Speaker 1: Unsolved mysteries. An old saying is dead men tell no tales.
Speaker 1: Nothing could be farther from the truth. In the United
Speaker 1: States alone, there are several cases on record in which
Speaker 1: the police, after finding no true upon which to work,
Speaker 1: have been led directly to the murderer by a force, which,
Speaker 1: for want of a better name, we call supernatural.
Speaker 2: Hub For.
Speaker 1: Washington Square, an old residential district which I stood still
Speaker 1: in the loop as the rest of the city is
Speaker 1: rushed on in the mad world of modernism. The houses
Speaker 1: still have iron railings before them. The street lamps are
Speaker 1: few and far between. The causeway is cobbled, uneven, and
Speaker 1: hard to walk on. Not a house but has its
Speaker 1: five or six steps leading up to the front door,
Speaker 1: and full bells have not yet been replaced by the
Speaker 1: shrill ringing electric bells. A salt snowfalls thartening the harsh
Speaker 1: outlines of the building's sidewalk and street parking lawn, and
Speaker 1: these are all one a wavy blanket of glistening white.
Speaker 1: A light shows in number twenty one, where Jack Hunter
Speaker 1: addresses a strange company of guests. Now, everyone, please make
Speaker 1: yourselves as comfortable as possible. Cigarette to my microbark cigars
Speaker 1: a human, or you'll find drinks to your taste in
Speaker 1: that cabinet. Hey, I'm going to stand here, you don't
Speaker 1: mind and explain this well rather unusual situation i've since it.
Speaker 3: Been on Pendles ever sentrality.
Speaker 1: Yes, I can believe that, putting it as simple as possible,
Speaker 1: every one of you, ladies and gentlemen, as a sometime
Speaker 1: another lived in this house sometime during the past thirty
Speaker 1: two years.
Speaker 4: And I learnt here in nineteen eleven, or exactly four nights.
Speaker 5: That one night, longer than I would say. I insisted
Speaker 5: that George moved me out the third night. I couldn't
Speaker 5: stand it.
Speaker 1: I believe that I am right, and assuming that each
Speaker 1: end of the one of us has had the same experience,
Speaker 1: I lived here one whole year, so possibly I did
Speaker 1: experience a little more than the rest of you.
Speaker 4: Yes, this is strange. According to my record, you have
Speaker 4: lived longer in the house than anyone else.
Speaker 1: Upon you summarize, well, the first night I slept here,
Speaker 1: nothing happened. But the second night I awoke with that
Speaker 1: strange feeling that somebody, something was in the room. I
Speaker 1: was about to turn up the light, but I came
Speaker 1: to realization that it wasn't necessary. Although it was quite dark,
Speaker 1: I could see figures I arranged along the sides of
Speaker 1: my bed, then across the bottom. I couldn't tell about
Speaker 1: the top, because frankly, I was too frightened to move.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what happened to me.
Speaker 6: I saw them the first night. They just stood there
Speaker 6: and stared and stared. They never said a word, and
Speaker 6: I couldn't.
Speaker 1: That was my experience, and it happened no less than
Speaker 1: one hundred and three times in one year. Gradually I
Speaker 1: got used to him. You to speculate them myself. But
Speaker 1: some of them are more dense, more material than others,
Speaker 1: especially one one who very often came by herself.
Speaker 4: A woman. May I interrupt? Certainly a woman is the
Speaker 4: key to the whole problem. May I take the story
Speaker 4: from there? Almost twenty minute now, mister Crawford will arrive.
Speaker 1: He wrote to me untoid that he had the solution
Speaker 1: of his visitation, and that he'd be here tonight Until
Speaker 1: he arrived. I'll tell you about the woman. It was
Speaker 1: nineteen nine. I lived about a mile and a half
Speaker 1: from the here. One morning, snowing wintry as could be,
Speaker 1: I left the house to go downtown to my office.
Speaker 4: I was walking along past.
