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Inner Sanctum Mystery, also known as Inner Sanctum, is a popular old-time radio program that aired from January 7, 1941, to October 5, 1952. It was created by producer Himan Brown and was based on the imprint given to the mystery novels of Simon & Schuster.
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00:07Good evening, friends.
00:09This is your host again to welcome you through the creaking door into the inner sanctum.
00:16Come in.
00:17Come on, then.
00:18I want you to meet Ambrose, our man-shy ghost.
00:22The other night in a graveyard, he bumped into a human and was so frightened he turned flesh-colored.
00:29Yes, poor Ambrose.
00:31He's got a bad case of ants in his fantasies.
00:35He's so upset he's just a ghost of his form of...
00:39ghost.
00:43Was a time when we held high hope for Ambrose.
00:46Oh, yes, that abnormal you he was cited by his crass mates as the personality most likely to split.
01:02And now, let's visit Murder Mansion.
01:06For over a hundred years, the old house has stood on the cliff, weathering the relentless ocean winds that have
01:12battered at its gray shingles.
01:14Now, in the living room, the real estate agents and the new buyer are completing the arrangements of trade.
01:20Only one thing bothers me, Mr. Griffin.
01:24That graveyard just outside the window there.
01:28Are you sure nothing can be done about it?
01:30I'm sorry, Mr. Burley.
01:32You know the condition set down in the deed.
01:35The Crandall family burial ground must remain on the property untampered with.
01:41Hmm.
01:42Those Crandalls must have been a morbid family.
01:45Having themselves buried right next to the house they lived in.
01:48Yes, they were peculiar.
01:51I guess they figured it was a way of keeping the family together.
01:56You shouldn't laugh, Mr. Griffin.
01:59What are you doing here?
02:02I hope I'm not too late.
02:05This is the gentleman who's planning to buy the house?
02:08Mr. Burley's already bought it.
02:10Oh, I'm sorry.
02:12Hey, look.
02:12What is this, Griffin?
02:13Who is this woman?
02:14I'm Emily Robbins.
02:16Mr. Burley, please, you must sell this house immediately to me.
02:21Sell it?
02:21That's ridiculous.
02:22I just bought it.
02:23Mr. Griffin, never should have allowed you to.
02:26Now, see here, Mrs. Robbins.
02:27Just a minute, Griffin.
02:28I want to hear what she has to say.
02:30Well, all right.
02:31But you can see she isn't exactly accountable.
02:35You're bad, Mr. Griffin.
02:38You promised to sell the house to me.
02:40But you couldn't wait until I had the money, could you?
02:43I'm in the real estate business, not charity.
02:46Mrs. Robbins, I still want to hear why Griffin shouldn't have sold me this house.
02:50Because, Mr. Burley, a house isn't just a thing made of wood and stone and mortar.
02:57It's almost a living, breathing creature.
03:00It accepts and rejects people just the way we do.
03:04I was born a Crandall, and only a Crandall may live here.
03:09Anybody but a Crandall would be an enemy within its walls.
03:13You'd never spend a happy moment here.
03:17Oh, you see, Mr. Burley, I told you.
03:19She doesn't make sense.
03:21Please, Mr. Burley, for your own sake, sell it.
03:24Ah.
03:25Oh, you can't frighten me into a quick sale.
03:27No, I know I'll buy when I see it.
03:30My wife and I will be living here within a few days.
03:33I'm sorry, Mr. Burley, but I don't think you will.
03:37I don't think you will ever live here.
03:47Helen.
03:48Oh, Helen.
03:49Mr. Burley?
03:49Yes, Ada.
03:50Where's Mrs. Burley?
03:51I want to tell her I got that house at my price.
03:53Oh, Sarah, you'd better go upstairs.
03:55The doctor's still there.
03:57Doctor?
03:58What's the matter?
03:59Oh, Mr. Burley.
04:00What is it, Ada?
04:01What is it?
04:02Your wife is dead.
04:05Why?
04:06She seemed so well after lunch.
04:08She was upstairs napping, and when she didn't come down at the usual time I went up, I tried
04:12to wake her.
04:12Helen, you're dead.
04:14Oh, no, it can't be.
04:15It just can't be.
04:16I tried to get you everywhere.
04:18But she hadn't been sick.
04:20There's no reason she should die.
04:21Dr. Hushman said the same thing.
04:23He said that...
04:24Oh.
04:26Hello?
