WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:18.000 Now, Auto Light and its 60,000 dealers and service stations present Suspense. 00:18.000 --> 00:29.460 Tonight, Auto Light brings you Mr. Ralph Edwards in Ghost Hunt, a suspense play produced and 00:29.460 --> 00:34.800 directed by Anton M. 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01:56.480 --> 01:58.240 Left me feeling treetop tall. 01:58.240 --> 02:01.360 That was Louis Armstrong's I Can't Give You Anything But Love. 02:01.360 --> 02:05.000 And that's all we have time for on the Hot and Mellow Hour tonight. 02:05.000 --> 02:10.480 Yes, yes, yes, this is Smiley Smith, your favorite disc jockey. 02:10.480 --> 02:13.720 I hope a hope booting the Hot and Mellow Hour home for this evening. 02:13.720 --> 02:17.640 I'll be back again tomorrow night minus the music, but with a little surprise for you. 02:17.640 --> 02:22.320 Tomorrow night, Friday night, as you know, is stunt night here at station WXP. 02:22.320 --> 02:23.960 And have I got a stunt for you. 02:23.960 --> 02:28.560 Last week, if you remember, I planted my wire recorder in the steam room at a ladies Turkish 02:28.560 --> 02:32.240 bath and let you listen in on the playback, remember? 02:32.240 --> 02:35.920 Well tonight, as soon as I leave the studio, do you know where I'm going? 02:35.920 --> 02:41.000 Your friend Smiley is going to spend the night in a haunted house on a spook hunt. 02:41.000 --> 02:44.240 You heard me, a spook hunt in a haunted house. 02:44.240 --> 02:46.560 I'm bringing my little old wire recorder along with me. 02:46.560 --> 02:49.560 And if you tune in tomorrow evening at this time, you'll learn what it's like to spend 02:49.560 --> 02:51.120 the night in a haunted house. 02:51.120 --> 02:52.120 Ain't that something? 02:52.120 --> 02:54.280 Yeah, a real haunted house. 02:54.280 --> 02:55.280 No kidding. 02:55.280 --> 02:58.040 Four people are known to have committed suicide there. 02:58.040 --> 03:01.360 So tune in tomorrow night and share a real thrill with your old pal Smiley. 03:01.360 --> 03:02.720 I must be crazy. 03:02.720 --> 03:19.200 Smiley, good night. 03:19.200 --> 03:20.760 Care for a cigar, Mr. Thorpe? 03:20.760 --> 03:23.080 I got some cigars in the dice there. 03:23.080 --> 03:24.080 No. 03:24.080 --> 03:26.880 Well, no reason for you to carry a chip on your shoulder, Mr. Thorpe. 03:26.880 --> 03:27.880 Oh, really? 03:27.880 --> 03:29.920 Well, I don't like this fool's stunt. 03:29.920 --> 03:32.000 Well, I don't see it as a fool's stunt at all. 03:32.000 --> 03:33.000 I really don't. 03:33.000 --> 03:35.800 I think it's the only way you're going to unload this house. 03:35.800 --> 03:38.760 Ordinary selling methods won't work in a case like this. 03:38.760 --> 03:43.840 I don't forget the reputation saddling this house for suicide since 1939. 03:43.840 --> 03:45.280 You know what people call it? 03:45.280 --> 03:46.280 The death trap. 03:46.280 --> 03:47.280 Yes. 03:47.280 --> 03:48.280 It's a lot of nonsense. 03:48.280 --> 03:50.560 Sure, but try to convince people of that. 03:50.560 --> 03:54.400 Anyway, when this disc jockey offered me this chance to kill all the rumors about the death 03:54.400 --> 03:59.560 trap, about the property, I just naturally jumped and took him up at it. 03:59.560 --> 04:01.320 Especially since it don't cost a cent. 04:01.320 --> 04:02.880 You sure about that? 04:02.880 --> 04:04.440 I'm not liable for a penny. 04:04.440 --> 04:05.440 Not a cent. 04:05.440 --> 04:08.040 We're doing him a favor, letting him use the place, he said. 04:08.040 --> 04:10.920 Thank me for the chance last night when I drove him out here. 04:10.920 --> 04:13.600 So one end washes the other, as the feller says. 04:13.600 --> 04:16.960 He got a chance to pull off a stunt, and the wire recording will prove to the people the 04:16.960 --> 04:20.560 property is A-number-one, and we increase the chance of selling the place. 04:20.560 --> 04:23.480 Well, as long as it doesn't cost me anything. 04:23.480 --> 04:24.480 Not a thing. 04:24.480 --> 04:27.720 He's using his own recorder, and I'm paying for the rental of a couple of walkie-talkies 04:27.720 --> 04:28.720 he hooked up to it. 04:28.720 --> 04:31.280 Well, what about this reed? 04:31.280 --> 04:32.280 He charge anything? 04:32.280 --> 04:33.680 He comes gratis, too. 04:33.680 --> 04:38.520 Dr. Reed is a, whatchamacallit, a psychic investigator. 04:38.520 --> 04:42.920 Belongs to a couple of societies that do nothing but hunt ghosts. 