Speaker 1: The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents.
Speaker 2: Come in.
Speaker 1: Welcome, I'm E. G.
Speaker 3: Marshall.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the halls of Mystery, the corridors of terror,
where the impossible becomes the probable and the unexpected becomes
the accepted.
Speaker 3: Because in this exciting.
Speaker 1: Theater of the mind, the things you don't see but
imagine are far more terrifying than anything we might show you. Oh,
you hear strange things, and these will conjure pictures that
only you can produce. For starters, let's listen in on
a phone conversation between electronics engineer Roy Watson and his
boss Andy Carter.
Speaker 4: And hel Roy, I know it's ten o'clock at night,
but I've got something strange over here at the lab.
Speaker 5: Can you come right over?
Speaker 3: Well? Sure, Andy, Well, what's up?
Speaker 5: It's something on the L forty three tape recorder.
Speaker 3: The one I brought home the other night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and while you were using it, it picked up
those sounds you've.
Speaker 3: Been telling me about, Well, the mice.
Speaker 5: I don't know what you've got in those walls of yours,
but they're sure not mice.
Speaker 4: I want you to get over here and listen to them.
Speaker 1: Our mystery drama Sagamore Cottage was written especially for the
Mystery Theater by Bob Duran and stars Bob Caliban and
Carmen Matthews. I'll be back shortly with that one. Large
houses have large shadows and large secrets far out on
Long Island.
Speaker 3: New York. Since a large house with.
Speaker 1: Very large shadows. The Sagamore estate once the show.
Speaker 3: Place of the island.
Speaker 1: The estate still stands, but the happy days have died
with the generations. To make ends meet in maintaining the estate,
Miss Eleanor Sagamore, the last remaining family member, rents out
a small cottage, the caretaker's cottage in better days. And
it's to this cottage and this foreboding estate that young
Roy and Peggy Watson are now traveling. Two destinies are
fast approaching each other, and what will happen? Only time
can hell.
Speaker 6: Only ought to be within sight of it soon. The
real estate agent said it was only ten miles. Nor
did you think he acted funny about our renting the cottage, Yes,
frankly I did. He insisted they were better and more
attractive places, but not for the price.
Speaker 7: We don't have to take it.
Speaker 8: Oh there up ahead. That must be it.
Speaker 6: It has to be it from the description we got,
and we'll be there in a minute.
Speaker 7: I don't see any cottage yet, it not be behind the house.
Speaker 3: Yea, it probably is.
Speaker 6: The gatehouses were near the front of the estates. The
caretakers lived back in the gardens.
Speaker 7: Who there's been some time since anyone cared for these grouse.
Speaker 6: Well, I imagine the old girl has little enough to
live on without expensive gardeners.
Speaker 7: Oh, the house doesn't look too bad. I'm sure it's
nothing like it was.
Speaker 3: Let's go. She must have seen us arriving.
Speaker 8: It's so still.
Speaker 7: How does she stand it all alone?
Speaker 3: That's her problem? Come on, you didn't have to ring.
Speaker 6: I saw you, Miss Sagamore. Were the people about renting
the cottage?
Speaker 3: I know it? Who else would be coming.
Speaker 7: Up to Sagamore?
Speaker 1: Or?
Speaker 3: Uh? Can we see it?
Speaker 9: You'll have to see Miss Sagamore first. She must decide
if you're.
Speaker 10: Right for it.
Speaker 3: Well, then you're not.
Speaker 10: I'm Margaretta.
Speaker 2: Show the men.
Speaker 7: Margaretta. Don't stand there crabbing.
Speaker 3: You heard us?
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm miss Sagamore.
Speaker 3: How do you do?
Speaker 7: That? Will be all Margaretta?
Speaker 3: Yes, Miss Sagamore.
Speaker 7: Shall we retire to the library. Actually even I could
answer the door faster than Margaretta. But she's been here
so long. I couldn't hurt her feelings. I have to
allow her the chores. It's nice of you. We arrived
at sagam All the very same day she came to
work as a housemaid the day I was both. But
you're interested in the cottage not enough.
Speaker 3: Well, we would like to see it. Please sit down.
Speaker 7: What brings you to the island, mister Watson?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 6: I'm starting a new job out here with Crown Electronics.
Speaker 7: Oh that ghastly building two miles down. I've heard they
do evil things in there.
Speaker 3: No, No, it's an electronics research firm, ray guns and
weapon and not quite. We're experimenting with a new transistor.
I've been hired to head a team. It's my specially.
Speaker 7: I know nothing about it except it's evil. But I
won't hold it against you.
Speaker 8: I like you both.
Speaker 7: You know, missus Watson, you strongly resemble Mary Antoinette. Has
anyone ever told you that we know a striking resemblance?
Turn your head a little to the side, even the profile.
Perhaps we can see the cottage. Of course I get
carried away sometimes.