04:27Is Mr. Burley there, please?
04:29Well, Mr. Burley can't come to the phone right now.
04:31Oh, it's all right, Ada.
04:33I'll take it.
04:34Yes, sir.
04:36Hello?
04:37Mr. Burley, this is Mrs. Robbins.
04:40Listen.
04:41I called to ask you if you've changed your mind about selling the house.
04:56Can I bring you something, Mr. Burley?
04:58No, Ada.
05:00Sir, I know it's none of my business, but maybe you shouldn't have come to live in this
05:04house.
05:05Maybe you should have sold it to Mrs. Robbins.
05:08I had to come here.
05:10I have to prove to myself that a house can have no evil influence over life and death.
05:14Of course it can't.
05:15And yet, according to the doctor, my wife passed away almost at the very moment I...
05:23I bought this house.
05:25I...
05:26I'm so confused.
05:27I don't know what to think.
05:29I'm not one to butt in, but you are letting the house have an effect on you.
05:34Or you haven't moved from that window all evening.
05:36I'm just trying to fathom things out.
05:38You've been standing there staring out at that graveyard.
05:41I'm all right.
05:42Now let me along.
05:43Yes, sir.
05:44Good night, Mr. Burley.
05:45Good night.
05:46Hey, Dad.
05:46What is it, sir?
05:48That graveyard out there.
05:50From the lightning splice just then.
05:52I saw it.
05:53Saw what?
05:54There's a new headstone among the old ones.
05:57A brand new headstone.
06:06Mr. Griffin.
06:08How long ago was the last candle buried in the graveyard out there?
06:12The last one?
06:13Let's see.
06:15Oh, yes.
06:15It was, uh, Vincent Crandall.
06:18He died 20 years ago.
06:2020 years?
06:21Then his headstone would have been a little worn by this time.
06:25Well, sure it would.
06:26But whether you...
06:27Ben, what is the meaning of the new headstone?
06:29New?
06:30Come to the window.
06:31I'll show you.
06:31Oh, now, Mr. Burley...
06:33There's a brand new headstone out there.
06:35Over a fresh grave.
06:36Oh, but that's impossible.
06:37I saw it first in the lightning splice.
06:39Well, you must be imagining things.
06:41Then sip yourself.
06:43Here, take this flashlight.
06:45Shine it out there on the graves and sip yourself.
06:47All right.
06:51Well?
06:54Mr. Burley, maybe you'd better see a doctor.
06:58Doctor?
06:59They're all old headstones out there.
07:03The new one is only in your mind.
07:06Give me that flashlight.
07:10Mr. Burley, what...
07:11You've been under a terrible strain.
07:13Your wife's sudden death and all.
07:17I don't know.
07:19What made me think I saw a new headstone out there?
07:24I want to sell this house.
07:26Right away.
07:27Well, you know, it takes a little time to arrange a sale.
07:30What about that Robin's room?
07:32She'll buy it.
07:33She's been bothering me all along to sell it to her.
07:35But Mrs. Robbins can't pay you a decent price.
07:38Well, I don't care.
07:39I'll take anything she offers.
07:40I want you to get in touch with her.
07:42All right, Mr. Burley.
07:43I'll call her in the morning.
07:45No, no.
07:47I can't wait until then.
07:49I want this house sold tonight.
08:00You don't understand, Mr. Griffin,
08:02why Mrs. Burley had to bring me out to you this time of the night.
08:06Well, he's made up his mind to sell.
08:08He wants to close the deal tonight.
08:10You don't want me to have this house, do you?
08:13Look, Mrs. Robbins, I don't care who gets it
08:16just as long as it's at a decent price.
08:18So you can get a higher commission.
08:21You're a very selfish man, Mr. Griffin.
08:24I'm not in business for love.
08:26Your wife did well to leave you.
08:28She was as crazy as you are.
08:32Why doesn't he answer the door?
08:33What's taking him so long?
08:36Murphy, what was that?
08:37No one's screaming.
08:38It came from...
08:40Say, the garage.
08:41There's a light in there.
08:42Come on.
08:43Whoever's screaming must be in that garage.
08:45Well, we'll soon find out.
08:46Maybe it isn't safe for us to go in there.
08:48That's a chance I'm going to have to take.
08:53What?
08:54Ada.
08:55Mr. Griffin.
08:56Well, that was you who screamed, huh?
08:59Yes.
