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00:00You
00:30Hmm
01:00Oh
01:30Oh
02:00Oh
02:24Come in
02:27William Castle the producer of this motion picture has a question for you. Do you believe in ghosts?
02:35Some people believe in them. Others do not
02:39Personally, I do
02:41And I feel sure that when you leave this theater
02:44You too will believe in ghosts
02:47No more dictation today
02:51When you came in you were given a special ghost viewer like this
02:57And here's how it works, would you please change the color of the screen?
03:02Thank you, you must only use it when the screen changes to this kind of a bluish color
03:09Then you raise the viewer to your eyes and you look at the screen through it if you believe in ghosts
03:16you look through the
03:18red part of the viewer
03:20If you do not believe in ghosts you look through the blue part
03:25Would you please change the color again
03:28Thank you now when the screen resumes its normal color like this
03:34Remove the viewer from in front of your eyes until the next time the screen becomes blue. Oh
03:40One more thing if someone sits down next to you during the picture
03:44It would be helpful if you would show him or her how the viewer should be used and remember if you believe in ghosts
03:54Look through the red part if you don't believe in ghosts
03:59Look through the blue
04:02Happy haunting goodbye for now. Shall we go?
04:08The La Brea Tar Pits became traps for all kinds of animals
04:12They would either wander out on the tar or be driven into it by their enemies
04:17The tar would trap them and slowly kill them
04:21Now someone's going to ask how did birds get into the pits?
04:26The vultures would eat the birds and the birds would eat the tar
04:31Now someone's going to ask how did birds get into the pits
04:36the vultures and condors fed on whatever had the misfortune to be trapped and
04:42Sometimes the birds themselves got caught in the tar and were pulled down to their death
04:48if any of you would like to see where these birds and
04:52Animals came from the pits are in the Wilshire District of Los Angeles
04:56Go over there sometime and try to imagine what it was like 40,000 years ago
05:02when monsters like these
05:05wandered around where now
05:07expensive cars roam
05:09Why did huge beasts?
05:12so much more powerful than man
05:16Disappear from the face of the earth while man a relatively puny thing survived
05:21I
05:25Excuse me just a moment
05:32What's the trouble mr. Bannon your wife's on the phone, but I'm lecturing I told her that
05:39Will you take over for me then? Yes, of course Oh sigh
05:43Where are you?
05:45explaining how man survived the Pleistocene age
05:50How did he and why?
06:05Hello, honey, what's the trouble the moving men are here and they're taking the furniture away again
06:12Won't they wait no, they won't wait not even till tomorrow
06:18Payments are three months overdue now three months. I
06:22Distinctly remember somehow you didn't make the payment side, but if we can make them now plus a month in advance
06:30Let's do that. How much money do we have in the bank about $2?
06:35Mmm, I get paid soon. You don't get paid for almost a month and we owe it all anyway
06:41You suppose mr. Van Allen
06:44No, mr. Van Allen doesn't make much more than I do and he's got three children
06:51What's matter nothing good thing we own the mattresses did you get buck a birthday present?
06:58Yeah. Yeah, don't forget to bring it. Bye. Bye, honey
07:04Why do they always take our furniture
07:08Because your father is a wonderful man. Just forgetful like me like you buck sometimes
07:26Well, the rest of us are going to have to get out of here
07:33They're just useful anyway socks and
07:37You gave him that one. Oh
07:39There's nothing wrong with ghost stories. Daddy. Unless that's all you read. He's got every spooky book ever printed
07:54Wow, hey you believe in ghosts buck sure you want some cake cake. Oh
08:01Yeah, yeah
08:07No, no, no, you've got to make a wish first I already have well
08:11How will anybody know if you wish comes true if you don't wish out loud?
08:14Suppose I don't want anybody to know then you wish for something bad. I have not my dear
08:19Well, if you can't wish out loud, then there must be something wrong with it. Don't you want us to know what your wish is?
