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Well, hello there. Oh, I hope I didn't startle you. I figure at this point we're pretty close, and you seem to know how to find me better than really anyone else, so I'm glad to have you here. Oh, I've been just lounging around, honestly being kind of a loaf. I feel like I've been pushing myself too hard, working myself to the bone, as it were. So tonight I'm going to take a page out of your book and relax with one of my favorite little little spooky shows. But don't worry. That doesn't mean I won't make you a spot of tea and I won't let you use my favorite blanket, because of course I will. What's that? Oh? No, no no, But if you wish to email me, I do have that. You can get a hold of me at Weird Mysteries Pod at gmail dot com com. But now, now, hmmm, the wind is picking up, and I think it's tithed to listen to the story stories Ironized presents lights Out every Body is later. Thank you, Thank you. Lights Out brings you stories of the supernatural and the supernormal, dramatizing the fantasies and the mysteries of the unknowns. We tell you this frankly, so if you wish to avoid the excitement and tension of these imaginetic plays, we urge you, calmly but sincerely, to turn off your radio. Now. My name arch Obler. Tonight another in our series of tales of the weird and the Unusual. I plead with all mothers in law who listen to the Night's story not to send me poisoned cane letters. The fact of the matter is, I like mothers in law, I'm really not responsible for what happens in the uh twisted brains of my characters, am I? But first, before we start, Frank Martin has a word for you, and now light out. Everybody afraid the guy who isn't. When I was just a kid, I used to wake up in the night and see the star pressing all around me, and I get so scared. I think I was dead, buried. I try to scream, I couldn't my voice. I'd know I was dead. I'd know it. I'd throw off the cover, I'd cry, o mother, mother, Oh boy boy? Did I yell out like that? Why should I be scared? Now? I wanna die? I gotta die. I'm cold here in the basement. I wonder, it's the gravest cold. Why don't I get it over with my hopes around my neck? One step off the letter and I'll hang and die. And I gotta die. I gotta die. The wages of sin? About that? Wait? Is this sin at Death's funny how I seemed to hear the words the way my father used to say, I'm the wages of sin? But was it sin? Now? It was hate? And I killed her because I hated it. And I remember the first time we met. Jay married me, and we were walking along the streets to his house. Oh, Hella, you will like my Ma, really you will? Well, I sure she's swell, best woman in the world. Well, I mean, whoa, you're my wife? Now, Hella. That proves what I think. Are you doing it? I guess it does? Oh, you and Marl get along fine? Will Lisbie is surprised to her. Well, here's the house. What do you think of it? All right? Sorry? Yeah? Well, and we call Will. Ma's eyes pop when she sees you pop right out of But you come on, Ma, open up. Got a surprise for you. Where have you been son? Where? Oh? Surprised? Day Ma? Me and Ella, Jay, you have brought home a woman when she said it that way we had from that that I knew, I hated it. And that's the way it was. From then on. I wasn't Chay's wife to her, but a woman stranger in her house, and it was her house and everything in it. Nothing changed everything, hers Ma, Can I use your car to take Ella riding? Ma? Mind a fella plants and roses in your garden? Ma? Is it all right, a fella? That's the way it was, hers hers everything hers well. I had with Jay and he wasn't much. You can't blame me, you hear me. You can't blame me for not standing it. Well my life I'd had nothing, and at last I was married and I still had nothing, her house, her car, her money, her son. I couldn't stand it. I tell you, SOY killed it. Why do I keep hearing pause words in my head? I'm gonna kill myself. I'm gonna do it. It's just that I want to sit here on top of the ladder and think and talk about everything for a little while. The last chance, I'll kid Oh, Like I said, I killed it, well, not right away. I do it it for weeks and months, but all the time inside of me, something was talking killer everything, the killer right, and then louder and louder, until my head was filled with prouder and louder, until I couldn't stand it no more, louder and louder, until I said, yes, I'll do it. Yeah, yes, everything, I'd be mine everything. I always wanted it that way. It had to be that way. Here in