May 14, 2024 • 54 mins
Sears Radio Theater was a radio drama anthology series which ran weeknights on CBS Radio in 1979, sponsored by the Sears chain. Often paired with The CBS Radio Mystery Theater during its first season, the program offered a different genre of drama for each evening's broadcast.In January 1980, the program moved from CBS to the Mutual Broadcasting System and was renamed Mutual Radio Theater. The Mutual series broadcast repeats from the CBS run until September 1980, when a short season of new dramas was presented. Sears continued as a sponsor during the Mutual run.
The program turned out to be Mutual's final radio drama series. Mutual continued to broadcast repeats of the program (along with a few previously unaired episodes) until December 1981.Monday was "Western Night" and was hosted by Lorne Greene. Tuesday was "Comedy Night", hosted by Andy Griffith. Wednesday was "Mystery Night" with Vincent Price as host. Thursday was "Love and Hate Night" with Cicely Tyson doing honors as host. Finally, Friday brought "Adventure Night", first hosted by Richard Widmark and later by Howard Duff and finally by Leonard Nimoy.Several actors from the Golden Age of Radio were featured on the series.
Among the actors heard were Jim Jordan, Henry Morgan, Daws Butler, June Foray, Parley Baer, Mary Jane Croft, Howard Culver, John Dehner, Joan McCall, Don Diamond, Virginia Gregg, Janet Waldo, Vic Perrin, Hans Conried, Marvin Miller, Elliott Lewis, Jeff Corey, Lesley Woods, Robert Rockwell, Lurene Tuttle, Eve Arden, Keith Andes, Harriet Nelson, Alan Young, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Lloyd Bochner, Rick Jason, Frank Campanella, Toni Tennille, Arthur Hill, Dan O'Herlihy, Jesse White and Frank Nelson.[1] Veteran radio actress Peggy Webber was heard on 52 episodes.The program was produced and directed by Fletcher Markle and Elliott Lewis. The theme music was composed and conducted by Nelson Riddle
The program turned out to be Mutual's final radio drama series. Mutual continued to broadcast repeats of the program (along with a few previously unaired episodes) until December 1981.Monday was "Western Night" and was hosted by Lorne Greene. Tuesday was "Comedy Night", hosted by Andy Griffith. Wednesday was "Mystery Night" with Vincent Price as host. Thursday was "Love and Hate Night" with Cicely Tyson doing honors as host. Finally, Friday brought "Adventure Night", first hosted by Richard Widmark and later by Howard Duff and finally by Leonard Nimoy.Several actors from the Golden Age of Radio were featured on the series.
Among the actors heard were Jim Jordan, Henry Morgan, Daws Butler, June Foray, Parley Baer, Mary Jane Croft, Howard Culver, John Dehner, Joan McCall, Don Diamond, Virginia Gregg, Janet Waldo, Vic Perrin, Hans Conried, Marvin Miller, Elliott Lewis, Jeff Corey, Lesley Woods, Robert Rockwell, Lurene Tuttle, Eve Arden, Keith Andes, Harriet Nelson, Alan Young, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Lloyd Bochner, Rick Jason, Frank Campanella, Toni Tennille, Arthur Hill, Dan O'Herlihy, Jesse White and Frank Nelson.[1] Veteran radio actress Peggy Webber was heard on 52 episodes.The program was produced and directed by Fletcher Markle and Elliott Lewis. The theme music was composed and conducted by Nelson Riddle
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the theme from the Seers Radio Theater. Goodnight, a program of mystery with
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Vincent Price as your host. Here'sa preview. Aren't you just a little
bit curious to know whose spirit hauntsthis house? All right? Who is
the ghost. It's you live here. Your spirit haunts this house. The
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story begins in New York City,that mecha of delight and terror. It
is early November, less than threeweeks before Thanksgiving. A young woman,
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very pretty, is walking along LexingtonAvenue carrying a shopping bag. Her buoyant
stride and radiant face suggests she hasjust bought a new dress. She seems
oblivious to her surroundings, as carefreeas if she were strolling through a meadow
on a fine spring day. Sheapproaches forty ninth Street, Looking straight ahead,
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she begins to cross against the light. The young woman is suddenly struck
down, her reverie of a momentbefore, shattered like a glass figurine under
the wheels from a taxicab. Ohmy god, a woman you want ride
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in front of that cab? Ithought her? She dead? Domover,
domover. Somebody call an ambulance,lady, why do you step off of
a cave? O? Jeez ah, she don't look good, sha'm oven.
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Accidents are not unusual in New York. Hundreds happen every day. Yet
this one, as we shall discover, is different. It is just the
beginning of a mysterious series of events, events that will be felt, but
perhaps never explained or understood. SearsRadio Theater, a new adventure in radio
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listening. Five nights of exceptional entertainmentevery week, brought to you and Elliott
Lewis production of the Sears Radio Theater. Our Story Going Home by Ann Heath,
Our Stars and Given and Jack Khrusian. The Sears Radio Theater is brought
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Where America Shops, Our family isgrowing pretty big these days. We've
got family members in nine different states, and searsure comes in handy. We
can select gifts at the Sears nearus, then bring them along on visits
to our daughter in and my brotherin Miami, and if what we bought
isn't just right for them, theygo to Sears near them and exchange it.
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That's Seers in their stores or throughthe catalog. Sears is where America
shopped. Indeed in the words outand spreading fast about the genes from sears
Man's store that grow beautifully. It'sa sure sign they're feeling fine and feeling
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of dorleat the sunshine in the coltdepartment most larger fears retail's doors. A
faithful accident has plunged a young woman'sdaydream into nightmare. Is it the real
world into which she now awakens ordoes reality lie instead on the other side
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of consciousness? Are you? Iam a doctor, miss Stevens, and
you're in a hospital. Hospital.How did I get what happened? Well,
you've had an accident. Don't tryto talk now, an accident,
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But I don't remember any accident.The last thing I remember I was walking
down the street Lexington, I thinkit was, and I had a package.
Yes, I remember now it wasa dress. I just bought that
lavender dress. Don't tire yourself,my dear. What you need now is
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sleep. Plenty of time later tothink about what happened. Doctor, I
can't remember anything. You're a verylucky young lady. It's a miracle you
weren't killed. Killed, Yes,my dear, I write, you should
be dead and did People don't talk, So be a good girl and go
to sleep. I'll check you inon you later. I stay in the
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hospital lasted almost two weeks, butit seemed like a lifetime. Although my
memory gradually returned, I still couldn'trecall the accident itself. The mind has
been known to block out traumatic events. Perhaps it was this defense mechanism that
was working within me. Finally Iwas released and allowed to return home to
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my apartment. A day after myreturn, I received a telephone call from
someone whose voice I didn't recognize.Is this the lovely Lydia? Who is
this? I'm so glad I've reachedyou at last, Lydia. I've been
phoning for days. You never seemedto be in I've been away. Please
who is this? But you don'tknow me? At least we've never met.
