1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 The Suspense. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Mr. Ronald Coleman, a star of the Dunnage Horror, 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:10,000 a suspense play produced, edited, and directed by William Spears. 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Come in, Dunnage, Massachusetts. 5 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:42,000 Come in, Dunnage. 6 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Good evening. This is Henry Armitage. 7 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,000 I'm speaking to you... 8 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Dr. Rice, please close the window. 9 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:58,000 I'm speaking to you from my laboratory on the slopes of Sentinel Hill near Dunnage, Massachusetts. 10 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:04,000 Present with me is Dr. Warren Rice, my distinguished colleague from the Mesquitonic University. 11 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,000 We are now about a hundred yards from the summit of the hill, 12 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:14,000 which is crowned by a huge table-like stone set in the center of a circle of stone pillars, 13 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,000 a place of prehistoric worship. 14 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:23,000 A moment ago, you may have heard the dogs of Dunnage Township barking, 15 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,000 as we have heard them for three days and three nights. 16 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Dr. Rice and I know the horror which their barking portends, 17 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:37,000 but the purpose of this broadcast is to make this unbelievable horror believable to you. 18 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 I hope for your sakes and ours we are successful tonight. 19 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,000 It is the eve of all Hallows. 20 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Tomorrow will be too late. 21 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Our time tonight is very short, so I'll speak only of those more recent events, 22 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:07,000 which, believe me, may culminate at any moment in a climax too frightful to wholly contemplate. 23 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:16,000 I will begin with the birth of Wilbur Waitley. 24 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000 It was the night of February the 2nd, 1921, 25 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:28,000 candle-mas, toward dawn, when Lavinia Waitley, a deformed albino woman about 35 years old, 26 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:37,000 gave birth to her dark, goatish-looking son in the crumbling Waitley farmhouse northeast of the village. 27 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:43,000 No one attended her, no doctor or midwife. 28 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:51,000 No one was with her, except her aged half-insane father, who was known as Wizard Waitley. 29 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:59,000 So Wilbur came into this world under heaven-knows-what incantations, what appeals to what power. 30 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,000 A week later, Wizard Waitley drove his sleigh into Dunedge Village 31 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:08,000 and reported the event to a group of loungers in Osborne's general store. 32 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,000 Hey, your grandson got yellow hair like Lavinia Waitley? 33 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,000 No, takes after his father more. He's dark, dark. 34 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,000 You never spoke of who his father might be now, did you? 35 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Oh, you know his father when the time comes. 36 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:28,000 Lavinia's read and seen some things the most of you only talk about. 37 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,000 Calculate her husband's as good as you can find this side of Alesbury. 38 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,000 We don't be nosy, Wizard. 39 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,000 Maybe it weren't in no church that none of you heard of. 40 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,000 But you wouldn't ask no better churchwomen than Lavinia's. 41 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Why didn't he tell no wedding wizard? When was that? 42 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,000 Not a wedding you'd hear of, Cory. Not a husband you'd hear of, neither. 43 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,000 But let me tell you something. 44 00:03:52,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Someday you folks will hear a child of Lavinia's calling its father's name on top of Sentinel Hill. 45 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Prophecy? Or idle boasting by an insane old man? 46 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:13,000 I know I ask a great deal when I ask you to believe that the arrival of an infant into that house of dire poverty and squalor 47 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:18,000 could possibly constitute a horror and a threat to all our known worlds. 48 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,000 Yet it has an earthly history. 49 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,720 Perhaps through this history you will be able to understand the 50 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:30,720 meaning of the word, and give it credence. 