Page 15 of Murder Most Haunted

Extract from They Do It With Strings podcast

‘The Tin House’: Episode One

Gloria: The candle flickered, did anyone else see that?

Dr Mortimer: This heap of a house is full of draughts. I’ve had the fire on in our room since we got here.

Rendell [loudly]: Are you there? Show yourselves, spirits.

[A creaking noise, heavy breathing, a chair pushed back]

Harold: What’s going on? It’s got cold all of a sudden. Can anyone else feel that?

Rendell: Shhh. Sit back down and put your finger on the glass. The spirits are here.

[Glass rattling audibly]

[Sudden outburst of screaming]

Noah: Someone is coming.

Rona: I can feel something, the glass is vibrating.

Rendell: Keep your fingers on!

Dr Mortimer: Someone’s pushing it.

Rendell: Who is this? Make yourself known.

[Glass scrapes across the wood]

Harold: Oh my God!

Rona: ‘B. E . . .’ I think it’s spelling a name.

Gloria: ‘T. H.’

[The noise of the glass stops abruptly]

Harold: ‘Beth’!

Rendell: Does anyone here know a BETH?

Rona: My cousin. She’s called Beth.

[A small pause]

Gloria: She is, as in, she is still alive?

Rona: Yes. Lives in Barking.

Rendell: Well, obviously, it can’t be her. Do you have a message for us, Beth?

Harold: ‘M. U . . .’ Blimey, the glass is moving so quick, I can’t keep up.

Gloria: ‘R. D . . .’

[Another pause as the glass comes to a halt]

Rona: ‘MURDER’.

[Collective gasp from the group]

[Music swells and fades out]