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  • 7/25/2025
Terrified of being buried alive by mistake, a woman puts a phone in her crypt to be able to call home if she needs help. She dies and nothing happens.
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00:00:00The End
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00:02:59Henry
00:03:00It's been so long
00:03:02So horrible
00:03:04Horrible?
00:03:07It started three days after you left
00:03:09How long ago was that?
00:03:13How many years?
00:03:15Three small weeks
00:03:17It was the fastest, most successful business trip
00:03:20That I or anyone else ever accomplished for you
00:03:22What started?
00:03:27I woke up in the middle of the night
00:03:29When I knew something was wrong
00:03:31And for the first time in my life, Vivian
00:03:33Being blind terrified me
00:03:37Didn't you ring for the servants?
00:03:39They were gone
00:03:40When did they return?
00:03:43They didn't
00:03:43I heard a door slam at the back of the house
00:03:46As I came up the stairs
00:03:47The new housekeeper
00:03:49She came the day after they left
00:03:52She said they told her that I'd be needing someone
00:03:55The new housekeeper
00:04:27How do you do, Miss Mandel?
00:04:36I've been looking forward to your return.
00:04:57I've been looking forward to your return.
00:05:27I've been looking forward to your return.
00:05:57I've been looking forward to your return.
00:06:27I've been looking forward to your return.
00:06:29Mother?
00:06:34Oh, no.
00:06:42What do you want?
00:06:50Mother, why do you do this?
00:06:52Mother, why do you do this?
00:06:53Oh, no.
00:06:54Oh, no.
00:06:55Oh, no.
00:06:56Oh, no.
00:06:58Oh, no.
00:07:00Oh, no.
00:07:01Oh, no.
00:07:02Oh, no.
00:07:03Oh, no.
00:07:04Oh, no.
00:07:06Oh, no.
00:07:07Oh, no.
00:07:11Oh, no.
00:07:12Oh, no.
00:07:13The End
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00:08:43The End
00:09:13The End
00:09:43Mr. Orion
00:09:47Thank you for not dismissing my call as a prank.
00:10:02You'd be amazed how few pranksters ask me to meet them in a cemetery at midnight.
00:10:07I hope I didn't tear you away from anything really important.
00:10:10If you're being haunted, Mrs. Mandor.
00:10:12Vivia, please.
00:10:13My husband's name still slightly overwhelms me.
00:10:16It's an impressive name.
00:10:22Impressive and tragic.
00:10:23Mostly to the Mandor's themselves.
00:10:33I've seen villages in Mexico.
00:10:36Living people living in tin and mud.
00:10:39And here, dignity, protection from the rain, and even art.
00:10:48And all wasted on the dead.
00:10:54Yes, I suppose I am haunted, Mr. Orion.
00:10:58By my memories of other people's anguish.
00:11:01But not by a ghost.
00:11:06How could I be?
00:11:07I don't believe in ghosts.
00:11:09Someone must.
00:11:10Unbelievers rarely are willing to pay my fee.
00:11:16My husband asked me to write you a check.
00:11:21In any amount.
00:11:22Is your name spelled O-apostrophe, Mr. Orion?
00:11:44Is your name spelled O-apostrophe, Mr. Orion?
00:11:44O-R-I-O-N.
00:11:59As in the constellation.
00:12:02Orion, the blind hunter.
00:12:10My husband wants you to investigate a ghost
00:12:12that's haunting him by telephone.
00:12:15He says it's a woman's voice,
00:12:17but it says nothing.
00:12:18It merely sobs and sobs.
00:12:21His mother died almost a year ago.
00:12:24He's convinced that it's her voice calling from in there.
00:12:30The telephone is within arm's reach of her coffin.
00:12:35You fill in the amount, Mr. Orion.
00:12:37You look like a man who knows his own price.
00:12:40If your husband isn't being genuinely haunted,
00:12:42I won't charge a penny.
00:12:45Whenever I do uncover a prank or any other crime,
00:12:48I turn it over to the police department.
00:12:51A medium who charges only for the genuine thing
00:12:54must be a very poor medium.
00:12:58Officially, I'm an architect.
00:13:00And I make a size of a living at it.
00:13:05And I am not a medium.
00:13:07Forgive me.
00:13:08My husband did insist I refer to you
00:13:11as a psychical consultant.
00:13:13Which is a different breed of cat altogether.
00:13:23Would you rather not come with me, Mrs. Mandor?
00:13:27It's natural to be disquieted.
00:13:29Even for an unbeliever?
00:13:38People who call themselves unbelievers always
00:13:40always remind me of Madame Pompadour's famous remark.
00:13:44I don't believe in ghosts,
00:13:47but I'm afraid of them.
00:13:59I'm afraid of them.
00:14:07I love you.
00:14:14Amen.
00:14:20Amen.
00:14:21Amen.
00:14:25Amen.
00:14:25Amen.