51 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:33,720 Wilbur Waitley's growth was uncanny. 52 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:38,720 But even if he had been an average child, he would have become in time an unnatural being, 53 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:43,720 for he was surrounded from the first by the most malign influences. 54 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:47,720 There was his grandfather, old Waitley, Wizard Waitley, 55 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:53,720 who each Halloween climbed Sentinel Hill to the great circle of stone, 56 00:04:53,720 --> 00:05:01,720 and while the hills shook, stood holding a great book open on his arms, and shrieked into the wind. Shriek! 57 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:11,720 Yogg-Sotho! Yogg-Sotho! Yogg-Sotho! 58 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:22,720 Yogg-Sotho, that dreadful name first mentioned in the hideous forbidden book, the Necronomicon. 59 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:26,720 And this wizard Waitley was Wilbur's teacher. 60 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:40,720 The villagers began to notice curious things that were going on at the Waitley farmhouse, 61 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:46,720 soon after Wilbur was born, old Waitley began to remodel the house. 62 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:52,720 The abandoned upper storey was restored, and all the windows were tightly boarded up. 63 00:05:52,720 --> 00:06:01,720 And then, Wizard began to buy cattle in large numbers, both horses and cows. 64 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:05,720 Yet the livestock on the farm didn't seem to increase. 65 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:12,720 Young Lem Brown was one day curious enough to creep close to the house to count the Waitley herd. 66 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,720 Dr. Armitage there want more than twelve cows, and them sick. 67 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:20,720 Looked like they had the blight and funny wounds on them, like cuts. 68 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:30,720 I heard something too, in the top part of Wizard's house, something like water slapping inside, only big, big like a seed. 69 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:47,720 One other person went to the Waitley farm in the years before I met Wilbur, Dr. Ken Houghton of Aylesbury, 70 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:52,720 who was called by Wilbur himself, who said that his grandfather was dying. 71 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:58,720 Dr. Houghton found the old man in a bedroom on the ground floor, and Wilbur with him. 72 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:07,720 While outside the window, a legion of Whippoorwills cried loudly and rhythmically, endlessly. 73 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,720 Wilbur spoke about the sound. 74 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,720 Suddenly whistling time with his breathing now. 75 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:23,720 They're ready, listen, doctor. 76 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:28,720 They know his soul's going out, they're waiting. 77 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:33,720 Yes, Wilbur, that's an interesting superstition. Late in the year for them too. 78 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:38,720 When he goes, if they catch him, they'll keep laughing till break of day. 79 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:44,720 If they don't catch him, they'll quiet down. 80 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:47,720 You mean you believe that... 81 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:50,720 In just a minute, I think he's conscious. 82 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:56,720 Yes, the bird's changed when his breathing changed, like I said. 83 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:58,720 Willy, Willy, Willy! 84 00:07:58,720 --> 00:07:59,720 I'm here. 85 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:04,720 More space, Willy. Remember, more space soon. 86 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:06,720 Yes, I'll build it. 87 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:13,720 You grows, but that grows faster. It'll be ready to serve you soon, Willy. 88 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:14,720 I know. 89 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:21,720 But remember, when it's time, you open up the gates to Yog Sothoth with a long chant. 90 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:25,720 The one on page 7 and 51 of the book. 91 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:35,720 But mind you, feed it enough, because if it gets out before you open to Yog Sothoth, it's all over. 92 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:40,720 It's now you. 93 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:42,720 He's going now. 94 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:45,720 He's dead, Willy. 95 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:46,720 No, sir. 96 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:00,720 The birds, they didn't catch him. 97 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:16,720 Yes, he's free. He's gone. 98 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:22,720 It was the winter following Wizard Waitley's death that I first met Wilbur. 99 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:30,720 He came in person to the library at Miskatonic University to consult a copy of the hideous Necronomicon, 100 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:36,720 which was kept there in its Latin version, as printed in Spain in the 17th century. 