December 3, 2023 • 29 mins
"The Shadow" is a classic radio drama series that originally aired from 1930 to 1954. It was created by Walter B. Gibson and followed the adventures of a mysterious vigilante known as "The Shadow." The show's protagonist, Lamont Cranston, is a wealthy man who has the ability to cloud the minds of criminals and become invisible, effectively becoming a crime-fighting vigilante. The Shadow works in the shadows to combat various forms of crime and corruption in the city, often accompanied by his loyal companion and love interest, Margo Lane. The series was known for its suspenseful and mysterious storytelling, featuring thrilling crime-solving and action-packed adventures, making it a beloved and enduring part of the golden age of radio drama. "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!" was a famous catchphrase associated with the show.
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Who knows what evil lurks in thehearts of men. The Shadow knows,
(00:54):
ladies and gentlemen. Before the curtaingoes up on the Shadow's latest exciting adventure,
let me say this. I knowthat every one of you who owns
a car is looking for a tirethat will give you the greatest protection against
skids and blowouts. And you'd liketo get that tire without paying a price
premium, wouldn't you. Well,I'm going to tell you about a new
kind of tire that will stop youquicker, safer on wet, slippery roads
(01:15):
than you've ever stopped before. Thisamazing tire is the new Goodrich Spell g
O O D R I c HGoodrich Safety silver Town with the Life Saber
tread. And when Goodrich engineers developedthis new tire, they certainly did a
job. For instance, you allknow what a windshield wiper does to a
(01:36):
wind shield, Well, motorists,that's exactly what the new silver Town Life
Saver tread does to rain drenched roads. Because the never ending spiral bars of
this tread actually act like a wholebattery of windshield wipers. They sweep the
water right and left, they forceit out through the deep grooves. Thus
a dry track is made for therubber to grip, and that means when
(01:59):
you're riding a long on wet pavementsand have to step on the break,
you'll get the quickest non skid stopsyou've ever seen. Believe me, there's
nothing like a silver Town stop tomake you feel secure. And when you
realize that Silvertowns are also the onlytires that give you the famous golden fly
protection against high speed blowouts, isit any wonder this new tire is called
(02:20):
the safest thing on wheels. Havethis life saving tire put on your car
before it's too late. There isno extra cost. The Shadow Lamont Cranston,
a man of wealth, a studentof science, and a master of
other people's minds, devotes his lifeto righting wrongs, protecting the innocent,
and punishing the guilty using advanced methodsthat may ultimately become available to all law
(02:46):
enforcement agencies. Cranston is known ofthe underworld as the Shadow, never seen,
only heard as haunting to superstitious minds, as a ghost as inevitable as
a guilty conscience. The Shadow's trueidentity is known only to his constant friend
and aid Margoline Today's story the WhiteGod. Gentlemen, a Navy department has
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today asked me to give ship ownersthis message. We have today abandoned our
extensive air and sea efforts to tracethe missing yacht owned by Rudolph Hoyt,
millionaire scientists, last reported in thatregion of the South Pacific, which has
in recent months come to be knownas the Graveyard of the Pacific because of
more than fifteen disappearances of ocean vesselsin that area within the past two years.
(03:36):
Admiral CHAMPIONI we ship owners beg youto continue your investigation to clear up
this mystery of the South Pacific.All this publicity of missing ships, especially
the publicity about the White Yacht,has ruined our Pacific shipping. Why we
can't even sign up a crew toship on our office, I tell you,
Admiral, this mystery must be clearedup at once, gentlemen. Gentlemen,
the Navy is just as anxious asyou are to solve this mystery because
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of our naval operations in the Pacific, But we can't find a single explanation.
May I make a suggestion, Admiral, don't bother to try and see
where I am. Gentlemen, youcan't see me. Well, who are
you? I am the shadow Shadow, You're that invisible man who's always helping
the police and always working against crime. By right, sir, I do
have the power of invisibility to concealmy being and my motions from assisting authorities
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in maintaining law and order and peace. Can you help us solve this mystery
of the Graveyard of the Pacific?I think that possibly I can, gentlemen,
just you know something about it.I have a strong suspicion that the
Graveyard of the Pacific is really thework of some individuals. It's incredible.
It isn't logical that a group ofmodern ships, each one man by an
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expert crew equipped with the finest marinedevices, should disappear unless they were made
to disappear. Man. With alittle help from you, Admiral, I
think I can prove it. Well, what do you want of me?
Burst a fast cruiser to take medown to the South Pacific, second an
airplane to cruise around among the islands. But you insist you must stay as
a shadow. I'm sorry, sir, but my identity must remain unknown.
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Besides that, I feel that Iwill be of greater value to the venture.
If our enemies cannot see me,very well, I think I can
arrange it through Washington. How manywill be in your party? A young
woman named Margo Lane will be yourvisible passenger. I will be with her,
but you will not see me.You will advise the crew of my
invisible state is the Shadow, andtell them to obey my voice even though
they cannot see me. Anyone elsecoming now, just Margo Lane and the
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Shadow I would be successful. Whois it? It's the Shadow? Margo?