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But do you remember the old farmhouseon Deerfield Road in Cornwall. Wh
Yes, that's where I spent summersas a child. But how do you
know the house? Allow me tointroduce myself. My name is Alexander Pluto,
but my friends call me alex.I bought the house two years ago
from that farmer what was his name? Riska? Yes, Bill Riska.
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He bought the farm from my father. He was going to give it to
his when he was old enough tofarm it himself. Well, apparently the
boy decided he didn't want to bea farmer. The old man seemed relieved
to be rid of the place,almost as happy as I was to find
it. You see, I'm asculptor, and I've been searching for just
the right place to work. Thefarmhouse would be too remote for most people.
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I'm sure you remember the nearest neighboris three miles down the road.
Then it hasn't changed, not inthe least. I'm glad to hear that.
Mister Pluto, Oh it, pleasecall me Alex. Yes, well,
I I've often wondered what became ofthe place. I'm not surprised Billy
didn't want to stay in the sticks. He was kind of a wild kid.
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It's good to know the house belongsto someone who cares for it.
Well, it was very thoughtful ofyou to call and tell me. Not
quite the reason I called. Oh, I don't suppose you believe in spirits.
You mean ghosts. I have neverliked that word. Makes me think
of hobgoblins and Halloween and Casper,that ridiculous little cartoon character. No,
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what I'm referring to is the spiritor presence, if you will, of
an actual person. See there's oneliving in this house, mister Pluto,
Alex, I really have a timefor ghost stories today. It's been nice
talking with you, but I mustgo now. Aren't you just a little
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bit curious to know whose spirit hauntsthis house? All right? Who is
the ghost? It's you, Lydia, Your spirit haunts this house. What
are you saying? At first,it was just a feeling, you know,
like when you sense there's someone inthe room with you. I can't
believe I'm hearing this. Then youbegin to appear to me in a more
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human form. Human form, Oh, Lydia, you are lovely, your
face so innocent, your body suchform, such grace, classic, like
a marvelous Greek statue. And youhave the most exquisite porcelain white shoulders.
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I don't really have it. Whatam I saying? This is insane?
Listen, I'm sure you didn't calljust to upset me. If this is
some kind of joke, it's notvery funny. I assure you it's no
joke. What you're saying is absurd. Even if there were such thing as
ghosts or spirits, as you callthem, and only a child would believe
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that mine couldn't possibly be haunting yourhouse. It's impossible, mister Pluto,
because I'm not dead. Look theheight of fashion wherever I go requires many,
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is a bedspread with all the muscleto resist the wear and teet gets from
high spirited kids. It's tough cord, a sturdy blend of seventy five percent
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accurate. Wow, that's okay.You'll be typing on Sears Exclusive correct
Or electric typewriter with easy correction andmore. It's seis best. Try typing
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Sears Corrector typewriter. Whoops. Now, first series is S E R S
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Eddy. Listen, I'm sure youdidn't call just to upset me. If
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this is some kind of joke,it's not very funny, I assure you
it's no joke. What you're sayingis absurd. Even if there were such
thing as ghosts or spirits as youcall him, and only a child would
believe that mine couldn't possibly be hauntingyour house. It's impossible, mister Plute.
I'm not dead. I see youevery afternoon Lydia in your straw hat
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with the red ribbon, riding downthe road in your little cart behind your
pony ebony. How could you knowthat? It was almost twenty years ago
I was only ten and Ebony,How did you know my pony's name?
I know all about you, Lydia. Everything. The sculptors are known to
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be eccentric, but even allowing forartistic temperament, Alexander Pluto seemed an unusually
odd sort of man. There wassomething about his voice. It gave me
an airy feeling, and I couldn'tstop thinking about the strange things he'd said.
How did he know so much aboutme? And what was it he
wanted? The next day he phonedagain and again the following day. Hello,
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hello, Lydia, Why you keepcalling me? What do you want?
All I want is for you tocome home. What do you mean?
I am home. This is whereI live. No, Lydia,
I mean home to the farmhouse.You can't be serious. Look, mister
Pluto, that's your home now,not mine. Yes, it is mine
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and yours. You belong here.You must come home. I'm hanging up.
Please don't call me again. Goodmorning, Miss Stevens. Haven't seen
you lately? Been away? No? I've been, Yes, yes I've
been away. I'd like you tofill a prescription for me. Sure thing.
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Be glad to see what we've gotYour tranquilizers. Yes, I haven't
been sleeping. Well, oh,that's a comedy ailment in this city,
I'd say half the people that havecome in here looking for a way to
get a good night's Will it takelong? Why the prescription? Will it
take long? I'm kind of ina hurr. No, no, no,
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won't take but a minute. I'lljust type this up for you.
So you manage to get away away? Yes, away from our fair city.
Your trip? Oh, yes,where'd you go to the Bahamas?
No? I went to visit afriend in Philadelphia. Philadelphia. No,
that's not my idea of the vacation. No, if we could afford it,
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me and the missus, we'd goto those Bahamas. Plenty of sunshine,
miles and miles of white, powderybeaches. Please, I really am
in a hurry. Oh sorry,I guess I got carried away. It's
just that it's kind of a dreamof ours someday. Forgive me for saying
this, but you don't seem quiteyourself with something troubling you. No,
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no, of course not. It'sthe lack of sleep makes me a little
tense at all. Are you surethat's all it is? Yes, of
course, I'm sure right, allright, Here are your pills, Miss
Stevens. Shall I put this onyour account? Yes? Thank you.
You had better take one of thoseright away and calm those nerves of yours.
You'd think somebody was after you orsomething. Oh. I knew the
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drugs meant well, but I justcouldn't take his chatter or his crying.
I had to get back to thesolitude of my apartment, where i'd be
safe from questions I couldn't answer.Where's that blasted key? I'm coming,
I'm coming? Ah here it did? Hello, Hello, Lydia. Oh
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no, please don't say that,not when I've come all this way.
What. Yes, I'm in thecity. I've been following you. You
fought when just now when you wentto the drug store. Oh my god,
you have lovely legs. Lydia.Listen, you've got to stop this.
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If you don't stop bothering me,I'll call the police. But I
mean you no harm. I onlywant what what do you want? I
just want you to come home withme. No, I've told you no,
Please please go away and leave mealone. Oh. We quent by,
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and I heard nothing more from AlexanderPluto. No phone calls nothing.
Maybe he'd finally given up. Onemorning, I was talking on the phone
to Sheila, my closest and dearestfriend. Well, I think you should
call the police, just in casehe's still hanging around. No, they
think I was crazy, just anotherneurotic female who scared her own shadow.