101 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:42,720 I tell you, when he came into my office, I was appalled at his appearance. 102 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:48,720 Eight feet tall, shabby, dirty, bearded. 103 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:53,720 But I was even more appalled by his voice when he spoke to me. 104 00:09:53,720 --> 00:10:00,720 I wrote you a letter a month past, Doctor. I wanted a loan of the book. 105 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:05,720 Well, that's a book that's never loaned from this library. I doubt if it is from any library. 106 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:08,720 Well, I have to see it then. 107 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:11,720 Very well, it's kept right here. 108 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:17,720 As you know, there are only three covers of this book in existence. That's why we're careful. 109 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,720 Here, you can look at it on this table. 110 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:25,720 Wizard said it would be on page 751. 111 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,720 What? What is it you're looking for? 112 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:36,720 The formula, the long chant, the one that opens the gate to Yog-Sothoth. 113 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:46,720 I felt a wave of fright as tangible as a draft from the tomb. 114 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:55,720 He seemed, humph, like the spawn of another dimension, like something only partly of mankind, 115 00:10:55,720 --> 00:11:02,720 linked to black gulfs beyond all spheres of force and matter, space and time. 116 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:06,720 Presently, he raised his head and spoke again. 117 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:11,720 It's here, all right, but I'll have to have a copy. 118 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,720 That paragraph there? I don't know. 119 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:17,720 Do you know Latin, Doctor? 120 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:18,720 Yes, certainly. 121 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,720 Then read it, Doctor. Let's hear how you make it out. 122 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,720 All right, that shouldn't be difficult. Let's see. 123 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:39,720 Nor is it to be thought that man is the oldest or the last of Earth's masters. 124 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:47,720 The old ones were, and the old ones shall be. 125 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:55,720 Not in the spaces that we know, but between them. 126 00:11:55,720 --> 00:12:02,720 But only Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. 127 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:12,720 Yog-Sothoth is the gate to where the old ones broke through of old. 128 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:20,720 Their hands are at your throat, yet ye see them not. 129 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:26,720 Doctor Armitage, you see, I reckon I've got to take that book home. 130 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:30,720 There's things in it I've got to try, and you can't hold me up. 131 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:31,720 No, I'm sorry. 132 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:37,720 I tell you, Doctor, I'll have the book sooner or later, no matter what. 133 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:47,720 You see, it that's waiting for me at home won't wait much longer. 134 00:12:47,720 --> 00:13:01,720 It was a week later that I was awakened suddenly by the fierce yelping of the great watchdog on the campus, 135 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:08,720 followed by a sound from a wholly different throat, a scream. 136 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:13,720 And I knew instantly that Wilbur had come back for the Necronomicon. 137 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:19,720 I hastened into my clothes and rushed across to the library where a crowd had gathered before the smashed window of my office. 138 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:32,720 Inside there was a fearful groaning and growling, and some instinct warned me that what was taking place there was not for unfortified eyes to see. 139 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:36,720 I brushed back the crowd, motioning only to Professor Rice to come in with me. 140 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:39,720 When we opened the study door, Professor Rice screamed. 141 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:41,720 No, Doctor Armitage, no, I can't. 142 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:43,720 Come, come, come, close the door. 143 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:46,720 We can't let them see. 144 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,720 She's alive, but not what her... 145 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:51,720 What a job that dog's done. 146 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,720 I want him to bits. 147 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:56,720 What a horrible sound that moaning you. 148 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:57,720 Suppose we ought to call a doctor? 149 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,720 A doctor? A doctor for that? 150 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,720 No doctor in the world would know what to do for that. 151 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,720 Look, Armitage, it's not human, nor animal. 