Speaker 1: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.
Speaker 2: Come in.
Speaker 1: Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall. From ancient days to the present,
mankind has believed in ghosts. Some claim to have seen them,
heard them, and even touched them. There never was any
question about the terror of such an experience, real or imaginary.
Even today we read in our newspapers about apparitions and
spirit messages which have no reasonable explanation. It was such
an experience that only in in Maine that terrify right
a man of exact science named Professor George Weymouth. You
saw what there one hundred yards offshore, an inverted funnel
of water like a shroud, a winding sheet, a garment
of the day. All come now, Colonel Pingree, a shroud,
just the wind whipping a wavecrest into an inverted calm.
May you look as if you'd seen an apparition. He'll
tell her you believe in that kind of av You
said your name was Weymouth, Weimoth, Yes, that could explain it.
Our mystery drama The Five Ghostly Indians was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Roy Windsor and stars Robert
Dryden and Court Benson. It is sponsored in part by
Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser, and sign off the
Sinus Medicines. I'll be back shortly with Act one. As
we approach our countries by centennial, we think proudly of
seventeen seventy six and our independence. But what about the
first people to live in America, the Indians? Long before
we became independent, we had taken away their independence. Someone wrote,
the pilgrim fathers landed on the shores of America and
fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the Aborigines.
An Englishman exploring the coast of Maine in the year
sixteen oh five captured and killed old five Indians, and
the bad relationship began. His name was George Weymouth, and
this is the story of what happened to his present
day namesake.
Speaker 3: Of the.
Speaker 1: Indiana. Heyo there, what, oh, oh, hello, d you'd arrived
at White Pines. Hi, my name is Pingree, Colonel Caleb Pingrave.
How do you do, Colonel George Weymouth? And you don't
mind me butting in this way? If you do, say so,
and I'll finish my walk up the beach le Cerva
me not I was just about to walk back to
the end. It's growing dark and I'm chill. Uh, that's
a cold looking ocean forbidding. Well, come along, we'll have
a couple of tea in front of the fire in
the lord. That sounds inviting. Oh look here, just before
you hailed me, look what I found as this an
Indian arrowhead among the rocks. Well, that's unusual. It is
a design on it. Here, let me rub off more
of the moss. It's heavily encrusted. Must have been here
for hundreds of years. Good drums, Hey, what drums? Indian drums?
Hear them? Drums? What are you talking about? I don't
hear anything here? Any idea what this design means? Colonel
s Well, they're gone, They're gone. What you didn't hear
the Indian drums? No, when you rub the arrowhead, I
distinctly heard drums when you handed it to me. The
drums stumps as well, that's not worry about them. They
take a look at that design, Colonel. Hmmm, a diamond
figure and closing another diamond figure. It is very unusual.
It means medicine man. Why unusual because the tribe's medicine
man hardly ever went into battle. He was called a
shaman and had great authority because of his special guardian functions.
That's why he became known to us as a medicine man.
Well you've made a remarkable discovery. Hu are it's quite beautiful?
Isn't it?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 1: Heavens? Oh? What is it? Quite? The drums and rook
look out there about one hundred yards off shore? See it?
See what I see? White caps as far as I
can see anymore, and drums. You're hearing things because they
are follow where I'm pointing. See that invited funnel of
water each like a shroud. Don't you see it? I
really don't.
Speaker 2: May I have the arrow hit?
Speaker 1: Here's the course bill. The drums are stopped, That funnel
of water is gone. You're a romantic, colonel, nurse. Do
you know what I'd do with that arrowhead? If I
were you, I'd throw it in the ocean. I certainly
won't do that. You said it was unusual. My young
daughter will treasure it as a wonderful souvenir. You're not
pulling my leg, are you, Colonel? I assure you I
am not. What did you say? Your name was Wemous? Yes,
George Weyman, I'm an assistant professors are William Yes, yes,
that could explain it. Explain what do you know anything
about the history of your surname? No, not too much.
There have been Weymouth's here since the Revolutionary War, General
Tad Weymouth. The name goes further back than that, Professor.
I think I'd better tell you about it now.