09:00Why?
09:01What happened?
09:02Mr. Burley, he...
09:03What is it, Ada?
09:05What about Mr. Burley?
09:07He's dead.
09:09What?
09:10He left the house an hour ago.
09:12I looked out of the window and noticed that the garage here was lit.
09:15I came out and I found him slumped over in the car's head.
09:19How dead, sir?
09:21Well, this place is filled with carbon monoxide films.
09:25It wouldn't have happened.
09:26None of it.
09:27If he hadn't bought the house.
09:30Now, look, Mrs. Robbins.
09:31This is no time for that superstitious nonsense of yours.
09:34She's right, Mr. Griffin.
09:35It is nonsense.
09:36What do you mean, Ada?
09:37Here.
09:38Look.
09:39On the back seat of the car.
09:43Good Lord.
09:45A new headstone.
10:03Hey.
10:04Anybody want to buy a house?
10:06The Crandall Place is a real buy.
10:08All you have to give for it is your life.
10:14Too bad about our friend, Mr. Burley, huh?
10:17Thought he was getting a bargain basement, but instead he's ended up in a basement he didn't
10:22bargain for.
10:24Yes, he should have taken old Lady Robbins' advice, which, in a phrase, was, one man's
10:30menage is another man's morn.
10:35Well, now, let's get back to our mystical manner.
10:39A week has passed since Burley's death, and the real estate agent, Mr. Griffin, has found
10:44a new buyer.
10:46Well, here's your check, Mr. Griffin.
10:48Oh, thank you, Mr. Wagner.
10:50I consider this house a real buy.
10:53Well, you're the only person who's had any interest in it since Mr. Burley died.
10:56The place has gotten a bad name.
10:59Most people are superstitious, I guess.
11:02Wouldn't live here if you paid him.
11:03Oh, superstition never bothered me.
11:07Uh, Mr. Griffin.
11:10Yeah?
11:11What are you looking at that way?
11:14There's a graveyard out there.
11:16I...
11:17I don't understand.
11:20Understand?
11:20Well, what are you trying to say?
11:24There were always ten graves out there, I'm sure.
11:30But now there's a letter.
11:38I'm sorry, Mrs. Robbins, but nothing you say can persuade me to sell.
11:42Please, Mr. Wagner, for your own sake, don't be stubborn.
11:46It may cost you your life.
11:48You know what happened to Mr. Burley?
11:50Well, I've always prided myself on being a jinx worker.
11:54Oh, be sensible.
11:56That's a very silly reason to live here.
11:59Maybe I have another reason, too.
12:02What do you mean?
12:03Charles Burley was a very close friend of mine.
12:07Oh, I didn't know that.
12:09I told it to Mr. Griffin.
12:11Now I'm telling you.
12:14I knew Burley like a brother.
12:16Everything about him.
12:17Mrs. Robbins, he wasn't the type to commit suicide.
12:21Oh, but he didn't commit suicide.
12:24Oh.
12:25You seem to know a lot about it.
12:26I do.
12:28Then maybe you can tell me who killed him.
12:30I can.
12:31Who?
12:32This house is the king.
12:35Now, look.
12:36Oh, it is, Mr. Wagner.
12:38I know.
12:39You don't believe me, do you?
12:41Of course not.
12:42Soon you'll find out that I'm telling the truth.
12:46That sounds like a threat.
12:47No, no, Mr. Wagner.
12:49I'm not threatening you.
12:50I'm just trying to help.
12:52I'm just giving you a chance to live.
12:57One more chance to sell me this house at my price.
13:03And if I refuse?
13:05If you don't sell it to me now, well, then I'll buy it after your death.
13:13I see.
13:16Well, Mrs. Robbins, there's nothing more we can talk about.
13:20I'm sure you know your way out.
13:22Good afternoon.
13:24Good day, Mr. Wagner.
13:26Hello, Mrs. Robbins.
13:27Oh, hi.
13:28What?
13:29Ada, what are you doing here?
13:31Oh, didn't you know?
13:32I'm Mr. Wagner's new maid.
13:43Hello.
13:44Mr. Griffin?
13:46Yes?
13:46Come over here to the Grandville house right away.
13:50Mr. Wagner wants to see you.
13:51Well, who is this?
13:53It's very important, Mr. Griffin.
13:54Come as quickly as you can.
13:56Yes, but who is this?
13:58Shut up.
13:59Hello.
