Speaker 1: Come in.
Speaker 2: Welcome.
Speaker 3: I'm E. G.
Speaker 2: Marshall. I have the lunch all packed and I'm ready
to take you on a pickbeek in the woods.
Speaker 1: There's a beautiful little blade deep in the forest, birds singing,
that wonderful clean aroma of fresh growth mixed with leaf
mold and last year's pine meals.
Speaker 2: The cool touch of grass to your bare feet. You
care to take your shoes off? Doesn't sound very mysterious?
Doesn't frighten you?
Speaker 1: Well, stay with us, it will, Lou, I can't stand
this thinking about them two nice.
Speaker 4: Young folks out there lost in the woods.
Speaker 5: Happy.
Speaker 6: You're bad about it too, sir, But I don't know
what I can do to rain.
Speaker 4: And cats and dogs out there, and it turned it
down right cold. And how we've got to.
Speaker 1: Do something called the sheriff overt benebet sheriff lack.
Speaker 4: And do you think for one lot of he's going
to go into them woods looking for Ronnie and peg
o' get somebody else to go.
Speaker 2: No, surely the truth are do.
Speaker 5: Then that'd have to be out of his mind to
go in them woods, not.
Speaker 6: Like this and the other time for that matter, Well,
what how are you going to do about it.
Speaker 5: You gotta just sit there, I reckon.
Speaker 2: That's about all there is to do.
Speaker 1: One thing, sure, I aim to stay out of Dutchman's Woods.
Our mystery drama, Stay Out of Dutchman's Woods, was written
especially for the Mystery Theater by Farrington and stars Paul hect.
Speaker 2: It is sponsored in part by True Value Hardware Stores.
Speaker 3: I'll be there shortly with that one.
Speaker 2: I think you'll agree.
Speaker 1: There's nothing more delightful than that first day of vacation.
Speaker 2: You've shut off all your cares.
Speaker 1: Your freedom is still new and exhilarating. Your inevitable return
to workaday things is too far in the.
Speaker 3: Future to dampen your high spirits.
Speaker 1: Of course, vacations, like other pleasant seeming prospects, may take
unpredictable turns. You just can't look more than a few
seconds into the future without facing an uncertainty. Ronnie and
Peg Andrews have driven all day to get to their
chosen vacation spot in the main Northwoods.
Speaker 2: But are they tired?
Speaker 5: How about damp by the Old Bell Street.
Speaker 2: I think I can even do a pretty good tenor
on part of that one.
Speaker 1: Damn by the old money.
Speaker 7: I love you theory so far all worse.
Speaker 8: Like I told a man, but if you.
Speaker 7: Hit one more sour note, I'm going to.
Speaker 8: Get out of his car and walk the rest of
the way. You know where your trouble is.
Speaker 1: Big?
Speaker 2: You got a tin ear?
Speaker 8: Why do you think we are from the Inn?
Speaker 2: It can't be more than a few miles now retired, Not.
Speaker 8: Really, I don't know.
Speaker 7: We've been driving through this forest for miles, so it
gives me the creeps.
Speaker 4: It's dark, and boy.
Speaker 2: You're creeps. You're kidding. It's absolutely beautiful in.
Speaker 8: A way I look so, I don't know, booty.
Speaker 2: Contrast, that's all.
Speaker 1: The sun's so bright where it gets through to the road,
it makes the woods seem dark.
Speaker 4: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: I just want to show you ten steps into the woods,
and you'll see there's nothing gloomy about it.
Speaker 2: It's just the contrast.
Speaker 8: I don't want to go in aw roney.
Speaker 2: Oh well, okay, we can come back another day, maybe tomorrow.
It really is a beautiful forest and we could bring
a picnic blunch.
Speaker 7: Well, okay, maybe it'll look better to be tomorrow, right
with him?
Speaker 4: I love it, Ronnie, I just love it.
Speaker 8: It really looks the way Cliffside Inn ought to.
Speaker 4: Look, it's a nicer than dolling ed It.
Speaker 2: Says isolated, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: Now you'd be mister and missus.
Speaker 2: Anders, wouldn't you. That's right, we have reservations. Here's good
thing he made him too.
Speaker 5: He might just to close down and the season for us?
Speaker 8: Are we the only? Guess?
Speaker 5: The only ones? My name's Lou Griffin.
Speaker 2: I'm the proprietor, Sara Gunning.
Speaker 4: I was just putting up a fresh pot of coffee,
so you'd you'd be wanting some long trip and all I.
Speaker 8: Thought, I smelled coffee, just what I need.
Speaker 4: Now, I hope you ain't dietspot When I get in
the places, Andrew's disappointed.
