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Suspense - "Ghost Hunt" (Old Time Radio, 1949) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A radio disc jockey, turns stunt night into a ghost hunt,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: carrying a wire recorder into an isolated house above the
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Pacific near Malibu, a property marked by four apparent suicides.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: That is the assignment facing Smiley Smith, played by Ralph Edwards,
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: with Joseph Kerns as doctor Clarence Reid, an investigator of
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: psychic phenomena. In Suspense episode three, first heard June second,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty nine, Charles MacDonald, the real estate agent, hopes
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: the Knight's experiment will clear the house's reputation. Smiley intends
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: to put the whole affair on record. From an original
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  Speaker 1: story by H. R. Wakefield, adapted for radio by Walter
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: Newman and directed by Anton M. Leader, here is ghost Hunt,
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  Speaker 1: and now our story begins.
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  Speaker 3: Auto Light brings you, Mister Ralph Edwards in Ghost Tons,
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  Speaker 3: a suspense play produced and directed by Antonym Leader.
• 1:31
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  Speaker 2: And also remember the Auto Light Suspense Show is now
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  Speaker 2: on television every Tuesday night in many parts of the country.
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  Speaker 3: And now auto Light presents Ralph Edwards in a tale
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  Speaker 3: well calculated to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, didn't that leave you high?
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  Speaker 3: Huh?
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  Speaker 4: Left me feel in treetop tall? That was Louis Armstrong's
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  Speaker 4: I Can't give you anything but love, and that's all
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  Speaker 4: we have time for. On the Hot and Mellow Hour tonight. Yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 4: this is Smiley Smith, your favorite disc jockey. I hope
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  Speaker 4: I hope booting the hot and.
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  Speaker 5: Mellow hour home for this evening.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be back again tomorrow night, minus the music, but
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  Speaker 4: with a little surprise for you. Tomorrow night, Friday night,
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  Speaker 4: as you know, is stunt night here at Station w XP.
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  Speaker 4: And have I got a stunt for you? Last week?
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  Speaker 4: If you remember, I planted my wire recorder in the
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  Speaker 4: steam room at a lady's Turkish bath and let you
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  Speaker 4: listen in on the playback.
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  Speaker 6: Member.
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  Speaker 4: Well, tonight, as soon as I leave the studio, do
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  Speaker 4: you know where I'm going? Your friend Smiley is going
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  Speaker 4: to spend the night in a haunted house on a spoolcunt.
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  Speaker 4: You heard me, a spook hunt in a haunted house.
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  Speaker 4: I'm bringing a little old wire recorder along with me.
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  Speaker 4: And if you tune in tomorrow evening, if there's time,
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  Speaker 4: you'll learn what it's like to spend a night in
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  Speaker 4: a haunted house. Ain't that something? A real haunted house?
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  Speaker 4: No kid, Four people are known.
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  Speaker 5: To have committed suicide there.
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  Speaker 4: So tune in tomorrow night and share a real thrill
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  Speaker 4: with your old pal Smiley. I must be crazy Smith.
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  Speaker 4: Good night.
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  Speaker 7: Care for cigar mister Thorp.
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  Speaker 8: I got some cigars in the dash there no well,
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  Speaker 8: no reason for you to carry a chip on your shoulder.
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  Speaker 7: Mister Thorpe, Really well, I don't like this fool stunt. Well,
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  Speaker 7: I don't see it as a fool stunt at all.
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  Speaker 8: I really don't. I think it's the only way you're
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  Speaker 8: gonna unload this house. Ordinary selling methodis won't work in
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  Speaker 8: a case like this. I don't forget the reputation saddling
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  Speaker 8: this house for suicides since nineteen thirty nine.
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  Speaker 7: You know what, people call it, the death trap.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, it's a lot of nonsense, sure, but try to
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  Speaker 8: convince people of that anyway. When this disc jockey offered
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  Speaker 8: me this chance to kill all the rumors about the
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  Speaker 8: death or about the property, I just naturally jumped and
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  Speaker 8: took him up at it, especially since it don't cost
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  Speaker 8: a sin.
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  Speaker 7: You sure about that. I'm not liable for a penny.
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  Speaker 8: Not a cent. We're doing him a favor letting him
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  Speaker 8: use the place. He said, thank me for the chance
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  Speaker 8: last night when I drove him out here. Sold one
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  Speaker 8: end watches the other As the feller says he got
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  Speaker 8: a chance to pull off a stunt. The wire recording
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  Speaker 8: will prove the people the properties ain't number one, and
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  Speaker 8: we increase the chance of selling the place.