Speaker 1: Sure I knew I married a Green's quite remarkable.
Speaker 7: Quite well, what do you think?
Speaker 8: It's absolutely charming?
Speaker 3: Suits me fun and.
Speaker 7: Then you'll take it. I'm so glad the rent's only
two hundred a month.
Speaker 3: That's the best part about it.
Speaker 7: We hope to have our own place by next summer.
That living here will be at night.
Speaker 3: It there's a lot of character.
Speaker 7: Well, then let's go back to the main house and
I'll give you a receipt for the first month's rent.
I don't ask for release or anything like that. You
look like reliable people, thank you, and desirable people, very desirable,
even the China's extensive broy limos yet in a rental cotdye.
Speaker 3: First class all the way. Look, you get settled in.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna run over to the labs and let Andy
know I've arrived.
Speaker 7: Okay, the place is so clean, there's not much to do.
Speaker 3: I'll see you later, My Queen Roy.
Speaker 7: She gave me the creeps when she told me I
looked like Marie Antoinette.
Speaker 3: Why I thought it was a compliment, Well.
Speaker 7: Probably was, but the way she looked at me scrutinized
is the word I felt so uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: Forget it. She probably won't mention it again.
Speaker 1: Noy, I didn't expect you on Monday.
Speaker 3: When'd you get in town yesterday?
Speaker 6: We wanted to get settled first, so we drove in
and got us a place to great.
Speaker 1: But she don't have to be on the job on Monday.
Speaker 6: Oh, I thought i'd take a couple of days to
look around, get familiar with the plan ahead of time.
Speaker 3: I like that kind of attitude.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna work well together.
Speaker 3: That's why I took the job.
Speaker 6: Come on this way, I'll show you your office where
you're staying. Find an apartment in town.
Speaker 3: All better than that. We took the cottage on the
Sagamore Estate two miles down the road. Well, a Sagamore place.
So that wacky old dame, she seemed okay to us.
Peg loves the place, and I wish you weren't renting there. Why,
Because miss Sagamore is different.
Speaker 6: The last two tenants in that cottage, first an elderly man,
and then after him, a young widow disappeared, disappeared.
Speaker 3: They apparently left and never came back.
Speaker 6: Nobody bothered about the old man But when the young
widow disappeared, her folks came looking for They.
Speaker 3: Were frantic, and she was never found.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, never heard any more about it. Those
three or four months ago.
Speaker 6: They passed her picture out all over the place, hoping
someone had seen her.
Speaker 3: But surely they didn't. Missus Sagamore.
Speaker 6: Oh no, she seemed as surprised as anyone else that
they'd left.
Speaker 1: In fact, I still have one of the pictures here,
kept it just in case there was a way to
help those people.
Speaker 6: Ranky, isn't she? Yeah, just twenty six. Sort of looks
like Marilyn Monroe in a way.
Speaker 3: A little darker, though. I still wish you'd move out
of there.
Speaker 6: You find me two bedrooms, carpeting, fireplace and utilities for
two hundred a month, and I will you win.
Speaker 3: But watch your step.
Speaker 6: I don't know what it is about that place, but
I don't want to lose a good assistant.
Speaker 7: Helloo, may I come up? Oh oh, miss Sagamore, of course,
And I just got by to see if everything's all right.
Speaker 3: It just perfect.
Speaker 7: It's beautiful as it is, a charming cottage, and it's
so nice to have someone in it again. It's been
vacant for several months. I can't imagine why it's so
lovely her people around here have strange ideas. So I
did want to mention missus Watson not to let Margaretta
bother you. Sometimes she says and does things that, Oh, well,
she's she's getting on in years, I understand. Oh and
by the way, should you hear music from the main
house tonight. It's just a little party I'm having. I
do hope you won't feel offended that I haven't invited you.
It's just some very close friends. Oh of course I won't.
We've only just met. I wouldn't expect. I do love
my little parties. I'll have you and mister Watson over soon.
Oh that's very kind, But I expect he'll be working
late a lot with the new job. And as of course,
well there's lots of time I must get back. I
don't like to leave Margarette alone too long. Thanks for
coming by. Oh, mister Watson's coming up the drive. Oh,
he told earlier than I expect him. I'm so glad
to have you both, my dear, my Antoinette. I hope
you'll stay.
Speaker 3: A long long time.
Speaker 7: Certainly till we get a place of our own.
Speaker 3: Bally Hi Raye.
Speaker 7: Well, I'll leave you two to each other. Good day,
missus Watson.
Speaker 3: Oh hi, miss Sagamore, Good.
Speaker 7: Day, mister Watson.
Speaker 8: You're back early.
Speaker 6: I'm not really Annie and I went over the plant
and I'll go back early tomorrow.
Speaker 3: What did missus Sagamore want?
Speaker 7: I don't just to see it.