this basement, that's where it happened. Day went to work. I came down here. Oh it wasn't very high to do what I had to do. I remember every minute of it so well, every minute. I called it. And she came down into the basement. You call me, ella, Yes, I called you. What's the matter? Somebody took the lid off the steward down here? Lamb takes alive? Now, who could have done that heavy iron color like that? J wouldn't have done it? Is it deep down there? Cause it deep ain't a steward anyway? Colors and all? Well, this doesn't was built over? Oh what are you alling about? Heard my son Jay tend you the same thing weeks ago? Yes, she did tell me. Funny I forgot. Oh look what's down in the well. Look, I don't see nothing. What Oh if you're will isn't it? Mama? You're well? Everything that your so stay in it, stay it, mama, Stay you're well, mama. But everything else is mine now, everything mine mine. And that's the way. It was easy, too easy. Jay came home. He said, Hey, I love words. Ma. I don't know. She wasn't here when I got back from the store. Must have gone out. Ooh, well, she'll be back. Leave it tomorrow. But she didn't come back. How could she. Jay went to the police. They came around, They asked Clay, they went away, and nothing happened. It was as easy as bad. Wait. Wait, why do I keep hearing that in my head? Why I'm gonna die? Roll around my neck just a little bit longer, talking just a little she and she was gone, and I had her house and her son. And then I didn't want him. I tell you, he made me switch. Get a look at him, mama, Mama. I wanted to forget, forget. And then one day I got an idea. There was more rumor to that iron lid in the basement, wasn't it? That was it? Yeah? That was it? Got free of her now I get free of him, sail the house quick, get away away, far away. Yeah, that was it. A free woman with my looks and all that money. Oh what I'd have a time. I planned everything till the neighbor's day was going on a trip, I said, Jade wrote me to sell the place and join him out of town. I'd tell you it was perfect. I came home that night, the night I was gonna let him join his mama. Anybody home, I'm always home? Oh you said that just like Mama used to. Did I say? That reminds me. I got a new detective agency working on the case. They think that maybe she lost her memory somehow, you know, like you're died, all right. They wanted to get cold. I don't see why you don't want to talk about finding mama. After all, supper, you'll find your mama, you think so? Well? Sure, Oh say that's good here and you say that finding my ma that's something I feel like. He sat down on the east I made him a good supper. Why not his last supper? And then it happened. We were sitting there reading when I was a knocking at the door. No, who can that be? How should I know? Get up and answer it. Yeah, hurdler, all but yeah, nobody here. Then shut the door and come on back and finish your supper. That's funny. I heard knock complain, didn't you old kids playing jokes? Go on, eat. I want you to help me fix something in the basement. Fix what you'll see. Finish your eating first. Okay, yes, those crazy kids, fantastic for your I'm going away. Wait for what. Listen that knocking? How funny it sounds, those kids from the basement door. No wow, I let her go. See Kay, don't open that door. Don't see why not? Somebody knock and I gotta see what's the matter with you? Got open? Got no mama, mama. Ladies and gentlemen, this moment when the dead of returned certainly a fit one to loosen your grip on that chair and take a neat breath and flow up your post feet and now back to lights out. Ella goes on with her story, the story of the return from death of the woman she had murdered. Yeah, it was her eyes there she was, eyes glaring stairsy gray, old hair plastd wed around her face. I could deal with my own eyes. And yet she was dead. I taut it dead. Jay didn't know that. No, he took that dead thing by the arm, and he led her into the room and he sat her down in a chair. Oh, mama, Mama, you did come back. I knew you would. We both knew it then we Ella, No, tell us, mama where you've been? Why get called? Yeah? Why come back? This funny way? The back way up the basement steps. Why mama? Uh uh uh, mama, you are oh wella look she's stripping win Hell of course, take her upstairs and put it to bed. Yeah, and maybe you'd better sleep with her tonight, keep her warm. Ella, boy, you're looking so funny ever more, ellafreed it? What did she say? Wh sure? I syed me sleep with last and he keeps flat