May I come in your cabin fora moment? Certainly you may lock
the door now I'm inside. Nowwe're all alone. Yes, it's safe
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for you to become visible now asla month Cranston, Well, how do
you like being an honored guest ona Navy cruiser? Very exciting the month?
But how do you expect to findthe Great Yard of the Pacific?
No one knows where it is.Well, that's what I've got to find
out. How I'm not quite sureyet? Is there any way I can
help? Yes, Margo, thiscruiser will put in at one of the
South Pacific islands tomorrow. I'm goingashore. I may be gone a day
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or two or a week trying toget my information. I'd like you to
stay close to the short wave setthe moment I have any information, I'll
contact you. Please, as soonas you hear from me, do the
thing I ask you to do atonce, Margo Lane, Margo Lane,
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stand by for orders. Have acommander of the cruiser prepare a seaplane for
im mediate takeoff. I'm leaving thisisland where I've been for the last few
days and returning the ship once.I believe I know what happened to the
missing ships. You were born theseaplane with me and the Shadow. Where's
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the seaplane taking us? Taking usto an island on which there lives someone
the natives called the White God.A witch doctor told me about him.
White God, yes, a witchdoctor's description. It's obviously a man who
has managed to overawe the ignorant nativeswith elemental experiments in chemistry and physics,
which he passes off as magic pilot. Pilot What made the plane lurch like
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that? I don't know. Shadow, there it is again. Something's tugging
at the plane, talking at theairplane path, but the motives have gone
crazy. I can hardly keep themgoing, Pilot, were descending, you
were being pulled down. Look we'rehaving caught that island. No right,
Margo. Look the wreckage of boatscrashed on the rocks, deserted in those
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courts. This must be, yes, Margo, the graveyard of the Pacific.
Play. Consider the wings of theplane. The primats are being thrown
out. Yes, there goes awhite ring island. Can you level the
plane off? I can't travel awfullot. Be better than the plane at
the bottom of the seas. Okay, get ready to jump. We're gonna
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hit the water whole. President ofthe Cotton Book Shadow count on me.
Cool. Good thing you leveled off. So we landed on top of the
water instead of beneath it. Pilot, Yeah, prayed for romone. I
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couldn't make it. Well. II suggest we make for the island there
and pay a visit a white god. Yeah, so this island is the
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graveyard of the PACIFICO both come,This is me that it is. Look
at them piled up on the rocks, some of them out there in the
cove. Eh, they all lookdeserted. Here is I don't see a
soul, but I can't get iswhat happened to the plane. It was
like a magnet pulling is what mightbe more truth than poetry. Who knows
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what you mean? I have anidea that this island is a huge magnet.
A natural magnet, you mean,because of rocks in them? No,
a man made magnet. Are youkidding? No, I don't think
so. There's no natural magnet strongenough to attract ocean vessels and cripple airplanes.
What you see this hill in backof us? Yeah, it is
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up like a sugar cone. Iwas noticing it from the air. There's
a huge hole in the top ofthe hill. This must be an extinct
volcano. I have an idea thatit's been converted into a magnet, a
magnet pulling ships to that destruction rumnatives there. It's like a big time
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going on the other side of thathill. Yes, it's called for a
little expiration. I'll go. Youand the pilot wait here next. I'm
not going to miss the fireworks.I'm going with you too, all right,
If you insist the go around theother side of the island and come
up through the woods, that's offthe plane. We don't want to stumble
into any cannibals. Okay, let'sgo. I hope they don't try to
make a banquet of us. Yeah, yeah, we can see them all
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right from here here they are.Boy, just look at those natives.
There must be several hundred of youhate it up. Judging from those fires
and that feast laid out on theground, they must be having some ceremonial
Look from the top of the hill. Well, I'll be where did he
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come from, the white gud?He came right out on the top of
the hill. You're right, Bodo. Remember I told you that that hill
was a nick stick park. Youknow that means that the inside of it,
running down through it as a shaftthrough which the volcano used to erupt.
He merely made his appearance by comingup through that shaft. See,
the natives seem to think he's agod by the way they're acting exactly,
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He's made them think that he hassome magic power by which he comes up
right through that hill. Look,Holy sat the nails are carrying a white
man up the hill to him.That white man is rudelp Height. Hey.
Look they're setting burning torches to theguy's body. Then they're going to
sacrifice height, sacrifice him, yes, a human sacrifice to the White God.
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And against stop thought against me,ah, mister hoy Ah, ah
column, Why parlance, what areyou doing there since being dismissed as your
assistant from the university? Is theWhite I have become a god, a
god, yes, a white godhere at the mouth of this volcano,
able to perform racluse of magic,even to pull great vessels and lighters from
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the courses, to see to myvery feet. You recognize that magic,
mister Hoyt. Recognize it? Ofcourse I recognize it. It's the whole
new application of principles of magnetism whichyou stole from me. Harsh words to
speak to a god, mister Hoyt, you must be punished on it.