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You have to get killed before thecops will help you. Oh, Lydia,
don't be so cynical. I dowe sh you'd report this guy.
Mostnuts are harmless, but well,you never know. If you don't want
to call, please, I'll doit for you. No, please,
Sheila. I want to put allthat behind me. I want to forget.
I've been like a prisoner in thisapartment. It's time I got out
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and back to work. I wantto feel like a normal person again.
Oh it's good to hear you talklike that, but I still wish Sheila.
Please all right, all right?Can we get together for lunch soon?
I'd love to. How about Wednesday? Wednesday? Let me think,
Oh yeah, that'd be great.Let's go to that little omelet place where
we all hold on a sex Sheila, there's someone at the door. It's
probably the boy of the groceries.It's you. There standing before me with
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an angular man with graying hair,dressed in a Warren cardigan and corduroy trousers.
His intense slate blue eyes seemed topenetrate right through me, holding me
transfixed, unable to speak or tomove. Hello, Media, I've come
to take your came medio vidiot.Where are you Lydia Sears Radio Theater.
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G. Marshall, your host forthese hour long dramas of suspense,
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Here's a sample of what we mean. A hush, hush, mother,
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Lan the Cower, Jelongsan's we Woveand oh the power and the boy you
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a week on most of these CBSRadio Network stations. So Lydia has at
last come face to face with avoice on the telephone. Drawn by some
unknown force as powerful as love itself. She's compelled to go with this stranger.
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What is the power he has overher. And where is this place?
He calls home? Where are wegoing? Don't be afraid, Lydia.
I'm an excellent driver, Hugh.How did I get here? I
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came for you, but I don'tremember. There's nothing to remember. All
that matters is that you are here. Now where are you taking me?
I told you, Lydia, I'mtaking you home. You mean we're going
to Cornwall, to the farmhouse.That's right. Oh, there's nothing to
be afraid of. I assure you, Lydia, I won't harm you.
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Now. It's a long drive,so why not just sit back and relax.
There's plenty of time for a napif you like. There's a fellow
on the back seat. I'm nottired, as you wish. I just
want you to be comfortable, comfortableif it's your idea of comfort. First
you terrorized me on the phone fordays, and now you kidnap me.
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If you don't intend to harm even, what do you want with me?
Nothing more than what I've already toldyou. You must trust me, trust
you. Yes, everything's going tobe fine, just fine, Everything would
be fine. How I wish Icould believe that. I tried to make
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sense of what was happening, butmy head was clouded with fear. Sheila
was right, I should have calledthe police. Are you warm enough,
Lidia? This heated doesn't work verywell. I'm afraid. Yes, I'm
fine. Are you sure there's anafghan in the back? Thank you?
I'm not cold. I tried tothink of everything. I so wanted this
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to be a pleasant trip, butthe weather isn't cooperating. Is it this
time of the year. I supposewe should be grateful it's not a snowstorm.
I haven't put the chains in thetrunk of this old Gelapayette. I've
been so wrapped up in my work. I've lost all track of time.
It's your work, Yes, Iguess you've forgotten. I'm a sculptor.
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This past month, I've been workingon something terribly exciting. It's but it's
the most beautiful thing I've ever done. That is it will be when it's
I am so anxious for you tosee it. Is that why you kidnapped
me? I do wish you'd stopusing that word. It sounds so villainous.
It makes me feel like a commoncriminal. Well, aren't you hardly?
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I'm afraid I've never been common anythingthere wasn't time. As an artist,
my life has been devoted solely tothe quest for beauty, a beauty
that is as timeless as love.Did you know that true beauty, like
true love, is a vision ofthe eternal? You see, Lydia,
there are other planes, other dimensionsof existence. If we don't fear them,
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they reveal themselves to us, justas your spirit has revealed itself to
me. I don't understand any ofthis. Well, perhaps you will when
we get to the farmhouse. We'realmost out of gas. There's a station
around the next bend. Yes,there it is afternoon. Help you missed
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up? Yes, Philadelphy fleas regular. Hey, winter's coming all right.
She's been pouring down like this mostall day. Do I look like she
wants to let up? Neither yourfolks come far that we're driving up from
the city. City folks say,and don't get down to the city much.
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Myself, the wife and I wemake a trip into Hartford about once
a year before Christmas. Wife likesto shop and them fancy stores for the
grandkids. Do you know them stars? Ma'am? No, No, I
don't you are? You're feeling allright? Ma'am, you look kind of
pale. Yes, I'm fine,Alex. If you don't mind, I'd
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like to go to the restroom.Kind of wait till we get home.
You said I should trust you.Can't you trust me? I want to,
Lydia. Can you tell me whereyour ladies are? Miss? Please?
Right round back, ma'am. Youcan't miss it at a run,
though you'd be soaked clear through.Heh. Women all alike. Hey,
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mister can't go to a gas stationwith us? Pay him a visit to
the ladies. Oh oh, pleaseplease answer operator operator, get me the
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police and hurry what city please?I don't care any city. There are
a lot of police stations in Connecticut, ma'am. I have to know which
one you want, but I don'tknow. Are you calling on a payphone,
ma'am? Yes, yes, Iam, and look on the phone
book. Did you tell you thatwhat city is closest to you? Soba?
Yes? Here it is New Milford. It's New Milford. Thank you
one moment, please, I'll connectyou. Please hurry New Milford Police.
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McConnell's speaking. I'll take that phoneanty anybody there. I did want to
trust you, Lydia. Oh,Jenney resumed in silence. I slumped down
in the seat, my forehead pressedagainst the cold window. I stared out
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at the gray, rain swollen sky, a bleak November landscape flashing by.
My mind and body were drain.I was unable to struggle further against a
force I couldn't understand. Enveloped bya sense of foreboding, I awaited my
fate. As the car moved northwardthrough the rain, toward toward what Late
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that afternoon, the car finally turnedoff the main highway onto a narrow dirt
road surrounded by dense woods. We'realmost home, Lydia. About three miles
further on we came to a clearing. There, on a knoll, set
back from the road, beneath theprotective branches of two ancient elm trees,
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stood the farmhouse. As the cararrived in front of the house, the
rain suddenly stopped and the sun brokethrough the clouds. Vapors of steam curled
upwards from the roof toward the brighteningsky. The house glistened like a memory.
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Well here we are, come,Come on, get out of the
car Lydia house. Everything it's alljust as it used to be. Do
come and have a look around.Yes, all right. For the moment,
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I forgot my fear in my joyat seeing again my beloved childhood home.
I wandered over the property, fondmemories returning as I rediscovered familiar places.
It was as if I never left. There was a vegetable garden all
tilled and ready for winter, andthe apple orchard, even the old ladder
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resting against the same crooked tree.The The biggest surprise was my swing.
