Unknown Broadcast | "Devilstone" — An Irish Estate Curse from Suspense

0:09 Ah, my dear, good to have you back, Very good, very good. Indeed, I hope you're comfortable. It's so cold outside it's very hard to make it warm enough in here, at least by most standards. Tonight I've picked a particularly fun story for us to enjoy. So sit back, get a cup of tea. It'll warm you from the inside out, because tonight it's all about a devil Stones Stones. Oh you've never heard of devil Stones. Well, I can assure you.

0:50 It's the kind of thing young boys are whispering about between classes in third grade. It's the kind of thing you hope you never encounter. But why am I talking? Then I can leave this to the profession rooms. So let's listen. Let's listen, right, and now a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense in a moment, Act one of Devilstone, starring Christopher Carrey and Neil Fitzgerald, and written especially for suspense by Jonathan Bundy. This portion of suspense is brought to you by the makers of Parliament Cigarettes.

1:37 Ah, listen, more and more people are smoking to this tune. Every day. Parliament gives you ex the largest. Parlament gives you ex largest and make you stay. And meet to clean up. Corner it away in Parliament gives you ex the largest Parliament gives you ex larger starting. Meet your snapping with. My name is Martin, Timothy Martin.

2:24 I live here in Dublin, and very nicely too, thanks to a considerable inheritance and sale of the family estate in County Kilkenny, which bought a very good price. I have a comfortable cottage, a faithful man servant by the name of Evatts, and everything else I need to live an easy, contented life, and without the need of applying myself to any sort of labor. Even my financial matters are no bother to me. He handled by a penny pinchion old solicitor by the name of Ian Carney, and mine was a contented life until that is, until a long forgotten uncle died and left me some property he'd own but never lived on up in County for mana near inner Skillum, a place known as Devilstone. And then, but let me digress for a moment, I should say, let me seem to digress for a moment, and remember this please, for it may have much to do with a strange, terrifying tale. I'm about to tell you, deep Ander, Saint Michan's Church here in Dublin is a crypt. It possesses most amazing properties. In it lie scores of bodies in a state of perfect preservation, albeit they are hundreds of years old. The old ones used to say it's due to some wondrous form of black magic, but that modern science, modern chemistry has exploded that ancient belief has shown that certain gases generated by the unusual composition of the dark, dank earth in which the crypt is located, those gases have produced this amazing phenomenon very well. Now, A few days ago I called mister Carney, my solicitor,

3:55 on the telephone. I've been open yet, car Me Timothy, I wish to speak with you about her How some property in County Fermana that your uncle left you. Well, I have suddenly no desire to move away from Dublin, mister Connee, So I decided to rent up the old place, rent it out. And why not, sir, You really think you can, for I'm quite certain I can. I doubt it. Well. As a matter of fact, an American couple by the name of Stoker left here only yesterday for a look at it. I see. I expect they'll be back here a moment now to agree to lease it for the summer. Timothy, you uh showed them the pictures and description of the place yesterday morning. They were so intrigued by them they were all to signing a lease then and there. You'd better to have taken their money and let them do it, my boy.

4:37 Oh ay, I'm sure I don't see why. Surely they're entitled to look at the place over before they take it, after all, mister Connie, never haven't been there myself. There wasn't too much I could tell them about Devilstone, exactly as it should be, Timothy, I'm afraid I don't understand you, sir. I mean that now, my boy, you will never rent it to them. Note anyone else who goes there? Now. Why do you say that, mister Kearney, Well, yeah, you don't know. Of course I don't know. Then perhaps your tenants, I should say, erstwhile prospective tenants will tell you if you ever see them again. And now what do you mean by excuse me a moment, mister Conney? Yes, what is it? Evids?

5:20 I beg your partisoner, But there's a mister Stoker here. To see you, Soker, Yes, sir, and if I may say so, it appears to be quite excited about something rather angry. Hell Shall I tell him you're busy and suggest to see you another time? Timothy? Yes, no efforts having come in? Please hello, hello Timoth. Oh sorry, mister Karney, but I have someone here to see me. No devil Stone. I think I better call you back very well if you like. But there is something about devil Stone, it's history that you might not be cognizant of. Will I'll get back to you shortly, Timothy adviser. Well, at least you didn't rather skip out on me. Mister Stoker. How are you nice to see you again? Oh? It is eh? Did you and your wife get over to look at Devil's doone as your plan? We certainly did.