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  Speaker 7: Well, as long as it doesn't cost me anything, not
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  Speaker 7: a thing. He's using his.
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  Speaker 8: Own recorder, and I'm paying for the riddle of a
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  Speaker 8: couple of walkie talkies he hooked up to it.
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  Speaker 7: Well, what about this read? Does he charged anything? He
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  Speaker 7: comes gratis too, Doctor Reed is what you might call it.
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  Speaker 8: Psychic investigator belongs to a couple of societies that do
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  Speaker 8: nothing but hunt goes.
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  Speaker 7: He showed me articles he's written about it in the magazine.
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  Speaker 7: Well here's a house. Yeah, looks real nice and the
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  Speaker 7: sunshine on it. Yeah, man, smell that sea breeze. They
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  Speaker 7: don't have to sell me. Well let him know where here?
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  Speaker 7: Probably asleep up all night and everything. Why don't they
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  Speaker 7: come out? You think they've gone? I told him last
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  Speaker 7: night I'd take them up around eleven?
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  Speaker 8: Uh Smith, Smith, Hey smiley, Doctor ree.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, fast asleep.
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  Speaker 7: I guess we better go and wake them up. Yah.
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  Speaker 7: Of course they may have taken the bus back to town.
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  Speaker 8: Oh no, no, it's a two mile hikes the main highway.
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  Speaker 7: A Smith, Hey Smiley, where are you wake up? You
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  Speaker 7: don't suppose do you?
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  Speaker 8: Oh no, no, Smith, Doctor Reid.
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  Speaker 7: What's that that clicking noise from in? There's his wire recorder?
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  Speaker 8: He left it running. These machines cost a lot of money.
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  Speaker 8: Doesn't he care if he use up his batteries?
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  Speaker 7: Oh? Where is he? And where's this read? And maybe
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  Speaker 7: they're upstairs?
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  Speaker 2: H Smith?
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  Speaker 7: Hey? Anybody home? They must have walked to the highway
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  Speaker 7: and taken the bus. He wouldn't have left his machine.
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  Speaker 7: Well where are they? Then? Where are they? Don't get excited,
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  Speaker 7: mister Thorpe.
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  Speaker 9: Don't tell me not to get excited if something's happened
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  Speaker 9: to them in my house.
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  Speaker 7: I'm liable. Will you try this side? I'll try that
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  Speaker 7: all right?
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  Speaker 2: Smith?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, smiley Smith Smith? Oh? O'donald come here? What?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 8: Oh? No? Real doctor?
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  Speaker 6: Ree?
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  Speaker 8: No, no, don't touch you, mister Thorpe. You'll get your
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  Speaker 8: hands off.
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  Speaker 7: Look blood? Is he dead?
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  Speaker 8: I can still feel his pups. We better get him
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  Speaker 8: to the hospital fast. Uh care for cigar? Mister Thorpe, No,
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  Speaker 8: no things? Why not try to relax? The nurse said
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  Speaker 8: Read to be all right as soon as he's had
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  Speaker 8: a blood transfusion.
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  Speaker 9: Who told the radio station to be sure and call
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  Speaker 9: us as soon as they had me worried about.
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  Speaker 7: Smith, as I told him, Why don't you sit down? No,
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  Speaker 7: I am all at sixes and sevens. What do you
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  Speaker 7: suppose happened out there last night?
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  Speaker 8: We're gonna know him just a second, just as soon
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  Speaker 8: as I can get this this quarter set up.
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  Speaker 7: You don't suppose Smith and Reid got into a fight?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: There, huh fight? I don't know, Well, what's wrong? Won't
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  Speaker 7: it work?
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  Speaker 6: It works?
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  Speaker 7: Think it easy?
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  Speaker 4: Testing one two three, Testing one two three, I'll said,
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  Speaker 4: doctor Reid. This McDonald, Hey, okay, here we go. This
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  Speaker 4: is Smiley Smith speaking Smiley Smith, the ghost Hunter. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know whether to hope this will turn out to
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  Speaker 4: be a success for the sake of the program or
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  Speaker 4: a failure for my own sake. Anyway, all the preparations
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  Speaker 4: have been made now.