08:24darling, I
08:26Wish we had a house with furniture. Nobody could take away from us
08:57I
09:07Reserved by telegram for you
09:27I
09:39Regard to a matter of great importance to you
09:42You are requested to present yourself in the office of Benjamin Rush attorney tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock
09:49Signed Benjamin Rush
09:52Benjamin Rush attorney
09:54Well, it's not anybody. We owe at least I don't think so. It could be the lawyer from a collection agency
10:00Could be what are you gonna do go? What else suppose? You just run away
10:06Why run away before you find out what's chasing you?
10:09Well, I read about a man who waited to find out but he never did because it ate him
10:15Benjamin Rush attorney-at-law who is in the Petro building?
10:21You haven't done anything you can be arrested for have you daddy? No
10:28Not lately
10:39So you inherit the house which is the bulk of the estate
10:42Furnished. Oh, yes. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's furniture
10:47His buck psychic or something, ma'am
10:50Our ten-year-old son buck. His birthday wish was for a house with furniture. Yeah
10:56What sort of a house is it?
10:58I'm afraid you're gonna be disappointed. Mr. Zorba. It's one of those sprawling old mansions. They built 50 years ago
11:05Well, that's better than a third mortgage
11:07Well, don't decide to move in until you've seen it. Here's the key in the address
11:14This is really strange. I thought my uncle died 10 12 years ago in India or someplace
11:21No, he died here last week
11:24Everything about your uncle was strange
11:27Including his will is that the rich uncle used to talk about before we got married?
11:31Uh-huh. Well, I don't think so
11:33Is that the rich uncle used to talk about before we got married, uh-huh
11:38And he's been here in Los Angeles all these years and that didn't let me know
11:43Well, he wanted the world to think he was dead
11:46Yeah
11:59What is it I don't know is this all the house and the package no other
12:06There's no money if that's what you mean, ma'am. Dr. Zorba must have been quite wealthy at one time
12:12Apparently he spent it all on his experiments. I seem to remember he was fooling around with the occult
12:19spirits from the other world
12:21ghosts
12:22Doctors are but collected ghosts from all over the world
12:25You inherit them, too
12:31Come on they go with the house
12:38I'll get a notary
12:42Oh
12:47Sorry, this is too much
12:50Mysterious uncle rising from the grave the old mansion complete with ghosts
12:55Said again. I did have an uncle named Plato's orba
12:59And here's his last will and testament. I want to see what's in the package
13:04Wouldn't be lovely if it was just full of stocks or bonds or just plain money. Yeah
13:11Think we ought to open it. Well, you said it was yours
13:20Suppose it has to do with those experiments, you know, you open the box and all that trouble comes out
13:28Pandora
13:29It's probably a hand-painted Christmas tie open it
13:40You open it
14:10I
14:40Oh
14:42Oh
15:07Hi hello, are you buck? Yeah
15:12I'm Ben rush. You're the lawyer
15:15Mm-hmm. Are you all moved in wasn't anything to move except us?
15:19It's a great house
15:21Furniture all over books. There's a lot of it. I haven't even seen yet. It's got ghosts
15:27So I hear know about him. Well, I've heard a lot about him. You ever seen one. No
15:33Is your father home? He will be soon. We got a witch to a live one. Go ring the bell. She'll come to the door
15:43Oh
15:50Shucks what did you have to open the door for couldn't you wait for the witch?
15:55You better stop calling her that she'll cut your tongue out
15:59Hi, I'm a dear Zorba. Hi
16:01Won't you come in?
16:04I
16:09Told you she's even got a broom. I
16:16See what you mean you must be Ben rush the lawyer. Mm-hmm
16:20Mmm, no skates. We own this house
16:24Or do we it's your house
16:27Whose boss around here in the no skates department I am. Yeah, that's what I thought
16:34I
16:42Was that my father's uncle
16:44Mm-hmm. He was a fine-looking man. I
16:48Never saw him like that
16:50By the time I met him they'd almost completely destroyed him. Hey
16:55his ghosts
16:58Benjamin rush attorney at law living in the 20th century
17:03Plato's or but scientists same century
17:06collected ghosts
17:09You're not serious. I
17:11Didn't believe in them any more than you do until I'd known him a while
17:15You can take my word for it. There are ghosts in this house
17:19We're standing here talking as if you thought we were in the Middle Ages
17:25But if you'd seen him as I did
17:28back broken
17:30face torn to shreds
17:33lips ripped away
17:36You really think we inherited a haunted house I
17:40Wish your family hadn't moved in. Oh
17:46Hello, mr. Wright, hi, honey
17:50Here are the rest of those papers all signed and notarized. But what about the taxes the insurance?