04:42.920 --> 04:46.720 He showed me articles he's written about it in a magazine. 04:46.720 --> 04:49.320 Well, here's the house. 04:49.320 --> 04:52.760 Yeah, looks real nice in the sunshine, don't it? 04:52.760 --> 04:54.760 Yeah, man, smell that sea breeze. 04:54.760 --> 04:56.880 You don't have to sell me. 04:56.880 --> 05:00.000 Well, let them know we're here. 05:00.000 --> 05:05.720 Yeah, probably asleep up all night and everything. 05:05.720 --> 05:09.120 Why don't they come out? 05:09.120 --> 05:10.120 You think they've gone? 05:10.120 --> 05:13.240 Well, I told them last night I'd pick them up around 11. 05:13.240 --> 05:14.240 Smith! 05:14.240 --> 05:15.240 Smith! 05:15.240 --> 05:16.240 Hey, Smiley! 05:16.240 --> 05:17.240 Dr. Reed! 05:17.240 --> 05:25.560 Yeah, fast asleep, I guess. 05:25.560 --> 05:28.560 We better go and wake them up. 05:28.560 --> 05:37.560 Of course, they may have taken the bus back to town. 05:37.560 --> 05:42.080 Oh, no, no, it's a two-mile hike to the main highway. 05:42.080 --> 05:45.080 Smith! 05:45.080 --> 05:49.440 Hey, Smiley! 05:49.440 --> 05:55.440 Where are you? 05:55.440 --> 06:00.360 Wake up! 06:00.360 --> 06:03.440 You don't suppose do you? 06:03.440 --> 06:06.440 Oh, no, no. 06:06.440 --> 06:07.440 Smith! 06:07.440 --> 06:10.000 Dr. Reed! 06:10.000 --> 06:13.360 What's that clicking noise from in there? 06:13.360 --> 06:18.320 Well, it's his wire recorder he left at run-in. 06:18.320 --> 06:19.720 These machines cost a lot of money. 06:19.720 --> 06:22.000 Doesn't he care if he uses up his batteries? 06:22.000 --> 06:24.480 Well, where is he and where's this Reed? 06:24.480 --> 06:25.480 Probably they're upstairs. 06:25.480 --> 06:26.480 Smith! 06:26.480 --> 06:29.480 Hey, anybody home? 06:29.480 --> 06:35.280 They must have walked to the highway and taken the bus. 06:35.280 --> 06:36.920 Well, he wouldn't have left these machines. 06:36.920 --> 06:37.920 Well, where are they then? 06:37.920 --> 06:38.920 Where are they? 06:38.920 --> 06:40.680 No, no, no, don't get excited, Mr. Thorpe. 06:40.680 --> 06:43.120 Don't tell me not to get excited. 06:43.120 --> 06:46.480 If something's happened to them in my house, I'm liable. 06:46.480 --> 06:48.480 You try this side, I'll try that one. 06:48.480 --> 06:49.480 All right. 06:49.480 --> 06:50.480 Smith! 06:50.480 --> 06:51.480 Hey, Smiley! 06:51.480 --> 06:52.480 Smith! 06:52.480 --> 06:54.480 Smith! 06:54.480 --> 06:57.480 Oh, McDonald's. 06:57.480 --> 06:59.480 Come here. 06:59.480 --> 07:00.480 What? 07:00.480 --> 07:01.480 What? 07:01.480 --> 07:02.480 Oh, no. 07:02.480 --> 07:03.480 Reed. 07:03.480 --> 07:04.480 Dr. Reed. 07:04.480 --> 07:08.480 No, no, don't touch him, Mr. Thorpe. 07:08.480 --> 07:10.480 You'll get your hands off. 07:10.480 --> 07:13.480 Look, blood. 07:13.480 --> 07:14.480 Is he dead? 07:14.480 --> 07:17.480 I can still feel his pulse. 07:17.480 --> 07:39.480 We'd better get him to the hospital fast. 07:39.480 --> 07:41.480 Care for a cigar, Mr. Thorpe? 07:41.480 --> 07:42.480 No, no, thanks. 07:42.480 --> 07:44.480 Why not try to relax? 07:44.480 --> 07:47.240 Nurse said Reed would be all right as soon as he's had a blood transfusion. 07:47.240 --> 07:50.280 You told the radio station to be sure and call us as soon as they had any word about 07:50.280 --> 07:51.280 Smith? 07:51.280 --> 07:52.280 Yes, I told them. 07:52.280 --> 07:53.280 Why don't you sit down? 07:53.280 --> 07:55.280 No, I'm all at sixes and sevens. 07:55.280 --> 07:57.600 What do you suppose happened out there last night? 07:57.600 --> 08:01.880 We're going to know in just a second, just as soon as I can get this recorder set up. 08:01.880 --> 08:05.480 You don't suppose Smith and Reed got into a fight, do you? 08:05.480 --> 08:06.480 Yeah, there. 08:06.480 --> 08:07.480 Huh? 08:07.480 --> 08:08.480 A fight? 08:08.480 --> 08:09.480 I don't know. 08:09.480 --> 08:10.480 Well, what's wrong? 08:10.480 --> 08:11.480 Won't it work? 08:11.480 --> 08:12.480 Yeah, it works. 08:12.480 --> 08:13.480 Take it easy. 08:13.480 --> 08:14.480 Testing. 08:14.480 --> 08:15.480 One, two, three. 08:15.480 --> 08:16.480 Testing. 08:16.480 --> 08:17.480 One, two, three. 08:17.480 --> 08:18.480 All set, Dr. Reed? 08:18.480 --> 08:19.480 Mr. McDonald? 08:19.480 --> 08:20.480 Hey? 08:20.480 --> 08:21.480 Okay, here we go. 08:21.480 --> 08:22.480 This is Smiley Smith speaking. 08:22.480 --> 08:23.480 Smiley Smith, the ghost hunter. 