October 19, 2025 • 28 mins
Inner Sanctum, also known as Inner Sanctum Mystery, was a popular radio program that aired from 1941 to 1952. The stories had a good mix of horror and good humor. This is the show that established the creaking door as a scary sound effect. There were over 500 episodes broadcast, but only around 200 are known to still exist.
“The Vengeful Corpse,” aired on September 12, 1949.
“The Vengeful Corpse,” aired on September 12, 1949.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:48):
Good evening, friend, this is your host to welcome you
through the creaking door into the inner tanker. Come in,
come in, won't you. I'd like have made some new guests.
We've just dug aw, that's peculiar. Cadave was standing off
the corner by himself as a serious case of claustrophobia.
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Poor stiff, he just can't stand shroll.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Now, little pellet.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
He ride with a mountain climber. In life, he took
his wife on an alpine hike, and while they were
going up an icy slope, he cut the rope that
held them together.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Then he just couldn't stand being tied to one woman.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
And how read our most forgettable character, wild Eyed Willie.
One day, Willie's ugly wife bit him, so in anger
he buried her in the backyard. Six months later, his
humbly mate came up as a dog wood tree to
haunt him. Now, according to Willie, her bark is much
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worse than her BikeE.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Tonight's Inner Sanctum Mystery of the Vengeful Corpse was written
by Ed Adamson and Bob Sloan and stars Barbara Weeks
in the role of Sarah, with Karl Swanson as Paul.
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Speaker 1 (02:42):
These friends absolute silence. We want it so quiet you
can hear a head draw. In the small hillside New
England cemetery, a chill evening wind stirs the leafless trees
with the complaining murmur. A blood red moon probes through
the branches with grotesque fingers, touching the faded headstones with
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their eerie lights. The frail, drawn faced young woman sits
on an old stone bench, listening acutely to the rustling
of the branches, as if to capture some word whisper
of the dead forgotten cast.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
There there there, Where are you?
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Oh, Paula, I'm here over here, over you?
Speaker 7 (03:34):
What are you doing out here?
Speaker 8 (03:35):
Anyway?
Speaker 7 (03:37):
I was called out here, paul What the wind?
Speaker 6 (03:41):
There was a voice on the wind, and it called
me to come out here.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
That's just in your mind, darling.
Speaker 9 (03:46):
No voice called it, Yes it did.
Speaker 10 (03:49):
I recognized the voice.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
He recognized it? Then whose voice was it? There?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It was old, tired and sort of cracked.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
And yet I could recognize it.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
It's my own boy, Hm, you heard your own voice?
Speaker 11 (04:06):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Booh, and it was strongest right here where I'm sitting
now among my family grave.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
Oh that boy, Oh, it's just mister Griffin.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
I can't take me. I asked him to help me.
Look upon your Oh.
Speaker 9 (04:19):
Well, I see you found your wife alright, AMers Yes,
I found her, mister Griffin.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I thought I saw missus Cheaton come to the graveyard
here earlier. I didn't expect she'd still be boy, But
what's wrong? Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Wait, what's madam?
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Miss Chrisson?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Just that I get sort of a funny kind of
feeling every time I passed this grave here.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
What are you talking about? D that grave? That one there,
the one right next to you.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Why what's the matter with us?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Well? Ain't you notice there's only one name on the headstone?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
The first name Hester. That's strange. My family name is Randall.
Wasn't this woman of Randolph? Oh you don't know the story.
And what story are you talking about?
Speaker 12 (04:57):
Uh?
Speaker 13 (04:57):
The kid who buried this Hester woman didn't think she
deserved the family name, so they left.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
It off the headstone.
Speaker 11 (05:03):
Why why didn't they give Hester her full name?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Because they didn't want anybody to know who she was.
I guess you see. Hester was burned the steak for witchcraft. Witchcraft? Huh,
that's what to say, mister Griffin.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
My wife is an old woman as it is.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Let him go on to what else, mister Griffin?
Speaker 13 (05:18):
Well that's all, missus Seaton, except that Hester claimed that
the state that they were burning an innocent woman. She
could be heard shouting it as the flames licked around her.
She threatened with her.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Last breath to get even someday. How could she get even? I?
Speaker 13 (05:32):
No, no, but according to this story I heard, Hester
said that this here town owed her the years of
her life that they took away.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Well, now this is completely ridiculous.
Speaker 11 (05:41):
It's only tell me how many years ago did all
this happen?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Well, it's it's right here on the headstone.
Speaker 13 (05:48):
You see Hester lost soul born in October thirteenth, seventeen fifty.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Nine, died good Helen, that's wrong. Look mission season the
date of Hester's death. It's worn away.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Sarah, Yes, sir, what are you doing out of bed?
When'd you get up?
