Speaker 1: Unsolved Mysteries.
Speaker 2: Tonight's unsolved mystery is made in that land of many mysteries, India,
Speaker 2: where squalorant wealth side by side all the head and
Speaker 2: bends the neat oft strange gods. India, where every bazaar,
Speaker 2: every temple, every compound has its fakir or holy man,
Speaker 2: a sort of privileged beggar whom white men and black
Speaker 2: alike fear more.
Speaker 1: Than they admit.
Speaker 3: Some students at sixteen.
Speaker 2: The scene is the United Services Club in Simla. Officers
Speaker 2: in their stiffly started tropical mess dress sit around the veranda,
Speaker 2: cooling off under a waving punker, while barefooted native servants
Speaker 2: carry trays of glasses which resound to the musical and
Speaker 2: appetizing tinkle of tubes of ice.
Speaker 1: To Colonel, I'll say this for India, you certainly know
Speaker 1: how to make yourself comfortable. We have to, Bucklin. If
Speaker 1: we didn't, we wouldn't be able to stick it out
Speaker 1: in the heart Sedn'. But tell me, Bucklay, what exactly
Speaker 1: did you mean when you said I'll say this or
Speaker 1: indoe nothing in particular, Colonel. Of course, you fellows don't
Speaker 1: realize it, so you're always prefacing a remark or following
Speaker 1: it with but this is India. Well, well, I mean
Speaker 1: it's all right, the stuff folks back home with all
Speaker 1: the time it wrought about India's low, in India's mystery,
Speaker 1: and it couldn't happen any place else for India, but
Speaker 1: alf for all you know, and they just hear just
Speaker 1: ordinary human beings, no different from any place else. Listen, Bucklyn,
Speaker 1: you'll be out here exact four months now. You will
Speaker 1: at otherwise, never cercinated, never laugh at his fears, never
Speaker 1: ridicule his ideas, and above all, don't try to show
Speaker 1: your superiority by trying to expose one of their Sakias.
Speaker 1: You actually mean, colonel, that you believe in their superstitious
Speaker 1: bunk Lesson, Buckling, I like you pull your chair over
Speaker 1: this way a little and I'll tell you something. A
Speaker 1: good number of years ago I was promoted to captain.
Speaker 1: I had three months three even England. I was young,
Speaker 1: very proud of my captain's trips. I fell in love
Speaker 1: with every pretty girl I saw back home. Well, I
Speaker 1: fell hard for a school day sweetheart. We were married,
Speaker 1: and doroth and Is sale on the piano had a
Speaker 1: marvelous trip, landed a Bombay, and I found orders waiting
Speaker 1: for me to proceed on duty of Bangalore. I war
Speaker 1: lau sing my bear and told him to get everything ready,
Speaker 1: caught the train and just at dust we pulled up
Speaker 1: at my quarters. Rejingish Captain chaid cheerio lelsing low sing.
Speaker 1: Here's the new men's side. The heavent is holed, and this,
Speaker 1: darling is what we call the living room. And in
Speaker 1: there behind the bead captain in the combination's smoking room,
Speaker 1: then library, card room and general for to get together
Speaker 1: place books, books and more books.
Speaker 4: I'm going to spend hours in there when you're own music. Oh,
Speaker 4: in the complete stead of kipling is.
Speaker 1: And anything you want it isn't there? Why just ask
Speaker 1: for why, Dorothy? What's wrong?
Speaker 4: But Georgia, I'm straight sending came over me what I
Speaker 4: don't know? It seems as if someone you're trying to
Speaker 4: compel me to do something, I'd go cold all over afraid.
Speaker 1: Look, George, is that out there.
Speaker 4: On the counpound in front of that clump of camerist.
Speaker 1: Well, oh oh the old fact. Yeah, he hangs around
Speaker 1: here quite a bit.
Speaker 4: Calm send him away. She's doing this to me, I know,
Speaker 4: he is.
Speaker 1: Oh, my dear, your time.
Speaker 4: Please George, send him away. I can't spend him, you
Speaker 4: can't see him.
Speaker 1: But Dorothy, I can't do that. I can't send him
Speaker 1: a wall.
Speaker 4: Why can't you? Why can't you tell someone to get
Speaker 4: off your own ground?
Speaker 1: Well, it's a little bit hard to understand, Dorothy a
Speaker 1: stranger here, but one doesn't order facias to do anything.