Speaker 3: Just put that nonsense out of your mind.
Speaker 1: Box quant nonsense. I saw them and I heard the drum. Heyah,
I'll mention it to Colonel Pingree. Maybe he can explain it.
Speaker 4: You're two of a kind, you and that old daydreamer.
Don't know higers ten listening to his same old stories
over and over again.
Speaker 3: Do you think he had the second sight?
Speaker 1: Some folks do?
Speaker 4: Man, uh huh, and well, then ask and when he
comes in from his walk where the faradays are?
Speaker 3: Should have been here by now?
Speaker 1: SAP six got lost. Most likely it's easy to make
wrong turn off at bath and end up at booth
pear habit well.
Speaker 4: Gave her very careful instructions. Seem a nice young woman.
They're staying a week.
Speaker 1: Well, we can use the money.
Speaker 5: Summer wasn't a.
Speaker 6: Bad box.
Speaker 3: And after they leave, they'll be just Uss and the cats.
Speaker 1: Here, I miss, Colonel Pitingreet.
Speaker 4: Don't see why with that second sight the two of
you got, you can keep tabs on each other, all
into drum.
Speaker 1: I tell you, meg As sure as I'm standing here,
I heard them, and I saw what I saw.
Speaker 4: Five Indian braves dancing around a boiling pot and dipping
their arrows into it.
Speaker 1: And that's what I saw. On that side road coming
back to Pittsburgh from Popping Beach. The drums were rolling
and there they were, right in the middle of the road,
heads down and dancing in the circle.
Speaker 3: Lucky you didn't run them over.
Speaker 4: Well, i'd best be getting to the kitchen. The colonel
and that professor ought to be back soon from the beach.
Maybe you'd better build up the fire and offer them
some tea when they come in.
Speaker 1: Hey, what's that professor's name? Weymouth? Why Weymouth seems to me?
Oh bogs Now what, never mind, I'll speak to.
Speaker 4: The colonel where you keep your ears open for the telephone.
If the faradays did get lost, they'll be calling in.
Speaker 3: It's almost dark now and it's hard to find the place.
Speaker 1: Oh oh oh, it feels good in here, well, hull
a far feel better. I won't change my shoes. My
sneak has got wet hand or siloader. Hot tea, yes,
thank you, I'd like good and hot heard oh evening,
Bob's evening, Colonel hah, that's her grandfire. Eh. Meg thought
you might like a cup of hot tea. Oh, good
wife is absolutely right. Two cops fell away with like
some too. Sure they sit down and let to ask
you a question, Bogs. Sure I got one for you too.
Oh well, let me have yours first. You know the
side road from pop and Beach back to Pittsburgh about
four miles away. Yes, and I told Meg about what
I saw, But there's no talking to her. He just
laughs at me and declares I might be a little
loose in the top story. Well, I know that your
good wife feels the same way about me. She means
no offense, Colonel, No, of course not, of course not.
I understand that. Well, after I picked up the lobsters
and the clams in Popa Beach, I drove the old
truck back toard Pittsburgh, m Now about a mile from
where I turned off to the White Pines, I heard drums,
Indian drums, And I saw, clear as I'm seeing you,
five Indians dancing round a boiling pot and dipping their
arrows into the stuff. Whatever it was you see? What
do you make of that? When I heard Indian drums too, bugs,
I knew I was right. Where did you hear them? Colonel?
On the beach about a half an hour ago? But
I saw something else about one hundred yards off shore.
I saw an inverted water spout looked like a limp
sheet held up by two fingers, A headless ghost. What
did do well? When Weymouth handed me the arrowhead? The
drums stopped when the dancing ghost Spanish arrowhead. Weymoth found
an arrowhead among the rocks down by the beach. Ahead
amongst the rocks almost have been there for centuries, more
than three. I'd say it dates from around sixteen oh five. Now,
how the deuced you.
Speaker 2: Know that.
Speaker 1: Weymouth? You're from an old down Easter family. Does the
name mean anything to you? Yeah? But just barely. Well.