Speaker 11 (06:23):
Just a minute ago?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I can't sleep.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
She keeps calling me.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I hear her voice right here in this room.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Just just a few minutes ago, she was begging me
to help her, telling me she never really lived, and
pleading with me to bring her back to life.
Speaker 9 (06:37):
Sarah, I thought I saw her, Sarah, believe me.
Speaker 11 (06:41):
She was dressed in a black dress and there was
a large w on it.
Speaker 10 (06:45):
That's the witch.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
And in her hand she held a flaming torch.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
I'm gonna call her doctor. I loved the way.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Wait, I'll go, good.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Evening, missus.
Speaker 12 (06:59):
Why Judge Foster, I hope I didn't awaken you, folks.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I saw a light in the windows.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
Land All right, jud come right in.
Speaker 12 (07:06):
Ah, thank you, I sighed to body this time of
the night, mister Seton. But I was looking out of
my window on the other side of the cemetery, and
I thought I saw something or someone prowling around out there,
and I wondered, if they come over this way, who
was it. I don't know, someone carrying a torch?
Speaker 9 (07:24):
Touch go on, Jenny, well, cause it could.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Be that my eyes were playing tricks on me. They're
not so good. But as far as I could make out,
it was a woman dressed in black. Paul, you saw
this woman, Judge, you're sure. I'm pretty sure I saw.
Of course, it's kind of dark out there, but it
looked to me like there was something on the front
of her dress.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
But what do you mean, Well, there.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Was the letter W a big white letter W on it.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
It was Hester justin.
Speaker 12 (07:56):
Oh, no, sir, Hester, who's Hester.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Hester Randal? That's who you saw. She was in this house.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
It must be a drink, you see.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Someone is trying to frighten you, to make your word.
Speaker 12 (08:04):
No, now, hold on, folks. Hester Randolph was buried over
a hundred years ago.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
She's come back to life missus, she Judge, my wife
is ill.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
She doesn't realize what she's saying.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I know hester's alive.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
You didn't believe me, Paul, But Judge Fosters are too.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I didn't see anybody who's been dead a hundred.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Gee. What is it?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Ja? Don't you smell it?
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Yeah? Something burnings, the odor of burning flesh.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Look out there on the back lawn, stuck in the earth.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
A torch, A flaming torch, Sir, I tell.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
You it's useless to have me dig up that crank.
I've got to know, Paul.
Speaker 11 (08:52):
It's the only way I'll be sure.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I'm careful. Mister Seton, you're just about deep enough for
the coffin.
Speaker 12 (08:57):
Now if it's still there, Judge, I don't now how
you can sanction a thing like this. Well, mister Seton,
you see I want to be sure too, But it's
ridiculous that you've struck wood with the shovel. Yeah, she's
the coffin, all right. Better go easy now that wood
is soft with age, and have brought it away.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
I think we can open it now.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Wait, I give you a hand with lid. There's something invited, nobody.
Speaker 12 (09:31):
Chard it's a body all right, Only it isn't a woman's.
You can still make out the face. It's Griffin, the caretaker.
Speaker 9 (09:48):
Doctor Norton, I am so glad that you've gotten here.
Speaker 11 (09:50):
I came as soon as I could, Mister Seton, what's wrong?
Speaker 9 (09:53):
She's worse, doctor, Oh much worse. Been in her room
all day, hiding like a frankned child. I think the
reading made her words?
Speaker 11 (10:02):
Reading?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
What reading?
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Well?
Speaker 9 (10:04):
For the past few days, she's been reading books about
her family history.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Why did you let her have them?
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Well?
Speaker 9 (10:09):
Because at first they seemed to quieter. Since the night
we found mister Griffin's body in that grave, she's wanted
to know more and more about Hester.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Randolph. Hah oh, Sarah uh.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Doctor Norton's here.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
There, you've got the worn in.
Speaker 11 (10:22):
Paulse before it's too late, warn whom Missus Seton, Judge Foster.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
He's in danger. Hester will kill him next, Paul. It's
in the records of the court.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
The magistrate who's sent in Hester the death of the
stake was a man named Foster.
Speaker 11 (10:34):
Now, Missus Seton, you're just upset.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Please believe me, Judge Foster is a direct descendant of
that magister Sarah.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Sarah Ester's dead.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
Dear, the dead can do no harm.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
She's killed one man already, and now she's going to
kill another. She swore she'd get that revenge. I'm the magistrate,
and I'm the man who was a recuser, mister Seton.
Speaker 11 (10:55):
All this took place over a hundred years ago.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Then what about mister Griffin?
Speaker 7 (11:00):
But what he means?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Sah, He had the same name too.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
According to the record, Hester's accuser was a man named
Richard Griffin.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Judge Foster, my wife insisted that I come over here
and warn you about Hester.
Speaker 12 (11:19):
Well, thank you, mister Sheeton for troubling but I'm not
a bit worried about the similarity of names.