Speaker 1: It's well, the natives will be afraid that it might concurse.
Speaker 1: I'm the natives dislife. You can offer that and my
Speaker 1: fear of him, My dear, listen to reasons. Weare in
Speaker 1: India now. I'm not jolly old England, you know, but
Speaker 1: we must do things that acording to the.
Speaker 4: Country and telling it dirty, smelly nakey to get off
Speaker 4: your own properties against the custom of the country.
Speaker 1: Is it by job? Yes? You know it really isn't done,
Speaker 1: don't you see? Yes, sir? Oh, yes, sir? Oh too bad? Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: of course. As soon as I can slip into service
Speaker 1: dogs bye, yes, so right, Oh, I won't bother to change.
Speaker 1: Oh tub it down with a touch of fever. I'd
Speaker 1: have to say, guard dude it tonight, sing yes short
Speaker 1: and service cap.
Speaker 4: Oh George, I don't want to be left alone.
Speaker 1: Oh no, my dearest low sing and I met in
Speaker 1: the compound, and the best in the water carry a
Speaker 1: sleeps all night on the rain. Oh she didn't have
Speaker 1: to go. It's got to help out when the chap
Speaker 1: goes down with severa don't you know? Fie in my
Speaker 1: turn someday? Oh jo, goodbye, let me see.
Speaker 4: Oh here's kiplings at the end of the passage.
Speaker 1: That ought to be a good test for nerves.
Speaker 4: Time, yes, lessin. Oh you is that here?
Speaker 1: What do you want out? You know?
Speaker 4: I come into this room.
Speaker 1: The membership does not like Wilder Sam.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, I don't I don't want you nares
Speaker 4: now go, I'll call using.
Speaker 1: Seeing a simple child. He would not dare enter the
Speaker 1: room while I sa beg is busy. Will you please go?
Speaker 1: And the memsibe is given to be the thing which
Speaker 1: I desire.
Speaker 4: What do you want? I'll give you anything to get
Speaker 4: you out of here.
Speaker 1: Some beg one solidly. One stand of the memside hair, No.
Speaker 4: More one stands my hair.
Speaker 1: Who as for the members, I would not understand. It
Speaker 1: is for a charm, a charm for my nephew who
Speaker 1: is in the ill country and very sick.
Speaker 4: All right, I'll give you a stand my hair.
Speaker 2: God brand the memsibe is very kind older I tam
Speaker 2: will not forget.
Speaker 4: I wait on the I'm not being kind. I'm doing
Speaker 4: it to get rid of your spicuous idea. Stand my hair.
Speaker 4: I'd like to make a fool of him and his charms.
Speaker 4: And I can't do Chinese rug. It's made of hairs
Speaker 4: almost the identical color of mine. I get a stand. Yes,
Speaker 4: here's your standing here all.
Speaker 1: The sun, Thank you the men, time, and now for
Speaker 1: the present. Goodbye, Thank goodness.
Speaker 4: He's gone. I wonder where Nelson can be. I didn't
Speaker 4: if you just tuck here out of the bungalow nel.
Speaker 1: Sing no answer?
Speaker 4: What can have happened?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: Sing now, sing where are you? Something's wrong? I know
Speaker 1: it is? Well?
Speaker 4: Sing what you're going around?
Speaker 1: Turning black?
Speaker 4: The clock is biling happy then spinning so fast makes
Speaker 4: me dizzy?
Speaker 1: Disney mm hmm, how about thing? Not it? Dothy? Where
Speaker 1: are you?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Good God? She's say you're allow thing helping and lift
Speaker 1: her onto widow coach side that easy way.
Speaker 4: What happens?
Speaker 1: Oh George, tell me if you can, what happened?
Speaker 3: Why did you come back?
Speaker 1: That thing ran down to the backs for me when
Speaker 1: he saw the facia come out of the randa.
Speaker 4: Why didn't this change of me?
Speaker 1: He couldn't raise his handycakes of fact here, my dear,
Speaker 1: but never mind. Tell me what happened, Teck, you came
Speaker 1: in here.
Speaker 4: They wouldn't leave till I gave him his chand in
Speaker 4: my hair.
Speaker 1: You gave him one.
