Speaker 1: I am a voice that no man on earth has
ever heard before. I am not of this world, but
no man hearing my voice knows whether I truly live,
or whether I am a thing of the imagination, a
thing of dreams. You will hear my story in a
moment on you thows and plus listen.
Speaker 2: Thousand us.
Speaker 3: Adventures in the World of Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Framatic stories of science fiction from.
Speaker 4: The years beyond two thousand AD.
Speaker 3: Today, the story of a horrible nightmail It wouldn't stop
even when the dreamer woke up. A story called a
green Thing. It is the year two thousand plus one
seventy five. It is late evenings, and all is peaceful
and quiet in doctor Harvey Clendon's Sentarian Outside, on the
vast estate that stretches away from the main buildings, there
are only the soft country noises, the wind sighing in
the trees, the shrill trippings of innumerable crickets. In the
world furnished rooms, the patients sleep stretched out on comfortable
mephaces and clean white sheets. The country brings us springing
over their forms. In room thirty two feet, Missus Summers
sleeps peacefully with his head on a fluffy pillow, he sleeps,
and he dreams comping company.
Speaker 5: Way.
Speaker 2: So, in the light of the growing psychological problems facing
our nation, the government has sent me to you, doctor Glendon,
to unless your age, since you're the country's outstanding psychiatrists.
While I'm on it, Indeed, mister Carling, that as much
I can tell you about the advancement of psychiatric research,
it isn't being published in the medical journalism. Well, doctor Glendon,
isn't there anything that you're working on now? Something definite?
I know you're a cautious scholar, but at mister Colie,
it isn't possible to announce sweeping new generalizations in our
kind of science. I worked as painstaking, complex, highly subjective.
It's like the case of one of the patients here
in the sanitarium. Oh, buddy, did you bring our records
to mister Summers. Summons is about forty forty one. He
was admitted five months ago suffering from a melancholia here. Oh,
thanks very How as you can see from these notations,
he's been feeling much better the past few weeks. Yes,
let me see, until last night when he suddenly woke
up screaming in his bed. He was being attacked, he
shouted by some sort of green devil. We had this
jeb getting him under control. Now, in the past, Somers
had spoken quite often of a green hat that he
lost as a child. His father, he remembered that punished
him severely for losing it, and later on Glendon, this
is all very interesting, but you can hardly call this
dream analysis anything new. Yes, it has been known for centuries. Well,
and I don't understand, mister Colling. I know why you
came to see me. Apparently I haven't been able to
keep my achievement as secret as I hope.
Speaker 1: That's rights it. We've heard rumors.
Speaker 2: All, mister Colling. I've said that mister Summer's dream is
very unusual. How would you like to see it? I mean,
see his dream exactly. I'm going to show you a
motion picture of mister Sommer's dreams, photograph from the subconscious mind,
exactly as he dreamed. I've had special note electrodes. In
these electrodes pick up the current impulses of the brains.
Then these impulses are transmuted back into pictures on the
film of the machine. Really very similar to the method
of wireless photography.
Speaker 6: Mister Summer's dream deal dot too.
Speaker 2: Oh fine, thank you, Reddy. The projector tube is ready,
so I just placed the dream reel with it, and
hold only your hat. Mister Darling, you're going to see
an actual dream. Yes, yes, very well, mister Klapper. Three
slices of lemon drops will do. He thinks. I don't
see him putting the pennies in his pocket when he
knows they belong to me.
Speaker 1: Three slices of lemon drops. It is little point. I'm
not a little boy, Klapper, and you know it.
Speaker 2: I'm all grown up and I don't come to your
store anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't even live here anymore.
Speaker 2: And you steal.
Speaker 5: Pennies, all right, No, I get out knocking the boy
take your lemondre can get out belt.
Speaker 2: Music.
Speaker 1: I didn't know Clover had music in his store.
Speaker 3: I don't like his music. I'll slam his door.
Speaker 2: I'll go out in the street.
