Speaker 1: Unsolved mysteries down the ages.
Speaker 2: Man has been seeking the answer to the riddles what
Speaker 2: happens in the unseen realm beyond? With all our science,
Speaker 2: we're as far from answering that question as man was
Speaker 2: in the beginning. But with the accumulated records of the past,
Speaker 2: the conviction is born strongly upon some that there is
Speaker 2: a link joining us mortals with those who have fast
Speaker 2: this way before.
Speaker 3: Days of the world. As the scene is the famous
Speaker 3: American newspaper correspondence Home, it is evening and the group
Speaker 3: of guests are seated around the table enjoying thereafter dinner,
Speaker 3: coffee and cigars.
Speaker 1: Long fire casts a ruddy glow over the room, and
Speaker 1: the soft candlelight throws grotesque, shallow shapes.
Speaker 2: On the walls and ceiling as the guests settle themselves
Speaker 2: more comfortably in their chair. Jiliously, that was a good story.
Speaker 2: Well told you you don't really believe in ghosts. Before
Speaker 2: I answer that question, let me ask you one. Go ahead.
Speaker 1: Do you completely wholly and absolutely disbelieve in them?
Speaker 2: When you'll put it that way, I'm not sure that
Speaker 2: I can answer you, but I suppose in their heart
Speaker 2: of heart, most men, while they won't admit it. Do
Speaker 2: have a secret belief in ghosts or something similar?
Speaker 1: Now what do you say, Jackson? You're a newspaper man
Speaker 1: of wide experience. Have you ever run into what you
Speaker 1: might call a true ghost story in your newspaper work?
Speaker 2: Yes, I have an experience of my own and one
Speaker 2: impact which I.
Speaker 1: Owe my life exactly Jackson. It was that experience of.
Speaker 2: Yours that I had and learn. What is that, Jackson?
Speaker 1: Something we haven't heard about.
Speaker 2: I man't tell it to many people, which you will
Speaker 2: tell it us. Why don't you, Jackson?
Speaker 1: It's going to be published next month anyway?
Speaker 2: All right? A you fellas know I was porn correspondent
Speaker 2: of the Sketch Mirror group and one of my assignments
Speaker 2: was to interview celebrities before they became celebrities. Well, I
Speaker 2: had to make a quick trip to England. Looked very
Speaker 2: much as if they asked us government is about the
Speaker 2: fall and the Lloyd George of being the saddle. So
Speaker 2: I had to interview Lloyd George before the news broke.
Speaker 2: I've concluded my interview and was all I did believe
Speaker 2: when I met an old friend. You've become a lord
Speaker 2: since I first knew him, and I've made no difference
Speaker 2: to him and the result all that I found myself
Speaker 2: and then Northumblant home, being reeted by her ladyship and
Speaker 2: her very charming daughter. Here the latter I noticed I
Speaker 2: want to know both to meet a vide old friend
Speaker 2: of mine, Jackson.
Speaker 4: Were not with the Jackson the very I'm so glad
Speaker 4: to meet you, mister Jackson. Heth is spoken of you.
Speaker 2: And I'm the lighted to meet Keith's mother and sister.
Speaker 4: Dear. We mostly keep mister Jackson standing in the cold.
Speaker 5: We shall want to carry you any more up the
Speaker 5: night dogs very good, sir, all right, thanks to take
Speaker 5: our cats up, Come ride, use the horn, get your phones,
Speaker 5: gown out and thanks old man.
Speaker 2: And it is a bit chilly house.
Speaker 6: Riding up to the house here in the carriage is
Speaker 6: an experience to run accustom to riding in the closed car.
Speaker 6: We don't use the car much up here. And tonight
Speaker 6: Arthur has it down in the village getting into supply.
Speaker 2: It was charming even it's chilly. But then this open
Speaker 2: the fire makes up for all the gold drink jections.
Speaker 2: Was thanks, yes, hey one, yes, thanks, Oh that's help.
Speaker 4: Did you boys have dinner tonight, and.
Speaker 2: Thank you we did on the train. And by the way,
Speaker 2: I take back all I've ever thought or said about
Speaker 2: dinners on an English train. That was one of the
Speaker 2: best means I ever had.
Speaker 4: Excitedly, we're are hungry than usual.
Speaker 2: There's something I must say, even if all the books
Speaker 2: ever written on etiquets say that has contraried a good taste.
Speaker 4: Would deny to Jackson, I'm sure we'll forgive you.