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  Speaker 5: And it's up to the spooks. I better tell you
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  Speaker 5: where we are right now.
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  Speaker 4: We're standing on the lawn of a house about twelve
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  Speaker 4: miles above Malibu Beach. The ocean is one hundred feet
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  Speaker 4: away straight down. The house is perched on a cliff,
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  Speaker 4: and there's a sheer drop of about one hundred feet right.
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  Speaker 5: Into the Old Pacific. Maybe you can hear the surf
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  Speaker 5: pounding I'll turn up the volume.
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  Speaker 7: Hear it.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I'm going to have you meet.
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  Speaker 5: Two gentlemen who are here with me.
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  Speaker 4: Incidentally, we're the only people around for Miles and Miles. First,
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  Speaker 4: I'd like you to meet Clarence Reid of the British
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  Speaker 4: and American.
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  Speaker 5: Psychical Research Guilts.
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  Speaker 4: Doctor Reed is a famous investigator of psychic phenomena, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm very honored to be associated with him on this
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  Speaker 4: ghost hunt. He's smiling in an embarrassed sort of way.
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  Speaker 7: About two Kui and me.
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  Speaker 4: Doctor Reed has conducted experiments in this field with such
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  Speaker 4: great believers in spiritualism as Oliver Lodge and Arthur Conan Doyle.
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  Speaker 4: He looks a bit like Santa Claus. He's short, stocky.
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  Speaker 4: You don't object to doctor Reed, No, no, you need it,
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  Speaker 4: and he has a magnificent white beard, a truly great beaver.
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  Speaker 4: Doctor Reed is so enthusiastic about ghost hunting that he
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  Speaker 4: got out of a sick bed this evening to be
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  Speaker 4: with us.
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  Speaker 10: Excuse me, my lungs. I was gassed in the First
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  Speaker 10: World Law.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, anyway, Doctor Reid and I are here on the
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  Speaker 4: lawn looking at the house.
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  Speaker 5: Can't see much.
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  Speaker 4: It's around eleven PM now seems to be a rambling
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  Speaker 4: sort of house two stories high. Since it was built,
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  Speaker 4: there have been four suicides here.
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  Speaker 5: That right, that's right into the micclathe.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, four suicide since nineteen thirty nine.
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  Speaker 5: I better tell him who you are so they won't
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  Speaker 5: think you're a ghost.
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  Speaker 4: Standing with the doc and me is a real estate agent,
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  Speaker 4: mister Charles McDonald. He handles his property and he can
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  Speaker 4: tell you a lot more about it than I can.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 8: The house was built by a man named Marcus Toby. Marcus,
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  Speaker 8: an orange grower, built the house as a wedding present
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  Speaker 8: for his wife. Month after they moved in, she took
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  Speaker 8: her own life. On the day of her funeral, he
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  Speaker 8: committed suicide the same way. There have been two other
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  Speaker 8: cases since then.
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  Speaker 4: And now did they all jump into the ocean?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: All four of them right over there. The last one
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  Speaker 8: was actually seen doing it about three years ago. He
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  Speaker 8: was seen running like all get out the edge of
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  Speaker 8: the cliff, and he was shouting and laughing and yelling ats. Oh,
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  Speaker 8: there was people at his side running.
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  Speaker 2: Right along with him. You kidding us?
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  Speaker 8: Fact, he was laughing and yelling and running, And when
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  Speaker 8: he got to the edge right over there, he jumped
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  Speaker 8: and never came above water.
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  Speaker 4: As good an argument against cold baths as ever i've heard.
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  Speaker 7: Since then, people just refused to live in this house. Silly,
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  Speaker 7: I call it.
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  Speaker 8: Anyway, if you and doctor Reid find any sign of
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  Speaker 8: a spook, I'll advise. I wanted to pull the house
• 12:01
  Speaker 8: down and rebuild. But if you don't find anything, I'm
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  Speaker 8: hoping this will convince folks that here's a real buye Okay,
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  Speaker 8: mister Smith, you and the doctor on your own. I'll
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  Speaker 8: be buy in the morning to pick you up around eleven.