6:06 And by heaven, Martin, if this is your idea, some practical joke? Man? What sending me alone to that ungodly place would have been bad enough? But my wife, Martin, you want to be horsewhiped? Oh wait, please, I'll have you know that as a result of your having let her go there, You and your twisted sense of humor? What what does the matter with you anyway, The poor woman nearly went out of her mind, mister Stoker. He still hasn't recovered from it. Sure, sure I got her back to Dublin, all right, but the doctor's ordered her to bed, had to give her strong sedatives. Now, I warn you, young man, if she doesn't recover, mister Stoker, won't bother Martin. The less you say, the less I have to see of you from here on out, the better. Here here are the keys to that place, and I'll look here, mister goodbye Martin. If I ever see you again, it will be in.

6:52 A corner of wall. And believe me, mister Stoker, I don't know what you're talking about. What are yourselfset about? Oh you don't, eh? Do you mean to say that something something wrong with Devil's Stone? And do you mean to say that you the owner of it? Don't know? We don't know what, sir. You don't know that ungodly places haunted? What you heard me haunted? I positively have helped rights are haunted. But that's what he said, mister matt Hunt, Yes, that's what he said. Oh dear dear pig cured patterns.

7:32 So but really, really. It's two amusing padly, all right, have its? You go right ahead and laugh and I'll enjoin you. Well, that's about an absurd excuse i've ever heard. Excuse me, sir, you don't think he meant it? But the Devil' zone is haunted? How could he haunted? Houses went out of fashion one hundred years ago? No, evitts, it was simply a silly excuse for not leasing the place, and now that he and his wife have had a look at it, But what an excuse? But does he think that we Irish are nothing but a lot of stupid, superstitious idiots. He's right, sir, what I mean, of course, not sir. For anyhow, it's completely ridiculous. So we'll simply forget it, forget about the stokers, place an advertisement in the papers, and find ourselves some other tenets. Yes, sir, maybe we'd best reduce the rate on it a bit. Perhaps that's what scared them off. Oh that could be, sir, Or who knows. And perhaps Devilstone isn't in as good condition as we've been led to believe. But can you imagine anyone coming up with an excuse so patently absurd, so completely asinine and so utterly foolish and expecting us to believe him, to take him seriously. Yes, what she said, sir, everts the truth. Now, yes, do you believe? Do you think possibly?

8:45 Oh? No, no, of course not. It couldn't be. Could that have been what mister Kearney was talking about, or at least implying mister Carney is here. But mister Kenney seems to be a man of good sense. He was so definite about it, though, and when he told me I should have let them do what they wanted after they saw the pictures to sign a lease immediately before they even saw a different stone. Yes, they would have, you know, he would have signed and paid a couple of months rent. And mister Carney said I was wrong and not letting him do it and not getting what I could and immediately. That would have been Would it have been completely ethically? No? Do you mean if something is wrong with the place but haunted sir? No? No, of course, not ridiculous of course, And yes, well there's one way to find out.

9:30 Yes, should the car to mister Kearney. No, no, no, no. By doing that, I'd be admitting that I might believe in such ridiculous possibility. No, no, EVAs, you and I would drive up to Devilstone and we'll investigate ourselves. Capitals are splendid earty. You like it well? Never having seen the place, Harry Riverson for mister Stoker's reaction to it, it might be quite exciting, sir. Let's see now if we leave right away, we should be able to reach Devilstone by nightfall. Yes, sir, as I watched the car and a couple of flashlights too, and perhaps perhaps i'd better t goong a pistol just in case. And of course, to conduct our investigation in the ghostly place and style, we'll take along one of the dogs with us, say Red Kim of Helscope. An excellentary tea, sir, And now let's get underway. Yes, well, Evatts, it's the man of the petrol station told us right. The ramban Al mansion you now see before you is Devil's Stone.