Speaker 8: I adore it. It's even nicer than Villa and Edna
told us. Villa and Edna White they were up here
earlier in the summer, White old.
Speaker 4: Yes, they're the couple with the two young boys, huh
Ken and Eddie.
Speaker 6: Yes, never did see two unions could be in so
many different places at one time. I've been thinking some
about seeing if I can't get hold of some hex
signs to keep youngons out next season.
Speaker 8: I noticed the heck signs outside and even in here.
Speaker 6: Yeah, anything we got plenty of it's hex signs.
Speaker 1: Are they just for declaration or you really mean them
to keep evil spirits away?
Speaker 4: Oh, they're just for what you call color.
Speaker 5: And it don't hurt to be on the safe side.
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 5: Maybe there's evil spirits, maybe there ain't.
Speaker 2: Maybe they want to get in.
Speaker 5: Maybe they don't.
Speaker 6: But I never heard of a hex sign doing any harm.
Speaker 5: Why, mister Griffin, morning, sir.
Speaker 2: You can put the eggs on now, Lou and Sarah?
What we like to be called friendly that way? Okay,
we're paganonic.
Speaker 4: I've brought your coffee out.
Speaker 8: Eggs won't be ready for a minute or so.
Speaker 4: About you a cup too?
Speaker 6: Kind As long as these good folks are miney sitting
down with no please do.
Speaker 4: I'll be right out with the rest already the days.
Speaker 5: How are you folks planning this from the day?
Speaker 1: Well, we had a discussion about that, and I want.
Speaker 8: He wants to take a hike into the.
Speaker 6: Woods Dutchman's Woods or is that what they're called.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't go in there if I was you, you wouldn't.
Speaker 5: Folks get lost.
Speaker 2: In there and a lot of that all we all
get lost.
Speaker 5: I have a very good sense of direction. We're all
the same.
Speaker 6: You take my advice, you will stay out of Dutchman's woods,
see one.
Speaker 1: All that's ridiculous. We can take care of ourselves. We're
not going to get lost.
Speaker 5: Nobody aims to a course.
Speaker 2: Folks do it though. I was going to.
Speaker 1: Ask you if missus Griffin, Oh, Sarah would be willing
to put up a picnic lunch for us.
Speaker 5: So we were sure to fixure up something for lunch.
Speaker 2: No trouble about that. The only thing is, oh, we'll
be very careful.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll just go to talk to Sarah about the
lunch and thanks.
Speaker 6: But if I was you, i'd stay out of touch
onse woods.
Speaker 8: Money. I'm hungry and i'm tired. Some kind of bugs
hit me on the arm. If I want to spandwig
and then I want to go home.
Speaker 4: This place gives me this creep.
Speaker 2: I can't understand you. Pay. We've taken hikes in the
woods before. He never acted like this.
Speaker 8: No, I don't really understand it either. There's just something
about this place. Can't explain it to anybody.
Speaker 4: Left.
Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, look up ahead, Hey, there's a clearing up
there sunrise.
Speaker 8: I didn't think i'd ever lived to.
Speaker 4: See it again.
Speaker 2: Oh, don't be a nut.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a good place to stop for lunch. Come on, hey,
lo hey, it's like a garden, isn't it.
Speaker 8: It's pretty all right, especially after all that grew.
Speaker 1: And if we can spread the cloth Sarah gave us
on that flat rock, eh, all the comforts of home.
Speaker 8: And then after we eat, we go.
Speaker 4: Home right back the way we.
Speaker 2: Came, except that you're pointing in the wrong direction, Pet.
Speaker 8: And we just came right out between those two bushes.
Speaker 1: Between those two bushes, all I can say is it's
a good thing you married a man who can find
his way around.
Speaker 4: Not here.
Speaker 8: I'm sure. I'm really just as sure as can do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, don't worry about a thing.
Speaker 5: They don't call me Ron the path find it for nothing.
Come on, let's eat.
Speaker 4: Okay, But I could have sworn, lou Griffin, do you
mean to sit there and tell me you hit them
to wander off into Dutchman's woods.
Speaker 6: Wasn't a matter of letting them, sir, They'd said on
it they were he was in here.
Speaker 4: Or if I'd known where them too, was fix them
to go. I never would have put up that lunch
for them.
Speaker 5: I tried to talk them out of it.
Speaker 6: She didn't much want to go in the first place,
but he wouldn't budget in.
Speaker 4: You could have told him the truth about that.
Speaker 6: Place and got nothing from the trouble, but left a
tell the tale like that, No sir comes to talk
about Dutchman's woods, who are on my own business?
Speaker 8: Fani, Monny, would you stop and listen to me? All right, Fannie,
underbrush wasn't to start.