17:57This housekeeper, why don't we ask mr. Rush to stay for supper? Well, I'd love to even if you do call me, mr. Rush
18:04I'll tell mother then
18:13You the head of this department too
18:16You walk down you don't slide, you know something if you don't watch out you're gonna grow up to be a witch
18:26I
18:30For a guy with no money he sure could get complicated
18:35Well, we've got ourself a house the timing was perfect well coffee then no, thanks daddy, please dear
18:42What have you decided to do about the witch? We mustn't call her that it's a perfect name
18:47You know, I have a feeling she doesn't like me much. I have a feeling she doesn't like anybody much
18:52We told her we couldn't pay her and didn't need her but she asked us if she could stay on here till she found something
18:58Else she practically begged us. I guess she's got some money of her own after all she lived here for years and dr
19:05Zorba paid her a good salary
19:11Why I haven't seen one of these for years it's a Ouija board see
19:16We French for yes. Yeah
19:20German for yes, how do you play it? Where'd you find it?
19:24Over there. I put something on the fireplace and it opened. There's a gadget goes with it, but I think they call it a
19:32planchette I
19:36Push this
19:45Here it is
19:50I
19:55Looks like it might be old Latin
20:00How do you use this daddy
20:03Ouija the mystifying Oracle most modern method of fortune-telling anybody want to try it? I
20:12Have a friend at the university who can probably translate this I'll take it over to him tomorrow my boss. Mr
20:18Van Allen talks Latin in his sleep if he can't translate it. No one can you weren't your fortune told?
20:25Now, here's how it works
20:29Everybody puts one finger on this just like me then somebody asks a question
20:40We all concentrate on it and the Ouija will answer it. Oh, come on. It will it's magic
20:46Come on everybody put a finger on it
20:52Okay, just like me, okay now somebody ask a question
20:55Oh, oh, by the way, if you ask a silly question, it won't answer
21:01Ben you ask a question. All right. Here's the question is Medea in love. Ah
21:10Concentrate now no cheating
21:17You see it was a silly question, can I ask a question daddy? All right, but
21:26Lightly are there any ghosts in this house?
21:42I was pushing toward no, but you all ganged up on me
21:46No, I was helping you Ben and I think this is silly. You don't want to play
21:51It's rigged
21:53How can you say that after what you told me this afternoon?
21:56That's a toy
21:59You want to play daddy, I think I'll go along with Hilda and Ben let's stop
22:12You ask the question
22:16How many how many what it knows
22:3713 13 what ghosts
22:46You ask it
22:55Are they going to hurt us
22:57I
23:13Don't fool around with that thing anymore Medea
23:19Let's ask it but don't touch it
23:23You ask it
23:25Are they gonna kill any of us
23:56I
24:02Don't ask it when I
24:05Don't want to know
24:08But it was just floating in the air
24:10There was nothing touching it. There's probably a very simple explanation for it. I don't know what it could be
24:17Who's I am frightened of what a silly game?
24:21ghosts
24:23Listen, honey, maybe Zorba was a very strange man who could see ghosts and do supernatural things
24:30But we aren't him. We're just ordinary people who don't have any supernatural powers and don't want any
24:37Here it is the codicil 11
24:42If we don't elect to live in this house it goes to the state as part of the park system and
24:49Once we move in we have to stay you mean we can't sell it even if we want to
24:54Well, if we don't live here it goes to the state
24:58golly
25:00Living in this house makes the difference between sinking and swimming just not paying rent saves half my salary
25:07Why is it so cold?
25:09Don't know
25:11Window open I guess but it's freezing
25:18Oh
25:23Win probably
25:27I'll say goodnight to the children. We'll leave the door open. Okay
25:49I
26:01Come in hi. Hi
26:07Oh
26:12Dr. Zorba sure went in for antiques, didn't he? I
26:17Sort of like them. I
26:20I hope you're not too upset by
26:23What happened?