Speaker 8: Everything was all right?
Speaker 3: Oh, it matter nothing.
Speaker 8: Why you look well?
Speaker 7: A cloud passed over your face.
Speaker 3: Ah, just thinking about the new job. I guess. Come on,
let's go out for dinner.
Speaker 10: You should eat your potatoes.
Speaker 7: I'm not hungry. You know I never eat very much
before a party. I don't know why you insist on
filling my peat with a lot of food. I won't
eat me.
Speaker 8: It's not the party.
Speaker 7: It's them, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 10: Do you think it's wise so soon?
Speaker 7: I don't care.
Speaker 3: I must.
Speaker 7: Do.
Speaker 8: You want me to begin, you can start.
Speaker 7: The preparations, but I want to think a little more
about him. Oh, I'm bushed. I'm not even gonna watch
the news.
Speaker 6: That sounds as though things are in full swing at
the main house since she was having a party.
Speaker 7: Huh and close. Then she apologized for not inviting us.
Speaker 8: That's funny.
Speaker 7: I didn't see any kinds parked out there.
Speaker 6: I'll get the light. I wonder why she has a
party on the second floor. Looks like there's dancing going
on behind the curtains.
Speaker 7: With a house outside, She's probably got ten living rooms
and sit please, I.
Speaker 3: Want to get an early start tomorrow.
Speaker 7: I still wonder why there weren't any cars out front right.
If Miss Sagamore is having a party, wouldn't they be taught?
Speaker 3: I didn't think so. Who knows.
Speaker 6: Maybe they all came in one car parked in the garage.
Speaker 3: I'm too tired to care.
Speaker 7: Maybe I'll take the train into New York City next week.
I'm dying to see Fifth Avenue.
Speaker 3: Oh you love it? You ready for the lighthouse?
Speaker 8: I was ready an hour ago.
Speaker 7: Listen, you're lucky. I'm not afraid of mice. Sounds like
we have a visitor.
Speaker 3: It's behind her in the wall.
Speaker 7: Oh, I guess the fields is full of them.
Speaker 8: Oh, he's not bothering you. He won't bother me.
Speaker 7: They're kind of cute anyway.
Speaker 3: M Okay, night, honey.
Speaker 6: Nice persistent little character.
Speaker 1: Mm. It seems that Sagamore Cottage has more than Peggy
and Roy Watson for tenants. But then, as Peggy said,
field my sar kind of cute. They're really not undesirable,
and they generally mind their own business. So Roy and
Peggy really have nothing to worry about with a field
mouse in the walls, that is, if it is only
a field mouse. We will return to Sagamore Cottage shortly
with Act two. Skinering in the walls of your bedroom
is not exactly conducive to sleep, and for Peggy and
Roy Watson it was a restless night. The rustling in
the bedroom walls stopped after a while. But the next
day at Roy's office, oily, Roy, ayy, why the long?
Speaker 3: Oh not much lead? Last night? Oh mice kept us
awake half the night. Mice in the walls, rustling and squeaking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I told you shouldn't have read at that place.
Speaker 6: And PEG's going in to get some traps when she
goes shopping. A cat's better if they're field mice, and
they probably are. They can grab that bait without setting
off the trap.
Speaker 3: They don't weigh half an hour, But a cat, now,
he'll take care of them. Maybe you got a point.
I'll talk to peg about it tonight. I feel like
starting on that transistor scheme today. Sure fine, I'll have Ja.
Speaker 1: McDonald's at you up and say you might check with
him about a cat.
Speaker 6: His house usually has a litter or too. His wife
has a soft heart for strays.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll get me a cat.
Speaker 7: Oh isn't he sweet?
Speaker 3: Hey, Jimson, he's almost a year just right from mouthing.
Speaker 7: Well, the trap didn't catch anything in two days. Maybe
just having the cat around both scare the mice off.
Speaker 8: Oh you beautiful, I'm gonna call.
Speaker 10: You because you're such a ferocious look as I love
you already.
Speaker 8: There, don you go and scarce some mice.
Speaker 3: You want some help with dinner?
Speaker 7: Nope, everything's ready mixed with a cocktail.
Speaker 8: What's the matter, tiger? Oh, he's backing away in something.
But why oh.
Speaker 3: Great, our first cat and he's afraid of mice.
Speaker 7: I'll come here, tiger.
Speaker 8: What's the matter?
Speaker 3: She seemed to be calming down a little.
Speaker 7: Something frightened him.
Speaker 3: Well, he's supposed to do the frightening. The sounds haven't
been too bad for the past couple of nights, though,
you seen anything of missus sagramore? Oh?
Speaker 7: She dropped by this afternoon with some flowers. Pathetic little violet,
she said, she grew herself. I think they're growing wild
all around the property.
Speaker 10: She talks too much, but she's really very pleasant.