I ran toward it as eagerly asif I were greeting an old friend.
How I used to love that swing. I'd sit for hours, just swinging
back and forth, looking out overthe trees across the road, treaming of
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the places I was going to go, the people i'd meet someday. Sometimes
i'd see a storm coming way off, and suddenly it would be there,
and I'd run for dear life tothe potting shed. The potting shed,
I wondered if it was still therebehind the house. It was unchanged.
I pulled open the rickety door andwent inside. Ah, here you are.
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Ah. I was just looking around, of course you were. There's
so much to see, isn't there. Yes, it's all so familiar.
I know it's just as you rememberedit exactly. It's all exactly the same.
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Uh. I can't believe it.Believe it, Lydia. It's as
real as you or me. ButI still don't understand. Why have you
brought me here? You'll know soonenough. It's not something I can tell
you. You must discover it foryourself. Now let's go inside. I
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most larger series retail stores Vincent priceagain and used the concluding act of going
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home. We entered the house throughthe kitchen. As the door closed behind
me, I was plunged further intoa world, which, unlike Alice's wonderland,
was uncanny and its familiarity. Itwas as if the past twenty years
never existed and I was once againa child of ten. The kitchen was
my favorite room, always so warmand cozy. What good times we had
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there, The huge stone fireplace,a Dutch oven, the yellow dotteds with
curtains at the window, on thetable with a wooden bowl that looked like
the one mother kept filled with fruit, only now it held red pomegranates.
How does it look to you?It hasn't changed. It's a wonderful room.
Don't you think there's so much ofyou in it. I feel as
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if I'm dreaming, as though anyminute I'll wake up and I'll be back
in my apartment and none of thiswill have ever happened. You are not
dreaming, Lydia. But this can'tall be real, I assure you it
is. Now, come along,I want you to see the rest of
the house. This is incredible.The living room it's the same, even
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the furniture. Where did you getthis furniture? It was here when I
bought the place. But it looksso Yes, it does look nice,
doesn't it. It furniture belonged tomy family. I know, you know?
How could you know. I justknow everything was in exactly the same
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place. A dining table, acouch under the window, a cobblers bench
Papa bought for a coffee table,and her mother's rocking chair. Yes,
I like that chair myself. It'squite pleasant to sit there in the evening
and read. But how did youknow know what? How did you know
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where everything went? I told you, I just know. That clock?
Where did you get it? Whichone the one that just chimed there on
the mantelpiece? Oh? That onea beauty, isn't it. That clock
belonged to my great grandmother. I'msure my parents took it with them when
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they sold the house. Why isit here? Please, Lydia, no
more questions. Now there seems tobe a chill in the house. I'll
make a fire. Thoughtless of me. I should have warmed the house while
you were outside looking around. Yes, would have been nice and warm by
Now, please, won't you tellme what this is all about? What
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do you want with me? Nothing? I want nothing? And why?
Why? What? Why have youbrought me here? You mustn't try so
hard to understand. Some things can'tbe explained. They they just happened,
happened yes, as I told youin the car, there exists a dimension
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other than the one we're accustomed to. Some people would call it supernatural,
but I disliked that word. Iprefer to think of it as a spiritual
thing, not in the religious butin the mystical sense. Mystical, yes,
something that can't be explained rationally orscientifically, like spirit precisely. Ah,
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now that's better. Do come andwarm yourself, litiar. When when
does my spirit appear to you?Different times, most often while I'm working.
It has to do with creativity.It makes one more receptive to other
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levels of awareness, levels of awareness. Yes, it's very simple, really,
like being tuned into a different radiostation. Has anyone else ever seen
this spirit? No? Even ifthere were others here, chances are they
wouldn't notice anything unusual. Not beingtuned in properly, one has to be
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on the right frequency that glimpse theworld beyond beyond that means beyond life,
doesn't it. That's right. That'swhat I don't understand. How can there
be a spirit if the person isn'tdead? Would you like some tea?
I would. I'll go put thecattle on. Won't be a minute do
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get closer to the fire, Lydia, you'll look chilled to the bone,
Lydia, Lydia. Where are you, Lydia, Lydia. Ah, here
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you are. I'm afraid it's lockedhere. The front door is never used.
Now come and as some che feelingbetter? A cup of tea is
soothing, isn't it? Now ifyou come with me, there's something I
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want to show you. I I'drather just sit here by the fire if
you don't mind, Please, Lydia, this is very important. Come on,
there's nothing to be afraid of.Please would rather stay here? You
must learn to trust me, notcome along. It's in the cellar.
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In the cellar, Yes, followme. I'll I'll take your hand if
you like. No, No,I'll come. There's my girl. I
really must get oil on this door. Keep forgetting Ah, there it goes.
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Mind your step now these stairs area bit steep. It's dark.
I can't see your eyes. Willad just in a moment. There's a
light switch down at the bottom.Now cold there, let there be light
you see now, what's that thatthing with a cloth over it? That's
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my surprise. Come close to Lydia. Come stand where you can see when
I take the cover off. There, that's right. Are you ready?
Yes? I guess so. Mindit's not quite finished yet. Cloth floated
to the floor, feeling the surprise. With the marble figure of a woman.
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She was delicate and graceful, withthe translucency of alabaster. She looked
like a Greek statue, and yetsomething about her was strangely contemporary. Well,
what do you think she's She's beautiful. I knew you'd like her.
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When she's finished, she'll be mymost exquisite creation. Tell me, do
you recognize her? I don't thinkso. Look carefully, it can't be
me. How could you have known? But she's so beautiful. That's how
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I see you, Lydia, asthe lovely posephony, Sephony, the loveliest
of goddesses. Not even Aphrodid hecould hold a candle to either of you.
Lydia, Would you be kind enoughto do me a favor? What
is it? Would you pose forme? There's one area that's giving me
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trouble around the eyes. Your eyeswere never quite clear when you appeared before.
If you you just stand right whereyou are and tilt your head a
little bit to the left, that'sit. That's a good This will only
take a moment or two. There'sa poem by D. H. Lawrence.
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Let me see if I can rememberhow it goes. Let me let
me guide myself with the torch ofa flower down the darker and darker stairs,
down the way. Posephony goes justnow and first frosted November appropriate.
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Don't you think I I don't knowthere? Ah, I think I've got
the essence. She just needs somerefining to live up to her model.
You can move now, and ifyou'll excuse me, I must continue working.
If I'm to finish today, Whydon't you go upstairs and have a
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look at your room? My room, Yes, it's right where it was,
just up the stairs and to theleft. Oh and Lydia, yes,
do forget about trying to escape.It's not possible. Almost in a
state of shock after the day's bizarreevents, I left the Danka nigma of
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the cellar, so if drawn bya magnet, I climbed the stairs to
the second floor. I walked downthe hallway to where my room used to
be, then, hesitated, unsureof what I might find inside, I
took a deep breath and opened thedoor. It was incredible. The room
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was just the way I left itover twenty years before. I stood there
in the doorway and gazed into thepast. There was my white canopy bed.