Speaker 1: Now there won't be any more penny stealing music.
Speaker 2: But what's that?
Speaker 5: It won't go away?
Speaker 1: It won't go away, Summers. I am calling you.
Speaker 2: What's that, Clover? It's it's greety.
Speaker 1: It's a monster with great pink eyes on long stalks.
It's standing in front of me.
Speaker 5: It has claws.
Speaker 1: You're not the little boy anymore, Summers. Oh no no,
don't touch me with your clothes. Come with me now,
Summers your mine. You belong to me.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, you're touching me.
Speaker 6: Don't nor help.
Speaker 7: Me, help me please.
Speaker 2: But you got to him at that moment, the dream
machine shut off. Shoot some dream. What effect will the
discovery of this dream machine have on psychiatric research, doctor Glenton? Well,
I've only just perfected it about four or five months ago.
Dot reaps forty or fifty photographed dreams in that files.
Speaker 3: Forty or fifty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, However, as far as developing new techniques and treatment,
maybe years before I can get them analyzed and correlated
so that overall theories can be drawn from them. As
long as that So all you understand, mister Carling, why
it's a little difficult for me to answer your questions.
That dream was fascinating. I've never seen anything like it,
a doctor. I know I'm presuming on your time, but
I like to see just one more I'll have to
report on the at the government bureau. Well, only one more, though,
I'm sorry, but I'm quite busy. What about this one? Here?
The purple tag. What's that for? I seen that one myself.
Yet purple tag means it's from the violent word. Mister
m sick man. I will try it. Oh, set, Why.
Speaker 6: How do you do?
Speaker 2: Missus?
Speaker 6: Camp For I'm climbing the.
Speaker 2: Wall and it's only to us? How warm me?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Much, gibberd. Rob's a difficult case. Homicidal tendencies comes from
a good family. For a very successful businessman, can you
do anything for him?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I think so at times when he can be reached
lucid moments and some of his dreams for very clue
for that. You're not frightening me.
Speaker 5: You can't scare me. Don't touch me your.
Speaker 2: Claws, doctor, Look on the screen. Look there it is again,
that cream thing.
Speaker 5: No, it's impossible.
Speaker 2: Two people can't possibly have the same dream. I don't
understand it, Betty, I can't understand it. I've been through
all the records above them, Summers and Rob. There's nothing
in the back, brother, but cause them to have the
same dream. Are you sure they haven't been together? But
some time?
Speaker 6: I'm positive, jos if they haven't even met. Mister Ralph
came here only a month ago, and he was pasting
the violent water me. He's never been out of it.
Speaker 2: It's possible for people to have similar dreams, yes, but
never the dream of the same, unusual, horrible, specific subject
is that that green thing. Every detail was the same,
the pink eyes, the claws makes me shudder myself.
Speaker 1: Betty.
Speaker 2: I want our dream reels, all those I haven't seen.
Speaker 6: Oh no, you're not going to view them all if
it take you.
Speaker 2: I don't care how long it takes. I want to
see them all. I've got a funny feeling inside, and
I won't be at ease until I know, until I'm sure, sure, sure,
that none of the other patients have had that dream,
that same horrible dream of that green thing.
Speaker 6: Really nine, missus Jarvin Sill, I put the sound on.
Speaker 1: Oh no, not necessary.
Speaker 2: We can see them. It appears.
Speaker 1: No nothing here.
Speaker 6: Same ten, that's Fonnham.
Speaker 2: No nothing.
Speaker 6: I don't think we'll find anything. Doctor, must have been
a freak, a coincidence.
Speaker 2: Keep going, Keep going.
Speaker 6: Dream eleven, mister Cray.
Speaker 2: Dream twenty one, nothing there either. Dream twenty two. Huh,
Maybe you'll right, Betty. I'm beginning to thank myself.
Speaker 6: To Glendon, Doctor Glenham.
Speaker 4: Not there it is a greaen thing.
Speaker 6: Dream forty two.