Speaker 4: No, I didn't have food him. I gave him as
Speaker 4: trent And that Chinese rug in the other room.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a cop, darling, that's sticking on your feet.
Speaker 4: What could he want with this tand in my hair?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but this I do know. When I
Speaker 1: lay hand on.
Speaker 4: Hand about the natives idea, you can't even touch a sacre,
Speaker 4: you know, can't I?
Speaker 1: Who? Just wait and see what I can. That's it's
Speaker 1: all right, my dear. Something in the back group held down.
Speaker 3: But I know it isn't a life.
Speaker 4: I've got that horrible feeling again. Look at a passage,
Speaker 4: something moving rising, two things.
Speaker 1: I got my gun out. Don't paint when I saw
Speaker 1: Tell me you didn't touch it, but I know I
Speaker 1: hit it. Good.
Speaker 5: Joy is starting out on the veranda it's a Chinese
Speaker 5: run right to the misquito curtain that cast it by
Speaker 5: me nothing, I'm funny jelly. That isn't Okay's is on
Speaker 5: the ground, just in front of a timbers rising on
Speaker 5: the ground.
Speaker 1: Chose the love.
Speaker 4: I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: It's impossible, No, my dear, not impossible, not impossible. It
Speaker 1: is a Chinese rug shibe two bullet holes in it.
Speaker 1: He shaved him Sive's life. Yes, love the Chinese rug,
Speaker 1: and it saved more than a memsived life. Well, that
Speaker 1: is an amazing Sorry that major happened to Dorothy and me.
Speaker 1: We never talk of it, but you see, old Jep
Speaker 1: I never sneered it native beliefs. But Colonel, you didn't
Speaker 1: finish our story. What do you mean? What about the
Speaker 1: part here? Did you horse hi him? I didn't have to.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: No, next morning lau Thing came and got me. We
Speaker 1: went out into compound and they're right in front of
Speaker 1: that camp of camerisk wrapped in the tangling phold of
Speaker 1: the Chinese rug. Bad the old Sakir dead.
Speaker 2: Out of deference to people who are still alive, character
Speaker 2: names in these unsolved mysteries have been changed inasmuch as
Speaker 2: any solution must of necessity be supposition. Liberties of time, place,
Speaker 2: and character exist in the solution that will be presented
Speaker 2: after you've heard from your a sponsors, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: the solution for what you have been waiting.
Speaker 1: But tell me, colonel, didn't you ever try to find
Speaker 1: out how such a thing could be possible? You understand,
Speaker 1: of course that workers in black magic, whether they be
Speaker 1: in Hiti Ethic or a India, believe it's something personal.
Speaker 1: The strand of hair, fingernail clipping, and such light are
Speaker 1: an essentially breed into the formula. They're black art and
Speaker 1: your wife Dorothy, and taking the strand of hair from
Speaker 1: the Chinese rug and giving that to the park here,
Speaker 1: but then his powers from controlling her exactly, all the concentration,
Speaker 1: all the pent up sority, the hatred and diabolical cunning,
Speaker 1: at the factia what leveled at the object most totally
Speaker 1: connected with that strand of hair. I can understand that,
Speaker 1: and I can understand, since you say it so, that
Speaker 1: Sapaskia might have unharmed Dorothy, who is a living being.
Speaker 1: But that such power could really affect a thing like
Speaker 1: a rug is something else again, scientists are divided in
Speaker 1: their opinion as to how such things are possible. But
Speaker 1: here let me show you a brief quotation from the
Speaker 1: Encyclopedia Britannica. Physical phenomena can be grouped under two main
Speaker 1: hits telican nieces or the movement of objects at a
Speaker 1: distance other than by ordinary physical means and tell it
Speaker 1: pleas me or the extrusion from the body of the
Speaker 1: medium of a substance, sometimes amorphous, sometimes resembling portions of
Speaker 1: the human body, or even complete figures. Phenomena of both
Speaker 1: these kinds have long been familiar, and end the quotation,
Speaker 1: then telicnesis the movement of an object is recognized by
Speaker 1: scientists as being possible, decidedly so. And I can assure
Speaker 1: you that if you'll live in India long enough, you
Speaker 1: will see more than one demonstration of the power of
Speaker 1: concentrated mind over purely inanimate matter. Thank you, colonel but
Speaker 1: Rat for hearing your story. I really don't believe that
Speaker 1: I want to