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Welcome to the Old Time Radio NetCastNetwork. I'm your host Ryans, and
let's get into this episode. Thisepisode is going to be the Shadow original
airdates November tenth, nineteen forty andthe title is Carnival of Death. Oh
no more evil harm Man. Shadowshall wait for more but law and order
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than give. Then we have adeal, la Monk Clanton, wealthy young
man about coom. Here's the boldthe audience round to splain, get kill
you secret, the hypnotic card toclose men's minds so they can to get
Clenston's flen. They took take ita lovely mongol Lane. He's the only
who knows to fool the boys willbe invisible Shadow. We lost. Today's
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going carnival up death Day. Theyday don't step on the government feature a
cam dowling and by train time Iwas down there for the week day either
Winter fifty GI me don you andme both. Mike. Let's get up
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to the front of the car.All these people going to Joey Island looks
that way. Margo good to bereal brother, real mug. Joey Allen
is every man's Thurday. There's WillRuler to the goosey. You go down.
Well, you know, we stop, we get on. We're gonna
ask the garden make good, comeon, pardon me, No, it
could be a place you know,good your father, We get a we're
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gonna card. Oh god, didthis thing go to the amusement park?
Not direct? No, when youget to the island, you take a
butt. Oh and somehow I thoughtthere was a direct connection there used to
be. But I guess you knowwhat happened to that? Well, no,
no, I don't you never learnabout that branch line. That old
John Northcross, that build out ofhis own pocket. We haven't even had
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gone. No, don't say whoahe owns the amusement park. About ten
years ago he had the Board ofTransportation to build a branch line right out
to the doors of the place,but they turned them down. They did
tell them though, if he wantedto build it themselves, they furnished the
cards and keep up the line.So he went ahead and build it.
Yeah, so why is this killingour place? Well, I guess I
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can tell you that as well asanybody, lady, because I was on
the first run on that line.It was just about ten years ago this
month. Oh, there was speechesand everything, and finally the first train
pulled out. How long the mikeabout five minutes. He's just plan really
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makes time and helas rock. Hey, I hope that he'll kid. I
want he want you. They areyour time. That was the only run
we ever made. Must have beenforty people killed in that ray. How
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old do they use the blank linea toll? No, they demanded it
that no one even goes in thereanymore? Why not? Oh, there's
been talking about seeing a ghost trainrunning through that. Yeah, well next
up where you changed to the button? Hope you both that fun? Yea
thank you? Put it hide inthe mood. Yeah, they can't move
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me here. But he's a littlepie junky stain right away and little girl
takes like killing your grandma. Takedon't get away until one not, well,
my god, I suppose it israther tame after that roller coach,
I love it the month. Whereelse if you go from a roller coaster
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drink to venice through one minute toclass, Wie said, I don't know,
it's probably an attempted atmosphere. You'reright in the dark like this,
Those things are expected them. Thatboat of heaven to me wasn't it.
I'm sorry, that's okay, seehe said, it's okay. I'm look,
I'm going girl in the poone le. They are listen your female peeping
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comment. You don't behave I getyou right out of this phoe right boat,
get right up and try your quedon't you guts the quarnernut down.
The great fight can win it?You be done? Ty you look folk?
Yeah, let me have one ofthose guys. Dad, that'll be
twenty five. Get a quarter itis now, how do I wint apprize?
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If he went a prize? Theman as quiet, but hit the
great fight twice tis in a rowand you get up he'll big ah,
well here goes whoo who come on? How many dollars of that so far?
That's too budget. Take it easywith invited. I've got ten chicks
left him. Yeah, but dome a favorite, get care of it.
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Whoo. Well, I'm a wholelot of bullets. Well, I'm
a whole lot of dolls. Wheredo now? I don't know. Let's
see who left the hot over there? The wet him popos of hard for
me. Hey, yeah, Iget to give that place by lady.
Why well, let's pretty glory stuckin the murders and flameous crimes. And
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I mean guy, old guy hittingin the front of the place is enough
to keep you out of coma.Who is it the wa an old pop?
Right? He could be one ofthe wet e give it to cubs
on what's wrong with it? Well? He did? I get I said
anything again? If you want togo in there to get out, well
later on, come on, comeon, what am I gonna do with
all these dogs? Even got acollection? Who knows you might use me
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there? Wouldn't you like to takethe lady inside and go of the beautiful
life? Like sue? No,I'm going come on, let's go away.