26:24Just a game. I know
26:27Philly wasn't it? I
26:30Think all this spook talk of Ben's is
26:32Got us all imagining things
26:36Daddy
26:38Yes, darling
26:40Do you really think they're ghosts in this house
26:44Of course not and now it's time for all pretty girls to go to sleep
26:55Don't worry
27:04I'll leave this open
27:06fine
27:18All clear on the offspring front I'm going down and get a book I'll be back in a minute
27:36I
28:06I
28:36I
29:06I
29:36I
30:06I
30:36I
31:06I
31:36I
32:06I
32:36I
33:00Any luck
33:03Luck
33:05Can't you read it man? Yes, I can read it. It's Latin. Well, what's it about?
33:14What's it about
33:24Sign at first I thought your uncle was another one of those fakes
33:30And now I'm not so sure
33:33Yeah, I
33:39Found this in a university publications, it's printed ten years ago
33:47The professor who advertises for haunted houses so he can photograph ghosts is dr
33:53Plato Zorba a scientist of unquestioned repute
33:57Dr. Zorba's experience with ghosts in many parts of the world convinced him. They are unhappily earthbound
34:04because of unsolved problems
34:08Dr. Zorba has perfected a device with which he can see ghosts and is working on a method of ultraviolet ray photography
34:16Which will enable him to take permanent pictures of the supernatural world
34:21He
34:26Wasn't a fake
34:28This
34:30This is a record of years of work in the world of spirits
34:33If any of this is true, I don't see all just any of it
34:37Then your uncle had penetrated farther into the supernatural
34:41than any man in history
34:45He captured 11 ghosts
34:48Captured
34:50Dr. Zorba proved that if you could see a ghost you could control it to a certain extent
35:02Yes, I think so
35:05There is a section describing exactly how he made the lenses for those glasses took him years he'd untroubled all over the world
35:15He found one ghost in a castle in Ireland another one in the catacombs below Rome
35:20He caught one in a village in Italy another one in Tibet. I
35:25Wonder which ones I saw last night
35:29Each ghost has a separate section
35:34This is the last one
35:37Goes 12
35:39You said 11
35:4212 I
35:45Played to Zorba and the 12
35:48Earth bound not for the crimes. I committed but for the crimes committed against me and which I shall revenge
35:55before I be released
35:57from haunting the earth and
36:01Here's a curious thing
36:03He wrote ghost 13
36:07The rest of the page is blank
36:14Paleontology Van Allen. Yes. Hold on
36:17Oh
36:19Hello, sorry. I want you to come home. I'm pretty busy, honey. What's the trouble?
36:24There's no use trying to tell you. I want you to come home right away
36:28Sorry, I'm on my way
36:32I've got to go home van the ghosts I
36:38Don't know have they hurt anyone I don't know
36:47I
37:17Don't know
37:21Hilda
37:24Hilda
37:26Hilda
37:30You all right the kids well, then you come in here
37:36Well, what happened they came off the shelves and broke you you mean they they fell off they came off
38:07I've had enough sigh
38:14I
38:34That was Emilio
38:37Emilio, he was an Italian chef. They killed his wife
38:41He killed his mother-in-law too and a sister-in-law
38:44with a meat cleaver.
38:46Whack, whack, whack!
38:48You better stand over there.
38:52What for?
38:54He doesn't mess up the kitchen often,
38:56but when he does, wow!
39:03Now Emilio's through.
39:05Now I'm through.
39:11Who told you all this?
39:13The witch, Elaine.
39:15She knows a lot we don't know.
39:17Like what?
39:18Well, she knows most of the ghosts.
39:21She's even seen some of them.
39:23She's about the creepiest person I've ever met.
39:26Don't you think so?
39:28Well, she's, uh, different.
39:32Maybe she's one of the ghosts herself.
39:34What then?
39:35Oh!
39:38Suppose they hurt one of the children.
39:40I don't think they would.
39:42A few more inches and that cleaver would have cut off your head.
39:45Look at the burn on your hand.
39:47So how can you say that they won't hurt Buck or Medea?
39:50Or you again?