Speaker 7: That housekeeper gives me the willy though. I don't know
how she stands her.
Speaker 10: Time for your team, Miss Sagamore.
Speaker 7: Oh, I don't want it, Margarette. That doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: It's time. Oh.
Speaker 10: If things are to work, they must be done exactly.
It's always been that way, you know it.
Speaker 7: But I still can't see what my tea time has
to do with it.
Speaker 9: It has always worked, don't question it.
Speaker 10: The violets are in the house, yes, if she.
Speaker 7: Didn't seem surprised or anything.
Speaker 9: No reason to be surprised over a few violets.
Speaker 7: Is it ready yet? Almost?
Speaker 3: I can hardly wait.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 10: They all take time, and some are slower than others.
Speaker 9: Uh, drink your tea, and I want you to stay
in bed tomorrow.
Speaker 10: But I was going to stay.
Speaker 9: In bed tomorrow, Yes, Margaretta, I'll stay in bed.
Speaker 8: Let's strange.
Speaker 7: I was sure I closed the house door behind me
when I left. Oh, hello, Tiger, Hey, you didn't open
the door, did you?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 8: It's a good thing.
Speaker 7: I came back for the tape measures. I'll be sure
to lock at this time.
Speaker 10: Oh my gret her, Oh, missus Watson's.
Speaker 8: What are you doing here?
Speaker 9: But I I just came to see if everything was
all right, if you needed anything.
Speaker 10: I am the housekeeper.
Speaker 7: I keep my own house. Thank you. I don't mean
to be rude, but I I don't want you or
miss Dagamore coming in here when we're not home.
Speaker 10: Oh, I'm sorry if I've upset you.
Speaker 9: Missus Watson, good morning, goodbye.
Speaker 10: If there is a way I can be as it,
please call.
Speaker 8: That chance.
Speaker 7: I don't like that woman.
Speaker 10: The sooner things start working, the better.
Speaker 7: It can't be too soon to soup.
Speaker 9: I wish she hadn't surprised me in the cottage. It's
just liable to make her too suspicious.
Speaker 7: I suppose I was rude, but I didn't like her snooping,
and I'm sure that's what it was, snooping.
Speaker 3: You want me to speak in this sagma.
Speaker 7: Oh no, I don't think we'll have any more trouble
with Margaretta. I let her know how I felt.
Speaker 8: What's the matter, dear?
Speaker 3: Do you know that's a funny odor.
Speaker 7: No, not really, sort of like uh seaweed, well a little,
not that you've got me thinking about it. But this
is Long Island, nothing but salt air and seaweed.
Speaker 3: H I suppose I just hadn't noticed it before. Here's
your drinking thanks.
Speaker 8: Oh, good grief. My rings.
Speaker 6: I've heard of throwing your weight around, but not your ring.
Speaker 7: Oh that can never happen before my engagement and my
wedding ring both. They just slipped off when.
Speaker 8: I reached the glass.
Speaker 3: Here they are, oh is They're.
Speaker 7: Usually too snugged. Why look? How are they slide on
my finger? I don't understand it all of a.
Speaker 3: Sudden, beat me? Why?
Speaker 7: I don't see how they could get larger just like that.
Speaker 6: You'll have to have a jeweler put those dohickies on
them to make them smaller.
Speaker 7: I better keep them off for now. I lose them
if I try to wear them like this.
Speaker 3: I have some work to do tonight. That's got to
be easier to do here.
Speaker 7: Uh oh, there they go again.
Speaker 3: Uh. I've given up on Tiger. We're just gonna have
to live with those noises. Here. Look at this looks
like a watch. No, the tape recorder.
Speaker 7: You're kidding.
Speaker 8: That's smart.
Speaker 3: Oh, this is nothing to what we expect to do someday.
Speaker 6: A recorder smaller than the diamond in that ring of yours.
This one actually works, microphone, tape, speaker.
Speaker 3: All in this little case. No bigger than a pocket watch.
Speaker 7: Fascinating, but you have to work. I bet I get dinner.
I'll have my second drink in the kitchen.
Speaker 3: Oh, let me take it easy.
Speaker 8: I'm all right. My right shoe just slipped off when
I stood up.
Speaker 7: Oh, good morning, missus Watson. I hope you don't mind
a visit. No, course not. I want to apologize for
Margaretta being here yesterday. As I told you, she's getting
on in years, and sometimes she's said in her ways,
always have to have someone or something to care for.
So I'm sorry if I was rude to her, but
I didn't like her being in the house that way.
How are you feeling, see me? Why why you're looking
a little thinner?
Speaker 8: You notice me? Well, I'm afraid so that.
Speaker 7: Oh then it's probably just to change the adjustment to
a new life. I I have found that my clothes
are my.
Speaker 8: Wings are lucoro.
Speaker 3: No, it's not so bad.