00:14:25Amen.
00:14:28Amen.
00:14:28Why the telephone, with an arms rich of her coffin?
00:14:41Louise Mandor had a lifelong fear of being mistaken for telling her.
00:14:47Why the telephone, with an arms rich of her coffin?
00:14:52Louise Mandor had a lifelong fear of being mistaken for telling her.
00:14:57Being mistaken for dead and buried alive.
00:15:02When she was a very little girl, they brought her here to attend a relative's funeral.
00:15:08During the services, she wandered off, alone.
00:15:12Somehow, accidentally, she locked herself in one of the burial chambers.
00:15:21Poor Louise. I don't believe she really thought anyone would bury her alive.
00:15:26But her will made every possible provision for it.
00:15:30Five doctors were to sign her death certificate.
00:15:33Her body was not to be embalmed.
00:15:35Her coffin was to be left open.
00:15:38And there was to be a direct telephone line from her burial chamber
00:15:42to Henry's room at the house.
00:15:45How long did she expect a grown married man to stay within reach of her phone?
00:15:50For the rest of his life.
00:15:52She had that kind of hold on?
00:15:54No, she simply knew Henry had no reason whatever to leave the house.
00:15:58Why should he?
00:16:00Why should he?
00:16:02He's already traveled the whole world.
00:16:05Several times.
00:16:13I suppose he wanted the world to look at him.
00:16:16Since he could never look at the world.
00:16:20Henry's been blind since birth.
00:16:22Henry.
00:16:23Henry.
00:17:00How long has your husband been receiving these sobbing phone calls?
00:17:10About two months ago, I went to New York on business.
00:17:13His mother had bequeathed large sums of money to certain charities
00:17:16and appointed me administrator.
00:17:19While I was gone...
00:17:20These calls couldn't be made from any place other than Louise Mandoor's very enchanted.
00:17:33No, it's a direct line.
00:17:35Couldn't someone else have a key to this place?
00:17:38It doesn't work like an ordinary to come.
00:17:40It has to be dialed.
00:17:42And only Louise Mandoor knew that code number.
00:17:44Well, I believe you're as certain as I am, Sir Ryan.
00:18:01That this is not a genuine haunting?
00:18:04That it is a prank.
00:18:08Do you think it's a prank, Mrs. Mandoor?
00:18:10I don't know. Whatever it is, it's driving Henry to the edge of madness.
00:18:40It's warm.
00:18:56Look at it, Mr. Orion.
00:18:58And then explain to me how that cold, moldering hand
00:19:01could reach out and grasp a telephone.
00:19:03And warm it.
00:19:04A ghost doesn't need the physical properties of its former existence
00:19:11in order to create tangible variants of its presence.
00:19:14According to pre-scientific theory,
00:19:17a ghost is of itself a physical entity.
00:19:22It's all it when?
00:19:23No!
00:19:23No!
00:19:26No!
00:19:26No!
00:19:29No!
00:19:31No!
00:19:32No!
00:19:32No!
00:19:32No!
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00:19:32No!
00:19:32No!
00:19:32No!
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00:19:32No!
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00:19:35No!
00:19:36No!
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00:19:37No!
00:19:38No!
00:19:39No!
00:19:39No!
00:19:40No!
00:19:40No!
00:19:56Mrs. Mandoor?
00:20:02Mrs. Mandoor, there.
00:20:04There's nothing to fear.
00:20:05There's nothing to fear.
00:20:06It's quiet now.
00:20:07It?
00:20:08Don't you feel it?
00:20:09Don't you feel it?
00:20:11Something still present.
00:20:13Something quiet, waiting.
00:20:14No.
00:20:15Something quiet, waiting.
00:20:16No.
00:20:17No.
00:20:18No!
00:20:19No!
00:20:20No!
00:20:21No!
00:20:22No!
00:20:23No!
00:20:24No!
00:20:25No!
00:20:26No!
00:20:27No!
00:20:28No!
00:20:29No!
00:20:30No!
00:20:31No!
00:20:32Dial H-E-L-P, the code number.
00:20:43Mrs. Van Doren, I want to talk to your husband tonight.
00:20:48Will you give me your address or shall I follow your car?
00:20:51I came by taxi.
00:20:54Then we will go together in my car.
00:21:02I left my purse.
00:21:16No, I want to prove I'm not afraid.
00:21:20To myself, that is.
00:21:32I want to prove I'm not afraid.
00:22:02I want to prove I'm not afraid.
00:22:32This is my door.
00:22:36I want to prove I'm not afraid.
00:22:38I want to prove I'm not afraid.
00:22:39Ah
00:23:09I won't! I... I can't!
00:23:15Her face! All splashed!
00:23:19Blood!
00:23:39Blood!
00:24:09Blood!
00:24:10Blood!
00:24:39Blood!
00:24:55Mr. Orion, would you please come in?