Speaker 9 (11:25):
Well, I didn't admit it to Sarah, but the coincidence
with Griffin was strange.
Speaker 12 (11:31):
Oh the dead never frightened me, mister Sheeton.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
But thank you for coming over.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Oh, by the way, can I drive you home?
Speaker 6 (11:38):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Thanks?
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Doctor Norton is waiting for me outside.
Speaker 12 (11:42):
Good good night, mister Sheton.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Now where did I put those matches?
Speaker 8 (11:51):
In mind?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Sure left me here on.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
The table wall.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Hey who opened that door? Is that you come back?
Mister Sephon?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
We confounded?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Whoever it is? Answer me? Who's out there? But who
is it?
Speaker 12 (12:12):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
What?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Who are you? Your conscience has been dimmed by the
evil of your acts? Who am I?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Mark you?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Well?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
It's thought highlight.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Now mark you also, my god. This black garments I
wearing upon which.
Speaker 9 (12:32):
You had impressed the wicked lip.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Hester Hi Satan's Magistrate, Hester Randolph.
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Speaker 7 (13:53):
Out the character.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
You know, that's the way a dame gets when she's
burned up, makes a specter of hersel. You know, folks,
I kind of feel sorry for old Judge Faster when
the Hester showed up. The poor guy didn't know which
way to turn. Uh, I mean to turn away? Which witch?
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They should have believed, Sarah Seasons.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
She sure had Hester dead rather alive to right.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yes, indeed, it's a wise descendant who knows her own
for their particularly the grave minded.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
On was Mmmm.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Well, let's get back to our flaming fable and see
what's cooking for the next sting.
Speaker 11 (14:50):
Wake up, Oh please wake up?
Speaker 9 (14:53):
Oh sure, that's Maney's terrible dream.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
I'm a fat now.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
I dreamt that Judge Foster was killed tonight by Hester.
Speaker 11 (15:04):
You did want Judge Foster, didn't you, Paul?
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Yes, yes, of course, sir.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Where are you going there?
Speaker 6 (15:10):
I'm getting dressed. I'm going down to tell the judge myself.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
You're staying here.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
It means the man's light.
Speaker 9 (15:17):
You heard what doctor Norton said, Dear, under no circumstances
are you to leave the house.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
You're to talk to no one?
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Why?
Speaker 6 (15:23):
And I being kept here like a prisoner? Why don't
you let me speak of that?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
What what was that?
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Sounded like a door banging in the wind. Yes, there
it is again in the.
Speaker 10 (15:39):
Way of the house.
Speaker 11 (15:40):
Didn't you lock that door?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
I'm sure I did. I'd better see what happened.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Wait, I'm going with you.
Speaker 11 (15:48):
I better turn on a light here in the kitchen.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
No, you won't have to. I can say to the door,
all right, I guess I must.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
Have forgotten to spring the lat to that out there,
but the trees at the end of the luck, I
thought I saw a figure.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
All right, just stay here there, I'm right back.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
No one out here, Sarah, you're sure positive, probably just
a shadow.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
WHOA, there's not here.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
So what happened, Sarah?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Where are you?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Sah?
Speaker 9 (16:31):
She was standing here, sir, right here at the back door,
and I heard her scream, and there.
Speaker 12 (16:35):
Wasn't a sign of her when you got back here
at the door, not a sign of her. Well, folks,
just don't vanish into thin air, mister Setons. She must
be around here something. I got to find her before
it's too.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Late, too late? What do you mean by that? I
don't know, really, I have a feeling that, Oh, now, you're.
Speaker 12 (16:51):
Not going to tell me about dead witches returning to
are you don't tell.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Me you believe in that stuff.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
I don't know what the movie is that you here?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yes, who's there?
Speaker 11 (17:02):
You had better come with me, Sheriff. I just discovered
something on the side of the road about a mile away,
mister Seton.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I think you'd better wait here.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
What is it, doctor Norton, What have you found?
Speaker 11 (17:15):
I rather you'd wait, as I said before, until we're sure.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
What are you trying to hide from me? I guess
you'd better speak up, doctor.
Speaker 12 (17:22):
If it's something that concerns mister Seton, maybe he should know,
all right, Sheriff.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
But I made the turn into the road. My head
lights caught it in a ditch. I wasn't sure at first,
so I stopped the car and got out.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
It was a body in the ditch, a child body.
Speaker 13 (17:55):
That's the way, Sheriff.
Speaker 10 (17:57):
Over here to the right.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Well, where is she?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Easy nomous to see right right here, sheriff. Oh wait,
I'll switch on the flashlight.
Speaker 12 (18:08):
Ah Sarah, what this the moment, mister Seeden, Doctor Norton
has made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
What this corpse isn't your wife? I can tell by
that ring. It's the ring that Judge Foster always worn.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
Uh hello, Oh yes, sir any us yet well why
can't your men find it?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
It's been six hours already. No, I hadn't heard a word.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Yes, please call me as soon as you hear anything,
will you?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Who's there.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Over the door?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Fine, Sarah?