10:32 Yes, I see. You know what kind of a reaction is that. I blow my old place? If I may say so? Now, don't you start conjuring up some ghosts. Even kimply finds nothing particularly friendly about it. Now, look, Hewittts, if you're going to become superstitious about devils stone. Oh no, sir, come along. We'll have a look at Come along him, Come a way. Now, let me see if I can unlock this door here, so here, I hold a flash on it. Farture, God, I believe this is the key. Well, the door is already a jar.

11:24 Why, yes, sir, so I see. Well, come along you two, Come on, he's protesting rather ami. We'll just get him inside and we'll close the door. Yes, sir, him, what the devil's the matter with you? Come now? Boy? Are you a dog or a mouse who certainly is pregnant of something? So? Yes, he doesn't look like a ghost hunter clouds down there in the corner that way. But if I remember the pictures correctly, this store here should lead to a small out and close courts on my bood, it's just another night bird, everts. Don't let it bother you now, dear mind? Why telling me? Why why did you do that?

12:19 I beg your pardon? What? Why you're still over there at the door and you I distinctly felt something or someone bumped against my shoulder, and I thought someone walked on past me. Look here, look here, mister Martin. Yes, what is it in the mud out here in the court, shine your night on? Answer where mine is? Why? Why? Yes? Footprints, but big ones and fresh do you see? More of them will be made even as we look at him?

13:03 No, I get this normal there to make them. Impossible? I know it. But you're righting, You're right back inside now and quickly now whatever is making those footsteps can't follow us. It does feel a bit safer in here, No wonder Kim is frightened. There are things like that go along. But why and how do you suppose her that one of the old lamps could be lighted? Well, if they have any oil in them, and it shouldn't take us long to find out if they. Oh no, no, no, wait a minute, now, what are we acting this way? For?

13:58 It's trickery, that's all it is. It's trickery by whom sir? And why? Well, that is something we shall have to find out. Now. Where is Kim? Oh there he is still in the corner, right, do you suppose, sir? No? Nonsense. Whoever it was that scared Stoker and his wife out of here is trying to scare us now, and I mean to find him out. But the dog, sir, and if it's true about him, and then that there is a ghost nonsense. We'll just look about here. Where.

14:38 Now, what's the matter? The door behind you, it's opening by yourself into a small room beyond a good Then we shall start our investigation in that room. Well are you coming? M hm, oh clumsy, Now you've dropped your flashlight. I didn't, sir, I didn't. It was no door in the hand, it's what, honest, honest it was, sir, I swear to sir. Now heah, but don't be silly. Go on back in there and get it.

15:33 I really rather not say, if you don't worry. Oh, oh, the door it's close by itself. I know we're locked in. Oh we are it? Who did this? Who closed this door? Who's there? Who's there? Are they? Same? What? Same thing? What are you talking about? The same thing that struck your shoulder, that made the footprints in the mud, and that frightened poor Kim so badly, and frightened you too. But I say, it's trickery, trickery, it has to be.

16:14 Who's doing this? Answer me? Answer me? You de begun? What you a death. Begun? Yes? Yes, I guess we'd better yes, said no. No, it's not a bit of it. Please in the heaven said no, We're going to stay right here, Evants until we find out this begone. No, no, no, not until we learn just what's going on and where's that boys coming from? Hey tried to warn you, say, sir, they tried the scars, that's all, try to scarce.

17:08 Yes. Yes, so that you leave this place. Why because if you do not, you will suffer the same faith as the dog Kim faith what you talking about? Look, sir, the door is open. His look in the light of the flash that was dropped in there. Kim Everts Evers, Kim is dead. Mister Martin, Oh please, sir, I beg of you.