Speaker 7: Overweight can be a problem, but I was never It
doesn't matter. I'm I'm having another party next Saturday night.
The last one didn't disturb you didn't.
Speaker 3: Oh, no good.
Speaker 7: One of these days you and mister Watson must come
to the ballroom. You particularly. I know you'll find it enchanting.
Some day you'll see. Yes, that's very nice, have you. Well,
I must go. Margaretta gets nervous when I'm out of
a site for too long. A good day, missus Watson.
Speaker 6: Well, it's face at peg. We both got to see
a doctor. This weight loss isn't natural.
Speaker 8: I know I'm feeling weaker too.
Speaker 6: My suits are all a size too big. We've been
losing weight. Andy wants us to see the company doctor.
He says she's great, and we don't know any other.
She yeah, a lady doctor. She has a private practice
in town, but she treats all the company employees.
Speaker 7: Well, all right, maybe we better. Maybe it's a virus
or something. I mean for both of us to be
this way.
Speaker 9: If we test is negative, mister Watson, no anemia, no tumors,
no blood infection, no problem in the digestive tracts, nothing
that would produce such a weight loss in you and
missus Watson.
Speaker 6: Well, it's encouraging doctor to know we're healthy, but we
are getting thinner.
Speaker 9: Yes, well, the only thing I can suggest is going
into the hospital for extended observation.
Speaker 3: Oh God, I can't do that.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna give you the time off if I feel
it's necessary.
Speaker 6: I don't see what more you can do. You've made
all the tests and there's nothing wrong.
Speaker 9: Oh, there is something wrong, but we have to search
further than the lab tests and X rays. There seems
to be no pathological cause for your condition.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't want to go into the hospital now.
Speaker 7: We'll wait a while. If we keep losing, well, then
we may think differently. But it's probably just fatigue Roy
starting the new job and the change.
Speaker 9: I mean, it's possible, but look, if the condition persists,
I urge you to do.
Speaker 7: It my way.
Speaker 3: I'll get it.
Speaker 4: Hello, Oh, Roy, I know it's ten o'clock at night,
but I've got something strange over here at the lab.
Speaker 5: Can you come over?
Speaker 3: Well? Sure, what's up?
Speaker 5: It's on that tape in the L forty three tape.
Speaker 3: Recorder, were the one I brought home the other night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know what you've got in those walls
of yours, but they sure aren't mice. I want you
to get over here and listen to them.
Speaker 1: I beg.
Speaker 7: I hope you don't mind mind tagging along. Andy, I'm curious.
Speaker 3: Too, out of all, let's go on the lab. What's
the sound? Andy?
Speaker 1: I was testing the L forty three and discovered you
must have had it going while.
Speaker 3: You had it home. Yeah. I was showing it the peg.
Speaker 6: Whether you knew it or not, you were taping the
sounds in your walls. They came in very distinctly.
Speaker 1: But when I played it back at half speed, it
seemed to talk.
Speaker 3: What we'll here.
Speaker 1: Listen now, this is the sound at normal speed.
Speaker 3: Now a half a human voice.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's human, but it is a
voice saying something. We can't slow the L forty three anymore,
but if we re record and slow the master take further,
we might understand it.
Speaker 7: But what can it be? There's no one behind the wall.
Speaker 3: Unless there goes or coincidence.
Speaker 6: Variable speeds on tape recorders can produce curious sounds.
Speaker 3: I'd like to do some.
Speaker 1: More taping in the cottage roy with more refined equipment.
Speaker 3: I have no objections. How about tomorrow night. The sounds
get going at nighttime, don't they Usually. I'll bring over
the M twenty four hundred model. It's the most sensitive
recorder we've got. Okay, well, there's no harm in experimenting.
Speaker 7: If you too insist, then come for dinner Andy. You
can have your fun over Brandy. I hope Andy likes
sow dropping. I guess I should have asked.
Speaker 6: I think he'll eat anything as long as it's home
cooked and not his usual bachelor fare.
Speaker 7: Well, there you are, Tiger.
Speaker 8: You're in the corner.
Speaker 3: Oh, his highness finally showed up.
Speaker 7: H huh, Well he's not wet. He must have been
in the bedroom.
Speaker 1: Look.
Speaker 8: Wait, he's got something in his mouth.
Speaker 7: Oh, I'll bet he finally caught one of the Oh
what would he catch?
Speaker 3: Let's see. Once you got, Tiger, m gonna drop it?
What is it? Tiger? That's the way to ask. Nothing
but a hunk of straw? Oh, well, there's your seaweed. Smell.
Speaker 8: Let's see it.
Speaker 7: It's a little straw dop. I wonder where he found it.
Speaker 3: Seems to like it's his toy. Look at him play
with it.
Speaker 7: Well, I've got to look at the potato.
Speaker 3: That's Andy, I'll get it.
Speaker 1: All right, I say, worry, Oh.
