Legend of the Naked Ghost

This is Chipisin

with WTRA Radio.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled broadcast of Symphony Sid

to bring you this special news buletin. The local economy

is being strangled by Kazah Kingcapa...

and his evil goons. Herr...

has taken control

of our shipping mains and crippled our means of survival.

Their reign of tyranny must come to an end.

This has been a public service announcement brought you

by WTRA radio.

We now return you to Symphony Sid

already in progress.

Herr Kommandant!

We just seized another

whiskey shipment from

the East Siders.

Excellent work, Sargent.

It is imperative that the surrounding

units stay vigilant.

They may deploy a counter attack.

Jawohl, Herr Kommandant!

We have secured a perimeter

around the camp.

Ammunition supplies have

just arrived with an extra

battalion of infantry soldiers.

Our main objective is

to secure this island and control

the water surrounding it.

If we see another one of those

whiskey shipments, I want to

attack swift and hard.

Eliminate the crew

and confiscate their materials.

Yes, sir!

We will move our location

to a tower on the south peninsula.

I will personally monitor

the situation from there.

I have received intelligence that

they may use the southern corridor

to send another shipment through.

Jawohl, Herr Kommandant!

One last thing, Sargent.

Let's make sure we don't have

another incident like last time you were

supposed to keep watch.

For your sake.

Jawohl, Herr Kommandant!

Yeah, come in.

Boss, I just got a message through the telegraph.

The Krauts got us again.

Son of a... Get the crew ready!

Leave me and the Captain here to do a little chit chatting.

Serve up a round of drinks for the boys.

We's gonna see what we gonna do about this little problem here, see? Yeah.

These Krauts want a war? Then they got a war, see?

Be helpin' you, I be.

That's beautiful, see?

I spit out some false info out on the streets.

I let the word spread that I was going to send

my next shipment through the southern corridor, see? Yeah.

I knew someone would spill the beans to one of Klinks goons.

That's where your ship comes in. We're gonna send you ship

through the southern corridor, see? Because that's where they expect it.

We's gonna draw all the attention down there.

Then up the northern corridor, I'm gonna send a rickety row

boat with a couple of barrels of hooch for my next delivery, see?

They won't suspect a thing.

Those Krauts will have all their guns and their men on the south side.

Yeah. See, all you need to do is to stay within firing range

and have a cannon fight with them to keep their attention.

As soon as my ship makes passage you'll get a message that

you can turn your ship back around to safety.

That sounds like a good plan.

Beautiful, see?

I'm gonna give you Nicky the Nose with his Tommy Gun.

Jawohl, Herr Kommandant!

All of our gun enplacements have been reinforced.

Are you sure it is a good idea to concentrate

the bulk of our forces at the south side?

Don't be a fool.

I have direct intelligence that this is where they will attack from.

Make sure everyone stays on high alert.

Jawohl, Herr Kommandant!

Watch out for the sea monster.

Yeah!

Navigation.

Aye, Captain!

Be 15 miles from our destination, we be.

Quack quizzle!

Sorry! 16 miles from our destination.

Maintain this course.

Shiver me timbers, this might just work.

I have spotted something out of my port side.

This is the shipment I received the intelligence about.

We must destroy this ship!

Requesting permission to adjust firing course of cannon.

Permission granted!

Sargent, alert the rest of those other ships, we have spotted the enemy.

We've got them. It's time.

Jawohl, Herr Kommandant!

They have spotted us.

Fire all cannon!

They made it. Be turnin' this here ship around.

Pete! No!

Yeah!

Scoop him up. Looks like we have a little prisoner on our hands.

Excellent!

We need to go back for Pete.

We's gonna sink if we stick around here.

God damnit, Pete!

Excellent work, gentleman.

We have the prisoner in our possession.

They won't stop us this time.

Argh! Matey, you may have gotten your whiskey through

but I lost a crew member back there.

Yeah, see, we're gonna get him back.

I've got this plan I've got, see?

I've got this connection down in the Columbian Cartel.

I can get them to hook us up with some heat.

We're gonna need better guns for this gig, see?

They hang out at Club Adelphi.

Argh! We'll be payin' them a visit, we be.

- Hey, red ball, corner pocket. - Yeah.

And that, dear students, is the last time

Hollywood couple, Gail Evelyn and Peter Sherwood

ever appeared in front of a camera.

Wow. For a silent movie, that was such a turn on.

I didn't even know sex existed back then.

Well, Miss Collins,

I think you should check your family tree.

I think you'll find it's been around even longer than that.

Monument Pictures must have been devastated.

I mean, losing two of their biggest stars.

One right after another.

It is a true Tinseltown

love tragedy to be sure.

I mean, here's Peter Sherwood

and he rises to fame in the 1930s

in famous costume dramas like "Kitty Hawk" and "Bull Run."

And then is cast along side the feisty Gail Evelyn.

The gossip columnists ate it up.

Called it the "Monumental Affair."

That's so romantic.

I'm such a sucker for Hollywood love stories.

Well, unfortunately, Tabitha,

this one has an unhappy and mysterious ending.

How so, Professor?

So, just days after that home movie was shot,

the Private Sherwood was sent to the Pacific Theater.

Unfortunately, his transport plane was presumed shot down

over water and never recovered.

My God. How awful for her.

She must have been heartbroken.

More than that, she went into hiding.

She fired all her help and she became a total recluse.

She locked herself up in the mansion

that she and Sherwood had bought each other.

But what happened to her?

Well, Miss Collins, had you read Griffith's "Haunted Hollywood"

as I asked you to last week, you'd know the answer to that question.

I read it. I just must have skipped that chapter.

I see. All right. Well, I probably should refresh everyone anyway

as we're going to be spending the night in her mansion tomorrow.

What? But I thought that was unobtainable.

Mike, when you and the others signed up for advanced psychokinesis,

it was the study ESP, spiritualism,

and, most certainly, ghostly phenomenon.

- So? - So despite the fact that this university

is run by antiquated ghouls,

you're probably not very likely

to run into any ghosts here on campus.

Then we're in.

Yes, I did work some magic

and so, we have access as of tomorrow.

But wait. What happened to her?

Well, that's just it. Nobody knows.

When the relatives finally broke down the doors,

all they found were cobwebs, some unopened mail,

and this handwritten note by her.

Which said?

Right. This is just a copy, you understand?

What's it say?

"My dearest Peter, I will never let anyone

"break the sanctity of our honeymoon home.

"I await your return.

"Love forever, Gail."

- Oh. That's so sad. - Makes me want to cry.

According to the relatives, the only crying was for help once night fell

and the evil spirit of Gail Evelyn manifested.

Wait, wait.

You mean this house is haunted for real?

By a missing-in-action movie star no less.

The house has been on the market for more than 60 years

and no one's been able to spend more than

one or two nights here without running in terror.

And this is where we're spending the weekend, you say?

I expect everyone to be in the quad parking lot