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  Speaker 4: Good Bye, miss McDonald. I hope there's something left for
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  Speaker 4: you to pick up in the morning. Well, it's almost
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  Speaker 4: pitch black, folks, And I guess doctor reed, and I
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  Speaker 4: ought to begin. I don't believe in ghosts, never have,
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  Speaker 4: but what I say is this, if you're dead set
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  Speaker 4: on looking for them, this is a dandy place to
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  Speaker 4: do it. So long, mister McDonald just checked out. Then
• 12:35
  Speaker 4: there were two, well three, Oh my dog, Yeah, folks,
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  Speaker 4: I have my dog Jeff with me. He's a wire
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  Speaker 4: haired terrier three years of age, and he can talk. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: say hello, Jeff, Come on, Jeff, say hello. Well, anyway,
• 12:48
  Speaker 4: he's a wire haired terrier and he's three years old.
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  Speaker 4: Shall we go inside now, doctor Reid.
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  Speaker 10: I was about to suggest you, now, how.
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  Speaker 4: Do we hunt ghosts?
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  Speaker 6: Doctor?
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  Speaker 5: How do we do it?
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 10: Well, we don't really hunt. If there should be the host,
• 13:00
  Speaker 10: they will come to us our cozy and please not ghosts.
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  Speaker 10: Do not refer to them as ghosts. We know them
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  Speaker 10: as appetition.
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  Speaker 4: I'll remember. I've no desire to hurt their feelings. Where
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  Speaker 4: ghosts are concerned, I say live and let live. Well,
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: you've opened the front door. Now maybe you heard the
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  Speaker 4: hinge squeak a little. Now we're standing here looking in.
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  Speaker 4: Can't see much, smell sort of musty and damp. It's
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  Speaker 4: matter of Jeff. It's a mat of boy.
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  Speaker 6: Jeff.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, come on now, come on.
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: My dog seems to object entering this house. He has
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: all four feet braced and these straining against the leash.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps he senses something.
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  Speaker 5: We don't like, apparitions, maybe preps.
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  Speaker 10: It's not unusual. Animals lack the veneer of sophistication we
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  Speaker 10: humans possess, and more sensitive to such an initial Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Jeff, now, stop this nonsense.
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: He probably smells a mouse or rat or something. Come on, Jack,
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  Speaker 4: We're going in whether you like it or not. There's
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  Speaker 4: a short entrance hall, and over there at the end
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  Speaker 4: of it is a flight of stairs leading to the
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  Speaker 4: second floor.
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  Speaker 2: Yeh.
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  Speaker 4: And over here at the left is what seems to
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  Speaker 4: be a large reception room.
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  Speaker 5: We're entering this large room.
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  Speaker 4: Now there are windows over there, French windows, and through
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  Speaker 4: them I can see the ocean. The electricity hasn't been
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  Speaker 4: turned on, so all I have to see buy is
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: a flashlight, not a very powerful one. At that Doctor
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  Speaker 4: Reed is now adjusting his walkie talking. It's hooked up
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  Speaker 4: to my recorder so that he can cut in while
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: he's hunting and tell us what he's found. Here's a
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  Speaker 4: few words from Doc before he sets forth on his
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  Speaker 4: investigation through the house.
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  Speaker 10: Ladies and gentlemen, mister Smith has introduced me as a
• 14:39
  Speaker 10: ghost hunter. He spoke, I think in a spirit of
• 14:42
  Speaker 10: skepticism and levity. I'd like to assure you all that
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  Speaker 10: my purposes here are serious. I have spent my entire
• 14:49
  Speaker 10: life seeking reliable proof of the appearances of apparitions?
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  Speaker 5: Have you ever seen any ever?
• 14:55
  Speaker 10: I have seen phenomena which lead me to believe in
• 14:57
  Speaker 10: the possibility of their existence. Although I have no seedy,
• 15:01
  Speaker 10: I count myself sensitive to the evidence of their existence.
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  Speaker 10: This house, for example, affects me profoundly. It doesn't seem
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  Speaker 10: to affect you in the same way.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not too happy about all this. If that's what
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: you mean, you.
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  Speaker 10: Are not psychic and therefore not sensitive to these metters
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  Speaker 10: as I am. I imagine the question in the minds
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  Speaker 10: of those of you listening to us is shall we
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  Speaker 10: find apparitions?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 10: I feel they are here and that they are evil.
• 15:28
  Speaker 10: I sense danger. I shall soon know.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: Doctor Reid's leaving the room now to make a tour
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: of the house. First thing I'm going to do is
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: open the windows and let some fresh air in.
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: It feels better already cooler anyway.