Speaker 4: Before he could come this way.
Speaker 2: I have to admit I don't remember it being quite
this overgrown before.
Speaker 1: I know we're going in the right direction. I'm very
sure of that, now, Peg.
Speaker 4: You're not sure at all, are you, Ronnie?
Speaker 2: Huh? Maybe I am just a little disoriented.
Speaker 8: Lost, I think would be the worst.
Speaker 2: Why I lost. You like it better that way.
Speaker 1: That's not as if we were lost in an African
jungle or something with wilderness for miles around where we're
in the Tame Woods in Maine.
Speaker 5: There's no cause to panic.
Speaker 8: I'm not panicking, Ronnie. I just let's go back, shall
we see if we can find the clearing where we
had lunch. All right, Ronnie, I think is over this way.
I'm sure we weren't coming from that direction before.
Speaker 5: All right, all right, so.
Speaker 4: I've got to stop and catch my breath, Ronnie.
Speaker 8: We can't be found from the carrying, now, can we.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't think so.
Speaker 1: I believe we passed that that rowing tree over there
when we came this way before.
Speaker 8: That's west, right into the sun.
Speaker 4: So don't you think we're gonna keep walking east?
Speaker 8: I mean the road is east of here.
Speaker 4: We know that.
Speaker 8: It doesn't really matter where we come out on the road,
does it? How longly we do come out?
Speaker 2: Okay, well you feel arrested now.
Speaker 8: Enough, that's ulum.
Speaker 2: It's me.
Speaker 4: Oh did you see anything of them?
Speaker 6: Seen their car park there alongside the woods?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: They're lost? All right?
Speaker 8: Well why didn't you keep on looking? Did you go
into the woods?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Few steps here and there?
Speaker 2: You're very far in.
Speaker 4: What man sake? How do you expect to find somebody
that's lost in the woods if you don't go into
the woods.
Speaker 5: No, they think you resuming.
Speaker 6: They get rid of me as something way. You keep
trying to run me off anto them woods?
Speaker 4: Then the other folks is our responsibility, loom.
Speaker 8: Money is little not to start setting, Darne.
Speaker 1: No, not yet.
Speaker 5: It's not quite five yet.
Speaker 8: Why is it getting dark?
Speaker 5: Well, maybe maybe it's going a rain, Peg.
Speaker 8: Oh lord, that's all we need.
Speaker 1: The worst of it is without the sun to guide us,
we can't be sure we're.
Speaker 2: Still going east.
Speaker 9: It's get cold, Honey, Yeah, I'm scared. Don't be fighting, Peg.
There's really no reason to me sure. We're lost and
it's going to be inconvenient as hell. It starts raining,
We're gonna get drenched and be damned uncomfortable. But miss
nothing to be scared of.
Speaker 8: I am scared all.
Speaker 1: Now, come on, let's keep moving under brushes thinned out
some At least, I'm pretty sure we're still going east.
Speaker 2: You are right about that. We keep going on east.
We can't miss the road.
Speaker 1: Sure, we're really not in such bad shape as we Hey, hey, Peg,
there's a clearing up ahead.
Speaker 2: Well, what do you want to bet it's owers? Peg?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 2: Roy, Hey, isn't that a clearing over there?
Speaker 4: Ronnie?
Speaker 8: I must be it's lighter in there, son. When you
don't play games with me, I'm scared enough already. Ronnie,
where hiding, honey?
Speaker 5: He answer me?
Speaker 8: Peg?
Speaker 1: Answer me?
Speaker 8: Will you Ronnie?
Speaker 4: Peg?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Hegg?
Speaker 4: Is that you over this way? Ronnie? That's right, Ronnie,
over this way.
Speaker 7: Yes, that's fine.
Speaker 4: Keep on just the way you're going there. Hello, Ronnie,
you're you aren't Peg? Of course I'm not, But don't
I do. Don't you think I'm as beautiful as she is?
Speaker 2: Well, I was looking for.
Speaker 1: I think you're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen.
Syron's abound in legend and folklore, and if I may
say so without starting a controversy, they're not unheard of
even in real life. Few men, no matter how virtuous,
are completely siren proof. So if there's a siren operating
deep in a main.
Speaker 2: Woods, it shouldn't surprise us too much.
Speaker 1: The question is will she lead or try to lead
Ronnie Andrews to his de instruction. We'll investigate further when
I returned with that too. On the first day of
their stay at Lou Griffin's cliff Side Inn, Ronnie and
Peg Andrews decided to take a picnic lunch and go
exploring Dutchman's woods as Lou had worn them.
Speaker 2: This turned out to be a mistake.