08:23.480 --> 08:24.480 I don't know whether to hope this will turn out to be a success for the sake of the program 08:24.480 --> 08:25.480 or a failure for my own sake. 08:25.480 --> 08:26.480 Anyway, all the preparations have been made now and it's up to the spooks. 08:26.480 --> 08:27.480 I better tell you where we are. 08:27.480 --> 08:28.480 Right now, we're standing on the lawn of a house about 12 miles above Malibu Beach. 08:28.480 --> 08:29.480 The ocean is a hundred feet away, straight ahead of us. 08:29.480 --> 08:30.480 We're going to be able to see the ocean. 08:30.480 --> 08:31.480 We're going to be able to see the ocean. 08:31.480 --> 08:32.480 We're going to be able to see the ocean. 08:32.480 --> 08:33.480 We're going to be able to see the ocean. 08:33.480 --> 08:34.480 We're going to be able to see the ocean. 08:34.480 --> 08:53.480 We're going to be able to see the ocean. 08:53.480 --> 09:08.480 We're going to be able to see the ocean. 09:08.480 --> 09:27.480 We're going to be able to see the ocean. 09:27.480 --> 09:42.480 We're going to be able to see the ocean. 09:42.480 --> 09:55.480 We're going to be able to see the ocean. 09:55.480 --> 10:02.480 We're going to be able to see the ocean. 10:02.480 --> 10:08.480 We're going to be able to see the ocean. 10:08.480 --> 10:10.080 so they won't think you're a ghost. 10:10.080 --> 10:12.680 Standing with the doc and me is a real estate agent, 10:12.680 --> 10:14.020 Mr. Charles McDonnell. 10:14.020 --> 10:15.060 He handles this property, 10:15.060 --> 10:17.360 and he can tell you a lot more about it than I can. 10:17.360 --> 10:19.820 Well, the house was built by a man named Marcus, 10:19.820 --> 10:21.820 Toby Marcus, an orange grower. 10:21.820 --> 10:24.200 Built the house as a wedding present for his wife. 10:24.200 --> 10:26.860 A month after they moved in, she took her own life. 10:26.860 --> 10:30.100 On the day of her funeral, he committed suicide the same way. 10:30.100 --> 10:32.200 There have been two other cases since then, and I'm sure... 10:32.200 --> 10:33.700 Did they all jump in the ocean? 10:33.700 --> 10:35.880 Yeah, all four of them, right over there. 10:35.880 --> 10:38.000 The last one was actually seen doing it. 10:38.000 --> 10:41.140 About three years ago, he was seen running like all get out 10:41.140 --> 10:43.220 the edge of the cliff, and he was shouting and laughing 10:43.220 --> 10:45.180 and yelling as though there was people at his side 10:45.180 --> 10:46.120 running right along with him. 10:46.120 --> 10:46.680 You kidding? 10:46.680 --> 10:47.580 No, it's fact. 10:47.580 --> 10:49.260 He was laughing and yelling and running, 10:49.260 --> 10:51.520 and when he got to the edge, right over there, 10:51.520 --> 10:53.300 he jumped and never came above water. 10:53.300 --> 10:55.800 As good an argument against cold baths as ever I've heard. 10:55.800 --> 10:59.860 Since then, people just refuse to live in this house. 10:59.860 --> 11:01.100 Silly, I call it. 11:01.100 --> 11:04.200 Anyway, if you and Dr. Reed find any sign of a spook, 11:04.200 --> 11:07.240 I'll advise the owner to pull the house down and rebuild. 11:07.240 --> 11:10.600 But if you don't find anything, I'm hoping this will convince 11:10.600 --> 11:12.680 folks that here's a real bye. 11:12.680 --> 11:15.680 Yeah, okay, Mr. Smith, you and the doctor on your own. 11:15.680 --> 11:18.280 I'll be by in the morning to pick you up around 11. 11:18.280 --> 11:19.080 Goodbye, Mr. McDonald. 11:19.080 --> 11:20.780 I hope there's something left for you to pick up 11:20.780 --> 11:22.820 in the morning. 11:22.820 --> 11:26.260 Well, it's almost pitch black, folks, and I guess, 11:26.260 --> 11:28.000 Dr. Reed and I ought to begin. 11:28.000 --> 11:30.520 I don't believe in ghosts, never have, but what I say is this, 11:30.520 --> 11:32.320 if you're dead set on looking for them, 11:32.320 --> 11:35.500 this is a dandy place to do it. 11:35.500 --> 11:37.500 So long. 11:37.500 --> 11:41.940 Mr. McDonald just checked out, and then there were two. 11:41.940 --> 11:43.840 Well, three. 11:43.840 --> 11:44.880 Oh, my dog, yeah. 11:44.880 --> 11:46.500 Folks, I have my dog Jeff with me. 11:46.500 --> 11:48.380 He's a wire-haired terrier, three years of age, 11:48.380 --> 11:49.180 and he can talk. 11:49.180 --> 11:50.180 Yeah, say hello, Jeff. 11:50.180 --> 11:51.220 Come on, Jeff, say hello. 11:51.220 --> 11:52.940 Come on. 11:52.940 --> 11:54.680 Well, anyway, he's a wire-haired terrier, 11:54.680 --> 11:56.160 and he's three years old. 11:56.160 --> 11:57.420 Shall we go inside now, Dr. Reed? 11:57.420 --> 11:59.460 I was about to suggest it. 11:59.460 --> 12:01.520 Now, how do we hunt ghosts, doctor? 