said?
Speaker 8 (24:23):
We why?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Of course, Morman, We pove for that.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
It is Paul's voice, moment, Paul's voice voice, but it
is not Paul speaking. Listen, we speak to Paul, not Paul.
We the people of the lights, We from the colde
(24:49):
we are speaking to you with Paul's voice. I tell
you that Paul's voice will tell you what to do.
When the time comes from me.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
We go to the machine.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Paul's mind is ours for a little time.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
Now, we go to the machine, the machine that brought
us to your world from the world of the lights.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
Who are you?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Who the people of the lights?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
To take over this world of yours? Only this world
of yours is so hot.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
We must have the cold world.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
And we know how to make it cold.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
What's the matter, Paul?
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Paul?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Soon not No, No quick, Normans, turn on the machine.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Send us to places in your world.
Speaker 8 (25:28):
No our world.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Hurry, so hot, hurry, so hot.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Off, hurry, hurry, turn on machine.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
That's the end of the recording.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
No, I don't know. I don't have any recollection of
it at all. That the recordings there isn't it.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
That must be what happened.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Anyway, When I woke up, the Norman was gone, and
there were no cadpor lives in the place here, and
on machine, a machine that took people and things away
in the time and space, was wrecked. I don't know
why began. You heard what I said about my voice.
(26:16):
They're going to take over this world or make it
a cold world like the one they.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Came from, whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And wherever they went, you know, I don't know where
they went, where the machine sent them. I do have ideas, Yes,
are you Cold's reason in here? And just for example,
(26:43):
you read the papers, look at the newsreels. Did you
see the pictures of the snow in Los Angeles? In
subtropical Los Angeles where it hasn't snowed for so many
many years.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
I wanted about it too.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I wonder if anybody.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Sony Brown and black Willie bear caterpillars from Los Angeles,
a mob I see Isabella. The title of today's Quiet
(27:41):
These story is Northern Lights. It was written and directed
by Willis Cooper. The man who spoke to you was
Ernest Chappell, and my laboratory assistant Ramman was played by
Dan Sutter. The voices of Isabella and her friends was
(28:01):
that of Cecil Roy.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
As usual. Music for Quiet Less played by Albert Burman.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Now for worried about next week, all writer directly my
good friend Willis Cooper.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Thank you for listening to quiet play for next week.
Speaker 8 (28:16):
I have a story for it that comes from the
Steel Mills out South Chicago.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
It's called Catta heat, go.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Done, and so until next week.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
At the same time, I am quietly or a Durness Chapel.
And now a listening reminder. How are your predictions of
things to come? What's your batting average? Compare your average
with a man who has made predicting his business. Listen
to Drew Pearson tonight on ABC. This is ABC, the
(28:54):
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