Burn him, apply the torches tohis bile. I have a psycholo.
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I'll stop them, Collen, I'llstop this torture. The fact that you
are sailing what in a range ofmy magnetic devices. We share fate,
share coincidence. But I am delightedto have had the opportunity of receiving you
and your holley. What have youdone with my daughter? Were the others
from the yart, you will jointhem present where are they in the very
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bowels of this volcano? My friend? You mean you've thrown them down in
the mccrator precisely are you? Ahthe tenth violence, mister White? The
natives resent having the cart of fules. And now I kill two birds with
one stone. First I remove youand become the sole possessor of the secrets
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of my magnetic theory. Here youmean. And secondly I satisfy the first
of my subjects for a sacrifice.See Colantland Trail to the Old the White
God Trial, down to the sacredmortain Malad Burry me, ladies and gentlemen.
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How will the Shadow defeat his enemythis time? In a few moments?
Will continue this exciting story. Butmeanwhile, motorists, remember this.
The road you travel on may beperfectly safe when dry, but deadly enemies
when yes, beware, roads maybe skid traps when wet. Don't take
chances, motorists, especially when youcan now get a tire that will stop
you quicker safer on a wet pavementthan you've ever stopped before. And that
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tire is the new Gudrich Silver Townwith the life saber tread, the never
ending spiral bars of this life sabertread really go to work on a wet,
slippery road like a whole battery ofwindshield wipers. These bars sweep the
water right and left. They forceit out through the deep drainage groove.
This means your tire actually has adrier, safer road surface to grit.
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This means real protection against the hazardzone of motoring. Think of the added
security for yourself and your family fromthis road drying tire, and then remember
that Gudrich silver Towns also offer yougolden ply protection against high speed blowouts.
Is it any wonder that this newsilver Town is called the safest thing on
wheels? Don't buy any tire untilyou've at least seen this new good Rich
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silver Town. Don't buy any tireuntil you've ridden on this new tire and
discovered what it means to be savedby a silver Town. Stop half of
your footing going down this rope ladder. Yeah, shut up, you slip,
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You're done for no foothold on theside of this crater. You think
that's the way the White God cameup out of this vocato on this ladder.
I'm sure of it. I cancare water below us. There must
be some entrance from the sea intothe bottom of the crater. Here.
What he doubt it does is comeinto the crater from the sea, then
climb the rope ladder to the top. And the natives think it's some hocus
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pocus, and a primitive mind iseager to believe anything that savors of the
supernatural. Wait a moment, Whatis it? Wires? Look, there
dozens of them embedded in the rock. The whole crater must be wired for
what this must be the way hegenerates the magnetic force into the hill through
these wires. You see. Itold you this whole crater can be converted
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into a huge magnet. Yeah.I see the wires right here. You
go. Don't touch them. Oh, hang on to the ladder, Margo,
Hang on your life, YouTube Piet. I can't hold on, Shadow,
something's pulling me off the ladder.If you need to metal on you
at all? Yes, my flyingbelt, and then take it off quickly.
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I can't get it off. He'sput it off. The happened to
it? Please come on the invisiblestaber alone. I want to see you
are right? That flying belt,the magnetism and the mountain attracted it.
It dashed him against the wall tothe hill. He is touching the wire,
said, the whole magnetizing mechanism going, Margo, We're inside a huge,
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monstrous magnet that will pull everything metallicfor miles around to destruction. They
the vibrations taking me up. Ican't hold on any longer. Water down
below. Dive into it, Marco. Maybe we can find a way to
swim out of here. Dive Marco. All right, good, I'm following
you. Well, there must beit must be a way to get out
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of here, out of the sea, and I'll find it before the mountain
crushes to death too with its vibrations. Vibrations start. Yes, the White
God must have turned off the power. I'm lucky for us he did.
Oh the mat did you hear that? Yes? And if it sounds like
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a woman, look, Marco,there she is hanging on that ledge at
the side of the cabin. Let'sswim over and get her seem more dead.
A lie. You must get onall right. I can manage the
border, all right, you've gotit, all right, take it someplace
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we can break it to it.Hear a story. I believe in you,
mister shadow. Although I cannot seeyou. Yes, I'm Rudolph Hoyd's
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daughter. I was supposed to besacrificed like all the rest, but I
landed on the water and it brokemy fall. Tell me, my father,
do you know what whether is he? Yes, I'm sorry to say
he's dead. Oh, as longas that fiendish White God exists, that
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monstrous magnets discommand, not a soul, not a ship of miles around the
sea. He must be destroyed,and I need your help to do it.
I'll do anything good. Wasn't yourfather engaged on some research with new
applications of magnetism. Yes, hadhe completed them, magnetism would have taken
the place of motors and steam enginesand things. I thought. So.