Speaker 2: You're home. It is without question the most beautiful place
Speaker 2: I've ever seen. Why when we were driving up the
Speaker 2: hill that looked like some picture out of a children's
Speaker 2: story book, a picture of an old medieval castle. The
Speaker 2: broad bridge, the pork colors, the mote, the towers and
Speaker 2: the turrets. It is somewhat of the medieval castle.
Speaker 5: The more thing was built in the days of hands
Speaker 5: of the second in each generation since decided this little bit,
Speaker 5: and believe that we added electric lights prop.
Speaker 6: The plumbing with the devout approval of the family. The
Speaker 6: electric lights against my own.
Speaker 4: Most ardent.
Speaker 2: Electric lights and plumbing, I can't think of anything more
Speaker 2: to be desired.
Speaker 4: We even have one of the best ghosts in the englis.
Speaker 2: By Joseph, you might at least give a chap time
Speaker 2: to warm his seat before you drag out the family's
Speaker 2: kill it.
Speaker 4: Well, it's not as skeleton. We shouldn't say things like that.
Speaker 4: You must forgive Evelyn, mister Jackson.
Speaker 6: But Lady Evelyn, the ghost is uh for him, almost
Speaker 6: in the obsession with Evelyn.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure that it's. Lady Evelyn's ghost is half
Speaker 2: as charming as you are, Miss Evelyn, and she's a
Speaker 2: the whost if very much to me.
Speaker 4: Thank you live. Go at the gallery and show the
Speaker 4: Jackson Ldia's in portrait now.
Speaker 2: Now, my god, I would be delighted, really, if it
Speaker 2: isn't too much trouble, no trouble at Pold Jackson. It's
Speaker 2: like the all God. Since the gallery is on the
Speaker 2: way to the bedroom.
Speaker 6: Go along with the Jackson you come to meet, you
Speaker 6: see is the Jackson. Lady Evelyn's ghost is a very
Speaker 6: special ghost. She always warns us of any intending disaster.
Speaker 2: And do you always heed her warning?
Speaker 4: We do know, since she's warning a mother about father.
Speaker 4: Brother paid no attention. He was killed just as the
Speaker 4: ghost warm mother.
Speaker 2: He would be Is that the only infant?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 6: It's a family tradition dating back several hundred years. Here's
Speaker 6: a gallery that's which on the light.
Speaker 2: Mm, no need to tell nigh which one there?
Speaker 1: She is nice?
Speaker 2: Why, hey, dear, part of the view I sail.
Speaker 5: Then, don't pay too much attention to what Ablen tells
Speaker 5: you about the familyous keleton.
Speaker 4: You know, Keith is quite right into Jackson. Evelyn is
Speaker 4: unduliantos end.
Speaker 2: You're not any more enthusiastic than I am. I am
Speaker 2: enjoying the whole thing immansely like I'd rather like to
Speaker 2: meet this ghost lady Elvin will Will.
Speaker 4: Why didn't you sleep in the haunted wing? No, my dear, my.
Speaker 2: Dear, yes, by Joel and by the fellow up here,
Speaker 2: and the first night you want to speaking in a
Speaker 2: haunted wing. But Jackson did sleep in the haunted wings.
Speaker 2: The wind howled dismally among the turrets, and the wrong
Speaker 2: roof LEDs. The old paneled walls creaked as night wore
Speaker 2: on and the cold became more intense. One by one,
Speaker 2: the sounds in the old castle died away, and soon
Speaker 2: Jackson fell into a sound sleep. He wakened with a
Speaker 2: feeling that someone was in the room. Set up in
Speaker 2: the Big four poster bed a woman who was against
Speaker 2: the far wall, Miss Avellan, dressed in old fashioned clothes,
Speaker 2: playing a part of the ghost. But the figure shook
Speaker 2: its head, turned a pair of luminous eyes on him,
Speaker 2: and started to write on the wall or a woman
Speaker 2: for warning message blazed out in the letters of fire.
Speaker 1: Jackson closed his eyes and looked again.
Speaker 4: A trick.
Speaker 2: She's riding with posphers or something. Again, the figure shook
Speaker 2: its head, gave him a searching look that went right
Speaker 2: through him, and turning, walked out of the room through
Speaker 2: the three foot stone walls. By George eight o'clock. I
Speaker 2: didn't realize I was taking so long as tell this story.