• 15:45
  Speaker 7: I know that.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: A bat just blu flew into the room. I think
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: it's a bat, not a bird. I didn't actually see it,
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: just it's its shadow as it fanned my face. There
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: it is again.
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  Speaker 5: It touched me as it passed.
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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff, you fool dog, come back here, Doctor Reid, Doctor Reid, doctor.
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  Speaker 6: Read for suspense. Auto light is bringing you.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Ralph Edwards in Radio's outstanding theater of thrills suspense.
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  Speaker 10: Hello, Hello, Snap under the.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: H oh oh. I'm reading a letter about the new
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  Speaker 2: white gap auto light resistor spark plugs. Apple. It's from
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: missus Clark Perry right here in Hollywood. She says, our
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: nineteen forty eighth station wagon has given constant trouble. Finally,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: the garage man said all the difficulty was spark plugs,
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: and he installed a set of auto light resistor spark plugs.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Now the car runs beautifully the very first time. My
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: husband has been really pleased.
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  Speaker 5: Smart garage man.
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  Speaker 2: Smart people to take his advice.
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  Speaker 7: Half.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: You know, as more and more people learn about white
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  Speaker 2: engine idle smoother, give better performance on leaner gas mixtures,
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  Speaker 2: actually save on gas. Why then more people will replace old,
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  Speaker 2: worn out narrow gap spark plugs with sensational new white
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  Speaker 2: gap auto light resistor spark plugs. Any more letters like that?
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Hull plenty, half plenty. Why here's another one from New
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: York City.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: Read it to me, Lada, hullo.
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: We haven't time because here's suspense, and now.
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  Speaker 3: Auto light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage. Ralph Edwards
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: as Smiley Smith in Ghost Hunt, A tale well calculated
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  Speaker 3: to keep you in suspense.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: Jeff, come back here, Jeff, you old dog, Come back here.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Doctor Reid, Doctor Reid, Doctor Reid read speaking.
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: What is it Smith?
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Jeff has run off my dog. He jumped through the
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: window and ran off.
• 18:11
  Speaker 10: Oh so I told you he said something about this house,
• 18:13
  Speaker 10: didn't I?
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you want to come and see if you can
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: determine what it was exactly. It set him off, and
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: soon I.
• 18:18
  Speaker 10: Am making my way slowly up the stairs toward the
• 18:20
  Speaker 10: second floor. Now I'm halfway up. I'll be done with
• 18:23
  Speaker 10: your wound.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Folks.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: My dogs run away. You probably heard him howling. He
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: jumped through the window and took off.
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: Never did anything like that before.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Frightened by the bat, I guess, personally, alone here in
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: this big room, I can understand how he must have felt.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: This isn't a cheerful spot by any means. I may
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: not be psychic, but I sure have a feeling this
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: house doesn't want us here.
• 18:43
  Speaker 10: Read again, Excuse me, I have something of great interest
• 18:47
  Speaker 10: to report. I'm now standing in an alcohol on the
• 18:50
  Speaker 10: second floor, trying to recover my breath. As I reached
• 18:53
  Speaker 10: the head of the stairs. I felt what I think
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: is a definite psychic benifestation. I felt suddenly as though
• 18:59
  Speaker 10: I had been punched in the solar plexus.
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: That's the only way I.
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: Can describe it. At the same time, I began to perspire.
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: My head is still swimming slightly here, and I have
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: difficulty in swallowing. My posset rate is around one hundred
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: and tenth in a minute. Sense of evil is very strong.
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: I feel very what shall I say, profoundly depressed.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: Do you want me up there?
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: No?
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: I prefer to remain up here alone. The presence of
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: a disbeliever such as you might interfere with my investigation.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Folks, I'd like you to get a picture what it's
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: like here. It's very quiet, for one thing, I've never
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: been in such a quiet place, and it's pretty dark.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: No light except my flashlight. Tell you what you go
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: now and douse all the lights you have on. Go ahead,
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: put out the lights, and that'll give you a clear
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: feeling of how it is here with me. Go ahead,
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: put out the lights.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: Hey, did you hear that?
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Real estate agent told me? I'd probably hear rats and
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: nice in the walls. I can certainly hear them now,
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: even I can hear him.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: I think it's as though.
• 20:01
  Speaker 10: Doctor h speaking. I've been working my way toward the
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: front room, the one directly above, the one in which
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: mister Smith is. Now the vibrations have become stronger and
• 20:10
  Speaker 10: more and more pronounces I approach it. I think I
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: am on the verge of an important discovery.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Important discovery.