I dressed her, I stopped animalcollection on the blue chair in the
corner. Even my treasured copy ofBlack Beauty on the little pine desk Papa
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made for me. I couldn't believemy eyes. I thought I must be
losing my mind. First, Icouldn't remember how I ended up in the
hospital, And now now this,I wonder where that came from. I
went to the window and part ofthe organdye curtains below. In the gathering
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darkness, I could barely make outthe dim forms. Then I saw there
on the road, sitting in acart being pulled by a black pony with
a little girl wearing a big strawhat. My god, me, that
little girl is me. I wassuddenly seized by a cold panic. It's
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icy fingers gripped my skull like avice. I had to get out of
there. I ran out of theroom and down the stairs as quietly as
I could lydia, Oh, forgiveme, I didn't mean to start at
you. Please. I must getback to the city. I must go.
I'm sorry, but you can't leave, not anymore. Your return has
already been delayed. It's almost amonth overdure. What do you mean overdue
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since the accident, the accident,Yes, dear Lydia. And now you've
come home at last, You've comehome to stay. The last thing I
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remember I was walking down the streetLexington. I think it was Yes,
I remember now, I just boughtthat lavender dress. Suppose when we die,
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we do continue to exist in anotherdimension. The world beyond is imagined
in many ways, not all ofthem pleasant. Is our fate the dark
nether world of Pluto? And orcould it be that we are destined to
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Slide into the nineteen seventy nine baseballseason with Ranger Reports each weekday from
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Fort Worth CBS News. A swellof bipartisan support for President Carter for his
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Unless new problems developed, Egypt andIsrael could sign a long awaited peace
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dollars in military aid to be spreadover three or four years will be almost
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by an expenditure of money, wecan strengthen the foundation of peace which exists
A classic study of public attitudes towardradio reveals that the basic needs for information,
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the theme from the Seers Radio Theater. Goodnight, a program of mystery with
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Vincent Price as your host. Here'sa preview. Aren't you just a little
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the ghost. It's you live here. Your spirit haunts this house. The
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yellow pages, they are full ofsurprises. This is Vincent Price. Our
story begins in New York City,that mecha of delight and terror. It
is early November, less than threeweeks before Thanksgiving. A young woman,
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very pretty, is walking along LexingtonAvenue carrying a shopping bag. Her buoyant
stride and radiant face suggests she hasjust bought a new dress. She seems
oblivious to her surroundings, as carefreeas if she were strolling through a meadow
on a fine spring day. Sheapproaches forty ninth Street, Looking straight ahead,
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she begins to cross against the light. The young woman is suddenly struck
down, her reverie of a momentbefore, shattered like a glass figurine under
the wheels from a taxicab. Ohmy god, a woman you want ride
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in front of that cab? Ithought her? She dead? Domover,
domover. Somebody call an ambulance,lady, why do you step off of
a cave? O? Jeez ah, she don't look good, sha'm oven.
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Accidents are not unusual in New York. Hundreds happen every day. Yet
this one, as we shall discover, is different. It is just the
beginning of a mysterious series of events, events that will be felt, but
perhaps never explained or understood. SearsRadio Theater, a new adventure in radio
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listening. Five nights of exceptional entertainmentevery week, brought to you and Elliott
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Where America Shops, Our family isgrowing pretty big these days. We've
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isn't just right for them, theygo to Sears near them and exchange it.
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That's Seers in their stores or throughthe catalog. Sears is where America
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good for the venom that keeps goingstrong a long time. Get them primed
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of dorleat the sunshine in the coltdepartment most larger fears retail's doors. A
faithful accident has plunged a young woman'sdaydream into nightmare. Is it the real
world into which she now awakens ordoes reality lie instead on the other side
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of consciousness? Are you? Iam a doctor, miss Stevens, and
you're in a hospital. Hospital.How did I get what happened? Well,
you've had an accident. Don't tryto talk now, an accident,
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But I don't remember any accident.The last thing I remember I was walking
down the street Lexington, I thinkit was, and I had a package.
Yes, I remember now it wasa dress. I just bought that
lavender dress. Don't tire yourself,my dear. What you need now is
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sleep. Plenty of time later tothink about what happened. Doctor, I
can't remember anything. You're a verylucky young lady. It's a miracle you
weren't killed. Killed, Yes,my dear, I write, you should
be dead and did People don't talk, So be a good girl and go
to sleep. I'll check you inon you later. I stay in the
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hospital lasted almost two weeks, butit seemed like a lifetime. Although my
memory gradually returned, I still couldn'trecall the accident itself. The mind has
been known to block out traumatic events. Perhaps it was this defense mechanism that
was working within me. Finally Iwas released and allowed to return home to
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my apartment. A day after myreturn, I received a telephone call from
someone whose voice I didn't recognize.Is this the lovely Lydia? Who is
this? I'm so glad I've reachedyou at last, Lydia. I've been
phoning for days. You never seemedto be in I've been away. Please
who is this? But you don'tknow me? At least we've never met.
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But do you remember the old farmhouseon Deerfield Road in Cornwall. Wh
Yes, that's where I spent summersas a child. But how do you
know the house? Allow me tointroduce myself. My name is Alexander Pluto,
but my friends call me alex.I bought the house two years ago
from that farmer what was his name? Riska? Yes, Bill Riska.
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He bought the farm from my father. He was going to give it to
his when he was old enough tofarm it himself. Well, apparently the
boy decided he didn't want to bea farmer. The old man seemed relieved
to be rid of the place,almost as happy as I was to find
it. You see, I'm asculptor, and I've been searching for just
the right place to work. Thefarmhouse would be too remote for most people.
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I'm sure you remember the nearest neighboris three miles down the road.
Then it hasn't changed, not inthe least. I'm glad to hear that.
Mister Pluto, Oh it, pleasecall me Alex. Yes, well,
I I've often wondered what became ofthe place. I'm not surprised Billy
didn't want to stay in the sticks. He was kind of a wild kid.
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It's good to know the house belongsto someone who cares for it.
Well, it was very thoughtful ofyou to call and tell me. Not
quite the reason I called. Oh, I don't suppose you believe in spirits.