Speaker 1: First, they lost their way, and then they became mysteriously
separated and searching for Peg, Ronnie has come upon a
strange and extraordinarily beautiful woman. In fact, almost his first
words to her were, I think you're the most beautiful
woman I've ever seen. Thank you, And you must be
as good as you are beautiful, So I'm sure you'll
help me. My wife and I Peg, Peg, My wife
and I we lost our way in the woods earlier
in the day and wandering around in circles.
Speaker 2: I guess all afternoon people.
Speaker 4: Do get lost in Dutchman's Wood. Didn't anybody tell me?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, but why do you see? I
wanted to come anyway?
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was as if the woods drew me, I understand.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then somehow Peg and I got separated, and.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I can't find her.
Speaker 9: Do you know the woods?
Speaker 4: Well, I know every truth, every stone, every flower, every pass.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I know Dutchman Wood, great great belt. Will
you please help me find my wife.
Speaker 4: My name's Katrina. Last names aren't important, they will just
be Ronnie and Katrina. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm very glad to know you, Katrina.
Speaker 1: It wasn't far from here, the place where my wife
and I got.
Speaker 2: Separated, RUnni and Katrina.
Speaker 4: Would you like to see my house?
Speaker 2: House?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: You mean you have a house in the middle of
this jungle.
Speaker 4: A very beautiful house here. Yes, come on show it
to you.
Speaker 2: Oh, thanks very much. But maybe Peg and I could
see it together after we found her.
Speaker 1: I just can't go wandering off with you while PEG's
last somewhere and probably looking for me.
Speaker 4: Right this month, you must be hungry. You can have
to dinner with me, Ronnie, and I'll give you some
of my special world.
Speaker 1: Aren't you listening to me?
Speaker 5: My wife is lost.
Speaker 2: I can't just leave her out there.
Speaker 3: I got a pod.
Speaker 4: Please stop talking about that woman. It's very rude of
you talking to me about another woman.
Speaker 8: I won't have it.
Speaker 1: Look, I don't think you understand. My wife and I
got separated somehow in the woods.
Speaker 4: I'm not looking for her.
Speaker 2: Well, you can't mean that you will.
Speaker 4: I've offered you my hospitality. I've said i'd give you dinner,
and I've I've even asked you to have my wine.
I'm very angry with you, Ronnie.
Speaker 5: Please, I'm begging you, well, why won't you help me?
Speaker 4: If you wish to come with me, perhaps I'll help
you find your wife later on. You'll never find you
without my help. I promise you that well, I must
be going. You're making a very stupid mistake. But if
you don't know any better.
Speaker 5: Katina, I'll wait.
Speaker 4: Are you coming with me? Oh well?
Speaker 2: Oh yes, all right, I'll come with you.
Speaker 8: Ronnie Roy, can't you hear me?
Speaker 9: I've found the road, Rod, I found the car.
Speaker 4: I'm going back to the endow for help, trying to
find shoulder from the rain, Ronnie, I'm done so we
mh So what's It's pretty near eleven o'clock and I'm
doing back.
Speaker 5: Yet not to me? Oh well, we knew there was lost.
Speaker 4: It's still raining and cold.
Speaker 8: Is the winter?
Speaker 4: Just about them too? Lost out there?
Speaker 2: Funny thing?
Speaker 5: She back here and now they expect him.
Speaker 4: What you think If you think I'm going to let
you go back to sleep again, You've got another thing coming.
Tell that lamp on, will you. I'm gonna get up.
Maybe put on a part of fresh coffee. Does that
sound good to you?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Well, I expect a glass of apple jack with
them with up on board.
Speaker 4: Loo.
Speaker 6: All you had to do is just tell them they
can believe it to you like that, come up in
the city.
Speaker 5: May frightened her face.
Speaker 4: He would have, Well, I wish you'd told him.
Speaker 7: Sarah, we don't even know if it's true.
Speaker 6: We know men get lost, that we do know. We
don't know why they get lost. I couldn't tell that
story is gospel?
Speaker 5: Who's that? O?
Speaker 8: Sir? Oh, somebody help me here.
Speaker 7: We're coming tag.
Speaker 2: No no now.
Speaker 4: Brawling about it ain't gonna do no good. Whatever is
what happened?
Speaker 7: I can't find him. I can't find him anywhere.
Speaker 5: Somebody has to help, Yes, sir, happens every time.
Speaker 4: Right in there were standing right there together, and then
oh of a sudden, he just wasn't there.
Speaker 1: She wasn't there.
Speaker 4: You better come back in the kitchen and have a
nice cup of hot coffee. Tags.
Speaker 8: There's more time we have to find grannie.