Immagine up to that go on theisland. You're very fully now you
go away. My mind is takingin there a lot of other things to
see. Mong I know, butI would have been joining you here there
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I see, lady is right?God it is. You're the most particular
bogle I've ever seen. Oh,I'm coming out of the rock. I
gets the water. Come with meand I might will personally conduct you a
little. I'm the there it isthe pineal take oh, do take and
get there right away. Forty tenplates still p if you want follow me,
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I go their door over the don'tthere we are and we started at
this end of the room. First, these wack tableau represents samous death scenes
in history. This one, thisone is my rap bathtub murder scene.
Excellent, isn't it? No?Yes, yes it's excellent. Now now
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this scene the way I'll pull backthe curtains. This scene is the kidnapping
of the twin crownd printed a fatnote, the lifelike appearance of the remarkable
Yeah, yes you do. Whereare these figures named lamon? I don't
know. Can you tell us Margothe's gone? Well, yeah, where
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did it go? I don't know. Let's have a quick look at this
one exhibit and leave. Huh Hey, what is this tabo supposed to be?
I believe it's the death of MarieAntoinette on the guillotine thinking look even
more log light than the others,didn't you say? Yeah? Look think
I'm naturally the execution the mob happenedthe player the guillotine too. Come on,
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look blood blood picking down. Let'shave a look at this figures that
girl we saw on the boat andlisten to the who it is wait,
I'll take the mask off this figurethe executioner. There. What the boy,
the boy who was with he's deadtoo. In my mother, we'll
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find no pop right? See whathe knows about? This? Ain't the
one they in all the way?Lay? Two people have just been killed
in one of your exhibits. Waita minute, the people will tell That's
what they all say when they say, Joe, brother, they pried up
there. Where's that old man theone they call pop right? I don't
know who you mean? Brother?Come on time. I'll see what I
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can find out from the shooting gallery. Man. But oh, you beg
again bad? Who is that oldman you pointed out to us? And
why did you want us to getthim? What a man? The one
you call pop right? O?Pop right? Oh, you're not gonna
get you got any Christians? Dad, you're no Crisch the owner of this
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park. He led to the car. What is it in the car?
I just come from the wax museum. Two people have just been murdered in
there. What that's the truth.Come quickly, I'll show you. You're
never by a man on the dog. Yes, and he paid no attention
to me In one of the tabladsright he the wonders in the wag hey
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a right to here? Come on, b which te was this one over
here? The death of very Antoinettethat people will help to do for the
wax figures. There you see whathome on? What you now? What
is the me? Meant to know? Court? We saw the dead bodies
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of a young man and a womanin this tableau just a minute ago.
Where are they now? I don'tknow. I'm afraid you. You have
been wasting my time. I haveever been to wait. I tell you
to know, Court, that wesaw those two. Oh we wouldn't even
lit. We didn't see those bodies. Eh. Well, I meant to
know Court. You're going to hearmore of it, and you're going to
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explain your indifference to our discovery whenyou receive a visit from the Shadow.
Hello, yes who notes? Yes, yes, But there's only one thing
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I wanted to remember. I neverall their jobs, regardless of what happened.
Yes, bye, goodbye, oboutthat hold on it was I who
who are you? I don't seeanyone I am called the shadow? Or
where are you? I hear you, but I can't see you. That's
because I've provided your mind and mademyself invisible to your eyes? What are
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you doing here? I've come toask you some questions, mister Norcross.
What about in your home conversation?What did you mean by the men must
hold that jobs regardless of what happened? Why I I but from the officusiness
didn't have anything to do with thedeath of that young man and woman in
the wax museum today we are youtalking about? You do know those deaths,
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don't you? No, No,nothing like that has happened here in
the park. We have a cleanrecord here. Really, aren't you forgetting
the branch line of the subway thatyou built the cause so many depths.
That's different for the accident that happenedmany years ago. I'm doing my best
to make amends for that. HowI have the other up say that's your
plan for making amends? John?No course include vengeance. No no,
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mister Nourse, don't hear from meagain very soon. Meantime, I just
want you every move your mate willbe closely watched by the shattle. But
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I'm might glad to not to westernsomething too long with its detective. Well,
there's nothing of it now. Now, this here is the place where
you last saw them young folks alive? Is that right? Yes? Seven?