Speaker 3: No, never come out in. Where can I put this
tape machine over here on the table. We'll set it
up after dinner. Things have been quiet tonight.
Speaker 7: Hi, Andy, the googo be with you for cocktails in
a minute.
Speaker 1: Good God, tell me a little place here? All right?
Speaker 3: What's going on up to the main house or another
of missus Sagamoy's parties, probably m I thought I heard
music up there?
Speaker 9: Takes the drinks ry, I'll be right in, Andy, Scotch
is fine?
Speaker 3: Something wrong?
Speaker 6: Just an odor I've smelled somewhere before. Oh yeah, that's
PEG's sour broaden.
Speaker 3: No, that's not the what is it? Andy? You must
have noticed it well, that damn seaweed smell. Yeah, and
we have it all the time.
Speaker 7: We've gotten used to it. You can't live near the
beach without sea smew.
Speaker 3: Andy, what's the many, for heaven's sake.
Speaker 6: That's not seaweed. It's straw, an unmistakable odor. And there's
only one thing that smellst like that, just exactly like that?
Why the straw in a voodoo doll?
Speaker 1: Things at Sagamore Cottage seems stranger.
Speaker 5: All the time.
Speaker 1: Noises in the walls, the Watson's weight problem, and now
voodoo in the nineteen seventies of Long Island.
Speaker 3: Well, they tell me it's not limited to Haiti.
Speaker 1: But is it really a voodoo doll or just something
that can't dragged in? We'll find out when I returned
shortly with Act three. Good rentals are hard to come
by these days. To get a delightful cottage on Long
Island with wall to wall carpet in, fireplace utilities, two
bedrooms furnished, and all for two hundred dollars a month,
well you've got to expect some drawbacks, like noises in
the walls and perhaps voodoo dolls the cat brings in.
Speaker 3: Are you serious, Andy?
Speaker 6: I had some experience with him when I was on
college field training in the West Indies, and there's no
smell quite like the.
Speaker 1: Straw of a voodoo doll. It's quite unmistakable. But voodoo here?
Speaker 7: Oh good lord, that thing Tiger brought in.
Speaker 6: It was a hunk of straw, shaped like what the
cat had a straw thing in here earlier.
Speaker 3: Oh, we didn't think anything about it.
Speaker 5: Where is it what.
Speaker 8: Tiger was playing with?
Speaker 3: It like a toy.
Speaker 7: It must be around here some places.
Speaker 3: Well, forget dinner for the moment, Police, I must see
that thing.
Speaker 7: Well, i'll see if tiger's in the bedroom.
Speaker 3: He brought it into the kitchen first, that's right. And
now you may think I'm making too much of it. Well,
I don't know what to think.
Speaker 6: But you don't expect me to believe Miss Sagamore and
that weirdough made of hers are bewitching its guy smell
something I don't like. You describe a straw doll a
cat found. Now that's a he's no matter who's pulling
it off somehow.
Speaker 3: I just can't take this serious than.
Speaker 7: The bedroom sleeping.
Speaker 8: But I can't find that thing. I don't know what he.
Speaker 7: Did with it.
Speaker 3: You say it's not doing you any harm? Roy? What
about your weight loss?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 3: Just a tension and fatigue?
Speaker 1: Doctor Mason didn't think so she wanted more text.
Speaker 3: You're suggesting our weight loss is due to a hex.
Speaker 6: I suggest you both get out of this cottage as
fast as you can now, forget the recording we were
gonna do, forget looking for the straw thing back up,
and get out tonight.
Speaker 7: Why I'm fright.
Speaker 3: And you better be.
Speaker 6: I told you about the others, Roy what it I
never told her? Anolder man who lived here before, then
a young girl after him.
Speaker 3: Booth disappeared, never a trace. That true. All I know
is what Andy tells me. It's true. Our Worthy disappeared too.
No one knows.
Speaker 1: But there's something unholy here, and I want you too
out of it.
Speaker 7: Right that odor we thought with seaweed. We first noticed
that the day after I surprised Margarette in the college.
Speaker 3: Do you think she was flatting the doll here?
Speaker 7: It could be and hidden in here all the time
until Tiger found Okay.
Speaker 3: Okay, let's not lose our scientific heads. I wouldn't wait
for it.
Speaker 1: Just leave your paid in advance, take my apartment. I'll
bunk in with Jim mc donald.
Speaker 3: Okay, and we will get out. But one morning night's
not going to make any difference.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's up to you.
Speaker 3: But you're leaving the morning.
Speaker 6: I'll tell Miss Sagamore first thing.
Speaker 7: Oh what a heavenly morning makes last night seem like
a nightmare.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll go up and tell Miss Sagamore we're leaving.
You don't have to.
Speaker 7: They're not leaving me alone.
Speaker 3: Too bad.
Speaker 6: We couldn't get any more tapings last night. Not a
sound in the walls.