00:24:59I'm Mr. Orion's housekeeper, Mary Finch.
00:25:04Would you care for me this?
00:25:06We met last night, Mrs. Mandor, but being in shock, you may not have noticed.
00:25:11I helped Mr. Orion put you to bed.
00:25:14Did he explain my shock?
00:25:17He said something about you having seen a blood splashed apparition in a mausoleum.
00:25:23No purpose of a nice girl like you doing in a place like that.
00:25:28Mrs. Finch, could that be our doorbell?
00:25:37The young and wealthy make remarkable recoveries.
00:25:47You'd better leave that tray in the kitchen, Mrs. Finch, and get down to that door before Mr. Sloan breaks it in.
00:25:51Mary Finch! Do you know why I didn't keep his 8.30 appointment with the Los Angeles City Council?
00:26:06I'm afraid the world of art and architecture will have to be a bit patient, Mr. Sloan.
00:26:08Your favorite employers offer another of his morbid adventures.
00:26:11Two coffees, Mrs. Finch, please.
00:26:12Nelson, you don't seem to appreciate the fact that you live in the age of the bulldozers.
00:26:18Now, the City Council is perfectly willing to consider saving one of our few historical buildings.
00:26:22But unless you meet with them across a friendly breakfast table and show them how it can be saved without excessive expense.
00:26:28Nelson, the mortar used in brick buildings 90 years ago was different from that used today.
00:26:32Now, moving that building to a city park would be a difficult and costly operation.
00:26:35I assured the entire Council.
00:26:48I'll see the Council tomorrow morning,
00:26:51unless there's more to this than frank phone calls.
00:26:54You are almost a great architect, Nelson.
00:26:57And you're unquestionsably, this country's my father.
00:27:01And you're, unquestionably, this country's foremost restoration specialist.
00:27:07Why do you squander your genius on...
00:27:15The Haunted.
00:27:17Would you call a taxi for me, Mr. Orion?
00:27:20He doesn't have a telephone.
00:27:22Mr. Sloan, Mrs. Mandoff.
00:27:24I'll pick you up myself.
00:27:26Right here.
00:27:27At the dot of dawn.
00:27:31Bye, Mrs. Mandoff. Au revoir, Nelson.
00:27:34Bye, Mary Finch.
00:27:50Where did you get it?
00:27:51It's the mission of Sierra de Cobre.
00:27:53According to legend, the mission was halted by a bleeding ghost.
00:27:57The Sierra de Cobre authorities allowed the legend to flourish until the bleeding ghost murdered an American woman.
00:28:04A school teacher.
00:28:07Then they called me in.
00:28:12I'll just be a minute, Mrs. Mandoff.
00:28:14I'll just be a minute, Mrs. Mandoff.
00:28:44I'll just be a minute.
00:28:45I'll just be a minute.
00:28:46I'll just be a minute.
00:28:47I'll just be a minute.
00:28:48I'll just be a minute.
00:28:49I'll just be a minute.
00:28:50I'll just be a minute.
00:28:51Have you ever seen a genuine apparition?
00:28:52I'm a realist, Mrs. Mandoff.
00:28:53That's the prime reason Mr. Orion employs me.
00:28:57Like all promoters of the faith, he needs his devil's advocate.
00:29:00If you saw one, and the terror you felt left no room for doubt, I'd make room.
00:29:06Someone's got to not believe in ghosts.
00:29:08I'm a realist, Mrs. Mandoff.
00:29:09Have you ever seen a genuine apparition?
00:29:11I'm a realist, Mrs. Mandoff.
00:29:12That's the prime reason Mr. Orion employs me.
00:29:14Like all promoters of the faith, he needs his devil's advocate.
00:29:16If you saw one, and the terror you felt left no room for doubt, I'd make room.
00:29:21Someone's got to not believe in ghosts.
00:29:24Don't believe in ghosts.
00:29:54I can say, if you see the death of someone, and the który who was in court, or you'll look into it from nothing, and it's a nice thing.
00:29:57Who did not believe in ghosts?
00:30:10Who did not believe in ghosts that we found?
00:30:14Who, who didn't see their star-wic Developmentlaughs?
00:30:16I left it there last night.
00:30:32I had a faint visit me, so I was confused, so I called the taxi.
00:30:46If you'll give me the key, I'll move it out of our way.
00:30:56I must have lost them.
00:30:58It's a long way off, but would you like to walk to the house?
00:31:05It's over 100 acres, one of the very few estates in this country that has been built.
00:31:16A country that hasn't been sold off and subdivided.
00:31:20It seems sort of old world, doesn't it?
00:31:23Having an entire family fortune tied up in real estate.
00:31:27The Mandors aren't interested in selling any part of this.
00:31:30My husband is the only Mandor left.
00:31:32And he wouldn't sell it if his life depended on it.
00:31:35He's very loyal to the wishes of his ancestors.