12:01.520 --> 12:02.320 How do we do it, huh? 12:02.320 --> 12:03.700 We don't really hunt them. 12:03.700 --> 12:06.720 If there should be any in the house, they will come to us. 12:06.720 --> 12:07.660 How cozy. 12:07.660 --> 12:09.640 And please, not ghosts. 12:09.640 --> 12:11.740 Do not refer to them as ghosts. 12:11.740 --> 12:13.440 We know them as apparitions. 12:13.440 --> 12:14.240 I'll remember. 12:14.240 --> 12:16.140 I have no desire to hurt their feelings. 12:16.140 --> 12:18.500 If ghosts are concerned, I say live and let live. 12:24.840 --> 12:26.620 Well, we've opened the front door now. 12:26.620 --> 12:28.420 Maybe you heard the hinge squeak a little. 12:28.420 --> 12:30.680 Now we're standing here looking in. 12:30.680 --> 12:32.580 Can't see much. 12:32.580 --> 12:35.260 Smells sort of musty and damp. 12:35.260 --> 12:36.260 What's the matter, Jeff? 12:36.260 --> 12:37.300 What's the matter, boy? 12:37.300 --> 12:37.860 Jeff. 12:37.860 --> 12:38.500 Oh, come on now. 12:38.500 --> 12:39.220 Come on. 12:39.220 --> 12:41.260 My dog seems to have jacked entering this house. 12:41.260 --> 12:43.040 He has all four feet braced, and he's 12:43.040 --> 12:44.200 straining against the leash. 12:44.200 --> 12:46.460 Perhaps he senses something we don't, 12:46.460 --> 12:48.040 like apparitions, maybe. 12:48.040 --> 12:48.540 Perhaps. 12:48.540 --> 12:49.980 It's not unusual. 12:49.980 --> 12:53.440 Animals lack the veneer of sophistication we humans possess 12:53.440 --> 12:55.680 and are more sensitive to such ammunition. 12:55.680 --> 12:56.780 Yeah, come on, Jeff. 12:56.780 --> 12:57.940 Now, stop this nonsense. 12:57.940 --> 12:59.740 He probably smells a mouse or rat or something. 12:59.740 --> 13:00.320 Come on, Jeff. 13:00.320 --> 13:02.720 We're going in whether you like it or not. 13:02.720 --> 13:05.220 Oh. 13:05.220 --> 13:07.660 There's a short entrance hall, and over there at the end of it 13:07.660 --> 13:09.760 is a flight of stairs leading to the second floor. 13:09.760 --> 13:10.800 Jeff. 13:10.800 --> 13:13.100 And over here at the left is what seems 13:13.100 --> 13:15.300 to be a large reception room. 13:15.300 --> 13:18.000 We're entering this large room now. 13:18.000 --> 13:19.900 There are windows over there, French windows. 13:19.900 --> 13:22.260 And through them, I can see the ocean. 13:22.260 --> 13:23.800 The electricity hasn't been turned on, 13:23.800 --> 13:26.180 so all I have to see by is a flashlight. 13:26.180 --> 13:28.700 Not a very powerful one at that. 13:28.700 --> 13:30.700 Dr. Reed is now adjusting his walkie talkie. 13:30.700 --> 13:32.180 It's hooked up to my recorder so that he 13:32.180 --> 13:34.940 can cut in while he's hunting and tell us what he's found. 13:34.940 --> 13:36.940 Here's a few words from Doc before he sets forth 13:36.940 --> 13:38.900 on his investigation through the house. 13:38.900 --> 13:44.180 Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Smith has introduced me 13:44.180 --> 13:45.740 as a ghost hunter. 13:45.740 --> 13:49.660 He spoke, I think, in a spirit of skepticism and levity. 13:49.660 --> 13:53.560 I'd like to assure you all that my purposes here are serious. 13:53.560 --> 13:55.460 I have spent my entire life seeking 13:55.460 --> 13:58.740 reliable proof of the appearances of apparitions. 13:58.740 --> 14:00.220 Have you ever seen any, ever? 14:00.220 --> 14:01.780 I have seen phenomena which lead me 14:01.780 --> 14:04.140 to believe in the possibility of their existence, 14:04.140 --> 14:06.140 although I have never seen any. 14:06.140 --> 14:08.420 I account myself sensitive to the evidence 14:08.420 --> 14:09.940 of their existence. 14:09.940 --> 14:12.920 This house, for example, affects me profoundly. 14:12.920 --> 14:15.100 It doesn't seem to affect you in the same way. 14:15.100 --> 14:17.380 I'm not too happy about all this, if that's what you mean. 14:17.380 --> 14:19.580 You are not psychic and therefore not sensitive 14:19.580 --> 14:21.900 to these matters as I am. 14:21.900 --> 14:25.260 I imagine the question in the minds of those of you listening 14:25.260 --> 14:28.660 to us is, shall we find apparitions? 14:28.660 --> 14:29.980 I don't know. 14:29.980 --> 14:33.660 But I feel they are here and that they are evil. 14:33.660 --> 14:35.360 I sense danger. 14:35.360 --> 14:38.220 I shall soon know. 14:38.220 --> 14:41.180 Dr. Reed's leaving the room now to make a tour of the house. 