I've been thinking about it ever since Weymouth picked up
that arrowhead. It had belonged to a medicine man, because
it hit a design on it, a figure of a
diamond within a diamond, probably from the Heschermann tribe. Back
in sixteen oh five, an Englishman named George Weymouth explored
the coast of Maine for no reason I've ever been
able to learn. He brutally murdered five Indians, and she
of the tribe attacked Weymouth's soup, killed several of his soldiers,
and then they were overwhelmed. Yep, it comes back to me.
Now English killed the medicine man, wrapped him in a sheet,
and wrapped him into the ocean. Now he's returned. He
has returned, and he's called up those five murdered Indians
to witness his revenge. He told Professor Weymouth about the
kurt I Nintendo. But he's a professor of zoology, a
man of science that he'd laugh at me. How long
is he staying with you? Till the end of the week?
Two more days? I have to tell him to leave tonight.
Let me handle him. If he'll give me the medicine
man's arrow heads, he won't be threatened, and neither will
White Puns.
Speaker 3: Evening Colonel, how there he is.
Speaker 5: Here comes a professor, even a professor hot Tea.
Speaker 1: Just try aves bars. I got chilled down that beach evening.
Thanks for the top, Colonel, Hi, you two.
Speaker 4: Been yarning about those Indian drums and them five dance
an Indian brail.
Speaker 1: They're real enough.
Speaker 2: Meg.
Speaker 1: Don't tell me, colonel that you still think you heard drums.
That's on apparition off shore. And your name is Weymouth.
Over three hundred years ago, your ancestor, George Weymouth cruelly
murdered five Indian braves and killed the medicinemen of their
tribe and buried him at sea. If when you picked
up that arahad you triggered the guardian spirits of those
Indians and they have been awakened, indeed, to what purpose? Revenge?
Professor Weymouth, I don't believe it, Colonel, With all due
respect to folklore, I didn't expect you to believe it.
If Colonel Pingree and the innkeeper Boggs swear that they
heard those celestial Indian drums and saw those apparitions, why
should we disbelieve them. They are otherwise normal men. Psychic
phenomena is not nonsense. Despite the disbelief of Professor Weymouth,
whose name links him with a brutal crime committed over
three hundred years ago. I'll be back shortly with that two.
It might be that some down Easters have retained imaginations
more lively than our own, because our twenty third state, Maine,
has a rugged climate and its people never forget it.
In the sparsely settled wilderness, it would be easier to
see ghosts of Indians from long ago in the forests
in front of a blazing heart. Professor Weymouth might scoff
at folklore, and so does mag the innkeeper's wife, But
not Bogs, the innkeeper. He and Colonel Pingree know what
they heard and saw.
Speaker 5: Bob, what does that talk about? An air ahead?
Speaker 1: Weymouth found it. That's when the trouble began.
Speaker 5: Indian drums dancing Indians.
Speaker 1: It goes down the water. Oh, you and the colonel.
Speaker 3: You're some fair.
Speaker 5: Seven o'clock still no faradays?
Speaker 1: Ell love?
Speaker 5: Probably well you think they telephone.
Speaker 4: Well, I'll serve the colonel and Professor Weymouth and put
the other steamers and lobsters in the icebox.
Speaker 1: I think I'll go outside and look round a little. Now.
Speaker 5: You be very careful. Don't want some Indian to scalp you.
Speaker 3: Couldn't run White Pines alone.
Speaker 1: One of these days, Meg, you'll believe I'll be back
half an hour or so.
Speaker 3: Keep an eye out for the Faraday.
Speaker 1: Well. You can eat any time. Meg is ready to serve.
Bogs coming right up, Colonel. Could you look concerned my friend? Nope,
just annoyed. A young couple named Faraday was supposed to
arrive at six. Haven't a little word from him where.
It's easy enough to get lost on these back roads,
and I'm gonna have to look around. He just got
that one light out front, and they could drive right by, Edney.
Luck can I'm still not convinced. Bogs the arrowhead is mine.
I'm reluctant to give it up. It means trouble, professor,
and so you say. But I'm a man of science.