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Did he have any enemies in theworld? Only one, a man named
Lloyd Carlin, who used to behis assistant. Then the White God is
Lloyd Carlin. He knew about yourfather's work in magnetic phenomena. He tried
to steal them. I remember that, Miss Hoyt. Are you willing to
help me try and destroy this monster? Yes? Anything good tonight? Then
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we'll show the White God and hisnatives a brand of magic. Magic to
night Margo, you, miss Hoyt, and I shall perform the magical feat
of reviving the dead in a burstof glory. I'm careful, careful on
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the steps of the ladder. It'sheight, I am, mister Shadow.
They're almost at the top. Shadow. Will you tell me why you wanted
me to wear this bulletproof vest?Be found on the yacht. It's possible
Carlin has a gun. That vestmight come in handy. Oh remember,
a wooden boat is waiting on theshore by the woods. Run for it
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when I tell you, Yes,Shadow, I imagine Margaret will be directing
the searchlight from the yacht on tothe top of the hill any moment.
Now there it is. Now seeyou a light shooting across the mouth of
the shaft. Yes, and we'reready for your return from the dead.
Step out of the shaft under therim of the crater. Right. Look,
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the natives have seen me. Icould hardly miss you in that searchlight.
Now walk down to that ledge.I'll be with you, although you
and the natives cannot see me.Yes, mister shadd Remember let me do
the talking. A masculine voice comingfrom a reincarnated woman should prove quite a
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shock Hello there, Your voice hasthem all afraid, just the effect I
anticipated. Bring your white guard tome, heathens, Let me challenge him
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for what he is, A pileand murderous impostor. Will the natives understand
that kind of language? So Ithink so, Carlin hears me. That's
all I'm interested in. Where isthis white guard? Come here, impostor,
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and be exposed before your master beexposed for what you are here he
comes now, mister mister shadow,I remember, don't be afraid, miss
Hoyight, no matter what he does. Greetings, mister Carlin, what nonsense
is this? Nonsense? Yes?Your voice? Miss why? Yes?
I lost my voice temporarily when youthrew me down into the crater. When
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it returned, it was the voiceof a man. I'm in no mood
for joking. You're hiding in theshadows and speaking or at least height there?
Who are you? Where are you? Tell me? I'll shoot a
waste of bullets shooting into the shadows, Carlin, mile hitch off. You
think you can shoot invisibility or shame? Colin? You a great scientist,
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whoever you are, you can't stopme from destroying at least height here.
As I destroyed her father. Come, come, all of you, that
earl must be destroyed in the sacrificeto the White God. Throw her into
the crater, I say, comeand destroy this woman. I am afraid
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your power over the natives is slipping, Colin, and I'll throw into the
crater myself. Keep away from her, who knock me down? Where you
are? Getting you off the ground, Colin, God shouldn't get so glod
to ear kill you wherever you are. I'll glut my friend, smirk.
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A white girl returns from the earthwhere you threw her. Why because the
earth's angry with the White God.He rejects his sacrifices the girl. If
you're new and only god her,I I am the White God. Watch,
I'll show you with a fire frommy gun wat chancy, see how
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much of a goddess she is.You see, Colin, even gunfire can't
destroy it must therefore fallen Your nativedisciples. Don't like to be disillusioned about
all your claims to power. Ishan't dissolution him you already have. First,
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Miss Hoyt returns from the all destroyingsacrifice. Then your gunfire fails to
praise her. What other magic haveyou to hold your followers. I'll soil
shadow. He's running up the hill. He's running to the top of the
crater. Start his magnetizing device.We must stop him. A soil put
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off powerful here shadow shadow. Ifhe starts that magnetizing device, will all
be shaken from the crater to ourdeath. And run for your life.
Miss hoy runs the boat, gothrough the words, but he's already at
the top of the crater. Run, run for your life. I'm going
to stop him if I can.A powerful, my invisible friend. When
my magnetic mechanism shakes you off thehill to the rocks pillow as crises you
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no, no, I tached thewires and I am right beside you.
Carlin, I'm right beside you.You shouldn't have wasted so much time talking
if he wanted to escape me.But you're too late. I started a
magnet working Dorf Hoyt would have revolutionizedall industry with this invention. Balls of
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steel would have taken the place ofdynamos and turbines, iron threads would have
the planeted motors and engines. Itresolves my three, my three, you
You can cut it all as aninstrument of death and destruction, use it
to bore the natives who did yourfiendish bidding against the unfortunate soldier. You
are here. The natives are comingto kill you, Carlin. They'll throw
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you down the crater. Who willdie too, all of you. The
power of the magnetum creatures. Unlessit is turned off, it will wabreak
the mountaino and to the crumbles.To you have it, you will die
too. Miss hoy who is there? Is I the shadow? But I
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thought, weren't you killed with therest of them when the volcano crumble?