on him. Oh no, I didn't wake up until next morning. Jay was sleeping forward. He told me she was sleeping in the room. To take good care of her when she woke up, and he went away, happy as mama was back. When he was gone, I sat down there in the kitchen and waited. It got on the frost. Soon he'd be coming home. I had to know, I tell you, I had to. I went upstairs to her room I opened the door. Nobody there, I tell you, nobody there the bed, not even slept in. She'd never been there, never I dreamed a day dreamed. She wasn't there, she hadn't come back. But head to be sure. I went down in the basement. I pried up that old iron lid. There was the open well. I lit a lantern and held it in the black hole. I locked inner. She was there, floating in the water like a big sack. Oh but she was still there. Well, that's all that mattered. I had pile things over the lid to hold it down, and the old trunk boxes, heavy things. That's what I did there. Came home after a while. He said, us Mama. I said, all right, He said, call her. God a dinner, was you? I said, yeah, sure, Oh oh yeah, that's what I said. I knew Mama was all right where she was. When we sat down to dinner. He kept talking about her, how funny it was that she still was sleeping, how funny it was the way she came back. But all the time, it was laughing inside myself because I knew what had happened was just a strange dream we both have had. Because she was dead dead and sloping. When we sat there eating, I felt good her bad dream ended. So this night they would join his mama women. Yeah, and then just like the night before, it happened. Kay, Now who in the world's there? And it's the basement door again. Now what mama? You? Yeah, I screamed, what good was that? There she was again, the water dripping down off her face and clothes and put on the floor. And this time I knew it was no dream. She came into the room. She sat down on a chair, Jay talking talking all the time. He didn't see the way I saw that his face was got of the thunder and Jay said, my mama, Mama, you should never have sneaked out on a night like this, not a bed with you. In the morning, I'll call the doctor. Ella, you take Mama upstairs to bed, and this time be sure you sleep with her. You know how scared she is. A thunder gone now she soaked to the skin. I just sat there. I'll tell you, I couldn't move. I think I got going upstairs with her. Being in the same room with her. It was me to my chair, and Day said, oh, I'll come to think of it, I'll go fetch the doctor right now. Can't take any more chances. Ella, you take mama right upstairs and put her to bed, right down with her, keep her warm till I get back with doctor with and he was gone, gone after the doctor. When he sat there, the flesh on me crawling. The doctor calm, and he'd said that she was dead, dead a long time. He'd be sure to see it the way I saw it dead and the water had How long were we sat there looking at each other, I don't know. And then her lips moved, and it was like a cold wind, and said, to put it to bed. That's what he said, My son said to put me to bed. And then I understood the whole thing. She'd come back from the dead to keep me from killing him, and she wanted me along upstairs. No, No, I wouldn't do it. That's there. Without moving, her lips moved again, he said, to keep me warm, come upstairs, ever, to keep me warm? Me keeping that dead thing warm? So what cold dripping skin against No, I wouldn't do it. She said, she'd make me crazy that way, pulled me in her brooney arms until the sense and he ran out the way. The well water was running out of her make me crazy, something to be locked away, like they locked my own mother away crazy crazy. No, No, that wouldn't happen to me. She wouldn't make me crazy, not me to my feet. I turned quick before she could stop me. The basement door. I locked it behind me. I ran down the basement stead. Oh find you how to see her? So sure way, the only way. Oh, that's why I'm done. Now. The rope around my neck, the other end tied to the cross being. I'll jump off this ladder, the rope stretch. I'll be dead, dead, and she'll never get me, crazy old sunderman. If I make noises, I choke nobody, you'll hear me, and I'll die and I'll never see her again. Oh, why don't I do it? No? Very much? Time day and the doctor will be coming back. I gotta be dead then, good and dead, or they'll find out the truth about her. Why don't I do it? No? Or I don't I do it because I'm afraid, afraid of dying. That's that's why I've been talking here in the