Folklore is charming, but I don't believe it it. We
know that myths were created to explain certain practices and beliefs,
and reason is applied, they disintegrate. As much as I'd
like to believe your story about the Indian drums and
the apparition on the sea, I can't, then, Professor. I'll
have no no bugs. Not so first take your stroll
and leave this to me, but I don't know. Please,
and I'll say good night to both of you. Man
uh I offended him. I'm sorry. No, don't worry about it, Weymouth.
Hopefully you'll be away from here without incident in a
few days. Hopefully. I can understand simple innkeeper being superstitious,
but I can't understand it about you, Colonel, an educated man,
well spoken. All I wish you'd accept is that bugs
and I are certain that the arrow it is dangerous
to you. It's in your own interest to send it
to York to be placed with the other Indian relics. Well,
perhaps come up to my room and we'll take a
look at it. Agreed, you're making a wise decision, Weymouth.
Speaker 3: Maybe we better turn around then.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I took the right road out of Bath.
We drove through win against an aerosick.
Speaker 6: We should have telephoned from Arrowsick to tell them we'd
be late.
Speaker 7: Well, let's keep going, Going to the map Pitpsburgh, going
to be well, only a few miles from here.
Speaker 1: You'd never know it.
Speaker 6: It's like being in a wilderness. I haven't seen a
sign for miles and it's pitch black.
Speaker 1: Scared.
Speaker 3: Well, it is kind of spooky.
Speaker 1: Well, there's nothing here to harm you. Let's drive on.
Speaker 7: If we get to Fittsburgh, we'll telephone White Pines. Maybe
they'll hold dinner for us.
Speaker 3: It's after seven bits.
Speaker 1: We ought to be there by seven point thirty.
Speaker 3: Unless we're on the way to Booth Bay Harbor.
Speaker 1: I have the arrowhead and my bureau drawer. I'll regret
giving it up, Colonel, Well, you regretted more of you
keep it? Huh here?
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: Deadly looking, isn't it quite beautiful? Well? Good heavens, I said,
I'll regular deal. And the sky is clear and the
water calm, and there's fog all over the windows. Walking
down there a cursing arrow of it. And stand back, women,
look out, look out. It's smashed out one of the windows. Weymouth,
come here, look look greasing toward the beach. But I
can't believe it's in your seat. Yes, yes, a white
sheet flying over the ground, trialing as it goes. Now
it's at the shore. It's going out to see Pindri.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: Did you see it? Did you see it? Colonel Hey?
The window is broken? What happened? Did he try to
get in Weymouth had the yarrow head in his hand.
When a tremendous gale rose. Then fog covered the window.
I saw the fog when I yell look out, But
it warn't fog. It will that medicine man who come
out of the sea. Well that's what I saw from
the shorely this afternoon, bogs. What about you, Provessor Wyman?
I uh, I saw it too, you believe now, I
don't know what to believe. But who saw it? With
your own eyes? Weymouth? You saw the apparition the ghost
of that Indian medicineman was killed and buried at See
hundreds of years ago. Now are you going to give
their ahead to the colonel? I admit what I saw,
but I still can't believe it, and my mind refused
to accept the idea of an avenging ghost. What I
saw might have been an illusion. To Bursted Windy, no illusion, Professor,
So that might be explained in some way other than
the fantastic notion that a ghost which is weightless could
have broken that window.
Speaker 3: Now what's all of excitement about box the window?
Speaker 1: It goes to the Indian medicine man paid Professor Weymouth
a visit but.
Speaker 3: Now that's just crazy.
Speaker 4: You mean something that weighs less than a sheet of
cheesecloth broke that window.
Speaker 1: There's kim, Professor, I don't honestly know, Missus Barges. Now
you were honest enough, and you admitted seeing at Weymouth.
That's true. I did see something like a shroud, a
winding sheet, trying to break through the window. A great
wind preceded its appearance. Then the wind died down, and
the thing, twirling like a top, flew back to the
beach and out to sea, and.
Speaker 5: You saw it.