Speaker 9 (18:56):
Just quick let me in, Oh s Sarah, Sarah, thanks
the Lord, you're all right, darling?
Speaker 8 (19:04):
Where have you been?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
What happened? The door?
Speaker 11 (19:07):
Quickly?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
She doesn't know I've come back. She's still looking for hester.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
She was out there, pomp That's why I ran from
the house.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
She called me from the road, made me go with her,
go where to the cemetery? She kept me there, torturing me,
taking me to change.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Places with her.
Speaker 8 (19:27):
Darling, you're not making a sin pea. Please believe me.
We've got to get.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Away from here tonight, right now. She'll kill me if
we don't.
Speaker 11 (19:35):
She wants my life for the one she never lived.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Now start it now, get hold of yourself. There is
no such woman as Hester, rand I thought PopEd.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
The woman you saw is somebody else, somebody living, who
wants you to believe that she's Hester.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
She wants everybody to believe it.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
But why, Pah, Why Because she's a.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Cold blooded murderess. She's killed two people.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
Already, and she's trying to drive you out of your
mind completely.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
But then, who who could it be?
Speaker 7 (20:01):
I wasn't sure before.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
Now I'm almost positive it's doctor Norton, Doctor Norton.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Now you saw this Hester, Sarah?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
What was she like?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Like a ghost?
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Like a shadow in the light.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
You can see your face, and yet.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
You can see through it beyond. I was just an
illusion created by the.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Night there and perhaps some other tricks of a clever,
scaming woman. You'll see, I'll prove that, doctor nork Nelton.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
That's the back door, Sair, that's blown open again.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Leave it to get here.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Don't you stay here. I'm going to see who opened
that door.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Please don't leave me alone.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
What is it there?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Don't come me here.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Here?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Here?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Are you all right?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I killed it?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Paul?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
She won't taut me anymore.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
I killed hester.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
She came toward me. My fied, Sarah.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
There's no one in this room.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
There there in the hall, she's there where I don't
seen it.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Good Lord, you've broke in the mirror. Wh you shot
at yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
No, it can't be. I can't be her.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
And yet I saw her faith.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
But it was my faith too, Sarah.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
It was you.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
You all the time.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I am esther.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Fair gentlemen, it is warming to have such a friend
as you to stand beside me and.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
The mockery of justice.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Run man, is that as you can?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Pause?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I was wrong.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I haven't killed it.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Run, Sarah.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
I've got to help you.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
I've got to.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Explain to you that you should I not, Sarah, not anymore.
Can't you see who I am? Can't you see who's
taking my plate to me?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
I love you?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Please please come back to there's gone now.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
I can live the years they took from me, seeing
my hand with pistol.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
He will visit, I say, it will come with me.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
You're no answer.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
She no answer, Doctor Norton. I can't understand it. Mister
Seton was home when I called, just fifteen minutes ago.
Speaker 11 (22:46):
I warned you sheriff to have that house closely was well,
I can't.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Do one hundred things at once.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I've got every available deputy out looking for Missus Seaton.
Speaker 11 (22:53):
Don't you realize you may have gone back to their house.
Don't you realize that she's the one who might be Hester?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Missus Hester? What the douce talking about?
Speaker 11 (23:00):
I'm talking about dual personality. Missus Seaton is suffering from
a nervous breakdown, and it's entirely possible that she's the
one who killed Griffin and Judge Foster.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
You should have told me this before. Doctor. Come on,
we're getting right over to the seat and hob.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
Here, Paul, they buried Hester's body here.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
It's honored and unnamed.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
But Paul, he believe in my innocence. Yes, sir, we
better go back there.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Back, Yes, to the house. Very cold here, it's.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Cold everywhere, Paul.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I feel the chill of death coming near me.
Speaker 11 (23:44):
You and I are going back back through time to
an age where no one can harm us.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
It's tor child fierce forever. Wait, sir, please listen.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
I try to understand here.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Dear your mind. The flames will be of no pain.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
I know because I've been through such a desk before.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
No, Now, Sarah, wait, oh, Paul Bester's going.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Are you all right?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yes, it looks like we've got here just in time.
Speaker 10 (24:27):
She's going for me.
Speaker 9 (24:32):
Oh Sarah, she said, mister.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Seedhens, I'm sorry, mister Seedon.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Sheriff.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Goes the matter?
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Look at the heads done? I I didn't notice that
so far it's been recut.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Oh what do you mean?
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Don't you see what it says?
