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The
Sealed Book
(Old Radio Show)
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The
Great Sealed Book contains tales of every kind. Tales of murder,
madness, and ‘dark deeds that are strange and terrible beyond all
belief.’ In this episode the Keeper of the book has chosen to share the
strange story of a man named Leonard who returns to his birthplace to
claim his inheritance.
Leonard’s family estate is called
Pirate’s Rest. It lies deep in the Louisiana swamplands, and his family
have lived there for over a century, but Leonard, who is the black
sheep of the family, has not been home for many years because his
father forbade him to come back. His father is long dead though, and
Leonard’s brother Tom has recently died as well. Now only his Aunt
Emily remains, but she hates Leonard because, when he was
twelve-years-old, he locked her in the family mausoleum and left her
there overnight. Ever since then Emily has claimed to be able to talk
to the dead.
When Leonard tells Emily that he has come for his
inheritance she informs him that Tom left everything to her, but
Leonard, who is not the kind of guy to let a little thing like that
stop him, is soon ransacking the house, looking for money, while a
terrible storm rages outside. He does not find any money, but he does
find a document that states that Tom recently received $300.000 from a
property sale and Leonard is convinced that the money is in the house
somewhere.
While he is searching the house Leonard also
discovers his Aunt Emily’s servant, Martha, busy working on a voodoo
doll that she has fashioned to look just like him. She is trying to
force the doll into a coffin, but her efforts only succeed in angering
Leonard so much that he kills her. Then, when Emily comes looking for
her servant, Leonard ties his aunt to a chair and begins interrogating
her as to the location of the money. She tells him that there is a
coffin ready for him in the secret lower vault of the mausoleum. The
money is inside it, but if he wants it he will have to hurry because
the bijou is rising fast and is already flooding the cemetery.
Leonard
and his wife Florence wade through the knee-deep water in the cemetery
and find their way down to the lower vault where, just as Emily stated,
they find a coffin full of money. Finding their way back out of the
vault, however, proves to be a much harder task.
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