Speaker 1: Courtland Park when the office are on the beat. Pat,
Speaker 1: O'Malley help them for you, sir. That's the right risk model,
Speaker 1: that it is, Hunter. That's like the old age, little
Speaker 1: kids going to school. Ye, yes, for them with the
Speaker 1: days we never appreciate them till we have to be
Speaker 1: up and going in the martins.
Speaker 4: And have to work. Why, sir, what are you looking at?
Speaker 4: Look bad? Over in the park?
Speaker 1: Does it looks like the outline of a body there
Speaker 1: under the slow Sure? And that it does, sir, And
Speaker 1: will be after going and satisfying ourselves that everything is
Speaker 1: all right, all right. If we can open the gate
Speaker 1: now that it's frozen stiffness gold, then we'll just have
Speaker 1: to claim the eleven that we will shorter now and
Speaker 1: dog to be spied them.
Speaker 4: Good gloves of yours, mister Hunter, I opened them gates open.
Speaker 1: Well, whatever it is, it must have lain there all night.
Speaker 1: There's not a trace of footprints or inner the nose.
Speaker 1: Now that i'm clostood, it looks more like a body
Speaker 1: than ever.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll sure we have to find it out that
Speaker 4: we will.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm wet.
Speaker 4: And sticky and red. He's a murder path.
Speaker 1: And that's no lie, or never yet to anybody stab
Speaker 1: themselves in the smile at the back like this one.
Speaker 4: Finished that well, I called.
Speaker 1: The patrol, and there will take her to the bar.
Speaker 4: I yes, I don't know if any of you remember
Speaker 4: the affair.
Speaker 7: I do.
Speaker 5: There never was a trace of the murderer or anything.
Speaker 5: The papers were full of it, called it Philadelphia's unsolved mystery.
Speaker 1: I appeared to the English, but today no one but
Speaker 1: myself knows anymore than they did.
Speaker 4: Then you say, no one but yourself. Yes.
Speaker 1: I moved from where I was living about five years
Speaker 1: later and came to live here.
Speaker 8: The first night I.
Speaker 1: Went to bed, dead tired from all the hustle of moving,
Speaker 1: And just as soon as I'd set my alarm clocks,
Speaker 1: I fell soundlessly. Midnight the bedroom fills with ghostly, shadowy sheeps,
Speaker 1: wisps of an intangible something formed in the likeness of
Speaker 1: human forms, transparent, horribly transparent. They ranged themselves about the bed,
Speaker 1: and in ghastly silence, they stare down.
Speaker 4: Upon the man.
Speaker 1: Jack Hunter, lying there. Jack stirs uneasily in his sleep,
Speaker 1: turns and tosses, twists, himself about and opened his eyes,
Speaker 1: rosen with fear. He lies staring with wide eyes, his
Speaker 1: lips form words, questions, but nothing that he can do,
Speaker 1: No effort that he can make will.
Speaker 4: Force words out. Another sheep enters the room, a woman.
Speaker 1: Those shadowing nothings about the bed look at the newcomer,
Speaker 1: and one by one they melted in nothing. The woman
Speaker 1: advances to the bed.
Speaker 8: You can help me. What what is that you say
Speaker 8: you can help me? I was murdered.
Speaker 3: I cannot rest until my murderer is known.
Speaker 8: A woman, A murdered woman. I founowed the park. You
Speaker 8: found me in the park. You know my murderer. I
Speaker 8: know your murderers.
Speaker 3: Come with me, follow me to the living room.
Speaker 8: You will help me, you will let me do.
Speaker 1: Jack Hunter follows the woman through the archway into the
Speaker 1: living room. He stops before the grand piano, turns her
Speaker 1: ghastly eyes upon him, and then pointing to a portrait,
Speaker 1: his wife's portrait.
Speaker 8: Mmm mmm, murdered.
Speaker 1: Jack clasped his hands to his eyes, rocks to and
Speaker 1: forward with a crash, forced to the floor in a
Speaker 1: dead piece.