See their boat was floating in frontof the replica of the Nation Color.
That's tired here, all right?We want you jest about where we
heard the moon too? What morewe heard a strange crying or just before
we bumped into the young couple's boats. You mean there's there's goals mixed up
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in this pool. I hardly thinkthat. Boy, am I the one
forgetting cruey assignments? More kids disappear, they carn up as corpses in the
White Museum, they disappear again.Well, that's part of a detective mine,
isn' that's the seamy sides me.I like details like special duty at
the ballpark, particular, if there'sa double header on. I got a
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little doubleheader of our own right here. Uh see, if there's an opening
in any of these pony palaces,and help me feel along these walks?
You haven't sure? Sure? Waittill I go home tonight And the midser
says, what if it balloon orthey haven't? And I say, honey,
I was riding through the Venetian funnelsof blow Boy for if I joined
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the port what's this palm coming?Then? I believe these window shut is
open. Yes, there seems tobe a passage way here, say maybe
a palm puma. Come on,let me help you out of the goat.
Buggle, are you gonna get startthe passageway? Yes? Have you
your past might have been? Yes, you take this one, Buggle?
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All right, let's go. Nowwho talking dot in here? When the
way the bill at the head,we'll still find out will probably come to
the end of it and find aguy who will collect the quarter for leaving
the boat. Look ahead there thelow tunnel. Yes, if I'm not
mistaken, we stumble on the olderthirded subwaisper yet yet? Look yet,
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draped subway. Let's see this isthe old subway tunnel like that? What's
abandoned? Water dripping from the wallsthe sky place them on, And that's
only because it's been closed up solong. You're supposed to see that train
that God told us about it.How look, lady, please, I'm
a supers to his man. Ina place like this, I would rather
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you didn't mention both. Let's goabout finding where this thing leads. You're
going that directing heaven. We'll fixdown this way, okay, but if
you're finding anything, yes, andright, come along, mon mamm You
supposed the young couple found the passage, m but kill here. I don't
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imagine they came in here voluntarily,but they could have been brought in here
by home. I don't know themonth. Did you hear that that,
Evan? I don't think so I'llfind out, Evan. Oh, you
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are to come down here? Waita good boys coming from the month.
I can't be good out heaven?Ah, Heaven? What happened? Come
on, bugle, heaven heaven?Why doesn't answer? Come on? What's
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that? While? Get hit thequi la coney go? Turn my mind?
Come on them? What they see? Where? What? Come on?
Did you notice the monk's gown inmy training? That? What's happens?
Is it all the window? Icalled him, bugle, the training
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disappearance? There's no case of it. How do we do? No point
of looking for even he may havegone back to the passageway. Come on,
we'll go up up to the pod. That's something I'm a girl at
once. Now look here, buddy, it's a bad business for me to
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add that quick. Can't go outof this place. But you can tell
me this on. You do knowthe old man who would the watchman of
the US him? Don't joke?Yeah, yeah, I know, pop
right? What connection has he withJohn? Knock on? Please? But
you're here everywhere. If you wantto tuck and pick up one of the
guns and stop firing at the cart, I'll tell you what I know.
But you keep the gun going andkeep you up and like a joke.
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I'm telling you ain't good. Letme have a gun. Well, now,
let's see what kind of a markwhen you are budd Okay, knock
you don't like talk? Oh,I gotta do it this place? You
want to come out the connection betweenyou and o pop right? Well,
no course it's given up life jobto cudn't surviving members of the families who
would killed them a sub erec tenyears ago? We ain't no, Oh
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yeah it again, bud that wayain't north plot got out of making big
bags at one and let me putno clean well nice? What now do
you pick off them? Kicked byand teeth and wooden bolley. Sure,
I'll try to buying. Gee,there's been a lot of funny things happened
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around here. Make me things Idon't right, I'm trying to get out
of the job. But no course, just I'm gonna stick it out of
it and take a crack at them. Play five. Okay, Well,
I better wait till you get awayfrom here. You can finish telling me
your story. Then, well,I guess I'm about saint you out of
dog. I said, you've broughtup the bit of China. Whatever.