14:41.180 --> 14:43.020 First thing I'm going to do is open the windows 14:43.020 --> 14:44.220 and let some fresh air in. 14:47.660 --> 14:49.300 It feels better already. 14:49.300 --> 14:50.780 Cooler anyway. 14:50.780 --> 14:51.300 I know that. 14:51.300 --> 14:52.620 Ow! 14:52.620 --> 14:53.780 Oh, it's a bat. 14:53.780 --> 14:55.420 A bat just flew into the room. 14:55.420 --> 14:56.900 I think it's a bat, not a bird. 14:56.900 --> 14:57.980 I didn't actually see it. 14:57.980 --> 15:00.140 It's shadow as it fanned my face. 15:00.140 --> 15:00.820 There it is again. 15:00.820 --> 15:02.060 It touched me as it passed. 15:02.060 --> 15:03.140 Ow! 15:03.140 --> 15:03.780 Jeff! 15:03.780 --> 15:04.260 Jeff! 15:04.260 --> 15:05.380 Jeff, come back here! 15:05.380 --> 15:06.420 Jeff, you fool dog! 15:06.420 --> 15:08.540 Come back here! 15:08.540 --> 15:10.340 Dr. Reed? 15:10.340 --> 15:11.940 Dr. Reed? 15:11.940 --> 15:12.740 Dr. Reed? 15:12.740 --> 15:29.340 For suspense, Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Ralph Edwards 15:29.340 --> 15:33.740 in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 15:33.740 --> 15:34.740 Then. 15:34.740 --> 15:35.740 Hello. 15:35.740 --> 15:36.740 Hello. 15:36.740 --> 15:37.740 Snap out of it. 15:37.740 --> 15:38.740 Oh. 15:38.740 --> 15:43.740 Oh, I'm reading a letter about the new Wide Gap Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs app. 15:43.740 --> 15:46.740 It's from Mrs. Clark Perry right here in Hollywood. 15:46.740 --> 15:50.740 She says, our 1948 station wagon has given constant trouble. 15:50.740 --> 15:53.740 Finally, the garage man said all the difficulty was spark plugs, 15:53.740 --> 15:56.740 and he installed a set of Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs. 15:56.740 --> 15:58.740 Now the car runs on the left lane. 15:58.740 --> 16:00.740 And the car is in the middle of the road. 16:00.740 --> 16:03.740 And he installed a set of Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs. 16:03.740 --> 16:05.740 Now the car runs beautifully. 16:05.740 --> 16:08.740 The very first time my husband has been really pleased. 16:08.740 --> 16:10.740 Well, smart garage man. 16:10.740 --> 16:12.740 Smart people to take his advice. 16:12.740 --> 16:17.740 Happ, you know, as more and more people learn about Wide Gap Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs, 16:17.740 --> 16:19.740 and how they make an engine idle smoother, 16:19.740 --> 16:23.740 give better performance on leaner gas mixtures, actually save on gas, 16:23.740 --> 16:28.740 why then more people will replace old worn out narrow gap spark plugs 16:28.740 --> 16:31.740 with new Wide Gap Auto Light Resistor Spark Plugs. 16:31.740 --> 16:33.740 Any more letters like that, Harlow? 16:33.740 --> 16:34.740 Plenty, Happ, plenty. 16:34.740 --> 16:36.740 Why, here's another one from New York City. 16:36.740 --> 16:38.740 Oh, read it to me later, Harlow. 16:38.740 --> 16:41.740 We haven't time because here's suspense. 16:41.740 --> 16:46.740 And now, Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood sound stage, 16:46.740 --> 16:52.740 Ralph Edwards as Smiley Smith in Ghost Hunt. 16:52.740 --> 16:59.740 A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 16:59.740 --> 17:03.740 Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, come back here. 17:03.740 --> 17:06.740 Jeff, you fool dog, come back here. 17:06.740 --> 17:10.740 Dr. Reed, Dr. Reed, Dr. Reed. 17:10.740 --> 17:12.740 Reed speaking, what is it, Smith? 17:12.740 --> 17:15.740 Jeff has run off, my dog, he jumped through the window and ran off. 17:15.740 --> 17:18.740 Oh, so, I told you he said something about this house, didn't I? 17:18.740 --> 17:22.740 Yeah, you want to come and see if you can determine what it was exactly that set him off? 17:22.740 --> 17:26.740 Soon. I'm making my way slowly up the stairs toward the second floor now. 17:26.740 --> 17:28.740 I'm halfway up. I'll be done with you soon. 17:28.740 --> 17:32.740 Folks, my dog's run away. You probably heard him howling. 17:32.740 --> 17:33.740 He jumped through the window and took off. 17:33.740 --> 17:35.740 Never did anything like that before. 17:35.740 --> 17:37.740 Frightened by the bat, I guess. 17:37.740 --> 17:41.740 Personally, alone here in this big room, I can understand how he must have felt. 17:41.740 --> 17:44.740 This isn't a cheerful spot by any means. 17:44.740 --> 17:48.740 I may not be psychic, but I sure have a feeling this house doesn't want us here. 17:48.740 --> 17:49.740 Reed again. 