Speaker 4: Will Will you help me look for him? Oh? Somebody
has to help me. Yes, I'll go with you. I
would appreciate it.
Speaker 5: What if you get lost?
Speaker 4: Women don't peg found a way home? All right?
Speaker 5: Didn't?
Speaker 4: She? And I didn't in them wood before.
Speaker 8: I just can't understand it, you know, I thought at
first he was hiding from me, playing some silly kind
of games. He was there, then he wasn't.
Speaker 4: Two seconds later.
Speaker 6: They called him to go into them woods.
Speaker 2: You got admit I told him then.
Speaker 6: Just ain't safe in Dutchman's warts.
Speaker 4: You see that big boulder just ahead running the.
Speaker 1: One shaped sort of like a boat.
Speaker 4: Yes, just when you go around to the left of it,
you can see the house.
Speaker 1: Take my hand, all right, Katrina, Yes, we are going
to look for Peg, aren't we. I mean afterwards, after
I've seen your house and had some of this wine
of yours, you can be so tired.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, just a minute now.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 2: I don't believe it.
Speaker 4: You'll be surprised. The others always have this. Others, Well,
you don't think you're the first guest I've ever had
to hear. All I meant was nobody I ever expect
to find a house like this out in the middle
of the woods.
Speaker 2: Gee, it is her house at all?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 2: It is a castle?
Speaker 4: It really is a perfect replica of rue anyway my
husband had. It feels exactly like a castle.
Speaker 2: And I don't remember somewhere in Holliston your husband.
Speaker 4: You're so Chelsey. He's been dead for years.
Speaker 1: I can't figure out how we missed seeing this place
from the road when we drove in yesterday.
Speaker 4: Beg, you feel like you're up to it. Back into
their woods and all.
Speaker 8: Oh, yes, I think we ought to go right now,
I think the longer way.
Speaker 4: I think maybe we'd better take this with us. Hex
sim what's he supposed to do. It's a strong one
that's here to make the ward off witches and evil
spirits and were just about anything else that walks the night. Well, well,
like Blue says, it don't hurt to be on the safe. Come,
let's get out of here. I never find that many.
You're standing around here telling all r s. See you are, Ronnie.
A glass is the most unusual wine you've ever tasted.
Speaker 2: Aren't you having any?
Speaker 4: Oh no, not just now. Don't sip it, Ronny, drink
it right down.
Speaker 2: Huh. Doesn't really taste it like wine? After all, you
don't like my wife. No, no, no, I didn't mean that.
It's just that.
Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, now it does.
Speaker 4: Hay.
Speaker 1: It leaves a very pleasant after taste.
Speaker 8: Exactly.
Speaker 4: You can have another glass when we.
Speaker 2: Go in for dinner, you know, well, well, well, what
I really ought to do is the thing that makes.
Speaker 4: My wine so different is a special ingredient. I'm not
sure you can find it anywhere at all, exip right
here in Dutchman's for it grows wild like the great
all the ingredients I used to make the wine grow.
Speaker 2: While I have to go out later and find Peg.
Speaker 1: I can just leave Peg wandering around out there, of
course not.
Speaker 4: But would you like to come inside now? Ron sure?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 4: Why not? Can you point out where it was you
stopped the car and went into the woods, say, I'm
not sure.
Speaker 8: It all sort of looks alike.
Speaker 4: Well, no matter who. Lestn't think ill Alo because he
didn't want to come out and help you look for
your husband's sake. It did seem as he knows I'm
safe enough. It's only men that get lost in Dutchman's woods.
Speaker 8: But that doesn't make sense.
Speaker 4: And those of you know the story, Katrina's got no
interest in women.
Speaker 2: She's the cause of it all.
Speaker 4: If there's any truth in the pail away.
Speaker 8: Now, when men get lost in there in the woods,
they don't just disappear, do they? I mean they're found eventually,
aren't they all?
Speaker 4: They're found all right? What's left of them? What do
you mean? I shouldn't have said that, But the truth
is they're found dead. And now it's going to be
different with Ronnie Pegg and you got to believe that
instead of what exposure, sometimes starvation, whatever it is that
kills people lost in the woods. So if you ask me,
there's a whole lot more to it than that. You
like my house, Ronnie, Oh it's.
Speaker 2: Extraordinary, Katrina. This is the most extraordinary house I ever saw.
Speaker 4: At first, I didn't like it. Can you believe that?
I thought it was too far away from everybody and everything?
And I hated my husband for making me live in it.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, your husband, he's dead, did you say, Oh, yes,
a long time ago. My wife is alive.
Speaker 2: She lost in the woods, but she's alive.
Speaker 4: I think you're wine running.
Speaker 3: I'm so sleepy here.