Speaker 9 (24:53):
Hester Randolph a lost soul.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
Boor or not too But thirteen seventeen fifteen nine, that
September twelfth, nineteen forty nine.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Day.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Have you had your personality split lately? You see what
happens when a dame gets the dates mixed up? For hestory,
she didn't know whether she was coming or going.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
To the grave.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Now look, if you should be in an old New
England cemetery some night and one of the headstones should move,
don't get frightened.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
It's probably just Hester.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Coming up for a hot date again. Oh, by the way,
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Speaker 3 (01:27):
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Speaker 2 (02:02):
Tonight's Inner Sanctum Mystery of the Vengeful Corpse was written
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These friends absolute silence. We want it so quiet you
can hear a head draw. In the small hillside New
England cemetery, a chill evening wind stirs the leafless trees
with the complaining murmur. A blood red moon probes through
the branches with grotesque fingers, touching the faded headstones with
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their eerie lights. The frail, drawn faced young woman sits
on an old stone bench, listening acutely to the rustling
of the branches, as if to capture some word whisper
of the dead forgotten cast.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
There there there, Where are you?
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Oh, Paula, I'm here over here, over you?
Speaker 7 (03:34):
What are you doing out here?
Speaker 8 (03:35):
Anyway?
Speaker 7 (03:37):
I was called out here, paul What the wind?
Speaker 6 (03:41):
There was a voice on the wind, and it called
me to come out here.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
That's just in your mind, darling.
Speaker 9 (03:46):
No voice called it, Yes it did.
Speaker 10 (03:49):
I recognized the voice.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
He recognized it? Then whose voice was it? There?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It was old, tired and sort of cracked.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
And yet I could recognize it.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
It's my own boy, Hm, you heard your own voice?
Speaker 11 (04:06):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Booh, and it was strongest right here where I'm sitting
now among my family grave.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
Oh that boy, Oh, it's just mister Griffin.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
I can't take me. I asked him to help me.
Look upon your Oh.
Speaker 9 (04:19):
Well, I see you found your wife alright, AMers Yes,
I found her, mister Griffin.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I thought I saw missus Cheaton come to the graveyard
here earlier. I didn't expect she'd still be boy, But
what's wrong? Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Wait, what's madam?
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Miss Chrisson?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Just that I get sort of a funny kind of
feeling every time I passed this grave here.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
What are you talking about? D that grave? That one there,
the one right next to you.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Why what's the matter with us?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Well? Ain't you notice there's only one name on the headstone?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
The first name Hester. That's strange. My family name is Randall.
Wasn't this woman of Randolph? Oh you don't know the story.
And what story are you talking about?
Speaker 12 (04:57):
Uh?
Speaker 13 (04:57):
The kid who buried this Hester woman didn't think she
deserved the family name, so they left.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
It off the headstone.
Speaker 11 (05:03):
Why why didn't they give Hester her full name?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Because they didn't want anybody to know who she was.
I guess you see. Hester was burned the steak for witchcraft. Witchcraft? Huh,
that's what to say, mister Griffin.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
My wife is an old woman as it is.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
Let him go on to what else, mister Griffin?
Speaker 13 (05:18):
Well that's all, missus Seaton, except that Hester claimed that
the state that they were burning an innocent woman. She
could be heard shouting it as the flames licked around her.
She threatened with her.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Last breath to get even someday. How could she get even? I?
Speaker 13 (05:32):
No, no, but according to this story I heard, Hester
said that this here town owed her the years of
her life that they took away.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Well, now this is completely ridiculous.
Speaker 11 (05:41):
It's only tell me how many years ago did all
this happen?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Well, it's it's right here on the headstone.
Speaker 13 (05:48):
You see Hester lost soul born in October thirteenth, seventeen fifty.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Nine, died good Helen, that's wrong. Look mission season the
date of Hester's death. It's worn away.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Sarah, Yes, sir, what are you doing out of bed?
When'd you get up?
Speaker 11 (06:23):
Just a minute ago?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I can't sleep.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
She keeps calling me.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I hear her voice right here in this room.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Just just a few minutes ago, she was begging me
to help her, telling me she never really lived, and
pleading with me to bring her back to life.
Speaker 9 (06:37):
Sarah, I thought I saw her, Sarah, believe me.
Speaker 11 (06:41):
She was dressed in a black dress and there was
a large w on it.
Speaker 10 (06:45):
That's the witch.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
And in her hand she held a flaming torch.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
I'm gonna call her doctor. I loved the way.
Speaker 8 (06:54):
Wait, I'll go, good.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Evening, missus.
Speaker 12 (06:59):
Why Judge Foster, I hope I didn't awaken you, folks.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I saw a light in the windows.
Speaker 8 (07:04):
Land All right, jud come right in.
Speaker 12 (07:06):
Ah, thank you, I sighed to body this time of
the night, mister Seton. But I was looking out of
my window on the other side of the cemetery, and
I thought I saw something or someone prowling around out there,
and I wondered, if they come over this way, who
was it. I don't know, someone carrying a torch?