Speaker 1: It may have been an illusion, but yes, yes, I
did see something. I'll pay for the window, of course,
and I think i'll check out tomorrow, if you don't mind, Professor,
you mean you're scared, say I'm prudent. It was that
ancestor of yours, George Weymouth. It was cruel to those Indians,
and they want to avenge themselves against the person who
bears that name. I'll give you the arrowhead in the morning, colonel,
and head back home. About ten more minutes.
Speaker 6: Frand, I'm glad we telephoned. She was so nice, Missus Box.
She'll have the steamers ready and then the lobster perfect.
Speaker 1: I could eat for hours, then slow down?
Speaker 3: Then stop?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: You sound terrified?
Speaker 5: Look up their head?
Speaker 3: You see them?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 3: Don't you see them?
Speaker 1: Who's them? You mean you don't see I don't even
know where you're talking about, Fran.
Speaker 3: The Indians? What Indians? Five of them?
Speaker 6: They're dancing around the big pot and listen, drugs.
Speaker 3: Indian drugs.
Speaker 7: Hey, come on, you're pulling my leg. Indians dancing around
a pot. I don't see a thing as far as the.
Speaker 1: Headlights carry you, all right, Fran.
Speaker 3: Of course, I'm all right.
Speaker 1: You mean you really can't see them.
Speaker 6: They're dipping their arrows into the pot as they dance
around it.
Speaker 1: Toledo, you must have flipped. I assure you, honey, there's
nothing in the road. Nothing there is, there is, I
tell you, I see them. Hunger can make a person
see things.
Speaker 5: Sometimes I'm hungry, but I'm not starving to death.
Speaker 3: Don it?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 3: I see them?
Speaker 6: Are you telling me.
Speaker 3: I'll come off with school?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: What do you want me to do? Shoe them away?
We don't know what we should do? Well, I do
you close your eyes? I'm driving on? Indians are no Indians?
I want to get the white lines.
Speaker 3: Far days ought to be long any minute?
Speaker 5: Yep, Now what's threatening you?
Speaker 1: Weymouth won't listen to reason. That is leaving in the morning.
If it wasn't that tell him.
Speaker 5: To get just because he won't do what you and
the colonel want him to.
Speaker 1: There's a curse, I'm the man, an old Indian curse.
What a that thing had gotten into the room and
killed him. Never have another guest. Here's summer afore.
Speaker 5: Oh now, get that sour expression off your face.
Speaker 4: It's almost thirty. You stay here at the desk, wait
for the fair day.
Speaker 3: And be pleasant. I'm not ready to serve them steamers.
Oh that's them bogs.
Speaker 1: Evening. Oh there, uh mister box, yep, glad you meet it. Evening, ma'am.
Good evening. And trouble with the road, Well, no, the
directions were fine. We we just weren't sure we were
on the right one, but it worked out. What a
fine in you have here, mister Box.
Speaker 3: Oh it's lovely.
Speaker 6: Look at that lodge room ben with logs blazing away
in the fireplace.
Speaker 7: Frank, why don't we go in and have a drink
in front of the fire. I can bring in our
bags later.
Speaker 1: Never mind the bag, I'll bet him. If you'll give
me your keys, I'll pack your car off the road.
My wives will get you a drink and you can
have dinner anytime. Steamers and lobster. I hope you like them, perfect,
nothing better all over? You're scared, darling. Oh something go
wrong on the way down.
Speaker 3: It's too silly to mention, mister park.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I'm not a Brian man myself.
Speaker 7: My wife saw five Indians dancing around a pot and
dipping harrows into it.
Speaker 1: Hunger pains. I told him, did you know silly? Wasn't
it depends? Then he signed the register and I'll ever
come out and take you some drinks. He'd better go
down to dinner Weymouth right, it's after seven thirty. Still
got your appetite? Oh yes, yes, I'm recovered. Now. Quite
an experience for you to tell about back home. A
phenomenon I can't quite yet encompass what happened, accept it?
Give me the arrowhead and tell you a story on
a wintery night to that little girl of yours. Of
course it's not a story, not fiction, because he'd really happened.
