Speaker 1: Unsolved mysteries. Out of deference to persons who may still
Speaker 1: be living. Character names in some of these true unsolved
Speaker 1: mysteries have been changed. Few mysteries can compare in their
Speaker 1: intrigue with those mysteries that deal with the mind. And
Speaker 1: he is bold, indeed, who says that he understands that
Speaker 1: realm in which the mind holds sway has witnessed the
Speaker 1: extraordinary case of the hypnotist.
Speaker 2: Something something, a something, a something thinking something. Trust.
Speaker 1: The scene is a famous newspaper correspondence home in New York,
Speaker 1: the occasion the publishing of a book, a book dealing
Speaker 1: with better than twenty years of headline hunting, and Bob Howard,
Speaker 1: the newspaper man, is entertaining a few friends at dinner.
Speaker 1: Most of the guests linger over their coffee, but Jim Watson,
Speaker 1: another newspaperman, stands by the window looking at the new book.
Speaker 3: I say, Bob, I don't find my favorite story in here.
Speaker 3: Didn't you send it in?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: I did, but well it was leave it out and
Speaker 3: not get the book published.
Speaker 4: What do you mean, Bob?
Speaker 5: My publisher said that they didn't believe the story, and
Speaker 5: they were sure the public wouldn't And so, as I said,
Speaker 5: I either had to leave out the story or try
Speaker 5: to get some other publishing house to print it.
Speaker 3: But you have plenty proof that the thing happened.
Speaker 4: And that's what I thought.
Speaker 5: But you realize that there was no official record ever
Speaker 5: kept of the affair, and most of the men who
Speaker 5: were concerned are dead.
Speaker 3: I suppose that's true. It's a shame, though, that was
Speaker 3: a swell story.
Speaker 4: Hey, what is this story?
Speaker 6: I'd like to hear it?
Speaker 4: So would I go ahead?
Speaker 6: Bob?
Speaker 3: I can always stand hearing it again.
Speaker 5: Well, it will certainly give you plenty to think about.
Speaker 5: It was during the war and I was assigned to
Speaker 5: cover the Palestine front, but with fever and everything, the
Speaker 5: British losses had been heavy, and all the way from
Speaker 5: the ancient city of Gaza to the Damascus Gate, the
Speaker 5: Turks were in a very good defensive position. I'd never
Speaker 5: sent any news dispatches to my paper that the commanding
Speaker 5: officer hadn't put his ok on, and the result was
Speaker 5: that I was in on quite a few conferences. It
Speaker 5: was night, typical Oriental night, and the staff officers were
Speaker 5: seated in the old man's tent discussing the situation and
Speaker 5: the situation.
Speaker 6: Is now, gentlemen, we daren't advance. Just how many of
Speaker 6: these fever and dysenteric cations will be ready for active
Speaker 6: duty in the next thirty days.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: We'll hear later on that the person will be over
Speaker 6: from the hospital with a report. But the main thing
Speaker 6: is we don't want to spend the hot weather hare
Speaker 6: The Turks are firmly entrenched, and yet we don't want
Speaker 6: to retreat now.
Speaker 3: Possibility of reinforcement, sir.
Speaker 6: Not a chance they need all they can get on
Speaker 6: the western front.
Speaker 4: Well, if we could only get behind them.
Speaker 6: But say LG yes, colonel, if we could, that we
Speaker 6: can't and hoping won't change it. Colonel Macpherson reporting, sir, Yes,
Speaker 6: well Mac, what is the medical report?
Speaker 5: Fraser can't count and vadamnesa not for ninety days at
Speaker 5: least those cases are pressure bad. But yes, Mac, we'll
Speaker 5: hesitate to tell you this, but we've just had a
Speaker 5: something happened.
Speaker 3: Yes, go ahead, I'd rather you come over to the
Speaker 3: hospital of yourself and see for yourself, sir, all of us,
Speaker 3: yes is.
Speaker 5: I'm a doctor, but there's something happened over there that
Speaker 5: I don't know anything.
Speaker 1: About fifteen minutes later, the staff officers are seated in
Speaker 1: the medical officer's tent. Through the mosquito netting, the long
Speaker 1: rows of cots are barely visible in the dim light
Speaker 1: of a lantern swinging from the tent pole. Colonel Macpherson
Speaker 1: enters the tent and behind him a nurse.
Speaker 5: A nurse, will you send one of the orderlies for augment, Yes,
Speaker 5: and have the patient moved to the officer's tipt Gentlemen,
Speaker 5: you know we've been trying to do something for these
Speaker 5: shell shocked cases. You know, these fellows who can't turn
Speaker 5: to the left or to the right door, who can't
Speaker 5: sit down without someone assisting them, you know the type
Speaker 5: of course. Well, recently we've been trying hypnosis and Akmit,
Speaker 5: a Persian, has been very successful. Tonight here isel, oh, splendid,
Speaker 5: splendid A come this way, gentler, gentlemen, this is Akmed.
Speaker 5: Achmed has studied medicine at Hahmadan and he's studied hypnosis
Speaker 5: under under the famous German scientist who has taken a
Speaker 5: rescure at Ansley.
Speaker 4: Here is a patient, sir, oh, yes, yes, and the
Speaker 4: hospital record.
Speaker 5: Thank yourness, I knew the records name Brown rank corporal Regiment,
Speaker 5: Army service called mechanical Transport Classification driver.
Speaker 4: That will correct.
Speaker 3: Yes, where were you born? I was born in self Kinsington, sayer,
Speaker 3: you talk no foreign languages, not me, sir.
Speaker 4: Not to bloom in one sair.
Speaker 5: You're perfectly willing to be placed under hypnosis by doctor Akmet.
Speaker 3: Y sir, how y sir?