Evidently not, Miss Hoyt, Butyou were up there with Lloyd Carlin.
I heard you talking to him asI ran for this boat. You heard
my voice, but I was onlya little way behind you. By the
simple trick of ventriloquism, Miss Carlinthought I was standing next to him in
the shadows when his own invention destroyedhim those unfortunate Native. Then that's the
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end of my father's invention. Shadow. Yes, Miss, With your father
and Carlin gone, we must waituntil another mind can conceive it again.
Until then, the secret must remainentombed in the volcano of the White God.
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You have been listening to a dramatizedversion of one of the many copyrighted
stories which appear in the Shadow magazine, The Weed of Crime, Bear's Bitter
Food. Crime does not pay.The Shadow knows all the characters and all
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the places named afterctiis Any similarity topersons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Who knows what evil lurks in thehearts of men. The Shadow knows,
(00:54):
ladies and gentlemen. Before the curtaingoes up on the Shadow's latest exciting adventure,
let me say this. I knowthat every one of you who owns
a car is looking for a tirethat will give you the greatest protection against
skids and blowouts. And you'd liketo get that tire without paying a price
premium, wouldn't you. Well,I'm going to tell you about a new
kind of tire that will stop youquicker, safer on wet, slippery roads
(01:15):
than you've ever stopped before. Thisamazing tire is the new Goodrich Spell g
O O D R I c HGoodrich Safety silver Town with the Life Saber
tread. And when Goodrich engineers developedthis new tire, they certainly did a
job. For instance, you allknow what a windshield wiper does to a
(01:36):
wind shield, Well, motorists,that's exactly what the new silver Town Life
Saver tread does to rain drenched roads. Because the never ending spiral bars of
this tread actually act like a wholebattery of windshield wipers. They sweep the
water right and left, they forceit out through the deep grooves. Thus
a dry track is made for therubber to grip, and that means when
(01:59):
you're riding a long on wet pavementsand have to step on the break,
you'll get the quickest non skid stopsyou've ever seen. Believe me, there's
nothing like a silver Town stop tomake you feel secure. And when you
realize that Silvertowns are also the onlytires that give you the famous golden fly
protection against high speed blowouts, isit any wonder this new tire is called
(02:20):
the safest thing on wheels. Havethis life saving tire put on your car
before it's too late. There isno extra cost. The Shadow Lamont Cranston,
a man of wealth, a studentof science, and a master of
other people's minds, devotes his lifeto righting wrongs, protecting the innocent,
and punishing the guilty using advanced methodsthat may ultimately become available to all law
(02:46):
enforcement agencies. Cranston is known ofthe underworld as the Shadow, never seen,
only heard as haunting to superstitious minds, as a ghost as inevitable as
a guilty conscience. The Shadow's trueidentity is known only to his constant friend
and aid Margoline Today's story the WhiteGod. Gentlemen, a Navy department has
(03:15):
today asked me to give ship ownersthis message. We have today abandoned our
extensive air and sea efforts to tracethe missing yacht owned by Rudolph Hoyt,
millionaire scientists, last reported in thatregion of the South Pacific, which has
in recent months come to be knownas the Graveyard of the Pacific because of
more than fifteen disappearances of ocean vesselsin that area within the past two years.
(03:36):
Admiral CHAMPIONI we ship owners beg youto continue your investigation to clear up
this mystery of the South Pacific.All this publicity of missing ships, especially
the publicity about the White Yacht,has ruined our Pacific shipping. Why we
can't even sign up a crew toship on our office, I tell you,
Admiral, this mystery must be clearedup at once, gentlemen. Gentlemen,
the Navy is just as anxious asyou are to solve this mystery because
(03:59):
of our naval operations in the Pacific, But we can't find a single explanation.
May I make a suggestion, Admiral, don't bother to try and see
where I am. Gentlemen, youcan't see me. Well, who are
you? I am the shadow Shadow, You're that invisible man who's always helping
the police and always working against crime. By right, sir, I do
have the power of invisibility to concealmy being and my motions from assisting authorities
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in maintaining law and order and peace. Can you help us solve this mystery
of the Graveyard of the Pacific?I think that possibly I can, gentlemen,
just you know something about it.I have a strong suspicion that the
Graveyard of the Pacific is really thework of some individuals. It's incredible.
It isn't logical that a group ofmodern ships, each one man by an
(04:41):
expert crew equipped with the finest marinedevices, should disappear unless they were made
to disappear. Man. With alittle help from you, Admiral, I
think I can prove it. Well, what do you want of me?
Burst a fast cruiser to take medown to the South Pacific, second an
airplane to cruise around among the islands. But you insist you must stay as
a shadow. I'm sorry, sir, but my identity must remain unknown.
(05:02):
Besides that, I feel that Iwill be of greater value to the venture.