Speaker 3: Mister Bradley, head up the let it up.
Speaker 2: That's it again, a green thing, poor album, karling horror
dreams of that monstrous green thing, each one for a
different patient, and each one during the past week. Telling
there's something there, something to make even a psychiatrist people fighting.
Tell the patients weren't having a dream. They couldn't be.
They had nothing in common. But the fact that they're
in this sanitarium. Why even the nature of their illnesses
are different right there? Aren't you getting a little mixed
up yourself?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: You saw those dreams. I saw them, They saw them.
I know. It's incredible. Listen, to have a dream means
that you create that dream, you and nobody else. You
mean you think the patients didn't create those dreams.
Speaker 1: They're not their dreams.
Speaker 2: There is such a thing as God's projection, mental telepathy. Yeah,
why should anyone want? One may have found out about
the dream she maybe jealousy or grudge, or a hatred
of psychiatry in general. There many reasons. What we've got
to do is to find out where it's coming from.
The patients must be protected. How First, we've got to
find out whether this telepathy is coming from inside or
outside the sanitarium, and we've got to track it down.
I tell you, darling, whoever's trying this terror by mental
telepathy isn't going to get away with it. I'm not
going to stand by while a lifetime's work is destroyed
by a campaign of terror against my patients. Going to
institute protective measures at once, anything yet got to I
still have a Garden's dream beamed on the area directly
around the main building. I don't expect to find any
in so close, but I want to search every into
the grounds. I still feel whoever it is is on
the grounds can't be sure of anything except that I'm
convinced that the staff is loyal, and I have a
hunch that whoever is transmitting these park waves or want
to be close enough to judge the results.
Speaker 3: IM take it down now, doctor, Oh yes, Betty, go
get them when you please.
Speaker 2: That's possible that they may be able to help us.
They may have felt current seminating from a certain direction.
M I think the Dardis screen has reached its range. Lemmit, doctor,
it's repeating itself, all right, I'll give it wider.
Speaker 1: Focus going into the grounds.
Speaker 2: Now, wait, here's something I figure on the screen. Yeah,
I see him a club stick or something. Who is
this actor?
Speaker 4: Can you tell?
Speaker 1: I don't want to align him. I'll signal the patrol cars.
Speaker 2: But me that red button on the wall, isn't it?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 1: No, calling have a line.
Speaker 2: That is one of the patrol corps. I can see
his arm. Bad, bad, I'll switch the machine to the
north tran. There's another figure.
Speaker 5: Let me.
Speaker 3: Well, he seemed to be all guarded.
Speaker 2: Another member of the patroal corps. Well, that's hope. The
patients will be able to hear Betty.
Speaker 3: Doctors so well, very well?
Speaker 2: The patient gone, doctor?
Speaker 7: What did he appear?
Speaker 6: And the six patients has just begun screaming in his room,
the green thing, the green thing. Fifty four all accounted
for doctors before that. A missing would make sixty eight.
That's how many patients we had.
Speaker 2: I checked the nurses eight besides Betty. They're all here
and the patrol corp have checked the rest of the
staff and no one has left the grounds except the
four patients, unless somebody got in and carried them off. Now, no,
no jetmobiles and no jet ships have been in the
vicinity between the time the patients were last reported and
now the patrol core about for that is the village Wnnfield. Oh,
it's the only village for one hundred miles, but it's
a backwoods country village at quaint place, never kept up
the times. I doubt that they have any jetmobiles in Linfield,
much love jetship as you can't arrange for transportation there,
can't you the right that's where they go. Why didn't
I think of that before? It's the center of the village,
the gossip spot, if the patient centered town at all,
news of them, which frederallyan. But you take charge here
calling and I are going to Winfield. How long will
you be gone, doctor, until we find them they're no
longer alive.
Speaker 5: Sure, I can't help you, know, I'm doctor. You ain't
seen no strangers, spoke to no strangers. You're learning those strangers.
Speaker 2: Allow about transportation, jetmobiles, the jet ships.