You mean ghosts. I have neverliked that word. Makes me think
of hobgoblins and Halloween and Casper,that ridiculous little cartoon character. No,
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what I'm referring to is the spiritor presence, if you will, of
an actual person. See there's oneliving in this house, mister Pluto,
Alex, I really have a timefor ghost stories today. It's been nice
talking with you, but I mustgo now. Aren't you just a little
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bit curious to know whose spirit hauntsthis house? All right? Who is
the ghost? It's you, Lydia, Your spirit haunts this house. What
are you saying? At first,it was just a feeling, you know,
like when you sense there's someone inthe room with you. I can't
believe I'm hearing this. Then youbegin to appear to me in a more
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human form. Human form, Oh, Lydia, you are lovely, your
face so innocent, your body suchform, such grace, classic, like
a marvelous Greek statue. And youhave the most exquisite porcelain white shoulders.
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I don't really have it. Whatam I saying? This is insane?
Listen, I'm sure you didn't calljust to upset me. If this is
some kind of joke, it's notvery funny. I assure you it's no
joke. What you're saying is absurd. Even if there were such thing as
ghosts or spirits, as you callthem, and only a child would believe
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that mine couldn't possibly be haunting yourhouse. It's impossible, mister Pluto,
because I'm not dead. Look theheight of fashion wherever I go requires many,
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Eddy. Listen, I'm sure youdidn't call just to upset me. If
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this is some kind of joke,it's not very funny, I assure you
it's no joke. What you're sayingis absurd. Even if there were such
thing as ghosts or spirits as youcall him, and only a child would
believe that mine couldn't possibly be hauntingyour house. It's impossible, mister Plute.
I'm not dead. I see youevery afternoon Lydia in your straw hat
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with the red ribbon, riding downthe road in your little cart behind your
pony ebony. How could you knowthat? It was almost twenty years ago
I was only ten and Ebony,How did you know my pony's name?
I know all about you, Lydia. Everything. The sculptors are known to
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be eccentric, but even allowing forartistic temperament, Alexander Pluto seemed an unusually
odd sort of man. There wassomething about his voice. It gave me
an airy feeling, and I couldn'tstop thinking about the strange things he'd said.
How did he know so much aboutme? And what was it he
wanted? The next day he phonedagain and again the following day. Hello,
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hello, Lydia, Why you keepcalling me? What do you want?
All I want is for you tocome home. What do you mean?
I am home. This is whereI live. No, Lydia,
I mean home to the farmhouse.You can't be serious. Look, mister
Pluto, that's your home now,not mine. Yes, it is mine
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and yours. You belong here.You must come home. I'm hanging up.
Please don't call me again. Goodmorning, Miss Stevens. Haven't seen
you lately? Been away? No? I've been, Yes, yes I've
been away. I'd like you tofill a prescription for me. Sure thing.
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Be glad to see what we've gotYour tranquilizers. Yes, I haven't
been sleeping. Well, oh,that's a comedy ailment in this city,
I'd say half the people that havecome in here looking for a way to
get a good night's Will it takelong? Why the prescription? Will it
take long? I'm kind of ina hurr. No, no, no,
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won't take but a minute. I'lljust type this up for you.
So you manage to get away away? Yes, away from our fair city.
Your trip? Oh, yes,where'd you go to the Bahamas?
No? I went to visit afriend in Philadelphia. Philadelphia. No,
that's not my idea of the vacation. No, if we could afford it,
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me and the missus, we'd goto those Bahamas. Plenty of sunshine,
miles and miles of white, powderybeaches. Please, I really am
in a hurry. Oh sorry,I guess I got carried away. It's
just that it's kind of a dreamof ours someday. Forgive me for saying
this, but you don't seem quiteyourself with something troubling you. No,
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no, of course not. It'sthe lack of sleep makes me a little
tense at all. Are you surethat's all it is? Yes, of
course, I'm sure right, allright, Here are your pills, Miss
Stevens. Shall I put this onyour account? Yes? Thank you.
You had better take one of thoseright away and calm those nerves of yours.
You'd think somebody was after you orsomething. Oh. I knew the
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drugs meant well, but I justcouldn't take his chatter or his crying.
I had to get back to thesolitude of my apartment, where i'd be
safe from questions I couldn't answer.Where's that blasted key? I'm coming,
I'm coming? Ah here it did? Hello, Hello, Lydia. Oh
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no, please don't say that,not when I've come all this way.
What. Yes, I'm in thecity. I've been following you. You
fought when just now when you wentto the drug store. Oh my god,
you have lovely legs. Lydia.Listen, you've got to stop this.
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If you don't stop bothering me,I'll call the police. But I
mean you no harm. I onlywant what what do you want? I
just want you to come home withme. No, I've told you no,
Please please go away and leave mealone. Oh. We quent by,
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and I heard nothing more from AlexanderPluto. No phone calls nothing.
Maybe he'd finally given up. Onemorning, I was talking on the phone
to Sheila, my closest and dearestfriend. Well, I think you should
call the police, just in casehe's still hanging around. No, they
think I was crazy, just anotherneurotic female who scared her own shadow.
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You have to get killed before thecops will help you. Oh, Lydia,
don't be so cynical. I dowe sh you'd report this guy.
Mostnuts are harmless, but well,you never know. If you don't want
to call, please, I'll doit for you. No, please,
Sheila. I want to put allthat behind me. I want to forget.
I've been like a prisoner in thisapartment. It's time I got out
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and back to work. I wantto feel like a normal person again.
Oh it's good to hear you talklike that, but I still wish Sheila.
Please all right, all right?Can we get together for lunch soon?
I'd love to. How about Wednesday? Wednesday? Let me think,
Oh yeah, that'd be great.Let's go to that little omelet place where
we all hold on a sex Sheila, there's someone at the door. It's
probably the boy of the groceries.It's you. There standing before me with
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an angular man with graying hair,dressed in a Warren cardigan and corduroy trousers.
His intense slate blue eyes seemed topenetrate right through me, holding me
transfixed, unable to speak or tomove. Hello, Media, I've come
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a week on most of these CBSRadio Network stations. So Lydia has at
last come face to face with avoice on the telephone. Drawn by some
unknown force as powerful as love itself. She's compelled to go with this stranger.
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What is the power he has overher. And where is this place?
He calls home? Where are wegoing? Don't be afraid, Lydia.
I'm an excellent driver, Hugh.How did I get here? I
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came for you, but I don'tremember. There's nothing to remember. All
that matters is that you are here. Now where are you taking me?
I told you, Lydia, I'mtaking you home. You mean we're going
to Cornwall, to the farmhouse.That's right. Oh, there's nothing to
be afraid of. I assure you, Lydia, I won't harm you.
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Now. It's a long drive,so why not just sit back and relax.
There's plenty of time for a napif you like. There's a fellow
on the back seat. I'm nottired, as you wish. I just
want you to be comfortable, comfortableif it's your idea of comfort. First
you terrorized me on the phone fordays, and now you kidnap me.
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If you don't intend to harm even, what do you want with me?