00:31:39Why, are you interested in buying?
00:31:46Is there a reason why your husband uses his mother's maiden name?
00:31:54Yes.
00:31:55The most recent offer was seven and a quarter million dollars.
00:32:09Could Benedict's loan associates better that?
00:32:12It would be almost immoral to let the bulldozers get at all this perfect nature.
00:32:18Can you picture, Mrs. Mandor, every 100 feet of motor driven barbecue with a high middle income house attached?
00:32:23Why do you traffic in the supernatural?
00:32:48It's one thing to rebel against urban development, but to believe in things that science has disproven.
00:32:57Disproven?
00:32:58No, no.
00:32:59Merely not been able to prove.
00:33:01Distinction is slight.
00:33:03Nevertheless, it's there.
00:33:04And I've always been against any dogma or philosophy that says we must discard and disbelieve in that which science cannot prove, computerize, or tame.
00:33:16Mrs. Mandor, supernaturally or otherwise, we are all haunted.
00:33:21Anyone who's lived in this past century, this last week, cannot escape being haunted.
00:33:27For some of us, it's a mass haunting, an all-pervading spectra of guilt or futility or alienation that we suffer collectively.
00:33:37For others, the haunting is more private and more terrible because the ghosts are ours alone and we recognize them.
00:33:43Sometimes it takes so little to free ourselves of our ghosts.
00:33:50And if my believing in another man's haunting helps to free him, does it matter whether science calls his agony hallucinatory or real?
00:34:13No.
00:34:14And it's a sign of life.
00:34:15No.
00:34:16And it's just a sign of faith.
00:34:17The devil is out there.
00:34:18The devil is over and there.
00:34:19The devil is off.
00:34:20He's dead, too.
00:34:21The devil is over and there.
00:34:22He's could get it at this place to go.
00:34:23And that's he, the devil is over and there.
00:34:24Then he's on the cross.
00:34:25Oh
00:34:52Effective
00:34:55What did you see in that chamber last night
00:35:03What did I imagine I saw
00:35:07Blood splashed apparition
00:35:09Did you see her, Mr. Orion?
00:35:12Her
00:35:12No, but I saw the effect she had on you
00:35:22What did she want you to do?
00:35:23Lend her a quarter for the powder room
00:35:27Mr. Orion
00:35:41Mr. Mendo
00:35:42Our housekeeper, Paulina
00:35:49Do you mind if she remains during our consultation?
00:35:56She's only been with us two months
00:35:57But her concern for me is very real
00:35:59And I'd like her to see for herself
00:36:01That you're not a charlatan
00:36:02Is this the first time we met?
00:36:09Perhaps I was among those who tried to touch your sleeve
00:36:13The day you rode into my village
00:36:16Sierra de Cobra
00:36:17Charlatan
00:36:20You could not exercise the bleeding ghost
00:36:23There was no ghost of the missionary Sierra Cobra
00:36:26My own child once was splashed by the black blood of it
00:36:31Water
00:36:33Thickened with sugar, colored with soot
00:36:38A sop for the tourists
00:36:39The people of Sierra de Cobra have faith in you
00:36:42We expected you to rid our mission of its horror
00:36:47Well, if you'd merely failed in that
00:36:49We would have forgiven you
00:36:50But to cast suspicion on us
00:36:54To say that one of us would murder an American
00:36:57Some of us would rather believe in the supernatural, Mr. Orion
00:37:02Ghosts can be less frightening than crime
00:37:05Or madness
00:37:06Mr. Mendo
00:37:08Do you want to believe that these calls come from the realm of the supernatural?
00:37:10Vivi is afraid of the hallucinations of a blind madman
00:37:15No
00:37:16She hides her fear under that incredible tranquility of hers
00:37:21But at odd times she weeps
00:37:24As only someone who loves someone can
00:37:28I hear Paulina going to her
00:37:31And calming her
00:37:33Somehow
00:37:34Her fear is not entirely groundless, Mr. Orion
00:37:38My father went mad the night I was born
00:37:42And some strains of madness are in her
00:37:47Then of course
00:37:52She's never heard this phone ring
00:37:55Nor has Paulina
00:37:56Mr. Mendo
00:37:59I don't feel there's anything supernatural about these calls
00:38:02Again?