Speaker 4: Wait until you see the banquet hole. Do you know?
I could see it over one hundred people if I
wanted to. But I like to entertain one at a time,
just one at a time.
Speaker 2: Three is what is it?
Speaker 3: What is it?
Speaker 2: Three is?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: A crowd exactly?
Speaker 4: We're going to like each other, aren't we running? Are
you sleeping? Running? You know you're quite handsome. They used
to call me a witch. A long time ago. People
believed in things more than Oh, yes, you're very handsome.
I may keep you for quite a long time several
weeks even, Oh, yes, that would be nice.
Speaker 1: A bleak, rainy night in a dense forest that already
has an evil reputation a good time and place for
unnatural goings on. Were Well, there's a good deal going
on in Dutchman's Woods that seems unnatural if you accept
Webster's definition of natural occurring in conformity with the ordinary
course of nature. Webster says, the abrupt and unexplained separation
of Ronnie from Peg doesn't seem to qualify as natural
according to that definition.
Speaker 3: I'll be back shortly with that.
Speaker 2: Three.
Speaker 1: A beautiful woman named Katrina has lured Ronnie Andrews into
her castle like stronghold and plied in with wine, which
she herself describes as most unusual. Peg, Ronnie's wife, along
with Sarah Griffin, had gone into Dutchman's Woods looking for Ronnie.
Peg still thinks of Ronnie has simply lost in the
woods on a miserable, rainy night. But Sarah obviously knows
or suspects a lot more than she's selling.
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 4: Shine your flash slide roundabout, Dad, and I keep mine
straight a head so I can see where we're going,
all right, Ronnie, I don't know, as it'll do much
good to keep on calling for him.
Speaker 8: Sarah, what did you mean when you said somebody called
Pattrina was the cause of it?
Speaker 4: Hope. It's a long story that one. Then, don't seem
like a very good time to go into it right now.
I want to know. Well, yes, I guess you would, Sarah.
Tell me, I guess I ought two. Yes. Now I'm
gonna gone this far. They keep on flashing your light around, yes,
I will. Well, it starts back a long while ago,
not much after revolution was over, The American Revolution's the
one seems there was this man, Dutch trader name of
Hans Groot, and he fell head over te kettle in
love with this young girl that was tyshan around New
York society at the time. Her name was Katrina Katrina.
Speaker 8: But that was around the time of the revolution.
Speaker 4: You had to keep on shining your light around.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: It must have been tilthy rich, this haunts group, who
was no spring chicken at that time. And yet Katrina
agreed to marry him without so much as a maybe,
and her hearty out of her teams. Yet so they
had a big fancy wedding and settled down in a
house he'd brought in New York. I think if we
find Ronnie, he was already pop worrying honey. Well, anyway,
they didn't exactly live happy ever after there in that house.
Katrina was a wanton, the only word to tiltster wanton,
pure and simple. Got so she would spend more of
a time with the young blades around town than she
was with her own husband. And it didn't take him
long to get goa than sicker.
Speaker 8: I can't see what all this has to do with now.
Speaker 4: You asked me to tell you pay all right, I'm sorry. Well,
he was still as stuck on Katrina as ever. So
he got a hold of this great, big wooded acreage
up here in Maine, reminded near all woods anyway them based,
and he built such a house on it as you
wouldn't believe if you was to see it regular past.
It was right out there in middle of the woods,
millions of miles from nowhere. And he brought Katrina up
here and put her in that house.
Speaker 8: And that was that way he thinking here, I mean
right here in this farm.
Speaker 4: Dutchman's Woods, that's called Hans Group of the Dutchman Trouble way.
You see that Dutchman himself couldn't spend his whole time
in his castle. He still had his business affairs in
New York and even some interst overseas, the saying, so
he had to leave Katrina alone in that big old
house now and again. And that Katrina, she must have
been a resource fore she found her man, all right.
Was no stopping her shut up in the house. The
capital means of travel, and she took to roaming around
the woods. You see, there was plenty of poach and
went on an envy a lot. So Katrina had run
across a poacher putting on her husband's property, and she'd
take him home with her, and might as well have
let her in New York for all the good it done. Hanscrewed, Yes,
the castle is still standing. No, not properly speaking, anyway,
Hanscrewed come home and caught Katrina. Was one of them poachers,
and he killed them both. Katrina along was a man,
and you think the same, Katrina. That's the way the
story goes. If you're superstitious enough to believe that Katrina
still walks Dutchman's woods and any man that comes her
way is their game.
Speaker 1: He who looking now heard I get into a place
like this.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I remember you fell asleep, Ronnie. I'm sorry.
I must have been more to height than I realized. Huh.
Speaker 5: I still feel sort of sluggish.