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: Do you get there.
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: Now?
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: I can hear doctor Reid moving about in the room above.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: I don't suppose you can have a try anyway, huh.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: Heari.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: I hope he finishes his investigations soon, because, quite frankly,
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: I'd like to get out of here. I can well
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: imagine people becoming unhinged in this place right now, I
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: find myself pretty jumpy, not being very brave, am I.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: It's being alone in this room.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Down here that does it? This darned old house. It's
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: it's a very I mean, you know, the atmosphere so
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: very I.
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: Wish only to make this hurried report before continuing with
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: the investigation in this room. I have carefully sounded out
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: all the parts in this room, and the emanations are
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: most strong from what appears to be a closet before
• 20:58
  Speaker 10: which I am now standing. As soon as I opened
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: the door to this closet, I would have I think
• 21:03
  Speaker 10: a thing of great interest to communicate. I find no
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: key to the lock, and so I will attempt to
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: remove the hinges with my pin knife, and I will
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: tell you what I find.
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: When I open it.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you what it would cost to get meat.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Open that door in the basement at fortnite.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: There's that bad again. It seems to like me the
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: way it each time it passes, it touches my face
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: or my neck with its wings. Smelly things bats. I
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: don't suppose they bathe very often, if at all. I
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: wonder I get the way you bat that. Battle be
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: the death of me.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: It's like a jingle, isn't it.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Battle be the death of me.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: The death of me, the death of me. Battle be
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: the death of me.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: It isn't far from London. It's the way it goes.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: It's come down to queue in lie like time, and
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: lie like time, and lie like time. Come down to
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: queue and lie like time.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: It isn't far.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: I haven't thought of that since I was a kid
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: in grammar school. See I had a lonely childhood. And
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: when you come right down to her. I mean, oh,
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: that's my affair, isn't it? It is that, certainly is.
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: I have succeeded in removing the hinges to the door,
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: and I find inside it is not a closet, but
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: much larger. It is I think a dressing room. I
• 22:13
  Speaker 10: have not yet been inside, but I am about to enter.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: What was I talking about?
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, bats?
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Well, the bat flying back and forth in this room.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Did you hear that?
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: Did you hear it?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Doctor Reid?
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Must have knocked something over in the dashing room. A chair,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: A chair, yeah, heavy chair, By the sound, I'm at
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: the chair. Whatever it was must have fallen right right
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: over my head.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: That's why it sounded.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: I can see a small stain forming right on the ceiling,
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: right or right over my head. Something rand across my foot,
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: just the rat, I think it was. I've always hated rats,
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: most people do, of course. That staying up there bothers me.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: It's gotten so big so soon. I think I'll take
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: a chance and bother reading asking what it is?
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: Doctor Reed read?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Can you hear me? Are you all right?
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: Hello?
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Well he didn't answer.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: I think he's just a little bit deaf. Think, so,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: what do you suppose he's found.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: Eh, I'm afraid there's rather dull for you listeners.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: I'm not finding it.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: I heard him cough. Did you hear that cough? I
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: hope he's all right. He got out of a sick
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: bed to come here this evening. You know, he was
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: gassed in the First World War, and this place is
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: beginning to get on my nerves. A wee bit, just
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: a teensy wingsy bit.
• 23:32
  Speaker 10: Read speaking.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Hello, he switched off. That's a bad cough he's got.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: I feel so lonely, been alone so much in my life.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: Not so much now, of course, but when I was younger,
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: I was just alone so much of the time, you know,
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: struggling to get ahead, living in a hall bedroom, wondering
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: where my next meal is coming from.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I get the blues just remembering.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: It seem sad young people having to spend so much
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: time alone.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Sad for old people too.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Of course, I'm saying a course, a lot of courses.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: I am hey, that's staying on the ceiling. It's grown amazingly.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: It's actually beginning to drip. I mean form bubbles.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: I'll start dropping soon. Colored bubbles.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: They seem to be shaped stain like a body lying
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: on its back with its arm stretched out.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: It's cheerful.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: I certainly advised mister McDonald to have this place pulled down.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: I'll go upstairs in a minute or two to see
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: how doctor Ree's making not you know, listeners, are I
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: really believe I go completely crazy if I had to
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: stay here much longer. Wears you down. That's exactly what
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: it does. It wears you down. It's so close and
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: musty in here. I feel sort of trapped.