00:38:05He will try to persuade you that someone is trying to break your mind
00:38:08And your heart
00:38:10To save his face
00:38:13And his lucrative reputation
00:38:15He will cry trickery here
00:38:18As he cried murder
00:38:19As he had a copy
00:38:21I could have saved you a great deal of expense
00:38:24And hope
00:38:25If I had known that you were going to ask Mrs. Mendo
00:38:27To call on him for help
00:38:28Your medium has no psychical powers
00:38:32He cannot help you
00:38:34No one can
00:38:36The haunted must deal with their ghosts
00:38:39Alone
00:38:41Will your guest be staying for lunch, Mr. Mendo
00:38:45I do not claim psychical powers, Mr. Mendo
00:39:02As an architect
00:39:04I've always specialized in the restoration of old forsaken houses
00:39:08And in some of these houses I've seen and heard things no one has ever proven
00:39:13Or disproven
00:39:15The mission at Sierra de Cobre might have been haunted
00:39:18But I saw and felt nothing that could convince me of it
00:39:22So I suggested that an autopsy be performed on the so-called victim
00:39:28Because she was an American and a schoolteacher at that
00:39:32The authorities acted
00:39:34She'd been poisoned
00:39:37By sugared watercolors with soot
00:39:40By an overdose of a hallucinogenic drug called ayahuasca or Yage
00:39:45Did they find the murderer?
00:39:48No
00:39:48Mr. Manlaw
00:39:52I've told you this because I need your trust
00:39:55And your rationality and your cooperation
00:39:57Not your
00:39:58Not my blind faith
00:39:59Then I'm not being haunted
00:40:04I am going mad
00:40:07For
00:40:26For
00:40:27To
00:40:32To
00:40:32Oh, my God.
00:41:02Take her out of the house, walk with her.
00:41:29She'll be all right now, Mr. Mandel.
00:41:32It sounded like someone locked inside a coffin.
00:41:37Someone not dead, like the nightmares my mother used to have.
00:41:43Could this be a trick, too?
00:41:46Or is my mother trying to drive me mad?
00:41:48Drink this. It'll help.
00:41:51This lid hasn't been opened for years and years.
00:41:55The nails are buried in the paint. I can feel it.
00:41:58Could someone manufacture this, Mr. Orion?
00:42:02No.
00:42:05Or could someone enter my mother's burial chamber
00:42:07and dial the code number that only my mother knew?
00:42:11The code is recorded on the cross hanging in the chamber.
00:42:14Anyone looking for it could find it.
00:42:17And if not my mother, who?
00:42:21Who would want me mad?
00:42:22I understand the current market value of the Mandelor estate is seven and a quarter million dollars.
00:42:29If you were declared insane, I have no heirs.
00:42:33Other than my wife, Mr. Orion.
00:42:34You haven't answered my question.
00:42:41Was that pounding a trick, too?
00:42:45No.
00:42:46That pounding was a genuine psychical disturbance.
00:42:50Then my mother's trying to drive me mad.
00:42:53Mr. Mandelor, would you tell my wife
00:42:55I'd like to speak to her
00:42:58alone?
00:42:59Alone.
00:43:01Alone.
00:43:29I heard her pounding the way she did when we locked her down there.
00:43:49You see why I grew so angry when I found that you'd called in Mr. Orion?
00:43:53And I was afraid he'd distress you.
00:43:57And he has.
00:43:59He stirred up that childish nightmare.
00:44:03It wasn't.
00:44:04It was real.
00:44:05I saw her last night.
00:44:07She wasn't whole.
00:44:09She was half born, half dead.
00:44:12She told me I had to.
00:44:15Tell me.
00:44:17Why did she come now?
00:44:19So suddenly, after so much time.
00:44:21What do you suppose she was waiting for?
00:44:25She said sometimes they need help.
00:44:29They need the strength of someone living.
00:44:32Who sang you this medieval tune?
00:44:35Mr. Orion?
00:44:39Only romantics and old children believe in ghosts.
00:44:45And murderers!
00:44:46Only those that get caught.
00:44:59Well, if it's Mr. Orion's strength that she needs,
00:45:03we'll have to find a way to deprive her of it.
00:45:05The End
00:45:07The End
00:45:07The End
00:45:08The End
00:45:08The End
00:45:38Do you live in that?
00:46:05Yes
00:46:05I've been staring at it
00:46:08It's a house
00:46:10I know
00:46:11That lady lying there told me it was haunted
00:46:14She hoped to scare me away
00:46:18Is it haunted?
00:46:20Not on a regular basis
00:46:21I like haunted houses
00:46:25Have you ever wandered through one?
00:46:28Yes
00:46:28Did you break in through the cellar window?
00:46:31I didn't have to
00:46:33The doors were hanging open like
00:46:35Like eyelids that no one had bothered to put a penny out
00:46:39Would you like to spend an evening in a haunted house?
00:46:47Yes
00:46:48Um, if your husband wouldn't mind
00:46:52I'm not married
00:46:53Well, I've been invited to a party at one Friday night
00:46:57I'll pick you up at 8 o'clock
00:46:59Right here
00:47:01Right here?
00:47:03Mr. Orion!
00:47:04Is that you?
00:47:06Is it?
00:47:09Nelson Orion
00:47:10Right here
00:47:13Is it?
00:47:18That's what he's worried about
00:47:19Is that you
00:47:22That's right S иде
00:47:26Not on a regular basis
00:47:26If it's snow
00:47:27I need to go
00:47:30Oh, yeah
00:47:30What?