Speaker 4: Or dochmut? You will sit down here? Please now close
Speaker 4: your eye now breathe deeply.
Speaker 1: Acmet runs his slender fingers over Brown's forehead. The tenseness
Speaker 1: leaves Brown's body, and with a sigh, almost a sigh
Speaker 1: of relief, Brown said, was back in the chair, fascinated
Speaker 1: the officer's watch. Achmet, who steps back, folds his arms
Speaker 1: and fixes his gaze steadily on the man in.
Speaker 5: The camp chair.
Speaker 4: Your name, Saidrick. You know where you are in the
Speaker 4: Holy Land.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: Why you are here to destroy the Unchristian Saracens.
Speaker 4: Who is your leader? Richard good?
Speaker 3: Heavens he he thinks he is in the crusade.
Speaker 4: I do not get him excited. Please thank you now, saidre.
Speaker 4: Tell me do you know this territory?
Speaker 7: Yes, every inch of it?
Speaker 4: Think deeply? Is there another road leading to l g.
Speaker 7: Yes, get the parchment and pens and I will show
Speaker 7: it lies beyond el Man. But parchment, I will show you.
Speaker 1: Paper and pencil is placed before him. With eyes staring
Speaker 1: ahead and seeing nothing, Brown takes the pencil and begins
Speaker 1: tracing lines on the paper. Amazement fills the faces of
Speaker 1: the officers as.
Speaker 4: The map takes sheep.
Speaker 1: They hold their breadth as the pencil stops.
Speaker 7: Here Hidden among the red sandstone rocks lies.
Speaker 4: The other road to Eljae, the other road.
Speaker 1: To weljay a'l.
Speaker 4: The victory.
Speaker 8: What an amazing story.
Speaker 4: I I can hardly believe. My ear is amazing.
Speaker 5: The amazing part of it was that the rough map
Speaker 5: that Brown drew that night covered most of the territory
Speaker 5: that was fought over during the finish of the war,
Speaker 5: and the map was accurate, accurate enough for the British
Speaker 5: to use and get into Algae.
Speaker 4: It certainly was.
Speaker 5: In less than twenty four hours, columns of infantry had
Speaker 5: moved into the red sandstone defile, and Johnny Tuck realized
Speaker 5: too late that ancient Gaza was not, as they had supposed,
Speaker 5: an impregnable city.
Speaker 8: Then was the Brown or reincarnation of Cedric.
Speaker 3: Oh, I hardly think so. No, I don't believe that
Speaker 3: is the explanation.
Speaker 5: Then you have an explanation, not my explanation, but I
Speaker 5: can assure you that I went searching for one.
Speaker 1: In just a moment, you will hear a solution to
Speaker 1: the mystery of the hypnotist ladies and gentlemen. In as
Speaker 1: much as any solution must have necessary be supposition, liberties
Speaker 1: of time, place, and character have been taken in the
Speaker 1: solution for which you've been waiting. The scene is once
Speaker 1: again the home of the newspaper correspondent Bob Howard, who
Speaker 1: continues his story. Quite possibly, if someone had told me
Speaker 1: the story, I would not have believed it. But here
Speaker 1: I was sitting there, listening to an uneducated mechanical transport
Speaker 1: driver speaking in the voice and personality of a man
Speaker 1: called Cedric, who'd undoubtedly served the Crusades under Rich in
Speaker 1: the Lionharts.
Speaker 8: There was no possible way in which the transport driver
Speaker 8: could have known of that defile to the mountain.
Speaker 4: Not a chance.
Speaker 5: Even our intelligence didn't know of it, although later on
Speaker 5: we did find a Bible student who pointed out that
Speaker 5: the children of Israel had used the defile in their
Speaker 5: fight against the Canaanine. You said that you were when
Speaker 5: searching for an explanation, Yes, and found that there were
Speaker 5: other instances of similar happenings. The solution would seem to
Speaker 5: be that the spirit of this Cedric, who may have
Speaker 5: been killed in the Crusades, still lingered on in that
Speaker 5: vicinity after death.
Speaker 8: You mean that the spirit of the departed Cedric could
Speaker 8: remain in that place through all these hundreds of years.
Speaker 5: Yes, if you admit an external existence after death, then
Speaker 5: there's nothing remarkable in the spirit being there for hundreds
Speaker 5: of years, any more so than that spirit remaining there
Speaker 5: for only if you.
Speaker 4: Are I suppose that's true. Aura.
Speaker 5: Now, the hypnotist, in placing the transport driver in a trance,
Speaker 5: removed from him all control of his brain and left
Speaker 5: his mind a condition into which the mind of Cedric could.
Speaker 8: For a time enter, so that the mind of this
Speaker 8: Cedric could use the voice of the transport driver to
Speaker 8: make known his identity and also his knowledge of the territory.
Speaker 5: Yes, I found out in my investigations that there had
Speaker 5: been a similar happening in France, and as a matter
Speaker 5: of fact, right now in Hollywood, California, a group of
Speaker 5: medical men are investigating a young boy who not only
Speaker 5: seems to be the reincarnated brain of a long dead Persian,
Speaker 5: but this boy can wild, blindfolded, breed, and do almost
Speaker 5: anything that he can when he is not blindfolded.
Speaker 8: Yes, it was his ability to do things blindfolded that
Speaker 8: first attracted the doctors to examine him.
Speaker 5: And if it were not for that fact, the medical
Speaker 5: men probably would scoff at the reincarnation idea, I mean,
Speaker 5: the idea that this boy could have any connection with
Speaker 5: the Persian long dead.
Speaker 4: Well, it certainly gives one something to think about. Yes,
Speaker 4: makes me wonder who and where I was in some
Speaker 4: dim
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