17:49.740 --> 17:53.740 Excuse me. I have something of great interest to report. 17:53.740 --> 17:57.740 I'm now standing in an alcove on the second floor trying to recover my breath. 17:57.740 --> 18:02.740 As I reached the head of the stairs, I felt what I think is a definite psychic manifestation. 18:02.740 --> 18:06.740 I felt suddenly as though I had been punched in the solar plexus. 18:06.740 --> 18:08.740 That's the only way I can describe it. 18:08.740 --> 18:10.740 At the same time, I began to perspire. 18:10.740 --> 18:14.740 My head is still swimming slightly, and I have difficulty in swallowing. 18:14.740 --> 18:17.740 My pulse rate is around 110th of a minute. 18:17.740 --> 18:19.740 The sense of evil is very strong. 18:19.740 --> 18:24.740 I feel very, what shall I say, profoundly depressed. 18:24.740 --> 18:26.740 Do you want me up there? 18:26.740 --> 18:29.740 No. I prefer to remain up here alone. 18:29.740 --> 18:33.740 The presence of a disbeliever such as you might interfere with my investigation. 18:33.740 --> 18:37.740 Folks, I'd like you to get a picture of what it's like here. 18:37.740 --> 18:39.740 It's very quiet, for one thing. 18:39.740 --> 18:43.740 I've never been in such a quiet place, and it's pretty dark. 18:43.740 --> 18:45.740 No light except my flashlight. 18:45.740 --> 18:48.740 Tell you what, you go now and douse all the lights you have on. 18:48.740 --> 18:52.740 Go ahead, put out the lights, and that'll give you a clearer feeling of how it is here with me. 18:52.740 --> 18:54.740 Go ahead, put out the lights. 18:55.740 --> 18:57.740 Hey, did you hear that? 18:58.740 --> 19:02.740 Real estate agent told me I'd probably hear rats and mice in the walls. 19:02.740 --> 19:04.740 I can certainly hear them now. 19:04.740 --> 19:06.740 Even you can hear them, I think. It's as though... 19:06.740 --> 19:09.740 Dr. Reed speaking. I've been working my way toward the front room, 19:09.740 --> 19:12.740 the one directly above the one in which Mr. Smith is now. 19:12.740 --> 19:16.740 The vibrations have become stronger, and more and more pronounced as I approach it. 19:16.740 --> 19:19.740 I think I am on the verge of an important discovery. 19:19.740 --> 19:21.740 Important discovery? Did you get that? 19:22.740 --> 19:25.740 Now I can hear Dr. Reed moving about in the room above. 19:25.740 --> 19:27.740 I don't suppose you can. Have a try anyway, huh? 19:28.740 --> 19:30.740 Hear him? 19:30.740 --> 19:35.740 I hope he finishes his investigation soon, because, quite frankly, I'd like to get out of here. 19:35.740 --> 19:38.740 I can well imagine people becoming unhinged in this place. 19:39.740 --> 19:41.740 Right now I find myself pretty jumpy. 19:41.740 --> 19:43.740 I'm not being very brave, am I? 19:43.740 --> 19:47.740 It's being alone in this room down here, the desert, this darned old house. 19:47.740 --> 19:50.740 It's so very... I mean, you know, the atmosphere, it's so very... 19:50.740 --> 19:55.740 I wish only to make this hurried report before continuing with the investigation in this room. 19:55.740 --> 19:58.740 I have carefully sounded out all the parts in this room, 19:58.740 --> 20:02.740 and the emanations are most strong from what appears to be a closet, 20:02.740 --> 20:04.740 before which I am now standing. 20:04.740 --> 20:07.740 As soon as I open the door to this closet, I will have, I think, 20:07.740 --> 20:10.740 a thing of great interest to communicate. 20:10.740 --> 20:15.740 I find no key to the lock, and so I will attempt to remove the hinges with my pinknife, 20:15.740 --> 20:17.740 and I will tell you what I find when I open it. 20:17.740 --> 20:20.740 I'll tell you what it would cost to get me to open that door. 20:20.740 --> 20:21.740 In the basement at Fort... 20:21.740 --> 20:24.740 There's that bat again! It seems to like me! 20:24.740 --> 20:29.740 The way it keeps... Each time it passes, it touches my face or my neck with its wings. 20:29.740 --> 20:32.740 Smelly things, bats. 20:32.740 --> 20:35.740 I don't suppose they bathe very often, if at all. 20:35.740 --> 20:41.740 I wonder how... Get away! You bat! That bat'll be the death of me! 20:41.740 --> 20:42.740 It's like a jingle, isn't it? 20:42.740 --> 20:46.740 Bat'll be the death of me, the death of me, the death of me, bat'll be the death of me. 20:46.740 --> 20:49.740 It isn't far from London... No, that isn't the way it goes. 20:49.740 --> 20:54.740 It's come down to Q in lilac time, in lilac time, in lilac time. 20:54.740 --> 20:57.740 Come down to Q in lilac time, it isn't far... 20:57.740 --> 21:01.740 I haven't thought of that since I was a kid in grammar school. 