00:47:31Be it's aен
00:47:32You
00:47:32Oh, yeah
00:47:33It's just
00:47:33over
00:47:34Oh, yeah
00:47:34If it's snow
00:47:35You
00:47:35You
00:47:35You
00:47:36you look too complacent this afternoon
00:47:49someone may have to kill me or at least try
00:47:54you're referring to one of them i trust them your phantom friend the psychical phenomena set
00:48:02you know i found it suspect when a lady feels compelled to disparage a thing she doesn't
00:48:05believe in
00:48:08no i was referring to paulina
00:48:14the mandor's housekeeper
00:48:16why should she have to kill you
00:48:19to keep me from giving strength to something
00:48:22half born half dead
00:48:30sometimes the sun said so suddenly
00:48:37the sun said so
00:48:44the sun said so
00:48:47the sun said so
00:48:51Oh
00:49:21Mr. Orion, isn't there something I can do to help?
00:49:50Do you think you could suspend your disbelief in the supernatural just for the sake of argument?
00:50:01Let's start with the sobbing telephone.
00:50:03The sobbing telephone was a trick.
00:50:09I knew it had to be.
00:50:12No self-respecting ghost would be caught dead using one of the devil's own inventions.
00:50:17Mrs. Mandor was making the calls.
00:50:23The housekeeper.
00:50:25Private line had a third extension hidden in the library.
00:50:28But it was Vivi, Amanda, who ordered the installation.
00:50:31I checked with the telephone company.
00:50:33Did you have a little vial of black magic analyzed?
00:50:37I've seen it work. Instant serenity. Probably the raw essence of some tranquilizing root juice.
00:50:44I'm disappointed. I'd hoped it was one of those hallucinogenic mind-expanding drugs.
00:50:50Why, Mrs. Finch, what an unholy little hope.
00:50:54Well, it would have explained the hallucination she suffered in the burial chamber.
00:50:58That wasn't a hallucination.
00:51:00Only Vivi, Amanda, saw it.
00:51:02And the pounding in the window seat?
00:51:04All of us heard that. Not only Vivi, Amanda.
00:51:08Well, it could have been a mechanical device hidden that someone could have operated from another part of the house.
00:51:15Only Vivi, Amanda.
00:51:23She's the one person who's always been present.
00:51:25The one recipient of every psychical disturbance that's occurred since the genuine haunting began.
00:51:30The wind.
00:51:32The apparition, the pounding.
00:51:35Henry Mandor isn't being haunted.
00:51:38I never did believe any red-bullet American mother ghost would haunt her own son.
00:51:43I'm convinced that Louise Mandor isn't haunting anyone.
00:51:47She'd had a natural death. Five doctors certified to that fact.
00:51:51She died smiling.
00:51:55Louise Mandor has no reason to be haunting Vivi.
00:51:58She'd have to have a desperate reason.
00:52:00Ghosts don't haunt out of whimsy, Mrs. Finch.
00:52:03They're either too noble or too evil to indulge in mere mischief.
00:52:07I say there's no ghost at all except in that girl's very guilty conscience.
00:52:12There is a ghost.
00:52:16But whose?
00:52:17If the Mandor's housekeeper feels she has to kill you, it's because she's afraid of you, Mr. O'Brien.
00:52:23Not something half-born, half-dead.
00:52:26Human beings don't murder out of whimsy.
00:52:29I think you'd better find out what it is she doesn't want you to find out.
00:52:41Mr. O'Brien, I know how you feel about helping people who are haunted.
00:52:53And I admire you for that.
00:52:54If you were just looking for morbid adventure, I'd say, oh, go ahead and get yourself hurt.
00:52:58But you aren't.
00:52:59And there aren't.
00:53:00And there aren't too many of us in this world that care about the suffering of strangers.
00:53:04Still...
00:53:05Still...
00:53:06Still, I can't help feeling that there are some things that no one should...
00:53:10I'll be careful, Mrs. Finch.
00:53:11I'll be careful, Mrs. Finch.
00:53:13I'll be careful, Mrs. Finch.
00:53:43I'll be careful,ososå—Ž, Mrs. Finch.
00:53:44I'll be careful, Mrs. Finch.
00:53:45I'll be careful, Mrs. Finch.
00:53:46He'll be careful, Mrs. Finch.
00:53:47He can.
00:53:48He says, he said, you can hear.
00:53:49He's a little girl.
00:53:50He's gonna lose.
00:53:51No Might have a bus.
00:53:52To meet, where it generally feels too much, I wish to…
00:53:53But he's such a grand problems.
00:53:54He's like a regular problem that it is what it is.
00:53:55And there心 or something around your
00:54:05should follow.
00:54:06Under one's face
00:54:07Is he written her?
00:54:08Why don't you answer her?
00:54:09And there's no longer, Joe?