14:00Hello.
14:05Your number, please.
14:07Operator, get me Maine 6539 and hurry.
14:10Yes, sir.
14:13I'm sorry, sir, but that line is disconnected.
14:17Disconnected?
14:17What?
14:18Well, that's impossible.
14:19I just spoke to someone at that number.
14:21Try them again.
14:22I'm sorry, sir, but I checked.
14:24There is no way I could get you the number.
14:38Come in, Mr. Griffin.
14:40Mrs. Robin, what are you doing here at the Grandville house?
14:44I was waiting for you, Mr. Griffin.
14:47I don't understand.
14:48Come in, please.
14:50I was the one who called you on the phone to come out here.
14:54I didn't say who I was because I didn't want to mention me.
14:59But I tried to get the phone here right after you hung up.
15:02The operator said the line was disconnected.
15:05It is.
15:05The wire has been cut.
15:08I walked down the road to the mobile gas station to call you to come out here.
15:13Mrs. Robbins, just what is this all about anyway?
15:18Why are you here and where is Ada and Mr. Wagner?
15:22Ada's left.
15:23She's gone away.
15:25For good.
15:27What?
15:29On the hall table over there, a note from Ada to Mr. Wagner
15:34explaining why she left.
15:36And what about Mr. Wagner himself?
15:37Where is he?
15:39In the dining room.
15:40Oh, come on.
15:41Wait, wait.
15:42Please don't go in there.
15:43Let me...
15:44He's dead.
15:47Mr. Wagner dead?
15:49When I came in, you were slumped over the pleaser.
15:52When you came in, huh?
15:55Boy, the way you say that, Mr. Griffin,
15:58you make it sound like you think I killed poor Mr. Wagner.
16:02Well, what should I think?
16:04Oh, I wouldn't do a thing like that.
16:06Then suppose you tell me exactly what you're doing out here tonight.
16:10Well, it's like this, Mr. Griffin.
16:12I was home in bed, but I couldn't sleep.
16:15A strange feeling kept running through me that I should come out here
16:19and try to convince Mr. Wagner that he should sell the house before another day passed.
16:25Oh, a feeling.
16:26You can believe me.
16:28Oh, sure.
16:29When I arrived out here, the door was open and everything is just as you see it.
16:36What about the police?
16:37I didn't call them.
16:38Why not?
16:39Because I wanted to speak to you first.
16:41Speak to me with a murdered man in the next room?
16:44It wasn't murder.
16:46It was just the will of this house.
16:50And I want this house.
16:52Well, you'd do anything to get it, wouldn't you?
16:55Yes.
16:57Anything.
16:58Even murder?
17:01Yes.
17:02Mrs. Robbins, I'm driving down the road to make a phone call to the police.
17:13Griffin.
17:14Mr. Griffin, wait.
17:16Ada, what are you doing here?
17:18I was watching you and Mrs. Robbins through the window.
17:20Mr. Wagner is dead.
17:22I know.
17:23But how could you?
17:25You left the house this morning.
17:26I saw his body slumped over the table.
17:29You think the same as I do, don't you?
17:31What do you mean by that?
17:33You suspect Mrs. Robbins, too.
17:35In a way.
17:37But I also suspect you, Ada.
17:40Me?
17:41But I can't exactly figure out what your game is.
17:46Game?
17:46I have no game.
17:47Then why did you leave a note saying you were going away?
17:50What note?
17:52There's no use lying.
17:53I saw it myself on the hall table.
17:56But you must be mistaken.
17:58Today is my day off.
17:59I left the house early this morning.
18:01I didn't write a note.
18:03Well, if you are telling the truth...
18:05I am.
18:06I am.
18:07Then I know who did write that note.
18:10You wait right here for me.
18:11I'll be back in ten minutes.
18:12Keep your eye on the house.
18:13Where are you going?
18:14The phone inside is disconnected.
18:16I'm going down the road to call the police.
18:18I'll go with you.
18:19Why?
18:20I'd rather not stay here alone.
18:22Mrs. Robbins doesn't know you're out here.
18:24You're safe.
18:25Just the same.
18:25I'd feel better if I went with you.
18:27I'm not taking you with me.
18:29You act as if you're afraid of me.
18:31Maybe I am.
18:32But why?
18:34Why?
18:35Why?
18:36Of course, when Mrs. Burley died, you were in the house.
18:39The same with Mr. Burley.