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Friend, Hello, what's happened?I don't know? And let me see
why have you called to the ground? This man is dead, Bugle,
no pot hold in his back.That means the shot came from the direction
of the Wex Museum. The Missionof Western and his men made a first
go to the Wex Museum, Uggle, and they found nothing. That's why
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I decided to come back here tothe tunnel. This is where the murderer
will be found. I know it. Did they find any type of Detective
Ovans? No, you must stillbe down here at some place. Listen,
you'll hear that, Muggle. Yes, that's follow the cons of that
idea good fun la. That's mapthat's coming from this end of the tunnel,
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that of explored by Detective Evans thatwe'll soon trying out Hello, over
there for the wall Heaven's hat.Something's happened to me. It's obviously I'll
get the hat. What is it? I'm kind of quick that I'm taking.
No fight over the way here,follow right this way, young lady.
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I shall entertain you in my privatesubway car. No, I won't
go in. Go up now.Now. You mustn't behave that way.
The other passengers won't like it allthe month, won't hear my dear by
this time, he's been swallowed upby the quick handy your friend that detective
was earlier this evening. No,no, it didn't prove nothing happened to
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it. Tell me that nothing happenedto the mart. You in good company.
There are many others in that,do you know? Now? Step
into the car. No, Iwon't. No, take your hands all
the more, and you don't enjoyupright hospitality do now? Then I shall
have to force you and tell you. There we are. Now you must
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meet your fellow packages. Oh oh, but it it dead or some of
them are, yeh, the restof them merely wax figures from the museum.
The little boy and girl they're deadtoo. They're my newest packages.
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They seem to like it. Heretoo, they and hide by side hold.
I must have room for you,my dead I think that I shall
give you. He's sick. Yeah, that old woman is sitting there now.
I'm a little tired of her.I'm afraid she must join your friend
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in the quick sound. No,you're mad, you're mad. Oh I
wish, I wish you wouldn't saythose things in front of my friends.
You see, Lewis, this waxfigure here. He doesn't like it at
all, Julia, Lewis, giveme your ties cookie again. Lewis,
I had to sink behind getting outof No, no please, nor much
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game here for a long time,for a very long time. What do
you gonna do? What are yougonna do to me? That nice put
down a nice round? Now,it's all all the old and the shot.
Stand there you're doing you put downthat up right? How is that?
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Don't touch that girl? Oh,one of the goods, one of
the civics. Is the time tospeak to me? Yes, yeah,
that's cool. I am one ofthe studs. The the man you just
killed in the shooting carriage. Ohit's you, fred I. I'm sorry
I had to do that. Youbut you learned too much about me and
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this rendezvous. Why have you killedthese people? Why have you brought them
to I belonged an here? Youknow that bread. I've been the motiment
on this line since the first round. You remember that run though, You
know too that my wife and childwere killed on that first ride, killed
on a train that I was driving. Of course, John Knockoss put me
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on a pension. He thought thatwould make up for the loss of my
wife and child. He made theirwatchman, thought he'd pay me off that
way. But I fooled him.I fooled him. Why have you killed
these people? You guys run thetrain without patness? Can That's my job
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here? You know John now Crossdoesn't know it, but his subway line.
You'll operate? How did you getthese people? Care? Oh?
Different ways, different ways. Someof them from the boat ride, some
from the wet museum. They alltake the night. They ride with me
in the midnight. Explain all finished. Operate now, now that is true,
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I'll tell the police about them.They'll come and get you. Oh
you wouldn't do that. No,no, no, who was on the
line. You don't mean that.I'm sure I'm taking you to the police,
right now oh no, oh no, no, out of the car,
come back here, come and getme looking on the wall. That's
what jumping into it, my mom, thanks heaven to take on that quick
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time. But how in the worlddid you do it? That's thank you
go we did the job, Margo. Well, believe me that point.
It was in my political platform.How about Oh he was paid of all
charges in the Keith Muggle pop rightwas working alone, explained that the day
of the come. Yes, Isuppose he was harmless at first. Then
he brought it over his loss.He turned the murder. Well, we
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certainly ran into something. I shouldsay. No, there's just one more
thing. I like to know.What's that? Mother? Why do they
call that place an amusement? Talkthe way of crime? The crime Nothyta,
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