Speaker 4: You were tired.
Speaker 2: Hey, look, we've got to get moving.
Speaker 5: We've got to find peg.
Speaker 8: Peg Peg, Peg, Peg.
Speaker 4: That's all I hear from you. My name is Katrina,
not Peg. I'm not accustomed to having my guests talk
about other women.
Speaker 1: Well, we ought to go out and see if we
can find Peg.
Speaker 4: You'll only lose yourself again if you go out there.
Speaker 2: Well, you promised if you'd help me.
Speaker 4: I didn't promise at all. She'll find her way home.
She's probably back at the inn right now, safe and sound.
She's a woman. I don't enjoy another woman's company. I
don't want women here. Can't you understand that?
Speaker 1: Are you saying that you cause people to get lost?
Speaker 4: You aren't lost, Ronny. You're here right in this room
with me.
Speaker 8: There's a clearing up ahead.
Speaker 4: Oh I don't think it's a place where.
Speaker 8: We had lunched.
Speaker 4: No, okay, no, it's the ruins. The ruin y'aw, the
place where the old castle used to stand. Ain't much
left now but rubble where the masonry fell down, mostly
overgrown with weeds and vines and the like. The old
foundation's still there. You can't see it too well after dark,
of course.
Speaker 8: Can you think this is where?
Speaker 2: Yes, if there is.
Speaker 4: A Katrina, and if she's dragged your young man off somewhere,
I'd say this is the most likely place, Ronnie. No,
won't my opinion, It won't do a liquor good yell
and boring. There's just go hunting through the rubble.
Speaker 2: I feel funny, Katrina, kind of fuzzy. Yeah, I must
be that wine of yours again.
Speaker 4: That's partly the one, I'm sure, but also partly just me. Oh, Ronnie,
we're going to be very happy, happier than you've ever been,
And I promise you that is.
Speaker 2: It raining outside? I can't tell.
Speaker 8: It looks like you're not listening to me.
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 1: You are talking about happiness.
Speaker 4: You've never been happy, Ronnie, I mean wildly happy, happy
with nothing to intrude. You've never been happy that way.
Speaker 8: Have you, Ronnie.
Speaker 2: Well, you're you're very beautiful.
Speaker 4: It's all for you right now, not forever. I don't
promise that, but right now, You're my only reason for
being beautiful, very beautiful? What what was there? You'll belong
to each other. I'll be completely yours.
Speaker 2: Listen, somebody called me.
Speaker 8: I have a feeling, Sarah, I have this crazy feeling.
Speaker 4: If you heard me, it's no crazier than anything else
in Mililien.
Speaker 8: Can you hear.
Speaker 5: There?
Speaker 4: Fuck, it's turning into It's not just an old leaper,
it's a cat. Can you see it?
Speaker 8: Sarah?
Speaker 4: Where are you? Oh? No? She? You Lord?
Speaker 9: Help me?
Speaker 2: Why it was Peg?
Speaker 4: It was Peg calling me, honey, get out of my house.
You're not welcome here. You're an intruder. I don't allow intruder. Peg.
We're in here, Peg, can you hear me?
Speaker 8: I can't. I can hear you this way.
Speaker 4: Peg, come towards my voice. Stop talking to that woman.
Don't come in here, you lie a bitte.
Speaker 8: Oh mammy, ohroney.
Speaker 4: We looked everywhere, said, oh, I thought I never thought
i'd never see you again.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna shake your hands off that woman.
Speaker 4: Who is this?
Speaker 2: Oh U Katrina?
Speaker 1: Her name's Katrina.
Speaker 2: She found me in the woods.
Speaker 4: I you'll find out soon enough. Who I am? You
little fool? What are you doing here? I came you
looking for my husband. Your husband doesn't want to see you.
Get out.
Speaker 8: I'm not going to leave without him.
Speaker 7: He doesn't want to go with you.
Speaker 4: Do you running? You don't want to leave with her?
Speaker 7: Tell her you do want to come with me?
Speaker 8: Don't you running?
Speaker 4: Runnie? Wouldn't you like another glass of wine?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't Why has he been? He doesn't drink? You see,
he doesn't want to talk to you. Why don't you leave?
How can you stay where you're not wanted? I don't
know who you are or what you are, whether you're
a ghost or a witch, or maybe both.
Speaker 8: I don't know, and I don't care much.
Speaker 7: You're not going to take my husband away from me.
Speaker 4: How very brave she is? And what if I tell
you I am a ghost and I am a witch
and I can destroy you both? What if I tell
you that? First I'd have to call you a liar,
because I've never believed in such things.
Speaker 8: And then if it should.