21:01.740 --> 21:04.740 See, I had a lonely childhood when you come right down to it. 21:04.740 --> 21:09.740 I mean... Oh, that's my affair, isn't it? Yes, it is. It certainly is. 21:09.740 --> 21:15.740 I have succeeded in removing the hinges to the door, and I find inside it is not a closet, but much larger. 21:15.740 --> 21:17.740 It is, I think, a dressing room. 21:17.740 --> 21:21.740 I have not yet been inside, but I am about to enter. 21:21.740 --> 21:22.740 What was I talking about? 21:22.740 --> 21:25.740 Oh, yeah, bats. Well, the bat flying back and forth in this room... 21:25.740 --> 21:30.740 Did you hear that? Did you hear it? 21:30.740 --> 21:32.740 Dr. Reed must have knocked something over in the dressing room. 21:32.740 --> 21:35.740 A chair, a chair, yeah, a heavy chair, by the sound of it. 21:35.740 --> 21:38.740 The chair, whatever it was, must have fallen right over my head. 21:38.740 --> 21:39.740 That's the way it sounded. 21:39.740 --> 21:44.740 I can see a small stain forming right on the ceiling, right over my head. 21:44.740 --> 21:48.740 Something ran across my foot, just a rat, I think it was. 21:48.740 --> 21:52.740 I've always hated rats. Most people do, of course. 21:52.740 --> 21:56.740 That stain up there bothers me. It's gotten so big so soon. 21:56.740 --> 21:59.740 I think I'll take a chance and bother Reed and ask him what it is. 21:59.740 --> 22:06.740 Dr. Reed. Reed, can you hear me? Are you all right? Hello? 22:06.740 --> 22:11.740 Well, he didn't answer. I think he's just a little bit deaf. I think so. 22:11.740 --> 22:13.740 What do you suppose he's found, huh? 22:13.740 --> 22:17.740 I'm afraid this is rather dull for you listeners. I'm not finding it so, of course. 22:17.740 --> 22:24.740 There. I heard him cough. Did you hear that cough? Hope he's all right. 22:24.740 --> 22:26.740 He got out of a sickbed to come here this evening, you know. 22:26.740 --> 22:30.740 He was gassed in the First World War and this place is beginning to get on my nerves a wee bit. 22:30.740 --> 22:32.740 Just a teensy-weensy bit. 22:32.740 --> 22:40.740 Reed speaking. 22:40.740 --> 22:46.740 Hello? He switched off. That's the bad cough he's got. I feel so lonely. 22:46.740 --> 22:51.740 I've been alone so much in my life. Not so much now, of course, but when I was younger, I was alone so much at the time. 22:51.740 --> 22:55.740 You know, struggling to get ahead, living in a hall, bedroom, wondering where my next meal is coming from. 22:55.740 --> 22:59.740 I get the blues just remembering it. 22:59.740 --> 23:02.740 It seems sad, young people having to spend so much time alone. 23:02.740 --> 23:07.740 Sad for old people, too, of course. I'm saying, of course, a lot. Of course, I am. 23:07.740 --> 23:15.740 Hey, that stain on the ceiling, it's grown amazingly. It's actually beginning to drip. I mean, form bubbles. 23:15.740 --> 23:19.740 They'll start dropping soon. Colored bubbles, they seem to be. 23:19.740 --> 23:24.740 Odd-shaped stain, like a body lying on its back with its arms stretched out. 23:24.740 --> 23:27.740 It's cheerful. 23:27.740 --> 23:30.740 I'll certainly advise Mr. McDonald to have this place pulled down. 23:30.740 --> 23:32.740 I'll go upstairs in a minute or two to see how Dr. Reed's making out. 23:32.740 --> 23:36.740 You know, listeners, I really believe I'd go completely crazy if I had to stay here much longer. 23:36.740 --> 23:39.740 Where's your down? That's exactly what it does. It wears you down. 23:39.740 --> 23:43.740 It's so close and musty in here, I feel sort of trapped. 23:43.740 --> 23:46.740 I don't know why I said that. That's what they call this place, you know, the death trap. 23:46.740 --> 23:51.740 There, what did I tell you? That stain started to drip drops, drip drops, drip drops, drip drops. 23:51.740 --> 23:54.740 I'll catch the next one with my hand. Let's go. 23:54.740 --> 23:57.740 Reed? Dr. Reed? 23:57.740 --> 24:00.740 I'm going upstairs now, listeners. I'm afraid something has happened to Dr. Reed. 24:00.740 --> 24:06.740 I'm not kidding now. I mean, this is on the level. Which room could it be now? Right? No, right, right. This is it, I think. 24:06.740 --> 24:13.740 Well, good evening, gentlemen. And madam? I'm so glad to see you. 24:13.740 --> 24:19.740 I was just aching to see somebody, anybody. I've been so lonely down there. 