18:41And now, Mr. Wagner.
18:43You were there when every victim died, Ada.
18:47I won't let you in this car with me.
18:59You called the police, Mr. Griffin?
19:02Yes, they're on the way out now.
19:04By the way, what are you doing here in this kitchen?
19:07Oh, I was just walking through the room, recalling the happy moments I spent here when
19:13I was young.
19:14You sure that's the only reason?
19:16Why, yes.
19:18I thought maybe Ada had something to do with it.
19:21Ada?
19:22You know very well she's left.
19:24You saw her note.
19:26Ada didn't write that note.
19:28What?
19:28I talked to her outside this house 15 minutes ago.
19:33She was to wait out there for me until I got back.
19:36She wasn't there.
19:38What's happened to her?
19:39I didn't see Ada, but...
19:41But wait.
19:43What is it?
19:44About five minutes ago, I...
19:47I thought I heard something new down the cellar.
19:50The cellar?
19:51Yes, but then I...
19:53I thought it was just my imagination.
19:55Hold on a minute.
19:56What's next?
19:57Just now.
19:58I heard it, too.
20:00Something or someone is down there.
20:04Come on.
20:05We're going down into the cellar to look around.
20:09Mr. Griffin.
20:10Look.
20:11Look, it's lit down there in the cellar.
20:14Yes.
20:15Go on.
20:16You're going first so I can keep my eye on you.
20:19Okay.
20:23Mr. Griffin.
20:24What is it?
20:25The hole in the floor here.
20:27Huh?
20:28Well, one of the stone flooring slabs has been removed.
20:31There's an old well down there.
20:33I remember it was sealed up when I was a little girl.
20:36Yes.
20:38And I can see the slab was freshly removed.
20:42I wonder why.
20:43Mr. Griffin.
20:44What now?
20:46Behind you, in the shadow.
20:48Look.
20:49There's a woman's body.
20:52It's Ada.
20:54It's Ada.
20:55Yes, I know.
20:57Well, you say it as if you were sure we would find this way.
21:02I was sure.
21:04You see, Mrs. Robbins, I killed her.
21:08Oh, no.
21:09I didn't have quite enough time to dispose of her body in the old well here.
21:14I heard you moving about upstairs in the kitchen.
21:17But why did you kill her, Mr. Griffin?
21:19Because she insisted on living in this house like the others.
21:23Then it wasn't this house.
21:25It wasn't because they weren't granders.
21:28Of course not.
21:29But your idiotic superstition about this place helped my plan.
21:34Mrs. Burley's sudden, peculiar death was a lucky coincidence for me.
21:39It gave me the idea for the others.
21:42I needed a series of deaths to completely destroy the value of this place.
21:47So no one would ever live in it.
21:51But why?
21:53On several occasions, you mentioned my wife, Mrs. Robbins.
21:58You see, you were wrong about her, as everybody else was wrong.
22:03She didn't run away from me.
22:06She would have, but I killed her.
22:09And her body is down at the bottom of that well,
22:13just as Ada's will be, and just as yours will be.
22:18But the police are coming.
22:20They'll find you out.
22:21You foolish old woman.
22:23Do you think I really called them?
22:24Now, Mrs. Robbins?
22:26No, no, please don't deny me.
22:28You wanted to stay in this house.
22:30Now you will, forever.
22:31No, no.
22:32You're going to get the thing you wanted most.
22:35Yes.
22:36Oh.
22:37You're not going to kill her, too.
22:41Ada.
22:42Yes, Ada.
22:43No.
22:44No, it can't be.
22:45You're dead.
22:46Not yet.
22:47Not completely.
22:49I've just enough life left.
22:52No, my legs.
22:53Let me go.
22:54Let me go.
22:55The well.
22:56I'll fall in there.
22:57Let's go.
23:02Ada.
23:04Oh.
23:05Ada.
23:09You thought it was nonsense, didn't you, Mr. Griffin?
23:15But it was this house that kept her alive long enough to protect me.
23:22My house to live.
23:33Well, as they say, all's well that ends in a well.
23:40Say, folks, what about that griffin character?
23:43Just goes to show how a property agent can sink to such an unreal estate.
23:51Hmm?
23:52Yes, sir.
23:53That's what I call tripping over your own plot.
23:57Now, Mrs. Robbins will never be lonely.
24:01No.
24:02When things get dull, she can always step outside the house and dig up a relative or two.
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