00:54:12I know.
00:57:13Mr. Mandore asks if you will see him at this hour, simply to say goodbye.
00:57:22Mrs. Mandore will bring him.
00:57:23Mr. Orion?
00:57:33Are we all right, Mrs. Finch?
00:57:35Well, I'll just leave my door a little bit open.
00:57:39Mr. Mandore?
00:57:41Mr. Orion.
00:57:49Mr. Mandore?
00:57:57Mr. Orion.
00:57:59Mr. Orion.
00:58:00I regret this intrusion into the dead of night.
00:58:05It's quite all right.
00:58:07Sit, Vivio.
00:58:09I couldn't leave without saying goodbye and thanking you.
00:58:19You don't owe me anything, Mr. Mandore.
00:58:25You're wrong, Mr. Orion.
00:58:26You're wrong, Mr. Orion.
00:58:27I owe you a great deal.
00:58:29I needed a justifiable reason to rid myself of that estate.
00:58:33You gave me that reason.
00:58:34You gave me that reason when you proved my mother is haunting me.
00:58:39Now, Mrs. Mandore, tell him now.
00:58:52Or you'll never tell him.
00:58:54And you'll be hearted for the rest of your life.
00:58:56Tell me what?
00:59:01The ghost hasn't been haunting you, Henry.
00:59:09You?
00:59:11Yes.
00:59:14Why should my mother haunt you?
00:59:15It isn't your mother.
00:59:19It's the woman who was murdered
00:59:21in the mission of Sierra de Cobre,
00:59:25the American school teacher.
00:59:33I was born in Sierra de Cobre.
00:59:35My father was an American dreamer who came there to...
00:59:39dream.
00:59:42So it was up to my mother to earn money for bread.
00:59:46Or beg for it.
00:59:48We earned it by guiding tourists to the mission
00:59:50to see the bleeding ghost.
00:59:52I would lead the tourists down into the catacombs
00:59:54and my mother would be hiding there.
00:59:57She'd moan and splash some sugared water colored with soot.
01:00:02And then...
01:00:05My mother discovered...
01:00:07an hallucinogenic drug called ayahuasca or...
01:00:12the age.
01:00:14A few drops of it and the tourists saw...
01:00:17all the horror or beauty they wanted to see.
01:00:19But for some reason...
01:00:22it didn't have enough effect on the school teacher.
01:00:26And she refused to pay us.
01:00:29So my mother gave her more and more and...
01:00:32an overdose makes you go mad before it kills you.
01:00:35When she went mad...
01:00:39we became frightened.
01:00:42So my mother locked her in one of the little tombs.
01:00:47And we ran away.
01:00:49You were a child, Vivian.
01:00:54Why should she want to haunt you?
01:00:58Mr. Orion.
01:01:00Did you help my wife?
01:01:04Mrs. Mando, last night in the burial chamber...
01:01:06the school teacher told you to...
01:01:08expose your mother to the Sierra de Cobra authorities.
01:01:14But I can't!
01:01:18Help!
01:01:46Help!
01:01:48Help!
01:02:03Help!
01:02:05Help!
01:02:07Help!
01:02:09Help!
01:02:16Help!
01:02:18Mr. O'Ryan?
01:02:32Mr. O'Ryan?
01:02:45Mama!
01:02:48Mama!
01:03:18Mama!
01:03:20Do you recognize that sobbing, Mr. Mandorf?
01:03:23I was the one who told Paulina about the telephone.
01:03:30Do you recognize that sobbing, Mr. Mandor?
01:03:36I was the one who told Paulina about the telephone.
01:03:42Vivia, you didn't know she was going down there and making those calls.
01:03:51I knew.
01:03:52And you let her?
01:03:54That day when I got back from that business trip and found her in the house.
01:04:00She told me she'd paid the servants $5,000 to disappear,
01:04:07that it was worth it to be alone with me and you.
01:04:13That's why she pretended to be a housekeeper.
01:04:17She didn't want anyone in the house but the three of us.
01:04:22She'd been a long time in searching for me.
01:04:25She wanted to enjoy my
01:04:30good fortune in marrying so well.
01:04:37She'd read all about it in the newspapers.
01:04:40Why didn't you tell me at once?
01:04:42She said if I did...
01:04:49...she'd kill you.
01:04:50You shouldn't have believed her.
01:04:52You should have...
01:04:53Mr. Mandor, haven't you ever been afraid of somebody?
01:04:56She started giving me the drug.
01:05:03The sweet medicine she used to give me when I was a little girl.
01:05:06I stood by while she made all those telephone calls.
01:05:09They were supposed to frighten you into selling the Mandor estate.
01:05:13I thought...
01:05:16...fear was better than death.
01:05:18It isn't.
01:05:20It's only slower.
01:05:21Go back to your home, Henry.
01:05:29No.
01:05:32Mr. Orion can turn us over to the police.