If our enemies cannot see me,very well, I think I can
arrange it through Washington. How manywill be in your party? A young
woman named Margo Lane will be yourvisible passenger. I will be with her,
but you will not see me.You will advise the crew of my
invisible state is the Shadow, andtell them to obey my voice even though
they cannot see me. Anyone elsecoming now, just Margo Lane and the
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Shadow I would be successful. Whois it? It's the Shadow? Margo?
May I come in your cabin fora moment? Certainly you may lock
the door now I'm inside. Nowwe're all alone. Yes, it's safe
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for you to become visible now asla month Cranston, Well, how do
you like being an honored guest ona Navy cruiser? Very exciting the month?
But how do you expect to findthe Great Yard of the Pacific?
No one knows where it is.Well, that's what I've got to find
out. How I'm not quite sureyet? Is there any way I can
help? Yes, Margo, thiscruiser will put in at one of the
South Pacific islands tomorrow. I'm goingashore. I may be gone a day
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or two or a week trying toget my information. I'd like you to
stay close to the short wave setthe moment I have any information, I'll
contact you. Please, as soonas you hear from me, do the
thing I ask you to do atonce, Margo Lane, Margo Lane,
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stand by for orders. Have acommander of the cruiser prepare a seaplane for
im mediate takeoff. I'm leaving thisisland where I've been for the last few
days and returning the ship once.I believe I know what happened to the
missing ships. You were born theseaplane with me and the Shadow. Where's
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the seaplane taking us? Taking usto an island on which there lives someone
the natives called the White God.A witch doctor told me about him.
White God, yes, a witchdoctor's description. It's obviously a man who
has managed to overawe the ignorant nativeswith elemental experiments in chemistry and physics,
which he passes off as magic pilot. Pilot What made the plane lurch like
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that? I don't know. Shadow, there it is again. Something's tugging
at the plane, talking at theairplane path, but the motives have gone
crazy. I can hardly keep themgoing, Pilot, were descending, you
were being pulled down. Look we'rehaving caught that island. No right,
Margo. Look the wreckage of boatscrashed on the rocks, deserted in those
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courts. This must be, yes, Margo, the graveyard of the Pacific.
Play. Consider the wings of theplane. The primats are being thrown
out. Yes, there goes awhite ring island. Can you level the
plane off? I can't travel awfullot. Be better than the plane at
the bottom of the seas. Okay, get ready to jump. We're gonna
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hit the water whole. President ofthe Cotton Book Shadow count on me.
Cool. Good thing you leveled off. So we landed on top of the
water instead of beneath it. Pilot, Yeah, prayed for romone. I
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couldn't make it. Well. II suggest we make for the island there
and pay a visit a white god. Yeah, so this island is the
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graveyard of the PACIFICO both come,This is me that it is. Look
at them piled up on the rocks, some of them out there in the
cove. Eh, they all lookdeserted. Here is I don't see a
soul, but I can't get iswhat happened to the plane. It was
like a magnet pulling is what mightbe more truth than poetry. Who knows
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what you mean? I have anidea that this island is a huge magnet.
A natural magnet, you mean,because of rocks in them? No,
a man made magnet. Are youkidding? No, I don't think
so. There's no natural magnet strongenough to attract ocean vessels and cripple airplanes.
What you see this hill in backof us? Yeah, it is
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up like a sugar cone. Iwas noticing it from the air. There's
a huge hole in the top ofthe hill. This must be an extinct
volcano. I have an idea thatit's been converted into a magnet, a
magnet pulling ships to that destruction rumnatives there. It's like a big time
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going on the other side of thathill. Yes, it's called for a
little expiration. I'll go. Youand the pilot wait here next. I'm
not going to miss the fireworks.I'm going with you too, all right,
If you insist the go around theother side of the island and come
up through the woods, that's offthe plane. We don't want to stumble
into any cannibals. Okay, let'sgo. I hope they don't try to
make a banquet of us. Yeah, yeah, we can see them all
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right from here here they are.Boy, just look at those natives.
There must be several hundred of youhate it up. Judging from those fires
and that feast laid out on theground, they must be having some ceremonial
Look from the top of the hill. Well, I'll be where did he
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come from, the white gud?He came right out on the top of
the hill. You're right, Bodo. Remember I told you that that hill
was a nick stick park. Youknow that means that the inside of it,
running down through it as a shaftthrough which the volcano used to erupt.
He merely made his appearance by comingup through that shaft. See,
the natives seem to think he's agod by the way they're acting exactly,
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He's made them think that he hassome magic power by which he comes up
right through that hill. Look,Holy sat the nails are carrying a white
man up the hill to him.That white man is rudelp Height. Hey.
Look they're setting burning torches to theguy's body. Then they're going to
sacrifice height, sacrifice him, yes, a human sacrifice to the White God.