Speaker 7: Frankly, I don't care. I'm sorry to leave this charming cottage.
We won't find another one. Is pretty, but I hope
we don't find another one as sinistery.
Speaker 6: Oh, come on, peg, I don't think there's anything sinister here.
I really don't understand Andy for scientists like him to
go ape over what he thinks might be voodoo.
Speaker 8: That is what frightens me.
Speaker 7: Andy's a reasonable logical man and he's concerned. He's no
superstitious koop.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll have done with it. Goodbye, Miss Sagamore.
Speaker 7: I looked all.
Speaker 8: Over for that straw thing this morning. I couldn't find it.
Speaker 6: Oh, Tiger probably took it out in the rain, and
it's gone.
Speaker 7: I can't believe neither of them aren't home.
Speaker 3: I'll try the door. It's not locked, Miss Sagamore.
Speaker 10: Hello, gonna listen to Miss Sagamore.
Speaker 8: Should we go in?
Speaker 3: Oh? No, no reason to huh. I'll leave a note
in the cottage.
Speaker 7: Well, they're evidently not here, but I would love to
see upstairs before we go.
Speaker 3: No, who's snooping?
Speaker 7: Feel right, But let's take a peek.
Speaker 8: Huh.
Speaker 6: Okay, maybe they're upstairs and didn't hear us. I still
think we should leave a note.
Speaker 7: Miss sagamore.
Speaker 3: Place is like a museum.
Speaker 7: I can't imagine living here.
Speaker 8: How does she stand it?
Speaker 3: Huh? I guess in the today it was fantastic. Now
it's just old and dingy.
Speaker 8: I let's go upstairs.
Speaker 7: I've just gotta see that balls. Oh right, what a room.
Speaker 8: Must be, hundreds of them.
Speaker 3: Is this where she holds her parties?
Speaker 7: I don't see how she's dare with all this china,
hundreds and hundreds of figurines.
Speaker 3: But we saw people dancing? Who shadows on the curtains.
Speaker 7: Maybe this isn't the same room or has to be Come.
Look on the table by the window. The clowns Cairo
and Tariette from the old Italian Comedia de Larte.
Speaker 3: Figures are so lifelike, so small.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't touch it if I were you.
Speaker 3: Oh, some music box they dance.
Speaker 7: Those must have been the shadows we saw against the curtains.
Speaker 6: These are Miss Sagamore's party guests.
Speaker 7: Or she's an old woman lost in her memories and souvenirs.
Speaker 3: I am. I think we ought to get going.
Speaker 8: These things are all so beautiful.
Speaker 7: This table seems to be all fairy tale characters, and
over there a complete English drawing room.
Speaker 6: Well even bo Peep's sheep look real except for the size.
Speaker 7: Oh, I'm gonna take a chance and hold both peep.
Speaker 8: It's just perfect.
Speaker 7: But no name usually the designer's market on the bottom,
but such perfect features. She sort of looks like Malyn Monroe,
only darker.
Speaker 3: What what's the matter?
Speaker 7: You've gone white as a sheep?
Speaker 3: Let me see that?
Speaker 7: Well, be careful with it. Why what is it for?
Heaven's safe?
Speaker 6: When Andy told me about the girl who had the
cottage before us, the one who disappeared, he showed me
a picture her parents had sent around.
Speaker 3: Come on, we got to get out of your fast
and SI hurry and just hurry, don't pass. Just get
the stuff out of the car as fast as you can.
Speaker 8: I'm hurrying.
Speaker 7: Get out of the way, Tiger, What is it in
the door?
Speaker 10: Another dog?
Speaker 9: Don't touch it, it wouldn't matter.
Speaker 3: The spell is cover. How did you get in here?
Speaker 4: Very no escape?
Speaker 7: Boy?
Speaker 8: What's happening? Very no game?
Speaker 9: By?
Speaker 8: I'm shrinking?
Speaker 7: Does shrinking scrubs How did you worry my cat?
Speaker 8: My cat hard?
Speaker 1: Oh you'll be all right. I'm lucky I got you
in here. Sorry, I couldn't get your wife in time.
Speaker 3: What it is? Where am I behind.
Speaker 1: The baseboard in the bedroom?
Speaker 3: What? You're only four.
Speaker 1: Inches high as I am. Margaretta's voodoo works. Well, I'm
sorry about your wife, though. She got to her before
I could help.
Speaker 3: She Margaretta, And I'm dreaming. I'm in the middle of
the nightmares. It's too much listening to Andy. It is nightmarish.
I tried so hard to warn you.
Speaker 8: Who who are you?
Speaker 1: George Stibert's the name. I've been hiding from them for
more than a year. You mean you, I was one
of the former tenants.
Speaker 8: Yes, I don't believe any of this.
Speaker 1: Very well, look out there, then there through the opening
of the baseboard.