24:19.740 --> 24:23.740 What have you done with the doctor? I know, I know he's been hurt. 24:23.740 --> 24:26.740 See the color of the bubble on my hand? What have you done with him? 24:26.740 --> 24:29.740 Make way, please, gentlemen. Make way. 24:29.740 --> 24:35.740 Well, this isn't the funniest darn thing. 24:35.740 --> 24:38.740 This can't be Dr. Reed lying here. He didn't have a red beard. 24:38.740 --> 24:42.740 Don't crowd me, gentlemen. Don't crowd me, please. 24:42.740 --> 24:45.740 You want me to go where with you? You want me to do what? 24:45.740 --> 24:52.740 Speak up, gentlemen. To the cliffs. Down to the cliffs? You mean right now? 24:52.740 --> 24:55.740 Well, all right, if you'll come with me. I don't want to be alone anymore. 24:55.740 --> 24:59.740 You will come with me? All of you? All four of you? You too, ma'am? 24:59.740 --> 25:04.740 Oh, good. Come on, then. To the cliffs. To the cliffs. To the cliffs. To the... 25:08.740 --> 25:14.740 He jumped over the cliff. He jumped over the cliff, McDonald. He jumped over... 25:14.740 --> 25:18.740 Mr. McDonald, Mr. Thorpe, you may come in to see Dr. Reed now. 25:18.740 --> 25:23.740 What? Uh-huh. Dr. Reed is conscious. You may see him now. 25:25.740 --> 25:30.740 Is... is he able to talk? Just for a few minutes. In here. 25:32.740 --> 25:35.740 Come in. Come in, gentlemen. 25:35.740 --> 25:39.740 How are you, Dr. Reed? We've been waiting to see you. 25:39.740 --> 25:44.740 Yes, and I must apologize, gentlemen. I had a most unfortunate accident. 25:44.740 --> 25:45.740 Hemorrhage. 25:45.740 --> 25:46.740 A hemorrhage? 25:46.740 --> 25:50.740 Yes. My lungs, you know. Now, gentlemen... 25:50.740 --> 25:55.740 Hemorrhage? Dr. Reed, what happened in that house? What happened to Smith? 25:55.740 --> 25:59.740 We've just been listening to a playback of the recordings you made out there. 25:59.740 --> 26:01.740 Smith? Isn't he with you? 26:01.740 --> 26:07.740 We've just heard the recording, Dr. Reed. Smith jumped over the cliff. Into the ocean. 26:07.740 --> 26:09.740 Oh, that poor boy. 26:09.740 --> 26:16.740 Dr. Reed, will you please tell us what happened? We heard on the recording there were ghosts in that house. 26:16.740 --> 26:19.740 Ghosts? I didn't see any ghosts. 26:19.740 --> 26:21.740 But Smith, what about him? 26:21.740 --> 26:25.740 If he went over the cliff, it was fear that drove him over. 26:25.740 --> 26:26.740 But, Doc... 26:26.740 --> 26:38.740 Gentlemen, I didn't see any ghosts. As for that unfortunate young man, who can say now what he saw? 26:38.740 --> 26:59.740 Or thought he saw? 26:59.740 --> 27:06.740 Thank you, Ralph Edwards, for displaying your versatility by appearing as guest star on Suspense. 27:06.740 --> 27:09.740 See, Harlow, that Edwards does everything. 27:09.740 --> 27:13.740 Oh, half. No, does. Don't use that word on our auto light show. 27:13.740 --> 27:17.740 Oh, come now, Harlow, I can make you use that word, as you call it. 27:17.740 --> 27:22.740 How? Now, don't you say that auto light resistor spark plugs make your car engine idle smoother? 27:22.740 --> 27:23.740 Yes, but... 27:23.740 --> 27:28.740 And your car gives better performance on leaner gas mixtures. 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With auto light. 28:14.740 --> 28:23.740 And now here again is Ralph Edwards. 28:23.740 --> 28:31.740 I want to thank Tony Leeder and his great cast of actors for helping to make my appearance on Suspense a very pleasant consequence. 28:31.740 --> 28:41.740 Like all of you, I'm a great Suspense fan and I'm looking forward to next week when radio's outstanding theater of thrills brings you Joseph Cotton in The Day I Died. 28:41.740 --> 28:46.740 Another gripping study in Suspense. 28:46.740 --> 28:55.740 Tonight's Suspense play was adapted for radio by Walter Newman from an original story by H.R. Wakefield with music composed by Lucian Morrowek and conducted by Lud Bluskin. 28:55.740 --> 28:58.740 The entire production was under the direction of Anton M. Leeder. 28:58.740 --> 29:03.740 Make it a point to listen next Thursday to Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 29:03.740 --> 29:10.740 Remember next Thursday same time here at Joseph Cotton in The Day I Died. 29:10.740 --> 29:17.740 You can buy auto light resistor spark plugs, auto light staple batteries, auto light electrical parts at your neighborhood auto light dealers. 29:17.740 --> 29:19.740 Switch to auto light. Good night. 29:19.740 --> 29:48.740 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.