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And against stop thought against me,ah, mister hoy Ah, ah
column, Why parlance, what areyou doing there since being dismissed as your
assistant from the university? Is theWhite I have become a god, a
god, yes, a white godhere at the mouth of this volcano,
able to perform racluse of magic,even to pull great vessels and lighters from
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the courses, to see to myvery feet. You recognize that magic,
mister Hoyt. Recognize it? Ofcourse I recognize it. It's the whole
new application of principles of magnetism whichyou stole from me. Harsh words to
speak to a god, mister Hoyt, you must be punished on it.
Burn him, apply the torches tohis bile. I have a psycholo.
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I'll stop them, Collen, I'llstop this torture. The fact that you
are sailing what in a range ofmy magnetic devices. We share fate,
share coincidence. But I am delightedto have had the opportunity of receiving you
and your holley. What have youdone with my daughter? Were the others
from the yart, you will jointhem present where are they in the very
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bowels of this volcano? My friend? You mean you've thrown them down in
the mccrator precisely are you? Ahthe tenth violence, mister White? The
natives resent having the cart of fules. And now I kill two birds with
one stone. First I remove youand become the sole possessor of the secrets
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of my magnetic theory. Here youmean. And secondly I satisfy the first
of my subjects for a sacrifice.See Colantland Trail to the Old the White
God Trial, down to the sacredmortain Malad Burry me, ladies and gentlemen.
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How will the Shadow defeat his enemythis time? In a few moments?
Will continue this exciting story. Butmeanwhile, motorists, remember this.
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silver Town. Don't buy any tireuntil you've ridden on this new tire and
discovered what it means to be savedby a silver Town. Stop half of
your footing going down this rope ladder. Yeah, shut up, you slip,
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You're done for no foothold on theside of this crater. You think
that's the way the White God cameup out of this vocato on this ladder.
I'm sure of it. I cancare water below us. There must
be some entrance from the sea intothe bottom of the crater. Here.
What he doubt it does is comeinto the crater from the sea, then
climb the rope ladder to the top. And the natives think it's some hocus
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pocus, and a primitive mind iseager to believe anything that savors of the
supernatural. Wait a moment, Whatis it? Wires? Look, there
dozens of them embedded in the rock. The whole crater must be wired for
what this must be the way hegenerates the magnetic force into the hill through
these wires. You see. Itold you this whole crater can be converted
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into a huge magnet. Yeah.I see the wires right here. You
go. Don't touch them. Oh, hang on to the ladder, Margo,
Hang on your life, YouTube Piet. I can't hold on, Shadow,
something's pulling me off the ladder.If you need to metal on you
at all? Yes, my flyingbelt, and then take it off quickly.
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I can't get it off. He'sput it off. The happened to
it? Please come on the invisiblestaber alone. I want to see you
are right? That flying belt,the magnetism and the mountain attracted it.
It dashed him against the wall tothe hill. He is touching the wire,
said, the whole magnetizing mechanism going, Margo, We're inside a huge,
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monstrous magnet that will pull everything metallicfor miles around to destruction. They
the vibrations taking me up. Ican't hold on any longer. Water down
below. Dive into it, Marco. Maybe we can find a way to
swim out of here. Dive Marco. All right, good, I'm following
you. Well, there must beit must be a way to get out
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of here, out of the sea, and I'll find it before the mountain
crushes to death too with its vibrations. Vibrations start. Yes, the White
God must have turned off the power. I'm lucky for us he did.
Oh the mat did you hear that? Yes? And if it sounds like
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a woman, look, Marco,there she is hanging on that ledge at
the side of the cabin. Let'sswim over and get her seem more dead.
A lie. You must get onall right. I can manage the
border, all right, you've gotit, all right, take it someplace
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we can break it to it.Hear a story. I believe in you,
mister shadow. Although I cannot seeyou. Yes, I'm Rudolph Hoyd's
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daughter. I was supposed to besacrificed like all the rest, but I
landed on the water and it brokemy fall. Tell me, my father,
do you know what whether is he? Yes, I'm sorry to say
he's dead. Oh, as longas that fiendish White God exists, that
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monstrous magnets discommand, not a soul, not a ship of miles around the
sea. He must be destroyed,and I need your help to do it.
I'll do anything good. Wasn't yourfather engaged on some research with new
applications of magnetism. Yes, hadhe completed them, magnetism would have taken
the place of motors and steam enginesand things. I thought. So.
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Did he have any enemies in theworld? Only one, a man named
Lloyd Carlin, who used to behis assistant. Then the White God is
Lloyd Carlin. He knew about yourfather's work in magnetic phenomena. He tried
to steal them. I remember that, Miss Hoyt. Are you willing to
help me try and destroy this monster? Yes? Anything good tonight? Then
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we'll show the White God and hisnatives a brand of magic. Magic to
night Margo, you, miss Hoyt, and I shall perform the magical feat
of reviving the dead in a burstof glory. I'm careful, careful on
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the steps of the ladder. It'sheight, I am, mister Shadow.