Speaker 9 (07:24):
Touch go on, Jenny, well, cause it could.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Be that my eyes were playing tricks on me. They're
not so good. But as far as I could make out,
it was a woman dressed in black. Paul, you saw
this woman, Judge, you're sure. I'm pretty sure I saw.
Of course, it's kind of dark out there, but it
looked to me like there was something on the front
of her dress.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
But what do you mean, Well, there.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Was the letter W a big white letter W on it.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
It was Hester justin.
Speaker 12 (07:56):
Oh, no, sir, Hester, who's Hester.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Hester Randal? That's who you saw. She was in this house.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
It must be a drink, you see.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Someone is trying to frighten you, to make your word.
Speaker 12 (08:04):
No, now, hold on, folks. Hester Randolph was buried over
a hundred years ago.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
She's come back to life missus, she Judge, my wife
is ill.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
She doesn't realize what she's saying.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I know hester's alive.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
You didn't believe me, Paul, But Judge Fosters are too.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I didn't see anybody who's been dead a hundred.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Gee. What is it?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Ja? Don't you smell it?
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Yeah? Something burnings, the odor of burning flesh.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Look out there on the back lawn, stuck in the earth.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
A torch, A flaming torch, Sir, I tell.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
You it's useless to have me dig up that crank.
I've got to know, Paul.
Speaker 11 (08:52):
It's the only way I'll be sure.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
I'm careful. Mister Seton, you're just about deep enough for
the coffin.
Speaker 12 (08:57):
Now if it's still there, Judge, I don't now how
you can sanction a thing like this. Well, mister Seton,
you see I want to be sure too, But it's
ridiculous that you've struck wood with the shovel. Yeah, she's
the coffin, all right. Better go easy now that wood
is soft with age, and have brought it away.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
I think we can open it now.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Wait, I give you a hand with lid. There's something invited, nobody.
Speaker 12 (09:31):
Chard it's a body all right, Only it isn't a woman's.
You can still make out the face. It's Griffin, the caretaker.
Speaker 9 (09:48):
Doctor Norton, I am so glad that you've gotten here.
Speaker 11 (09:50):
I came as soon as I could, Mister Seton, what's wrong?
Speaker 9 (09:53):
She's worse, doctor, Oh much worse. Been in her room
all day, hiding like a frankned child. I think the
reading made her words?
Speaker 11 (10:02):
Reading?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
What reading?
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Well?
Speaker 9 (10:04):
For the past few days, she's been reading books about
her family history.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Why did you let her have them?
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Well?
Speaker 9 (10:09):
Because at first they seemed to quieter. Since the night
we found mister Griffin's body in that grave, she's wanted
to know more and more about Hester.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Randolph. Hah oh, Sarah uh.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Doctor Norton's here.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
There, you've got the worn in.
Speaker 11 (10:22):
Paulse before it's too late, warn whom Missus Seton, Judge Foster.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
He's in danger. Hester will kill him next, Paul. It's
in the records of the court.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
The magistrate who's sent in Hester the death of the
stake was a man named Foster.
Speaker 11 (10:34):
Now, Missus Seton, you're just upset.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
Please believe me, Judge Foster is a direct descendant of
that magister Sarah.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Sarah Ester's dead.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
Dear, the dead can do no harm.
Speaker 6 (10:47):
She's killed one man already, and now she's going to
kill another. She swore she'd get that revenge. I'm the magistrate,
and I'm the man who was a recuser, mister Seton.
Speaker 11 (10:55):
All this took place over a hundred years ago.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Then what about mister Griffin?
Speaker 7 (11:00):
But what he means?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Sah, He had the same name too.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
According to the record, Hester's accuser was a man named
Richard Griffin.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Judge Foster, my wife insisted that I come over here
and warn you about Hester.
Speaker 12 (11:19):
Well, thank you, mister Sheeton for troubling but I'm not
a bit worried about the similarity of names.
Speaker 9 (11:25):
Well, I didn't admit it to Sarah, but the coincidence
with Griffin was strange.
Speaker 12 (11:31):
Oh the dead never frightened me, mister Sheeton.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
But thank you for coming over.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Oh, by the way, can I drive you home?
Speaker 6 (11:38):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Thanks?
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Doctor Norton is waiting for me outside.
Speaker 12 (11:42):
Good good night, mister Sheton.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Now where did I put those matches?
Speaker 8 (11:51):
In mind?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Sure left me here on.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
The table wall.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Hey who opened that door? Is that you come back?
Mister Sephon?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
We confounded?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Whoever it is? Answer me? Who's out there? But who
is it?
Speaker 12 (12:12):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
What?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Who are you? Your conscience has been dimmed by the
evil of your acts? Who am I?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Mark you?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Well?
Speaker 6 (12:24):
It's thought highlight.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Now mark you also, my god. This black garments I
wearing upon which.