01:05:35No.
01:05:37Please.
01:05:39There's nothing you can do at the moment.
01:05:41Please.
01:05:43Is there someone here who can take me there?
01:05:46I will.
01:05:47The car keys, Mr. Orion.
01:05:51Do you want to get me there?
01:06:00Oh.
01:06:01Yeah.
01:06:08Hmm.
01:06:15Hmm.
01:06:16Hmm.
01:06:17Hmm.
01:06:19Hmm.
01:06:20Do you know who tried to kill you?
01:06:42I tried to tell her that the school teacher had come for us,
01:06:46but she only took me into the library
01:06:49and gave me drugs that calmed me.
01:06:52I suppose American school teachers have better things to do
01:06:55than light the stars.
01:06:57Will you let me help you?
01:07:00You tell the police it was an accident.
01:07:03She begged to be taken to the mission.
01:07:06She would pay anything she said to see the bleeding ghost.
01:07:10The school teacher, parched in the heart.
01:07:15Was it wrong to put a few drops of cooked illusion
01:07:19on her tongue?
01:07:20We didn't want to kill her.
01:07:22Tell her that.
01:07:24She will believe you.
01:07:29Ask them to show a little mercy.
01:07:32Just a little.
01:07:34Just for my daughter.
01:07:38The golden one.
01:07:49And I'll ask, I'll beg them.
01:07:59Have you ever witnessed anything so excessive?
01:08:04She's never begged for anything.
01:08:06When I was a child, she'd grab me by the throat
01:08:08and scream lie, deceive, beguile, but never beg.
01:08:14My father finally took me out of that black boil
01:08:16called Sierra de Cobre.
01:08:19I was asleep on his lap when we crossed the border.
01:08:29And I woke up in his country.
01:08:36But you went back to her when you grew up.
01:08:38No.
01:08:39She wanted me, so she came and took me.
01:08:43And whenever she wanted anything, she simply took it.
01:08:50Well, you've uncovered worse than a prank, Mr. Orion.
01:08:57Turn us over to the police and let justice collect
01:09:00whatever payments are due.
01:09:01What are you going to do with me?
01:09:03Will you let me help you?
01:09:04To escape.
01:09:05To escape what?
01:09:06The police?
01:09:07The police.
01:09:08It isn't the police I'm worried about.
01:09:10No, you do not come from Sierra de Cobre.
01:09:13You do not know what they do to you
01:09:14for stealing a cup of milk to feed a starving child.
01:09:17They'll show you more mercy than she will.
01:09:20She?
01:09:21The ghost of the woman you murdered.
01:09:22Ghosts?
01:09:24I've never seen a ghost.
01:09:26I have seen the police.
01:09:28What do you think happened outside in the car?
01:09:30The brakes slipped.
01:09:32And the locked doors?
01:09:35Let me go.
01:09:36That school teacher wants a murderer avenged.
01:09:41And she won't stop haunting you until you've confessed to it
01:09:44and paid for it.
01:09:47Let me take you to the police.
01:09:49No.
01:09:50Find some other way.
01:09:52There is no other way.
01:09:55All right.
01:10:00I can't do anything more than beg.
01:10:03I can't do anything worse.
01:10:08I'll bring your car to the door.
01:10:33...
01:10:38I can't do anything more than the car is saying.
01:10:43I can't do anything more than the car is wearing the혼ic.
01:10:46Wow!
01:10:47...
01:10:51...
01:10:56How about twins?
01:10:56...
01:10:57...
01:10:59A wounded deer leaps highest.
01:11:29A wounded deer leaps.
01:11:59A wounded deer leaps.
01:12:29A wounded deer leaps.
01:12:59You can take me to the police now, Mr. Orion.
01:13:29Would you please carry my mother's body to the car, Mr. Orion?
01:14:29He asked me to tell you as I saw him do that.
01:14:34Was there a mechanical device in the window seat?
01:14:36You can take me to the car, Mr. Orion.
01:14:42You can take me to the car, Mr. Orion.
01:14:48You can take me to the car, Mr. Orion.
01:14:50You can take me to the car, Mr. Orion.
01:14:52You can take me to the car, Mr. Orion.
01:19:28The city council expects you at 8.30 and don't tell me you're still too busy with prank phone calls.
01:19:33No, Ben.
01:19:34No, Ben.
01:19:35The prank is over.
01:19:36That's all it was, huh?
01:19:38Just a prank.
01:19:40Well, apparently there was a wee bit more to it than that, Mr. Sloan.
01:19:45But it needn't worry people who don't believe in such things.
01:19:48Come into the house.
01:19:49No houses.
01:19:50I'll buy you breakfast.
01:19:51I'll buy you breakfast.
01:19:56No, Ben.
01:20:03No, Ben.
01:20:05No, Ben.
01:20:13Yes, it's over...
01:20:15No, Ben.
01:20:20The End