152 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:09,720 Where did it come from? 153 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:13,720 Can you tell me? Can you tell me what it is? 154 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:24,720 No, I couldn't tell what Wilbur Waitley was. 155 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:34,720 The thing that lay half bent on its side in a pool of greenish-yellow dickiness was nine feet tall. 156 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:39,720 The dogs had torn off all the clothing and some of the skin. 157 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:45,720 It was partly human beyond a doubt, with very manlike hands and head, but... 158 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:52,720 But the torso and lower parts of the body were fabulous. 159 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:57,720 Its chest had the leathery hide of a crocodile or alligator. 160 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:03,720 But below the waistline, the skin was covered with coarse black fur. 161 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:11,720 And from the abdomen, long greenish-gray tentacles. 162 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:21,720 The limbs terminated in ridgy-veined pads that were neither hooves nor claws. 163 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:26,720 And as Dr. Rice and I stood staring at this presence, 164 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:32,720 the whipper-wheels began to cry in unison outside the study window. 165 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:36,720 And then the thing on the floor roused and mumbled. 166 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:38,720 Oh, God. 167 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:40,720 Oh, God. 168 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:44,720 Oh, God. 169 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:48,720 Oh, God. 170 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:50,720 How much did you give him, Mr. White? 171 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,720 I even didn't. The whipper-wheels. 172 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:56,720 Listen. 173 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:00,720 Oh, he's dead now. 174 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:03,720 Look. Look, Rice. Look what's happening. 175 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:06,720 He's disintegrating us. 176 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:08,720 Of course. 177 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:12,720 Fast, too. Fading away. 178 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:17,720 Because he isn't made of matter as we know it on Earth. 179 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:22,720 I guess he took after his father. So there'll be nothing left. 180 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,720 His father? What was he? 181 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:27,720 What was his father? 182 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:29,720 I daren't think. 183 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:52,720 I thought then that what came into our world with Wilbur Waitley left with him. 184 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:56,720 I forgot what he himself had told me of it, 185 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,720 which was waiting in the field house Wizard Waitley had built, 186 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,720 where the cattle were driven to disappear. 187 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,720 But Wilbur Waitley left a diary, 188 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:09,720 written in a strange alphabet resembling Sanskrit. 189 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:14,720 And I worked on off and on for weeks to decipher it. 190 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,720 And finally, I read the following passage written by Wilbur 191 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:22,720 when he was no more than eight years old. 192 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:28,720 That upstairs is more ahead of me than I had thought it would be, 193 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:32,720 and is not like to have much Earth brain. 194 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,720 I can see it a little when I make the sign 195 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:39,720 or blow the powder of Ivangazi at it. 196 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:44,720 And it is like them I see Halloween on the hill. 197 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:48,720 I wonder how I shall look when the Earth is cleared 198 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:52,720 and there are no Earth beings. 199 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:57,720 Maybe like that upstairs looks which has no body, 200 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:00,720 even fed with all the blood. 201 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,720 One morning in a cold sweat of terror, 202 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:08,720 I called Dr. Rice to my house and told him, 203 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:10,720 we have to destroy what's in that farmhouse. 204 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:14,720 Why can't we just leave the thing locked up there? 205 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:16,720 The house is boarded tight. 