Nothing more than what I've already toldyou. You must trust me, trust
you. Yes, everything's going tobe fine, just fine, Everything would
be fine. How I wish Icould believe that. I tried to make
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sense of what was happening, butmy head was clouded with fear. Sheila
was right, I should have calledthe police. Are you warm enough,
Lidia? This heated doesn't work verywell. I'm afraid. Yes, I'm
fine. Are you sure there's anafghan in the back? Thank you?
I'm not cold. I tried tothink of everything. I so wanted this
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to be a pleasant trip, butthe weather isn't cooperating. Is it this
time of the year. I supposewe should be grateful it's not a snowstorm.
I haven't put the chains in thetrunk of this old Gelapayette. I've
been so wrapped up in my work. I've lost all track of time.
It's your work, Yes, Iguess you've forgotten. I'm a sculptor.
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This past month, I've been workingon something terribly exciting. It's but it's
the most beautiful thing I've ever done. That is it will be when it's
I am so anxious for you tosee it. Is that why you kidnapped
me? I do wish you'd stopusing that word. It sounds so villainous.
It makes me feel like a commoncriminal. Well, aren't you hardly?
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I'm afraid I've never been common anythingthere wasn't time. As an artist,
my life has been devoted solely tothe quest for beauty, a beauty
that is as timeless as love.Did you know that true beauty, like
true love, is a vision ofthe eternal? You see, Lydia,
there are other planes, other dimensionsof existence. If we don't fear them,
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they reveal themselves to us, justas your spirit has revealed itself to
me. I don't understand any ofthis. Well, perhaps you will when
we get to the farmhouse. We'realmost out of gas. There's a station
around the next bend. Yes,there it is afternoon. Help you missed
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up? Yes, Philadelphy fleas regular. Hey, winter's coming all right.
She's been pouring down like this mostall day. Do I look like she
wants to let up? Neither yourfolks come far that we're driving up from
the city. City folks say,and don't get down to the city much.
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Myself, the wife and I wemake a trip into Hartford about once
a year before Christmas. Wife likesto shop and them fancy stores for the
grandkids. Do you know them stars? Ma'am? No, No, I
don't you are? You're feeling allright? Ma'am, you look kind of
pale. Yes, I'm fine,Alex. If you don't mind, I'd
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like to go to the restroom.Kind of wait till we get home.
You said I should trust you.Can't you trust me? I want to,
Lydia. Can you tell me whereyour ladies are? Miss? Please?
Right round back, ma'am. Youcan't miss it at a run,
though you'd be soaked clear through.Heh. Women all alike. Hey,
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mister can't go to a gas stationwith us? Pay him a visit to
the ladies. Oh oh, pleaseplease answer operator operator, get me the
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police and hurry what city please?I don't care any city. There are
a lot of police stations in Connecticut, ma'am. I have to know which
one you want, but I don'tknow. Are you calling on a payphone,
ma'am? Yes, yes, Iam, and look on the phone
book. Did you tell you thatwhat city is closest to you? Soba?
Yes? Here it is New Milford. It's New Milford. Thank you
one moment, please, I'll connectyou. Please hurry New Milford Police.
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McConnell's speaking. I'll take that phoneanty anybody there. I did want to
trust you, Lydia. Oh,Jenney resumed in silence. I slumped down
in the seat, my forehead pressedagainst the cold window. I stared out
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at the gray, rain swollen sky, a bleak November landscape flashing by.
My mind and body were drain.I was unable to struggle further against a
force I couldn't understand. Enveloped bya sense of foreboding, I awaited my
fate. As the car moved northwardthrough the rain, toward toward what Late
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that afternoon, the car finally turnedoff the main highway onto a narrow dirt
road surrounded by dense woods. We'realmost home, Lydia. About three miles
further on we came to a clearing. There, on a knoll, set
back from the road, beneath theprotective branches of two ancient elm trees,
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stood the farmhouse. As the cararrived in front of the house, the
rain suddenly stopped and the sun brokethrough the clouds. Vapors of steam curled
upwards from the roof toward the brighteningsky. The house glistened like a memory.
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Well here we are, come,Come on, get out of the
car Lydia house. Everything it's alljust as it used to be. Do
come and have a look around.Yes, all right. For the moment,
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I forgot my fear in my joyat seeing again my beloved childhood home.
I wandered over the property, fondmemories returning as I rediscovered familiar places.
It was as if I never left. There was a vegetable garden all
tilled and ready for winter, andthe apple orchard, even the old ladder
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resting against the same crooked tree.The The biggest surprise was my swing.
I ran toward it as eagerly asif I were greeting an old friend.
How I used to love that swing. I'd sit for hours, just swinging
back and forth, looking out overthe trees across the road, treaming of
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the places I was going to go, the people i'd meet someday. Sometimes
i'd see a storm coming way off, and suddenly it would be there,
and I'd run for dear life tothe potting shed. The potting shed,
I wondered if it was still therebehind the house. It was unchanged.
I pulled open the rickety door andwent inside. Ah, here you are.
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Ah. I was just looking around, of course you were. There's
so much to see, isn't there. Yes, it's all so familiar.
I know it's just as you rememberedit exactly. It's all exactly the same.
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Uh. I can't believe it.Believe it, Lydia. It's as
real as you or me. ButI still don't understand. Why have you
brought me here? You'll know soonenough. It's not something I can tell
you. You must discover it foryourself. Now let's go inside. I
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home. We entered the house throughthe kitchen. As the door closed behind
me, I was plunged further intoa world, which, unlike Alice's wonderland,
was uncanny and its familiarity. Itwas as if the past twenty years
never existed and I was once againa child of ten. The kitchen was
my favorite room, always so warmand cozy. What good times we had
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there, The huge stone fireplace,a Dutch oven, the yellow dotteds with
curtains at the window, on thetable with a wooden bowl that looked like
the one mother kept filled with fruit, only now it held red pomegranates.
How does it look to you?It hasn't changed. It's a wonderful room.
Don't you think there's so much ofyou in it. I feel as
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if I'm dreaming, as though anyminute I'll wake up and I'll be back
in my apartment and none of thiswill have ever happened. You are not
dreaming, Lydia. But this can'tall be real, I assure you it
is. Now, come along,I want you to see the rest of
the house. This is incredible.The living room it's the same, even
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the furniture. Where did you getthis furniture? It was here when I
bought the place. But it looksso Yes, it does look nice,
doesn't it. It furniture belonged tomy family. I know, you know?
How could you know. I justknow everything was in exactly the same
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place. A dining table, acouch under the window, a cobblers bench
Papa bought for a coffee table,and her mother's rocking chair. Yes,
I like that chair myself. It'squite pleasant to sit there in the evening
and read. But how did youknow know what? How did you know
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where everything went? I told you, I just know. That clock?