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: I don't know why I said that. That's that's what
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: they call this place, you know, the death trap there?
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: What did I tell you that's staying started to drip drops,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: drip drops, drip drops, drip drops.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: I'll catch the next on in my hand, like.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Read doctor Reed. I'm going upstairs now, Listeners, I'm afraid
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: something has happened to doctor Reed. I'm not kidnap. I
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: mean this is on the level which room could be.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Not right, no, right, right, this is I think.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: Ah, evening, gentlemen and madam.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: I'm so glad to see I was just aching to
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: see somebody, anybody. I've been so lonely down there. What
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: have you done with the doctor huh, I know, I
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: know he's been hurt. See the color of the bubble
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: on my hand.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: What have you done with him? Make way, please, gentlemen,
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: make way.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: Well, this isn't the funniest darn thing. This can't be
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: doctor Reid lying here. He didn't have a redbeard. Don't
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: crowd me, gentlemen. Don't don't crowd me.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Please.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: Huh.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: You want me to go where with you you want
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: me to do? What?
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: Speak up, gentlemen, to the cliffs.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Down to the cliffs, you mean right now? Well, all right,
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: if you'll come with me. I don't want to be
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: alone anymore. You will come with me, all of you,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: all four of you, you too, ma'am? Oh good, Come on,
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: man to the cliffs.
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: He jumped over the cliff. He jumped over the cliff.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: McDonald, he jumped.
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: Over, mister McDonald, mister Thorpe.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: You may come in to see doctor Reid. Now. Doctor
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: Reid is conscious. You may see him now.
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: Is he able to talk?
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Just for a few minutes in here?
• 26:28
  Speaker 10: Come in, Come in, gentlemen.
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: How are you doctor Reid? We've been waiting to see you.
• 26:34
  Speaker 10: Yes, and I must apologize, gentlemen, I had a most
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: unfortunate accident. Hemorrhage, hemorrhage, yes, my lungs, you know no, gentlemen.
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: Hemorrhage, Doctor Reid?
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: What happened in that house? What happened to Smith? We've
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: just been listening to a playback of the recordings you
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: made out there.
• 26:54
  Speaker 10: Smith, isn't he with you?
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: We've just heard the recording, Doctor Reids, myth jumped over
• 27:00
  Speaker 9: the cliff into the ocean. Oh that poor boy, Doctor Reid,
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: Will you please tell us what happened? We heard on
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: the recording there were ghosts in that house.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: Ghosts.
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: I didn't see any ghosts. That's Smith. What about him?
• 27:17
  Speaker 10: If he went over the cliff, it was fear that
• 27:20
  Speaker 10: drove him over? Gentlemen, I didn't see any ghosts. As
• 27:26
  Speaker 10: for that unfortunate young man, who can say now what
• 27:32
  Speaker 10: he saw?
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: Thought he saw?
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Thank you Ralph Edwards for displaying your versatility by appearing
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: as guest star on Suspense.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: See then Edwige does everything?
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Ah, half no does? Don't use that word on our
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: auto light show.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: Come now, Harlow, I can make you use that word
• 28:11
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• 28:12
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• 28:15
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• 28:19
  Speaker 4: your car gives better performance on leaner gas mixtures, saves gas.
• 28:23
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• 28:24
  Speaker 8: Do I mean?
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Does are we devils?
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: Haha?
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Ralph, you trick me well. Anyhow, It does my heart
• 28:32
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• 29:17
  Speaker 6: And now here again is Ralph Edwards.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: I want to thank Tony Leader and his great cast
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: of actors for helping to make my appearance on suspense
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: a very pleasant consequence. Like all of you, I'm a
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: great suspense fan and I'm looking forward to next Week
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: when radio's outstanding theater of thrills brings you Joseph Cotton
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: in the Day I Died, Another gripping.
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: Study in suspense.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Tonight's Suspense Play was adapted for radio by Walter Newman
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: from an original story by hr Wakefield, with music composed
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: by Lucian Morowack and conducted by lud Bluskin. The entire
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: production was under the direction of Anton M. Leader. Make
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  Speaker 2: it a point to listen next Thursday to Suspense Radio's
• 29:56
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• 30:00
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  Speaker 6: Goodnight.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: The Pacific Night falls quiet after Suspense's ghost Hunt. Good Night,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: and thank you for joining us.