It was strange. I know what I heard and saw
that there must be a rational explanation for what happened,
including the breaking of the window, even including that it
must have been some freak kind of pressure. I have
nothing to fear from mere, Hector plattm Well, maybe you
don't have anything more to fear, but don't count on it,
Professor Weymouth. Even as you and I is a rational man.
He accepts only what he can touch or see. His
mind rejects the possibility of ghosts. But is there anyone
who doesn't know of a haunted house haunted by what
a specter? Yes, indeed, Professor Weymouth, for all your education,
you cannot prove they don't exist. I'll be back shortly
without three. The White Pines Inn is located a few
miles from Pitpsburg on the rocky coast of Maine. Coast
is beautiful but forbidding, as the British found out during
the Revolutionary War, when six thousand men of Maine fought
them determinedly. Maine remembers those days of hardship and remembers
her even earlier history. The first settlement in sixteen twenty
on the Saco River, the Abnaki and Etchemen Indians of
the Algonkian family. And who is to say that the
spirits of those dead do not still inhabit those huge
forests of white pine for spruce and birch. Hey soon, dinner,
mag excellent, thank you, and oh very good, best steamers
and lobster I ever had. I have to forget the
indinane quick.
Speaker 3: That's real enough.
Speaker 4: Nothing ghostly about that, Professor Weymouth. You want coffee here
in the large well, let's.
Speaker 1: Have it in front of the fireplace, mag if you please, and.
Speaker 4: Introduce yourself to that nice young couple they're finishing up
named Saturday.
Speaker 1: I'll do that faradays. He'm as content as we are.
Good evening, evening. I'm Ben Faraday. This is my wife friend.
Speaker 2: How do you do?
Speaker 1: I'm George Weymouth. This is kind of Caleb Pingree, please
to meet you, sir man Cornel.
Speaker 3: Will you join us?
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, I'm glad you arrived. Boggs and his
wife had begun to worry about you if you lose
your way.
Speaker 7: Well we thought we had, but we were on the
right road all along. And then the sun dropped out
of sight and it was so dark I just crept along. Oh,
we had an unexpected adventure, then they wouldn't be interested.
Speaker 1: Whoa certainly we wouldn't missus Verday up here anything unusual
as welcome. It gives us something to talk about, just
seeing you faces as a treat, especially yours, missus Verday.
Thank you? Where are you from? By the way, Lewiston?
You bronswick itesology? The colonel here dressed and Joy's live.
I suspect he's got a chest of old gold in
his attic, and he's a mine of folklore about the
Indians who used to inhabit these forests where there's not
quite true about the chest of gold. But Indian legends
are my hobby, and we've just experienced another one. What
it was true? Even Professor Wimer has to admit what
he saw. You saw something, professor, I think? So when
late this afternoon? Well why are you looking so startled?
Missus Faraday? Here's me You experienced an Indian legend?
Speaker 5: Four cups cream?
Speaker 3: Should I I leave the part?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Thank you, Meg, You are right, young lady. You're kind
of peekd oh Indian legend.
Speaker 3: So that's it.
Speaker 5: Colonel got another listener to.
Speaker 3: Those Indian legends?
Speaker 2: Are yours?
Speaker 1: No? My dear Meg. I'm now, don't let the.
Speaker 4: Colonel pull your leg. Mister Faraday, he and my husband
Bogs sees things where they ain't. If there ought to
give me the creeps listened to the two of them
say what they want to.
Speaker 3: There's no such thing as ghosts.
Speaker 1: What about the broken.
Speaker 5: Wind, that's just a freak swirl wind?
Speaker 1: And the dwirling shroud that scudded out to sea, I
didn't see it.
Speaker 3: Now, I'll thank you not to go scaring these young falks.
Speaker 1: You are not going to believe this, Missus Boggs, Come on, friend, tell.
Speaker 3: Them, well, not far from here.
Speaker 6: When I thought we were lost, then stopped the car
and the headlights cut a tunnel of light far down
the road, and.
Speaker 3: Then I saw them.
Speaker 1: People see things when they're hunder even.
Speaker 6: Maybe I was imagining things, but I'd swear I really
saw them, five Indians dancing around a pot or cauldron
and dipping their arrows into it.