They're almost at the top. Shadow. Will you tell me why you wanted
me to wear this bulletproof vest?Be found on the yacht. It's possible
Carlin has a gun. That vestmight come in handy. Oh remember,
a wooden boat is waiting on theshore by the woods. Run for it
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when I tell you, Yes,Shadow, I imagine Margaret will be directing
the searchlight from the yacht on tothe top of the hill any moment.
Now there it is. Now seeyou a light shooting across the mouth of
the shaft. Yes, and we'reready for your return from the dead.
Step out of the shaft under therim of the crater. Right. Look,
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the natives have seen me. Icould hardly miss you in that searchlight.
Now walk down to that ledge.I'll be with you, although you
and the natives cannot see me.Yes, mister shadd Remember let me do
the talking. A masculine voice comingfrom a reincarnated woman should prove quite a
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shock Hello there, Your voice hasthem all afraid, just the effect I
anticipated. Bring your white guard tome, heathens, Let me challenge him
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for what he is, A pileand murderous impostor. Will the natives understand
that kind of language? So Ithink so, Carlin hears me. That's
all I'm interested in. Where isthis white guard? Come here, impostor,
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and be exposed before your master beexposed for what you are here he
comes now, mister mister shadow,I remember, don't be afraid, miss
Hoyight, no matter what he does. Greetings, mister Carlin, what nonsense
is this? Nonsense? Yes?Your voice? Miss why? Yes?
I lost my voice temporarily when youthrew me down into the crater. When
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it returned, it was the voiceof a man. I'm in no mood
for joking. You're hiding in theshadows and speaking or at least height there?
Who are you? Where are you? Tell me? I'll shoot a
waste of bullets shooting into the shadows, Carlin, mile hitch off. You
think you can shoot invisibility or shame? Colin? You a great scientist,
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whoever you are, you can't stopme from destroying at least height here.
As I destroyed her father. Come, come, all of you, that
earl must be destroyed in the sacrificeto the White God. Throw her into
the crater, I say, comeand destroy this woman. I am afraid
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your power over the natives is slipping, Colin, and I'll throw into the
crater myself. Keep away from her, who knock me down? Where you
are? Getting you off the ground, Colin, God shouldn't get so glod
to ear kill you wherever you are. I'll glut my friend, smirk.
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A white girl returns from the earthwhere you threw her. Why because the
earth's angry with the White God.He rejects his sacrifices the girl. If
you're new and only god her,I I am the White God. Watch,
I'll show you with a fire frommy gun wat chancy, see how
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much of a goddess she is.You see, Colin, even gunfire can't
destroy it must therefore fallen Your nativedisciples. Don't like to be disillusioned about
all your claims to power. Ishan't dissolution him you already have. First,
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Miss Hoyt returns from the all destroyingsacrifice. Then your gunfire fails to
praise her. What other magic haveyou to hold your followers. I'll soil
shadow. He's running up the hill. He's running to the top of the
crater. Start his magnetizing device.We must stop him. A soil put
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off powerful here shadow shadow. Ifhe starts that magnetizing device, will all
be shaken from the crater to ourdeath. And run for your life.
Miss hoy runs the boat, gothrough the words, but he's already at
the top of the crater. Run, run for your life. I'm going
to stop him if I can.A powerful, my invisible friend. When
my magnetic mechanism shakes you off thehill to the rocks pillow as crises you
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no, no, I tached thewires and I am right beside you.
Carlin, I'm right beside you.You shouldn't have wasted so much time talking
if he wanted to escape me.But you're too late. I started a
magnet working Dorf Hoyt would have revolutionizedall industry with this invention. Balls of
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steel would have taken the place ofdynamos and turbines, iron threads would have
the planeted motors and engines. Itresolves my three, my three, you
You can cut it all as aninstrument of death and destruction, use it
to bore the natives who did yourfiendish bidding against the unfortunate soldier. You
are here. The natives are comingto kill you, Carlin. They'll throw
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you down the crater. Who willdie too, all of you. The
power of the magnetum creatures. Unlessit is turned off, it will wabreak
the mountaino and to the crumbles.To you have it, you will die
too. Miss hoy who is there? Is I the shadow? But I
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thought, weren't you killed with therest of them when the volcano crumble?
Evidently not, Miss Hoyt, Butyou were up there with Lloyd Carlin.
I heard you talking to him asI ran for this boat. You heard
my voice, but I was onlya little way behind you. By the
simple trick of ventriloquism, Miss Carlinthought I was standing next to him in
the shadows when his own invention destroyedhim those unfortunate Native. Then that's the
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end of my father's invention. Shadow. Yes, Miss, With your father
and Carlin gone, we must waituntil another mind can conceive it again.
Until then, the secret must remainentombed in the volcano of the White God.
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You have been listening to a dramatizedversion of one of the many copyrighted
stories which appear in the Shadow magazine, The Weed of Crime, Bear's Bitter
Food. Crime does not pay.The Shadow knows all the characters and all
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the places named afterctiis Any similarity topersons living or dead is purely coincidental.
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