206 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,720 Yes, but you think boards will hold it? 207 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,720 Don't you realize, man, it hasn't been fed? 208 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:25,720 It hasn't had blood since the 18th of September 209 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:28,720 when Wilbur Waitley came here to die. 210 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:31,720 We left for Dhanesh that night, 211 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,720 and we've been here on Sentinel Hill ever since, 212 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,720 working desperately to discover the formula in time. 213 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,720 But a week ago tonight, shortly after dawn... 214 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:44,720 Yes, hello? 215 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:46,720 Dr. Armitage, this is Lem Brown. 216 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:48,720 I was just up beyond the Glen, doctor. 217 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:50,720 Look in the mirror. 218 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:52,720 I'm here to see you. 219 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:54,720 I'm here to see you. 220 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:58,720 This is Lem Brown. I was just up beyond the Glen, doctor, 221 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:00,720 looking for cows I lost last night. 222 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:01,720 Yes, Lem? 223 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:03,720 Well, doctor, something's been there. 224 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:07,720 Smells like thunder, and there's prints in the rod. 225 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,720 Great round prints, big as baleheads, 226 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,720 like an elephant has been along. 227 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:15,720 Anything else, Lem? 228 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:18,720 That's all I see, except bushes and trees 229 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:23,720 pushed back from the rod, like a house was drug-along. 230 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:25,720 Did you hear anything? 231 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:27,720 Yes, long toward morning, 232 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,720 I heard a sound over toward Waitley's place, 233 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:32,720 a kind of ripping or tearing of wood, 234 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,720 like a big box was being opened up. 235 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:36,720 Chancey, he heard it, too. 236 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:40,720 Lem, who lives nearest the Waitley farm? 237 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:43,720 Well, that'd be Elmer Fry's place. 238 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:45,720 Well, he's on this line, too, isn't he? 239 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:47,720 Hang on, and I'll ring him. 240 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,720 Yes, Dr. Armitage, this is Central. 241 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,720 I'm trying to get Elmer Fry, Central. 242 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,720 Doctor, he must be out somewhere, and his whole family. 243 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:58,720 I was ringing there an hour ago. 244 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:02,720 Earl Sawyer saw Elmer's cows stampeding in Cold Spring Glen. 245 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:04,720 Oh, you didn't get him, hmm? 246 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:05,720 All right. 247 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:07,720 But if you hear or see anything more, let me know. 248 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:09,720 I'll be here working all day. 249 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:12,720 Price! Price! 250 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:14,720 Oh, my God. 251 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,720 Price! Price! Oh, wake up. 252 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,720 It's loose. It's out of the house. 253 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,720 One family gone already. 254 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:24,720 We have to work. 255 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,720 Pray God we find that formula in time. 256 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,720 A week since it broke loose. 257 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:34,720 A week of terror and panic here in Dunnage Township. 258 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,720 Each night it moves about the countryside, 259 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,720 leaving the trees crushed in a 30-foot swathe, 260 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:42,720 as though by a moving mountain. 261 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:44,720 Leaving the trees in the ground, 262 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:32,240 it's like a 263 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:55,980 a 264 00:20:55,980 --> 00:20:59,980 moving mountain, leaving its monstrous tracks 265 00:20:59,980 --> 00:21:02,980 on a trail of tarry stickiness. 266 00:21:02,980 --> 00:21:05,980 Leaving crushed and gutted farmhouses, 267 00:21:05,980 --> 00:21:08,980 and whole herds of cattle drained of blood. 268 00:21:10,980 --> 00:21:15,980 Well, ladies and gentlemen, that is the story to this moment. 269 00:21:15,980 --> 00:21:18,980 And tonight is Halloween. 270 00:21:18,980 --> 00:21:20,980 Tonight we are here to... 271 00:21:20,980 --> 00:21:22,980 Just one moment, please. 272 00:21:22,980 --> 00:21:24,980 Dr. Rice, did you hear something? 