Speaker 5: Including any calls for you bluebill service going younger. Two
months not since Miss Jennings busted her leg and we
had descended to the hospital in the city jet ships
last time one of them flaming marsters landed here. We
nearly had a hide and then filled durn fools off?
What was in bas you from Mars run a wild
goose chase?
Speaker 2: That's so insane? Well thanks, Hony, How mister Barker you've
been very hard.
Speaker 5: Parts, he says, I flasted it. You believes in the hall?
Speaker 1: I do right too.
Speaker 2: Everyone knows this coats everywhere.
Speaker 7: Yet you know such thing that's called a comte still
up coats in every village in time, Quiet down, you bush,
you'll be getting my in the bad reputation of Hey.
Speaker 2: Hey, there's that doctor, doctor Glendon talking to mister Barker.
Speaker 7: I put it up to him.
Speaker 2: Now, okay, what do you say, Doc?
Speaker 5: There's no sid thing is arts gold cyber now and
you'll tell my ignorant friend.
Speaker 2: I wasn't listening very carefully. But if it's ghost you're
talking about, there's never been any scientific evidence that they exist.
Speaker 7: Arts don't exist.
Speaker 5: That's what you're time to say it, don that's right.
Speaker 2: Oh, come on, Colin, let's get out of here.
Speaker 5: Hey, hey, no ghost.
Speaker 2: This this starts an educated man.
Speaker 5: He knows out And oh you tell me what that
green thing was froating around down here in the cave
and we ain't.
Speaker 1: Don'tly one who's seen it? Right, paul a green thing?
Speaker 2: Where?
Speaker 1: Why are these kids right down the river?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: Doc, you ain't going there?
Speaker 5: Nighttime?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Colling, Well, you'll risk it.
Speaker 3: I've got my right kind of dock.
Speaker 5: You crazy, I'm telling you there's a haunt.
Speaker 1: Why it ain't a man in his whole village? Go
with you tonight. It's only a course.
Speaker 2: Don't even worries. But if forre not out of those
caves by dawn, you better come for us. It won't
be a ghost that's holding us.
Speaker 1: This must be the right cave.
Speaker 2: Carling's the only one with a brush tremble down in
front of it. Here he is that two men here,
don't hear anything? Probably just don't want to be taken
by surprise. I have to be as quiet as possible,
all right, Come on? What's that got it?
Speaker 3: What are you?
Speaker 2: You want?
Speaker 6: It?
Speaker 5: Coming?
Speaker 2: The great thanks?
Speaker 4: The green thing?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, there's nothing there. You're on the floor
of the cave, but there's no one near you. Nothing
where he is asleep. He's having the dream. That's same dream.
Come on, snap out of it. Coming There's only a dream,
only a dream, I mean dream he'll dizzy. What's the
matter with me? I am fooling his sn.
Speaker 4: I won't I won't let.
Speaker 1: My shot, doctor Glendon, Doctor Glendon, I am calling you.
You must come with me now. Oh I won a fresher,
A fresher, come with me, doctor Glendon. I control you now.
Speaker 5: Of course.
Speaker 7: It's not the tum tum going to wake up.
Speaker 2: I'm going awake up. I'm going to wake up. I
did I'm awake. I conquered the greensing?
Speaker 5: Did you.
Speaker 1: Did you conquer me? Doctor Glendon?
Speaker 2: I can't be standing over me.
Speaker 5: The pink eyes are long stops, the close.
Speaker 1: The creaing A ride in here, doctor Glendon, into this
rough chamber, and you, mister Carling, don't worry.
Speaker 2: You won't fall.
Speaker 1: My will is controlling you.
Speaker 2: My patience over.
Speaker 1: I had a corner.
Speaker 2: Well, Bradley, Summer's gone.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't you come to them.
Speaker 2: Summer? Say all right, Bradley, this is doctor glennar your doctor.
Speaker 7: What's the matter, god man, Bradley.