Speaker 9 (12:32):
You had impressed the wicked lip.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Hester Hi Satan's Magistrate, Hester Randolph.
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Promise, alter promise, alter promise.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Out the character.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
You know, that's the way a dame gets when she's
burned up, makes a specter of hersel. You know, folks,
I kind of feel sorry for old Judge Faster when
the Hester showed up. The poor guy didn't know which
way to turn. Uh, I mean to turn away? Which witch?
(14:22):
They should have believed, Sarah Seasons.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
She sure had Hester dead rather alive to right.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yes, indeed, it's a wise descendant who knows her own
for their particularly the grave minded.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
On was Mmmm.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Well, let's get back to our flaming fable and see
what's cooking for the next sting.
Speaker 11 (14:50):
Wake up, Oh please wake up?
Speaker 9 (14:53):
Oh sure, that's Maney's terrible dream.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
I'm a fat now.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
I dreamt that Judge Foster was killed tonight by Hester.
Speaker 11 (15:04):
You did want Judge Foster, didn't you, Paul?
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Yes, yes, of course, sir.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Where are you going there?
Speaker 6 (15:10):
I'm getting dressed. I'm going down to tell the judge myself.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
You're staying here.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
It means the man's light.
Speaker 9 (15:17):
You heard what doctor Norton said, Dear, under no circumstances
are you to leave the house.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
You're to talk to no one?
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Why?
Speaker 6 (15:23):
And I being kept here like a prisoner? Why don't
you let me speak of that?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
What what was that?
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Sounded like a door banging in the wind. Yes, there
it is again in the.
Speaker 10 (15:39):
Way of the house.
Speaker 11 (15:40):
Didn't you lock that door?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
I'm sure I did. I'd better see what happened.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Wait, I'm going with you.
Speaker 11 (15:48):
I better turn on a light here in the kitchen.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
No, you won't have to. I can say to the door,
all right, I guess I must.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
Have forgotten to spring the lat to that out there,
but the trees at the end of the luck, I
thought I saw a figure.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
All right, just stay here there, I'm right back.
Speaker 9 (16:08):
No one out here, Sarah, you're sure positive, probably just
a shadow.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
WHOA, there's not here.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
So what happened, Sarah?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Where are you?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Sah?
Speaker 9 (16:31):
She was standing here, sir, right here at the back door,
and I heard her scream, and there.
Speaker 12 (16:35):
Wasn't a sign of her when you got back here
at the door, not a sign of her. Well, folks,
just don't vanish into thin air, mister Setons. She must
be around here something. I got to find her before
it's too.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Late, too late? What do you mean by that? I
don't know, really, I have a feeling that, Oh, now, you're.
Speaker 12 (16:51):
Not going to tell me about dead witches returning to
are you don't tell.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Me you believe in that stuff.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
I don't know what the movie is that you here?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yes, who's there?
Speaker 11 (17:02):
You had better come with me, Sheriff. I just discovered
something on the side of the road about a mile away,
mister Seton.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I think you'd better wait here.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
What is it, doctor Norton, What have you found?
Speaker 11 (17:15):
I rather you'd wait, as I said before, until we're sure.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
What are you trying to hide from me? I guess
you'd better speak up, doctor.
Speaker 12 (17:22):
If it's something that concerns mister Seton, maybe he should know,
all right, Sheriff.
Speaker 11 (17:29):
But I made the turn into the road. My head
lights caught it in a ditch. I wasn't sure at first,
so I stopped the car and got out.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
It was a body in the ditch, a child body.
Speaker 13 (17:55):
That's the way, Sheriff.
Speaker 10 (17:57):
Over here to the right.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Well, where is she?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Easy nomous to see right right here, sheriff. Oh wait,
I'll switch on the flashlight.
Speaker 12 (18:08):
Ah Sarah, what this the moment, mister Seeden, Doctor Norton
has made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
What this corpse isn't your wife? I can tell by
that ring. It's the ring that Judge Foster always worn.
Speaker 10 (18:24):
Uh hello, Oh yes, sir any us yet well why
can't your men find it?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
It's been six hours already. No, I hadn't heard a word.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Yes, please call me as soon as you hear anything,
will you?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Who's there.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Over the door?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Fine, Sarah?
Speaker 9 (18:56):
Just quick let me in, Oh s Sarah, Sarah, thanks
the Lord, you're all right, darling?
Speaker 8 (19:04):
Where have you been?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
What happened? The door?
Speaker 11 (19:07):
Quickly?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
She doesn't know I've come back. She's still looking for hester.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
She was out there, pomp That's why I ran from
the house.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
She called me from the road, made me go with her,
go where to the cemetery? She kept me there, torturing me,
taking me to change.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Places with her.
Speaker 8 (19:27):
Darling, you're not making a sin pea. Please believe me.
We've got to get.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Away from here tonight, right now. She'll kill me if
we don't.