273 00:21:24,980 --> 00:21:26,980 Did the window close? No? 274 00:21:26,980 --> 00:21:28,980 Well, we'll throw it open. 275 00:21:28,980 --> 00:21:30,980 I thought so. 276 00:21:30,980 --> 00:21:32,980 Listen. 277 00:21:32,980 --> 00:21:36,980 The sound from a thousand bending trees. 278 00:21:36,980 --> 00:21:40,980 Sound like the sea moving across a forest. 279 00:21:40,980 --> 00:21:42,980 Yes. 280 00:21:42,980 --> 00:21:44,980 Yes, it's coming here. 281 00:21:44,980 --> 00:21:45,980 Of course. 282 00:21:45,980 --> 00:21:48,980 All Hallows, it comes to Sentinel Hill. 283 00:21:48,980 --> 00:21:52,980 Dr. Rice, I'll try the formula and the powder from the altar stone. 284 00:21:52,980 --> 00:21:55,980 I want you to stay here at the microphone and report what you see. 285 00:21:55,980 --> 00:21:57,980 Very well, Dr. Armitage. 286 00:21:57,980 --> 00:21:59,980 Oh, wait a minute before I go. 287 00:21:59,980 --> 00:22:01,980 To any scientists who may be listening to me, 288 00:22:01,980 --> 00:22:04,980 if I fail, there is a possible alternative formula 289 00:22:04,980 --> 00:22:09,980 in Falconer's mystical formulae of the Middle Ages on page 24. 290 00:22:09,980 --> 00:22:10,980 Listen. 291 00:22:10,980 --> 00:22:12,980 There are the Whipplewheels. I better get out there. 292 00:22:12,980 --> 00:22:14,980 Take over, Dr. Rice. 293 00:22:14,980 --> 00:22:17,980 Yes. I'll do as well as I can, Armitage. 294 00:22:17,980 --> 00:22:26,980 Good luck. 295 00:22:26,980 --> 00:22:30,980 Ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Armitage is climbing to the top of the hill, 296 00:22:30,980 --> 00:22:32,980 to the altar stone. 297 00:22:32,980 --> 00:22:35,980 I can see him plainly for the moon is high and the night clear. 298 00:22:35,980 --> 00:22:37,980 Down the hill toward the dark village, 299 00:22:37,980 --> 00:22:40,980 I can see the grasses and shrubbery bending down, 300 00:22:40,980 --> 00:22:42,980 marking the monster's ascent. 301 00:22:42,980 --> 00:22:44,980 It moves quite fast, 302 00:22:44,980 --> 00:22:49,980 and I feel a proximity to phases of being utterly forbidden. 303 00:22:49,980 --> 00:22:54,980 Now, Dr. Armitage stands now on the altar stone 304 00:22:54,980 --> 00:22:57,980 and is holding the powder, which, if the books are correct, 305 00:22:57,980 --> 00:23:00,980 will make this thing for an instant visible. 306 00:23:00,980 --> 00:23:04,980 It is quite close to him now, perhaps 20 yards or less. 307 00:23:04,980 --> 00:23:06,980 He lifts his hands. 308 00:23:06,980 --> 00:23:08,980 He brings the powder in a wide arc. 309 00:23:08,980 --> 00:23:13,980 I can see. Oh, no! No! 310 00:23:13,980 --> 00:23:23,980 Dr. Rice, come in, Dunnage. 311 00:23:23,980 --> 00:23:27,980 Ladies and gentlemen, this is your suspense announcer. 312 00:23:27,980 --> 00:23:30,980 Due to condition... Oh, just a moment, please. 313 00:23:30,980 --> 00:23:44,980 One moment, please. Dr. Rice, can you hear me? 314 00:23:44,980 --> 00:23:47,980 Yes, I can hear you. 315 00:23:47,980 --> 00:23:51,980 Yes, for a moment I was overcome when I saw... 316 00:23:51,980 --> 00:23:54,980 Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps you can hear now 317 00:23:54,980 --> 00:23:57,980 the incantation of Dr. Armitage. Listen! 318 00:23:57,980 --> 00:24:00,980 Listen! 319 00:24:27,980 --> 00:24:30,980 The Quibblewills mean death, 320 00:24:30,980 --> 00:24:33,980 and Dr. Armitage is walking back here now. 321 00:24:33,980 --> 00:24:38,980 So we know that whatever it was, it is gone. 322 00:24:38,980 --> 00:24:41,980 It is dead. 323 00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:43,980 We can be thankful indeed. 324 00:24:43,980 --> 00:24:47,980 You see, I saw Dr. Armitage. 325 00:24:47,980 --> 00:24:50,980 He was walking back here. 326 00:24:50,980 --> 00:24:52,980 He was walking back here. 327 00:24:52,980 --> 00:24:54,980 He was walking back here. 328 00:24:54,980 --> 00:24:57,980 You see, I saw Dr. Armitage. 329 00:24:57,980 --> 00:25:00,980 Yes, did you? Did you see it, Dr. Rice? 330 00:25:00,980 --> 00:25:03,980 I saw it large, yes. 331 00:25:03,980 --> 00:25:05,980 What did it... what did it look like to you? 332 00:25:05,980 --> 00:25:06,980 It looked... 333 00:25:06,980 --> 00:25:07,980 Here. 334 00:25:07,980 --> 00:25:09,980 Like something made of squirming ropes, 335 00:25:09,980 --> 00:25:14,980 but bigger than a barn and shaped well like an egg, 336 00:25:14,980 --> 00:25:17,980 and dozens of legs, like barrels, 337 00:25:17,980 --> 00:25:19,980 but half closed when it stepped, 338 00:25:19,980 --> 00:25:21,980 and nothing solid about it, 339 00:25:21,980 --> 00:25:25,980 and at least 15 or 20 mouths or trunks opening and closing, 340 00:25:25,980 --> 00:25:28,980 but what was it? 341 00:25:28,980 --> 00:25:31,980 Oh, kind of... a kind of force. 342 00:25:31,980 --> 00:25:35,980 A kind of force that doesn't belong in our part of space. 343 00:25:35,980 --> 00:25:39,980 Did you... did you notice the half face on top? 344 00:25:39,980 --> 00:25:41,980 Half face, like a human face. 345 00:25:41,980 --> 00:25:44,980 Very large, but yes, quite... quite human, 346 00:25:44,980 --> 00:25:47,980 and quite like Wilbur's, like all the weightless. 347 00:25:47,980 --> 00:25:49,980 Then it was... it was... 348 00:25:49,980 --> 00:25:52,980 That's right, it was Wilbur's twin brother, 349 00:25:52,980 --> 00:25:55,980 and you saw what three weeks' growth had done, 350 00:25:55,980 --> 00:25:57,980 and it was the child of Lavinia's 351 00:25:57,980 --> 00:26:00,980 who called its father's name on Sentinel Hill, 352 00:26:00,980 --> 00:26:02,980 as Wizard Waitley prophesied. 353 00:26:02,980 --> 00:26:05,980 You heard it calling, Yogg-Sotho. 354 00:26:05,980 --> 00:26:07,980 Hmm. 355 00:26:07,980 --> 00:26:11,980 Ladies and gentlemen, this night is over. 356 00:26:11,980 --> 00:26:13,980 It is All Saints Day. 357 00:26:13,980 --> 00:26:19,980 May Heaven bless us all. 358 00:26:19,980 --> 00:26:24,980 The Dunnage Horror with Ronald Coleman 359 00:26:24,980 --> 00:26:50,980 as your star of The Fence. 360 00:26:50,980 --> 00:26:54,980 This is the Armed Forces Radio Service.