Speaker 1: Nothing is the matter with them. They just don't understand
you anymore. They are attuned only to Venuesian thought wave.
Speaker 2: Allusions. Yours come the sign of move Venus that is right.
Speaker 1: For a long time, we have been observing your earth,
your resources, and your remarkable technology, but we did not
know how to conquer you. For we of Venus have
no strength or physical dexterity, only mental power.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't tell me that think that horrible body of
yours to a puppy great.
Speaker 1: Mash you hit only air? Didn't you think? I'm growing
tired of this game? Stop? I will that your arms
obey me.
Speaker 2: And not you. I can't love them.
Speaker 7: How are your body?
Speaker 2: Do not be foolish again, and I will return the motion.
So hypnotize my patience the same way, didn't you? And
always dreams a little more complicated than what you Earthlings
call hypnosis, but it is mind control. I have come
to Earth to prove to my planet that this is
the way to conquer your Earth. We will control the
minds of its inhabitants and thereby control their strength their
physical dexterity. I began on your patients first, because their
minds are more easily controlled. What do you want to
their bodies? They can perform physical acts that I cannot
With their bodies. Weave innusions can continue our investigation of
your planet at close ray inge, and we can also
study the structure of the earthling when I bring them
back with me, bring them back the Venus.
Speaker 1: Do not worry, my dear doctor. I shall not separate
them from you. I will also take you and your
companion with me to Venus as rare prizes hurtling buying
these two men.
Speaker 5: Don't you and your friend with your duckt no, let
me go.
Speaker 2: You shock you shock them up? Maybe didn't know the
earth makes that weapons too, got.
Speaker 3: Why don't before he is still spending?
Speaker 1: Did you really think you could hurt me with that?
Your death phrase have no effect on my body. Drop
your weapon find the men. You cannot, but if you could,
I would not care. There are millions more to choose from.
You can kill your souls too. You are replaceable except
to your souls. You are trapped. Your only escape is.
Speaker 2: The crumbling explosion of your rank on calling losing the rocks.
It's the case, and we'll be buried.
Speaker 4: Alion climb.
Speaker 2: Not the patience before the queens begin.
Speaker 7: They can if only ten.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, let's come out the kidney dock here utch,
watch the pollen here too.
Speaker 1: There's one thing when justice the mouth, you move.
Speaker 2: That when I think we can make it. Alright, help
me doctor, I've got the patients too, all right, come
on here, why I'm squeeze, So now you go plast
pull the patience after you.
Speaker 1: All right, right, white, I'm out.
Speaker 2: I'm off. Come on, that's all right, bading you next.
Come on man, wait, alright you summers all right, way,
all right? God not quick you all right? That's all
right there? All right? Oh here got it, I can magas.
Speaker 1: Oh good, help me earthlings put a cut out of stairs.
Speaker 2: He can't squeeze through. He has no physical straw.
Speaker 1: Flags earth flames come over. According to him, he.
Speaker 2: Still has powerful Come I call it quick for the release,
and help me shove this lock over the opening.
Speaker 1: Kay, Thank goodness.
Speaker 5: It was that.
Speaker 7: But as.
Speaker 5: It collapsed, the entire cave.
Speaker 2: Fell in just in time, yes, cutting in time to
save Earth from the horror of green things.
Speaker 3: Next week, an incredible story about a man of science
who dared tamper with the secret of human life. Be
sure to listen to That Which Lived in a Head
of Steel two thousand plus is produced by Dryer and
When also productions incorporated in today's cast Lon Caught by C.
London Joseph Julian was calling. Alissander Guard was ms Connor's,
Gilbert Mick was Ralph, John Griggs was Summers and Henry
Morrel was the Green Thing. The script was written by
Edgar Norman. The music was composed by Elliott ter Kirby.
The orchest are producted by Emerson Buckley, sound Wealth Shaver
and Adrian Tenner. Engineer Bob bar Bricks.
Speaker 4: This is Cambri