17:54 Who did this? Who did this? Show yourself? Yes, I will show myself. Cool what. Look out of thin air? Yes? Yes, yes, I see him, mister rat. Yes, yes, yes, this is all right, all right, believe come along, Everts, come on, yes, yes, yes, yes, mister Conney. I thought at first it was trickery, or perhaps some kind of joint hallucination by Everts and myself, and used perhaps by the gloomy atmosphere of the old house and whatever it was that Stoker had said about his wife and her being so terrifying, Oh my boy. But when it actually happened, that he actually appeared there before us out of thin air, this misty, tenuous, infalpable figure. And then when we found there wasn't so much as a little mark on Kim the dog, who up to that moment had been as healthy as I. Why didn't you tell me about whatever it is and that that that that inhabits that place when I talked to you on the phone. I tried to, Timothy, but you cut me off. And after all, I've known about it only as a legend from hearsay. And it was a huge man and powerful, this ghost. Yes, I should say it was Jason O'Flynn, your ancestor, who built the place for his wife. It was to have been her castle, was yes, But the first day she sought to enter into it, she fell tripped upon the threshold.

19:23 She stuck her head, and she never agained consciousness. I see. The doctor who summoned did all he could for her there in a smaller room off the main salon. Yes, but she died that night. And then Jason O'Flynn swore by the book that no one would live in that house, But he until his body turned to dust. He walked out of that little room then and was never seen again and ever since that time. But now you know the rest. Wait, Yes, until his body turns to dust his own words, and he wasn't seen to leave. No, what do you think enough, Timothy? I'm going back there, mister Corney tomorrow in daylight. Hmm.

20:12 I just don't get it. And I certainly found no signs a pile of walls or hidden panels on the floors. Above, sir. And yet evers somewhere somewhere close to that small room. Hmm. Don't you think it best we simply lay the place and no one but he until his body turned to dust? What, sir? And although there must have been other people about, he wasn't seen to leave. And to me, Evs, that means only one thing somewhere in this house lies the key to this mystery. But we've been here most of the day, sudden, we've found nothing. Let's getting done towards dusk. I know, I know, I know, But until I find something, I'm.

21:01 Sorry, sir, that'll be helpful. Old Rook's so badly a wrinkled it's no wonder you're tripped. Wait, Everts, listen, very very hollow floor, I should say, here, help me fold this rug back, yes, sir, here know, and look a sort of trap door and fitted on the floor, so tighty yes. And this it looks like a seal around the edge. Why, yes, sir, and a heavy lifted dream. But then give me a hand. We'll see if we can raise it. Now. Oh it's very tight shirt, however, the seal is giving away a little. Put everything you have into it now. Ah, good, we made.

21:56 It what it says. It hard if they're coming up out of that place, yes, yes, Everts, like that in the caves and the Kazakh comes under some micans. You mean we're all the parties and. Yes, quickly now the flashlight. Give it to me here, sir. Now now look look down there on the earth and floor below. Do you see how do you see? The wrists are cut? He killed himself? No, no, it's he. It's the ghost that we saw, yes. Everts, the body of Jason o'flymm and so perfectly preserved as as though he died only moments ago. Oh, it's horrid.

22:39 Until his body turned to dust, he said, so we know. No, no, that we phoned it, so please, sir, let's leave this place. Wait everts, wait, do you see now the fresh air has reached it? Oh? Oh, gosh God, Yes, the color is leaving the cheeks. The pallor of death is taking its place. And yes, now, at long last, the body will turn to dust. No longer will Jason O'Flynn walk the night, requiescat in patche sauce Spence, you've been listening to devil Stone, starring Christopher Carrey and Neil Fitzgerald, and written especially for suspense by Jonathan Bundy. The Spence is produced and directed by Fred Hendrickson. Heard in Tonight's story were Gilbert mack Water, Grise, Reynald Osborne and Frank Milano.

23:55 Music supervision by Ethel Huber, Sound patterns by Water, utto by Fred Cusick. Associate director Bernie Seabrooks. This is do what meant speaking. Ah. I don't know why, but even on a cold night, something chilling, it warms me in the strangest ways. I think you might agree with that observation. As you show up here every night looking for a new fear and perhaps a little bit of camaraderie, I appreciate it quite a bit, my dear, But now it's getting getting later and later and later. You need to return to your lovely home so you can lie your head gently on that warm bed.

24:50 All I ask before you go is that as your head is on that delicate pillow, you take a moment and be thankful for what you have. I'll see you toorrow night. Until then goodbye. Think I'm like you, into all all into again, robling, mumbling break