Legend of the Naked Ghost

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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

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