Speaker 7: Lord, that's the bedroom one hundred times as big.
Speaker 3: Now you believe me. I tried to warn you.
Speaker 1: I tried to warn that young girl a few months ago,
but neither of you could understand my squeaks.
Speaker 3: That was you we heard in the walls. Yes, Peggy
whee is.
Speaker 1: Peggy Margaretta got her before they cat did. That's all
they wanted. I don't think they're interested in you yet.
Speaker 3: I've got to find her, help her. That's impossible.
Speaker 1: Don't dare vent her out.
Speaker 3: I'm not staying here. Peggy's in danger. Wheah, Peg, it's Andy.
Andy help us?
Speaker 1: Why well you do Andy in here behind the baseboard.
Speaker 7: You've got to help us.
Speaker 3: You've got to find Peggy.
Speaker 2: Fine, Peggy, it's.
Speaker 3: No use, you know. All he can hear are your.
Speaker 1: Little squeaks, little mouse squeaks, just like you heard from me.
Speaker 3: I'm going out there. If you do your life in
my life, don't be funny. I got to get to
Peggy somehow. I'm not staying here. If Peggy's in danger,
you can't help her.
Speaker 1: I'll show you how to live in here, how to
get food, how to avoid They're not a chance.
Speaker 3: I'm going out there, Peggy. It's not just to watch it.
Don't go out there. I'm going to find my wife.
I don't care about anything else. Come back, please, I
try to formun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, miss Sagamore, Oh, you're from the weapons stacktree.
Speaker 7: I'm an MBU.
Speaker 3: Forget about our past differences.
Speaker 1: I want to know what happened to the Watsons.
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 1: What do you ownly play games, Miss Sagamore.
Speaker 3: I was there in the cottage last night.
Speaker 1: I know about the voodoo dolls, and now they're gone gone.
I warned them to get out, but all their things
are still in the cottage. They didn't leave of their
own accord.
Speaker 7: I'm sure I don't know. I don't keep track of
my tenants coming and going.
Speaker 6: Okay, Miss Sagamore, have a your way, But you haven't
heard the end of this. They were friends of mine,
and I'm following this one up.
Speaker 10: You should have.
Speaker 7: Let me handle them.
Speaker 3: Perhaps I will.
Speaker 7: He was always a bother, and now it appears he's
becoming troublesome. Besides, I do need a taller Louis the
fourteenth when I'm marry. Is she ready here? Ah, Margaretta,
She's perfect, your best to date.
Speaker 10: I'm pleased with it myself. The glaze is particularly good.
Speaker 3: I think her, margaelis her?
Speaker 10: Not it?
Speaker 7: My Mary Antoinette, My beautiful Mary Antoine. Your court's waiting,
my DearS over here by the window, And soon we'll
have a nice, tall, handsome Louis.
Speaker 3: The fourteen for you, and.
Speaker 1: Well, at least this Marie Antoinette won't lose her head, unless,
of course, she happens to.
Speaker 3: Fall before, which seems unlikely.
Speaker 1: Under Miss Sagamore's watchful eye and loving care. Her figurine
collection is her life. I suppose for Peggy Watson it
was her fate. She ended as she did for two reasons, really.
The first she was the spitting image of Marie Antoinette.
The second she made the mistake of renting sagamore cottage.
Speaker 3: I'll be back shortly, and there lies our.
Speaker 1: Tale, except for one thing that bothers me. A little tiger.
Now that Roy and Peggy won't be around to care
for him, he's going to find it tough going. I
do hope someone remembers to feed him, poor kitten.
Speaker 3: He hasn't had a thing since Roy.
Speaker 1: Our cast included Bob Caliban, Carmen Matthews, Janet Waldle Briner, Rayburn,
and Robert Maxwell. The entire production was under the direction
of Hyman Brown and now a preview of our next tale.
Speaker 7: I Am the Resurrection and the Life Save the Lord.
Speaker 1: He don't believe it in me though he were dead?
Yet shall he live?
Speaker 3: What's happening?
Speaker 1: I get up in my cries whose.
Speaker 3: Voice is gone, sounds like my commanding author.
Speaker 1: Whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die. I
know that my redeemer lives are the words of the
burial circles. Though his body be destroyed. General, I see God.
Speaker 3: Huge explosion.
Speaker 1: That's it. An enemy shall must have hit the frame
of the shed ransom, and I was standing on.
Speaker 3: Just as I was.
Speaker 1: About to pull the trigger of my rifle. The Lord
Jave and the Lord have taken away. Blessed be the name.
Speaker 5: Of the Lord.
Speaker 1: May the Lord receive the soul of Jerome's searing burying me. Amen, No,
it must not be.
Speaker 3: This is E. G.
Speaker 1: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure.
Speaker 3: In the macabre.
Speaker 1: Until next time, pleasant dreams.