Speaker 1: You have no doubt about what you saw, Missus Sarday.
Speaker 3: I saw them as plain as I see you.
Speaker 1: We professor. I was inclined to disbelieve you and Boggs, Colonel,
But this story of missus Faraday's cannot be discarded. You
saw or the Indians? Did you hear drums?
Speaker 3: Yes, distinctly.
Speaker 1: What what's this all about? Revenge? Revenge, mister Faraday? What
revenge for what? You'd better tell them being to be
you excuse me, I need some fresh air. I'll see
you later, Colonel.
Speaker 3: He looks terribly worried.
Speaker 1: Ben, Yeah, because he's the intended victim of an Indian's revenge.
Speaker 5: Bob, come in here with me. I was gonna turn
down the professor.
Speaker 1: Weimoss bed, Well, look, the pillar's been rung in half
cares overturned. It's that thing from the ocean. I know
you don't believe in such things. Mag Well, I.
Speaker 4: Don't want to, but this either. The professor went crazier. Well,
how do you count for all this damage? First to
the window, now the room wrecked, and the pillar twisted
it too.
Speaker 1: Like ringing that person's neck until he was dead. The
Indian medicineman somehow he got back in here and thought
he had Weymouth by the net, when what he had
was the pillar power for wrench the pillars twisted and
half feathers all over, and telling him to leave White
pines tonight.
Speaker 3: Do you think we'd better call the police in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: They don't believe in apparitions any more than you do.
Speaker 4: Mag Well, I'm not sure now that a don't, because
I've never seen anything like this.
Speaker 1: Where is the professor?
Speaker 4: When the colonel began to tell the faradays the story,
the professor went, offer some fresh.
Speaker 1: Air, and I'll find him and tell him to pack
up and leave. Oh, mister Box, I have to have
a word with you, professor. Enjoy your stroll, Wemos. I
just stood outside and breathed deeply and looked at the sky.
Mary went upstairs to turn down your bed. Room was
a shambles. Chairs overturned, bed all rumpled, and the pillar
rung in half. What I haven't been near the room
since dinner time. The ghost of that Indian medicine man's
been there. If you'd been stretched out on that bed,
you'd be dead. That pillar was twisted in two feathers
all over the place. Good Lord, I'm sorry to have
to see this, Professor, but I want you to pack
and leave tonight. I don't blame you. I'll pay for
all the damage. I'm deeply sorry. Bring me the arrowhead Wemoss.
That's the source of your trouble. Until you've disposed of
the medicine man's arrowhead, you won't have peace, and you
may in fact die. Have your doubts about specters, but
give me that feet arrowhead. I'm convinced, Colonel. I'll be
right back. Even Magg's convinced. Now, Colonel, I'd imagine. So
the professor's a doom man, not if he gets rid
of the arrowhead. I think the Faradays have gotten scared off. No, No,
they went a bit about a half an hour ago.
Missus Faraday has the sight bogs like you and me.
When I told her what happened, she believed me. Even
her husband began to be convinced they'll stay. But you're
quite right in telling Weymouth to leave tonight A fran
stopped fussing and come to bed.
Speaker 3: Now. I'm not fussing.
Speaker 6: I'm just thinking about what the colonel told us about
George Weymouth and how he murdered those five Indians way
back in sixteen hundred and something.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but it's just crazy to think that some old
medicine man is out to murder the professor.
Speaker 1: He didn't kill those Indians.
Speaker 7: Why is he to blame just because he has the
same name, that's all?
Speaker 1: You believe that?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: I then, Oh my goodness, what is it? Look out
there on the water see it?
Speaker 7: Yeah, something's rising from the water off shore.
Speaker 3: It's a waterpot. No, no, it's not. It's upside down
it he looks like a sheet and it's turning round
and wrong.
Speaker 1: It's floating this way toward shore.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 6: It's that thing the colonel told us he saw the
ghost of the medicine man who was buried at sea.
Speaker 3: It's coming through us the inn, and I'm afraid.
Speaker 1: I'll get by on leave me then, look he's on the.
Speaker 3: Showind that's coming up the hill.