Speaker 11 (19:35):
She wants my life for the one she never lived.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
Now start it now, get hold of yourself. There is
no such woman as Hester, rand I thought PopEd.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
The woman you saw is somebody else, somebody living, who
wants you to believe that she's Hester.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
She wants everybody to believe it.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
But why, Pah, Why Because she's a.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Cold blooded murderess. She's killed two people.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
Already, and she's trying to drive you out of your
mind completely.
Speaker 5 (19:59):
But then, who who could it be?
Speaker 7 (20:01):
I wasn't sure before.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
Now I'm almost positive it's doctor Norton, Doctor Norton.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Now you saw this Hester, Sarah?
Speaker 3 (20:10):
What was she like?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Like a ghost?
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Like a shadow in the light.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
You can see your face, and yet.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
You can see through it beyond. I was just an
illusion created by the.
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Night there and perhaps some other tricks of a clever,
scaming woman. You'll see, I'll prove that, doctor nork Nelton.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
That's the back door, Sair, that's blown open again.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Leave it to get here.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
Don't you stay here. I'm going to see who opened
that door.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Please don't leave me alone.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
What is it there?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Don't come me here.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Here?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Here?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Are you all right?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
I killed it?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Paul?
Speaker 3 (21:05):
She won't taut me anymore.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
I killed hester.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
She came toward me. My fied, Sarah.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
There's no one in this room.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
There there in the hall, she's there where I don't
seen it.
Speaker 9 (21:22):
Good Lord, you've broke in the mirror. Wh you shot
at yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
No, it can't be. I can't be her.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
And yet I saw her faith.
Speaker 9 (21:41):
But it was my faith too, Sarah.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
It was you.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
You all the time.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I am esther.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Fair gentlemen, it is warming to have such a friend
as you to stand beside me and.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
The mockery of justice.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Run man, is that as you can?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Pause?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
I was wrong.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I haven't killed it.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Run, Sarah.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
I've got to help you.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
I've got to.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Explain to you that you should I not, Sarah, not anymore.
Can't you see who I am? Can't you see who's
taking my plate to me?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
I love you?
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Please please come back to there's gone now.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
I can live the years they took from me, seeing
my hand with pistol.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
He will visit, I say, it will come with me.
Speaker 5 (22:39):
You're no answer.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
She no answer, Doctor Norton. I can't understand it. Mister
Seton was home when I called, just fifteen minutes ago.
Speaker 11 (22:46):
I warned you sheriff to have that house closely was well,
I can't.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Do one hundred things at once.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
I've got every available deputy out looking for Missus Seaton.
Speaker 11 (22:53):
Don't you realize you may have gone back to their house.
Don't you realize that she's the one who might be Hester?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Missus Hester? What the douce talking about?
Speaker 11 (23:00):
I'm talking about dual personality. Missus Seaton is suffering from
a nervous breakdown, and it's entirely possible that she's the
one who killed Griffin and Judge Foster.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
You should have told me this before. Doctor. Come on,
we're getting right over to the seat and hob.
Speaker 12 (23:17):
Here, Paul, they buried Hester's body here.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
It's honored and unnamed.
Speaker 8 (23:25):
But Paul, he believe in my innocence. Yes, sir, we
better go back there.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
Back, Yes, to the house. Very cold here, it's.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Cold everywhere, Paul.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I feel the chill of death coming near me.
Speaker 11 (23:44):
You and I are going back back through time to
an age where no one can harm us.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
It's tor child fierce forever. Wait, sir, please listen.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
I try to understand here.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Dear your mind. The flames will be of no pain.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
I know because I've been through such a desk before.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
No, Now, Sarah, wait, oh, Paul Bester's going.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Are you all right?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Yes, it looks like we've got here just in time.
Speaker 10 (24:27):
She's going for me.
Speaker 9 (24:32):
Oh Sarah, she said, mister.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Seedhens, I'm sorry, mister Seedon.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Sheriff.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Goes the matter?
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Look at the heads done? I I didn't notice that
so far it's been recut.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Oh what do you mean?
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Don't you see what it says?
Speaker 9 (24:53):
Hester Randolph a lost soul.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
Boor or not too But thirteen seventeen fifteen nine, that
September twelfth, nineteen forty nine.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Day.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Have you had your personality split lately? You see what
happens when a dame gets the dates mixed up? For hestory,
she didn't know whether she was coming or going.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
To the grave.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Now look, if you should be in an old New
England cemetery some night and one of the headstones should move,
don't get frightened.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
It's probably just Hester.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Coming up for a hot date again. Oh, by the way,
there's no parting moral attached to tonight's tale. I'll just
leave you with your own thoughts. As horrible as I
hope they are.
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a man who loves to kill and a woman who
loves a murderer.
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And a murderer who loves a woman.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
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be with us when we take you the honeymoon in
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