Where did you get it? Whichone the one that just chimed there on
the mantelpiece? Oh? That onea beauty, isn't it. That clock
belonged to my great grandmother. I'msure my parents took it with them when
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they sold the house. Why isit here? Please, Lydia, no
more questions. Now there seems tobe a chill in the house. I'll
make a fire. Thoughtless of me. I should have warmed the house while
you were outside looking around. Yes, would have been nice and warm by
Now, please, won't you tellme what this is all about? What
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do you want with me? Nothing? I want nothing? And why?
Why? What? Why have youbrought me here? You mustn't try so
hard to understand. Some things can'tbe explained. They they just happened,
happened yes, as I told youin the car, there exists a dimension
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other than the one we're accustomed to. Some people would call it supernatural,
but I disliked that word. Iprefer to think of it as a spiritual
thing, not in the religious butin the mystical sense. Mystical, yes,
something that can't be explained rationally orscientifically, like spirit precisely. Ah,
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now that's better. Do come andwarm yourself, litiar. When when
does my spirit appear to you?Different times, most often while I'm working.
It has to do with creativity.It makes one more receptive to other
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levels of awareness, levels of awareness. Yes, it's very simple, really,
like being tuned into a different radiostation. Has anyone else ever seen
this spirit? No? Even ifthere were others here, chances are they
wouldn't notice anything unusual. Not beingtuned in properly, one has to be
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on the right frequency that glimpse theworld beyond beyond that means beyond life,
doesn't it. That's right. That'swhat I don't understand. How can there
be a spirit if the person isn'tdead? Would you like some tea?
I would. I'll go put thecattle on. Won't be a minute do
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get closer to the fire, Lydia, you'll look chilled to the bone,
Lydia, Lydia. Where are you, Lydia, Lydia. Ah, here
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you are. I'm afraid it's lockedhere. The front door is never used.
Now come and as some che feelingbetter? A cup of tea is
soothing, isn't it? Now ifyou come with me, there's something I
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want to show you. I I'drather just sit here by the fire if
you don't mind, Please, Lydia, this is very important. Come on,
there's nothing to be afraid of.Please would rather stay here? You
must learn to trust me, notcome along. It's in the cellar.
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In the cellar, Yes, followme. I'll I'll take your hand if
you like. No, No,I'll come. There's my girl. I
really must get oil on this door. Keep forgetting Ah, there it goes.
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Mind your step now these stairs area bit steep. It's dark.
I can't see your eyes. Willad just in a moment. There's a
light switch down at the bottom.Now cold there, let there be light
you see now, what's that thatthing with a cloth over it? That's
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my surprise. Come close to Lydia. Come stand where you can see when
I take the cover off. There, that's right. Are you ready?
Yes? I guess so. Mindit's not quite finished yet. Cloth floated
to the floor, feeling the surprise. With the marble figure of a woman.
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She was delicate and graceful, withthe translucency of alabaster. She looked
like a Greek statue, and yetsomething about her was strangely contemporary. Well,
what do you think she's She's beautiful. I knew you'd like her.
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When she's finished, she'll be mymost exquisite creation. Tell me, do
you recognize her? I don't thinkso. Look carefully, it can't be
me. How could you have known? But she's so beautiful. That's how
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I see you, Lydia, asthe lovely posephony, Sephony, the loveliest
of goddesses. Not even Aphrodid hecould hold a candle to either of you.
Lydia, Would you be kind enoughto do me a favor? What
is it? Would you pose forme? There's one area that's giving me
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trouble around the eyes. Your eyeswere never quite clear when you appeared before.
If you you just stand right whereyou are and tilt your head a
little bit to the left, that'sit. That's a good This will only
take a moment or two. There'sa poem by D. H. Lawrence.
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Let me see if I can rememberhow it goes. Let me let
me guide myself with the torch ofa flower down the darker and darker stairs,
down the way. Posephony goes justnow and first frosted November appropriate.
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Don't you think I I don't knowthere? Ah, I think I've got
the essence. She just needs somerefining to live up to her model.
You can move now, and ifyou'll excuse me, I must continue working.
If I'm to finish today, Whydon't you go upstairs and have a
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look at your room? My room, Yes, it's right where it was,
just up the stairs and to theleft. Oh and Lydia, yes,
do forget about trying to escape.It's not possible. Almost in a
state of shock after the day's bizarreevents, I left the Danka nigma of
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the cellar, so if drawn bya magnet, I climbed the stairs to
the second floor. I walked downthe hallway to where my room used to
be, then, hesitated, unsureof what I might find inside, I
took a deep breath and opened thedoor. It was incredible. The room
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was just the way I left itover twenty years before. I stood there
in the doorway and gazed into thepast. There was my white canopy bed.
I dressed her, I stopped animalcollection on the blue chair in the
corner. Even my treasured copy ofBlack Beauty on the little pine desk Papa
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made for me. I couldn't believemy eyes. I thought I must be
losing my mind. First, Icouldn't remember how I ended up in the
hospital, And now now this,I wonder where that came from. I
went to the window and part ofthe organdye curtains below. In the gathering
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darkness, I could barely make outthe dim forms. Then I saw there
on the road, sitting in acart being pulled by a black pony with
a little girl wearing a big strawhat. My god, me, that
little girl is me. I wassuddenly seized by a cold panic. It's
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icy fingers gripped my skull like avice. I had to get out of
there. I ran out of theroom and down the stairs as quietly as
I could lydia, Oh, forgiveme, I didn't mean to start at
you. Please. I must getback to the city. I must go.
I'm sorry, but you can't leave, not anymore. Your return has
already been delayed. It's almost amonth overdure. What do you mean overdue
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since the accident, the accident,Yes, dear Lydia. And now you've
come home at last, You've comehome to stay. The last thing I
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I remember now, I just boughtthat lavender dress. Suppose when we die,
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we do continue to exist in anotherdimension. The world beyond is imagined
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day A good way to start theday. From WFAA News Top fifty seven.
I'm Charles Osgod, CBS News,inviting you to get a head start
on the morning news with the Queelerand all the newspeople here on WFAA Dallas
Fort Worth CBS News. A swellof bipartisan support for President Carter for his
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achievement in the Middle East. I'mRita Sands reporting on the CBS Radio Network.
Unless new problems developed, Egypt andIsrael could sign a long awaited peace
treaty within two weeks. Their defenseministers will arrive in Washington this week to
work out final details. There'll bea review of US military commitments, which
play an important role in the treaty. Pentagon sources say the estimated four billion
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dollars in military aid to be spreadover three or four years will be almost
equally divided between Israel and Egypt.Key congressional leaders say it will be money
well spent. Former President Richard Nixonagrees. While peace cannot be purchased by
dollars a loan, and no oneshould ever make that fatal mistake, if
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by an expenditure of money, wecan strengthen the foundation of peace which exists
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