Speaker 2: Listen to the wind.
Speaker 1: It's coming toward us so that it's heading.
Speaker 3: For the rooms to our right. That's where Professor Waynmerth
is things after him.
Speaker 1: Ben shot, It broke the window. The whole place is shaking.
Come on, friend, let's get out of here. What help me,
colonel mister.
Speaker 2: Box, Oh when the door bogs.
Speaker 1: We have only second doll in there. Ben, I have
to help me and Court York. It's his show, help
me Box Saturday Hits.
Speaker 3: It's like, hey, put it.
Speaker 1: Away from his throat. I picked up the head to
bring it Downsta it's I get me taught the window.
It's stripping down his throat. Hold round the middle of
the head. He'll be dragged through the window. Breg beg
behind that ole headed float out the window on you
had out the window. Hide back, Hey, he's he's ridgid.
Here's some water. Notice the winds died down, and the
thing that had him by the throat, it's in a
heap on the floor canvas. Look when I touched it
just now, it crumpled in my hand. It's like dust.
Oh I my throat.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I heard you ah going a close call waymouth. You're
lucky to be alive. Thank god all of you are
close fire. It would have killed me. Hi, I'm very grateful.
Can you tell us what happened? I can.
Speaker 6: I was looking out the window when I saw the
apparition come out of the sea and drip this way.
Then a great wind came up and the thing kind
of embraced the house. It was when the window broke
that the Professor began to cry out.
Speaker 1: Had floated in like a small upside down cyclone. I
tried to stay out of its way, but it began
to wrap itself around me. It was horrible. What in
Heaven's name was it? What could it be? You know
it was? It was the ghost of the Indian Medicineman
come back to avenge the murder of those five Indian braves.
It was your forbear who killed them, And the spirit
of the Medicineman has never forgotten. When you picked up
that arrowhead, you aroused his spirit. Only by giving up
that arrowhead could you break the fatal connection? Well? Where
where is the arrowhead?
Speaker 4: I threw it out the wind, Professor, and something else.
When it hit the rocks below, there was a burst
of flame.
Speaker 1: And then nothing. I believe it. I believe all of it, Colonel,
the five ghostly Indians, they did exist, looking for you,
weymouth that you've lived to tell the story. The dread
of the supernatural goes back to earliest man. As he
roamed the earth, he was encompassed by many terrors. There
was the terrible dark, with its countless dangers. Legends about
second sight are endless to this day. The avenging specter
of the Indian medicine Man lives as fact in the
mind of Professor Weymouth. I'll be back shortly. And the
fascination of terror is as ancient as the human race.
It is stronger than our intellect, stronger even than our fears.
It goes to the core of our very being. The brutal,
unnecessary killing of five Indians in sixteen oh five, but
George Weymouth laid a curse on those who bore his surname.
Perhaps there is a kind of real justice. After all,
crimes of long ago unavenged can be avenged. Our cast
included Robert Dryden, Court Benson, Guy Soirell and Potoniac, Suzanne Grossman,
and Jay Gregory. The entire production was under the direction
of Hyman Brown. And now a preview of our next tale.
Why did you allow her to leave so early?
Speaker 7: You and I have to talk, Well, whatever we say
would be beyond her.
Speaker 4: Yes, if she's Group three Turn, how.
Speaker 1: Could Turn be an inspector?
Speaker 8: I suspect her because he's too perfect to absolutely group three.
Speaker 1: I suppose she is an inspector. What have you and
I ever said to each other that's reportable?
Speaker 8: I am Head of repair, you are Admiral of the fleet,
and we are about to be disenfranchised. Why Carol, cannot
qualify for Group one.
Speaker 3: He will fail the examination.
Speaker 1: But you took him to repair yourself. He was judged
in perfect life.
Speaker 8: Oh yes, because he was examined by a single practitioner
and I was present.
Speaker 1: Do you think she's out of balance?
Speaker 4: I know it.
Speaker 1: He's one of those I refuse to believe that.
Speaker 3: He refused to accept it.
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This is E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to
our Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until
next time, pleasant dreams.