dark, because I'm afraid. Oh, it'll be so dark, emptying. Things will go on in the world, and I don't have nothing but the dark? Why should I die? Yeah? Why should I? If I left this house, she wouldn't follow me, would ge. That's so she wants the house that Jay, Well, she can have him. I'll go. I'll go away far away. Then they'll never find me never. Oh. Oh, it's so tight around my neck. Oh, I gotta get it off. I gotta hurry and get away before it Jay in the dark, I can't get the rope for O goes there once? Come down the steps? Is that you? Jay? Oh? You you follow me down? How could you? I left the door. Oh, but then I put that iron lid over you too, didn't I and I didn't do much good. All listen, let's go away. You hear me. I'll go away, little bit your house and everything, and hear me all yours again? And yay, I'll leave him too. I won't take anything with me. I just go over right away. You can't get the rope off, I'll go. You'll see me though. Oh, and made a noose so tight I can't see the dance. Missus Kroger, what are you gonna do? I'm not gonna climb up the ladder. No play off, stay off, I'll tell you don't. I can't stay. You're come the closer, stay away. The ladder falls, the rope on my neck. My no, no, no, you you won't make me die. I've got hold of the rope with my hand. I won't choke this way. My arms are throng. I can hold on to the rope above my head for a long time. They'll be home right away. He'll get me down. I'll live, I will, and you'll still be dead dead. I'll tell them in the well. They'll believe me. They'll believe me. We'll say something, say something. I know you're standing down there watching you. You're waiting, waiting for my arms to get tired too, A let go, But I won't let go. I won't. I won't, Jay, It'll be home. I can't go, I can't. I gotta live. I gotta live. Oh laugh, I'm so tired. I gotta hold on and I gotta hold on or the noose, the noose, oh cramp an arm, Jay, Jay, I gotta crap my I can't hold on anymore. Jay, I wouldn't kill you. Yay, I can't hold on. Yeah, mister Ober, last week and again this, you really believe the dead can return to Avenge. Well, I have an answer this week, the factual one which you'll wait for a moment for you, mister Mark. Friends, remember now, if you're one of the thousands who need more vitamin B and iron, tell us yes about the return of the dead, whether or not I believe that the dead could return to Avenge and Evil? Thanks. Have you ever heard of Charles Fort No, I haven't well. Charles Hoyt Fork was born in eighteen seventy four and died in New York in nineteen thirty two. The unusual, super normal, the supernatural fascinated him. Just as one man might collect the post this dance, Charles Ford, for twenty to thirty years collected records of the phenomena which dogmatic science couldn't explain, strange murders and so forth. I suggest that, therefore, that any of you who think that this is the only possible world spend a very pleasant weekend leading these records in mister Ford's work, The Book of the Dance. The best possible answer to the ghost question is who knows? And now what about next week, Misterwiebler, Well, next week a story of suspense, which is I believe quite different from anything you've ever heard before. Have you ever watched a shooting star streak across the sky and suddenly have a ceiling of almost care? But well, all that's next week. Lights Out will come to you again next Tuesday. At the same time, be sure to listen to arch old of this weird story of the thing out of interstellar space. And if you need more vitamin B and iron, be sure to try ionized yeast, the one and only ionized yeast with the big letters I Y on the package and on each tablets. I don't know what was more chilling, that story or this windstorm that seems to be striking relatively out of nowhere. I don't know where on Earth it's come from. But I'm sure we'll be just fine here. I know I will be. These walls are very strong, very sturdy. They were here before us, and they'll be here long long after we're gone. Oh but I'm glad you had a good time, and I hope you'll come back tomorrow night. You know, I'll be here, just me and my trusty microphone, waiting for you to join us in a little bit of fear and fun, but with a bit of an emphasis on that second one. Anyway, my dear, the sun is coming up and that means my time is uh for now until tomorrow night. Enjoy your war. See that, come along, my family. That's your famous when ricome like into fall, all the ball into comagin that the rounding bring you bring mumbling break