39:51Things will calm down, Hilda.
39:53Oh, Cy, let's get out of here.
39:55We're in danger.
40:00You sent for me?
40:02Yes, Elaine.
40:05There are some questions I'd like to ask you.
40:08How long did you work for Dr. Zorba?
40:11For many years.
40:13You knew about his experiments with the supernatural?
40:16I helped him.
40:18When he was alive, he could control them.
40:20But now I'm afraid.
40:23I never was before.
40:25But now I am.
40:28I'm afraid.
40:30I never was before.
40:32But now I am.
40:35I can't help feeling that our living here,
40:38everything that's happened to us,
40:40is all part of a plan.
40:42That Dr. Zorba wants us to do something.
40:47But what?
40:49I can't help you.
40:51He used to trust me,
40:53and in those days I helped him with the cameras and lenses.
40:56But toward the last,
40:58he trusted no one.
41:00Were you and Ben the only friends he had?
41:02Ben only.
41:04He turned against me.
41:06He was doing foolish things, and I wanted him to stop,
41:08but he would not.
41:10His experiments?
41:12Those too, but mainly I objected
41:14when he converted everything into cash.
41:16Stocks, bonds, real estate, everything.
41:19And then he withdrew all his accounts from the banks.
41:22It was foolish.
41:24What did he do with the money?
41:26No record of it.
41:28Ben and I spent days searching the house for it
41:30after he died, but found nothing.
41:32Maybe he spent it.
41:34On what? He had everything he needed.
41:36Besides, he never left the house.
41:38Maybe he gave it away.
41:40I knew Plato Zorba very well.
41:42He never gave away anything.
41:45This house is not a gift, really.
41:47It's a burden.
41:49Perhaps a curse.
41:53The last thing he wrote
41:55was about a crime committed against him.
41:57What did he mean by that?
41:59I don't know.
42:01How did he die, Elaine?
42:03And where?
42:05I'll show you.
42:07I'll stay here.
42:26This was Dr. Zorba's bedroom.
42:29That is where he died.
42:32How did he die, Elaine?
42:35Spirits from the other world.
42:38Is that what you told the coroner?
42:41He wouldn't have believed me any more than you.
42:44The official cause of death was suffocation.
42:49The official cause of death was suffocation.
42:53Who saw him last?
42:55I mean, was anybody here when he died?
42:58I was here in the house,
43:00but I didn't see him that night at all.
43:02He and Ben were working on his will.
43:04Did Ben see him die?
43:06Oh, no. Ben had gone.
43:08Dr. Zorba died sometime later that night.
43:12I found him the next morning there.
43:17What did the police say about it?
43:19They talked mostly to Ben.
43:21I called him first.
43:26I hated this room.
43:28For years, I never came in here.
43:30But that morning, I did.
43:32I don't know why.
43:34Something seemed to be pulling me to this place.
43:42If you stay here,
43:44you, too, will learn not to come into this room.
43:47What do you mean, if I stay here?
43:50You should get out of this house now, tonight.
44:14GROANING
44:45SCREAMING
45:07MOANING
45:15SCREAMING
45:25MOANING
45:45MOANING
45:57MOANING
46:14MOANING
46:40It was a wonderful evening, Ben.
46:44How about some coffee before you go?
46:46No, thanks. Not tonight.
46:48I wish you and your family were staying somewhere else.
46:51This place gives me the creeps. It always has.
46:54Don't start on that again.
46:56I worry about you, Madea.
46:58Just for me, will you try to be a little careful?
47:01For you, I'll pull the covers over my head tonight.
47:04See you tomorrow?
47:06I hope so. Don't worry, Ben. I'll be careful.
47:09Thanks again. Good night.
47:11Good night.
47:41BELLS TOLLING
48:11BELLS TOLLING
48:41BELLS TOLLING
49:11DOOR CREAKS
49:42DOOR CLOSES
49:55SCREAMING
49:58SCREAMING
50:08Daddy! Daddy!
50:10Darling! Darling! What happened?
50:12Come in here.
50:28CLASSICAL MUSIC
50:59DOOR CREAKS
51:10Oh. Oh, good morning.
51:28DOOR CREAKS