Speaker 4: It was almost daylight when I came to I was pitty, roggy.
Speaker 3: What a horrible experience to find your wife accused of murder.
Speaker 4: The horrible part of it was it was true to you.
Speaker 4: You can My wife had been.
Speaker 1: In a private institution for the violently insane for years.
Speaker 4: She escaped.
Speaker 1: I knew nothing about her escape, but I investigated. He
Speaker 1: returned to the institution two days later, her clothes bloodstains,
Speaker 1: and the institution management glad to.
Speaker 4: Get her back. So weasily never said a word.
Speaker 1: But why, why in the name of Heaven has always
Speaker 1: happened in this house for the rest of us. You've
Speaker 1: never done anything for which we should be haunted by one.
Speaker 4: Gulf of five dozens. I think that that brings the
Speaker 4: board though the answer we're seeking. Mister Crawford. I'll go.
Speaker 8: Let him make yourself comfortable.
Speaker 1: I'll be down if I know what to make of it.
Speaker 3: No, I'm just as puzzled as I was when I
Speaker 3: lived here.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll see what Crawford has to say. It doesn't know,
Speaker 4: and I'm told them, mister Crawford, the story today about
Speaker 4: your your wife everything.
Speaker 7: In order to understand this, you misrealize that Washington where
Speaker 7: is very much changed.
Speaker 4: What it was back in the eighties.
Speaker 7: Over where the hotel stands today is where the old court.
Speaker 4: House used to be.
Speaker 7: Down there where the Jasoline station stands used to be
Speaker 7: old Lycus stables. The dale used to stand where the
Speaker 7: hotel stands.
Speaker 4: Now this house, that's what we want to.
Speaker 3: I've been on pins and needles.
Speaker 4: I still am this house, this house, this house to
Speaker 4: be the Morgue. After you've heard from your sponsor it
Speaker 4: solutions to the.
Speaker 1: Washington Square mystery will be given order, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: the solution for what you've been waiting.
Speaker 3: You said, mister that this house used to be the Mark.
Speaker 4: Yes, I did, but but I still doesn't explain that
Speaker 4: it does. As far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 7: You see you, when you begin dealing with a mysterious
Speaker 7: realm beyond the practical and concrete things of life, things
Speaker 7: that can be weighed, seen, felt, and otherwise measured, you
Speaker 7: still not dealing with situations can only be investigated by comparisons.
Speaker 4: What do you mean by comparison.
Speaker 7: Comparisons of happenings of a like nature, comparisons with the
Speaker 7: experiences of thousands of reputable people who have testified the
Speaker 7: stimular experience?
Speaker 1: You mean that if someone is emotionally upset in a
Speaker 1: certain house, the imprint of that emotion, who will be
Speaker 1: left in.
Speaker 4: The house, almost like a photograph. That there's the claim
Speaker 4: of many.
Speaker 3: Even if people know nothing of what has happened.
Speaker 4: Yes, have you ever walked into a house and had.
Speaker 7: An unexplainable feeling of dislike of the place or.
Speaker 4: What causes it?
Speaker 7: Well, there are many people who say it's an invisible
Speaker 7: influence left by the previous occupants or previous happenings. It's
Speaker 7: easy to imagine the heartbreaking scenes in this morgue, the
Speaker 7: air of gloom, the constant stream of people walking through
Speaker 7: this building. There's nothing in their mind but the identification
Speaker 7: of persons will be murdered.
Speaker 4: Or otherwise met violent death.
Speaker 6: In these things which we saw and heard are well
Speaker 6: our own such a nature becoming aware of the what
Speaker 6: you call invisible photographs of previous happening.
Speaker 7: Yes, that is the theory advanced in that state between
Speaker 7: sleeping and waking. These previous happenings took on an almost
Speaker 7: tangible form when you came back to consciousness fully aware
Speaker 7: of what had happened, and fully convinced that you had
Speaker 7: been quite awake the whole time.