Speaker 4: Turn out you're not a liar, I'd have to say,
go ahead and destroy us, both of us.
Speaker 8: Though not just one.
Speaker 4: Oh, a liar, I'll I'll Runny, tell her to get
out of here?
Speaker 2: A peg?
Speaker 4: Well, Ronnie a traina I.
Speaker 7: Can't kind of a fineless creature? Are you tell her?
Speaker 5: Peg? I want to come with you, yes, Peg, I
want to leave here and go with you.
Speaker 4: No, all right, you, you witch, ghost, harlot, whatever you are,
stop us if you think you can.
Speaker 2: I think I'm all right, I'll peg. I don't know
what she did to me, but stop this, both of you.
Speaker 4: Don't you know who I am?
Speaker 7: I'm Katrina, you idiots. I can bring this castle down
in a.
Speaker 4: Heap on top of you.
Speaker 7: Don't you know that it's already down in a heap.
Speaker 4: If I saw it, I'll show you. I'll show you
back here under this table, the whole house. Oh, hose
coming girl. I don't think you can turn us on
the real house A couple of years ago?
Speaker 8: Hey, Hey, when'd you get you over here?
Speaker 4: Is there? Is that your big where in the road?
A man? See?
Speaker 8: Oh it's Ronnie.
Speaker 1: Oh, help me with him.
Speaker 2: We got to get him up off his background?
Speaker 4: Ronnie?
Speaker 3: Is that you pay?
Speaker 4: Yes? Ronnie?
Speaker 8: Can you stand up?
Speaker 2: I think so? Oh? Oh, I feel sort of dizzy.
I don't understand what you came here anyhow.
Speaker 4: We must have Wow, we must have walked us this
boda half a dozen times I had to do it.
Speaker 8: I'm not quite sure he.
Speaker 9: Was all right.
Speaker 8: Just a minute ago I was with him in the house.
Speaker 4: The castle. It's all right, except for the effects of
the wine, and that seemed to be wearing a hota
hood on a minute. You know you ain't making no
kind of sam.
Speaker 2: I'm so cold, soaked the skin it ain't.
Speaker 4: Stop thanking goodness. But we'd better get hit it perfectly
dry a minute ago.
Speaker 7: And then the house actually did just crumble around us
the way she said it would.
Speaker 8: Only of course it wasn't real, or we'd both be
How did he get that way?
Speaker 4: I hope you'll know what you're talking about.
Speaker 5: If you don't, Oh, I feel stiff and I ache all.
Speaker 4: Oh, we gotta get you home and into a nice, warm,
dry dead before you catch you at death.
Speaker 8: I'll still down all around the Sarah, just the way
she said it would Onie.
Speaker 4: I didn't think it could hurt us, because be wait,
you see, I knew the house had already fallen down.
Speaker 1: We must have imagined the whole thing. I must have
been lying there on the ground and in the ruins
the whole time.
Speaker 4: All I know is we walked past there a half
dozen die and you wasn't there. You just wasn't. So
I don't see how we can say it was all imagination.
Speaker 8: It was real, all right while it lasted.
Speaker 4: It was real. Here's the car now. Once we get
you in there with the heater turned on, you'll feel
a lot better, Ronnie, I.
Speaker 2: Feel a lot better already.
Speaker 8: What the world was that that.
Speaker 4: Was your Katrina? I wouldn't be surprised, Katrina. I just
might Hicks signed back there in them ruins reckon. If
it works as well as the superstitious folks claim it works,
we won't be having no more trouble with Katrina.
Speaker 1: A ghost Katrina certainly was. Any woman who was killed
by her jealous husband in the eighteenth century and shows
up again in nineteen seventy five must be considered a
ghosts But is it really fair to call her.
Speaker 3: A siren and a witch?
Speaker 1: By Ronnie's admission, one thing is certain where that Katrina
was a siren, a ghost, a witch or all three.
Ronnie was lucky to get out of that one alive.
Speaker 3: I'll be back in a few moments.
Speaker 1: Ronnie and Peg spent the remainder of their vacation in Maine.
It's a beautiful state.
Speaker 3: Why shouldn't they?
Speaker 1: But they gave Dutchman's Woods a wide berth to this day.
When Ronnie Andrews seized more than three trees forming a clump,
he crosses to the other side of the road. So
between now and our next look into the nature of things,
stay away from all suspicious looking forests.
Speaker 2: We're saving you to another.
Speaker 3: End, quite different kind of jeopardy.
Speaker 1: Our cast included Paul hect, Jaddo Rowland, Santosotega, Joan Loring,
and Mary Jane Higbee. The entire production was under the
direction of Hyman Brown.
Speaker 3: This is E. G.
Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.