Speaker 2: He'll be late for the theater.
Speaker 1: Oh hang the theater. Finish the story here, George Well.
Speaker 2: I did my best to disregard the ghost warning His
Speaker 2: large drows me to the boat right to say. He
Speaker 2: tried to, but the car broke down. I missed the boat,
Speaker 2: and two days later Keith, with a face as white
Speaker 2: as a sheet, handed me the morning paper. In glaring headlines.
Speaker 2: I read steamship Titanic sunk all on board lost. Thought
Speaker 2: that was an exaggeration, but I might have been one
Speaker 2: of the more than thousand who were long god life.
Speaker 2: What did the warning that was written on the wall say,
Speaker 2: beware of the Titanic? Nothing more? I told her ladyship
Speaker 2: next morning, and she was the one who instructed the chauffeur.
Speaker 2: When she found I was determined to sail, she instructed
Speaker 2: him to break the car if necessary, to prevent my
Speaker 2: sailing on the Tatanic.
Speaker 1: Now, do you, fellows, believe in ghosts?
Speaker 2: Imaginations? An our jackson, old boy, We're glad you missed
Speaker 2: the Titanic, and we're dying glad you're here to be
Speaker 2: our host at the dinner. Body who's got time for
Speaker 2: one toast? And off to the theater. Out of deference
Speaker 2: to people who are still alive, character names in these
Speaker 2: unsold mysteries have been changed inasmuch as any solution must
Speaker 2: have necessity, be supposition, liberties of time, place, and character
Speaker 2: exist in a solution that will be presented after you
Speaker 2: have heard from your sponsor, Ladies and gentlemen, the solution
Speaker 2: for what you've been waiting. Of course, I don't blame
Speaker 2: you for believing in ghosts after an experience like that,
Speaker 2: but just the same you can really explain it. I
Speaker 2: think I can.
Speaker 1: I'd like to hear.
Speaker 2: You if you ever met a perfect stranger and had
Speaker 2: the strange sensation of having met him somewhere before. Yea,
Speaker 2: All the same thing applies to building, and the older
Speaker 2: these buildings are the more vibration of previous happenings. I
Speaker 2: will be to make their effect upon you. You mean to.
Speaker 1: Say that if I go into a building where a
Speaker 1: murder has been committed, I'll be aware of a strange feeling.
Speaker 2: You will, if you are sufficiently sensitive. I'll agree there.
Speaker 2: But that doesn't explain actually seeing what is generally called
Speaker 2: a ghost. If you have ever tried lying down in
Speaker 2: perfect ease and comfort, allowing your imagination to drift back
Speaker 2: to some particular and memorable scene, the picture will come
Speaker 2: to you as vividly as if it had happened yesterday.
Speaker 2: Or take an author writing a story, the characters are
Speaker 2: just as real in his mind as any group of
Speaker 2: living people about whom he has only read. I'll agree
Speaker 2: to all that very well. Don't you think that if
Speaker 2: over a period of centuries, people living in a certain
Speaker 2: house are all agreed that the ghost of the beautiful
Speaker 2: woman halts the house? Don't you think that that impression
Speaker 2: will impress itself. There is wrongly upon a stranger who
Speaker 2: sleeps in the so called haunted room, is I think
Speaker 2: that's perfectly reasonable. I really do think that if a
Speaker 2: sufficient number of.
Speaker 1: People all think along one line.
Speaker 2: Something is going to result. And of course you were
Speaker 2: thinking of your trip on the Titanic as wholl is
Speaker 2: the ghost, so you are willing to admit that concentrated
Speaker 2: thinking will produce a manifestation. And if that's the case,
Speaker 2: why deny that an extremely emotional incident would produce a
Speaker 2: similar manifestation. There's something of that, isn't there.
Speaker 1: You've got me almost convinced.
Speaker 2: But just the same, I'll have a stronger belief in
Speaker 2: ghost when I meet one face to face. Well, if
Speaker 2: I ever meet a ghost, I hope it will be
Speaker 2: like the ghost of the Lady Evelyn One, that you
Speaker 2: will have such good intentions bread in it that even
Speaker 2: if I am a stranger, it will warn me of
Speaker 2: any impending disaster. Of course, the ghost of Lady Elden
Speaker 2: would have warn anyone who had been in the room,
Speaker 2: whether or not they had had any intention of sailing
Speaker 2: on the Tatanic. That part of it, I think is
Speaker 2: coincident do you
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