The journey into the realm of the strange and get a bye.

I hope you will enjoy the chapel let will thrill.

You a little and kill you a little.

So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves.

Where are we going?

You'll find out when we get there.

The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents Welcome.

I'm E.

G.

Marshall with the greetings of the season.

I hope you like the tree.

I put up a bit of holly too, and mistletoe, of course, right there over the door.

There are so many things to enjoy at.

This time of year.

The warm, friendly spirit that's most important, the time to be with family and friends.

There'll be a lot of holiday traffic too, as people make the rounds of visits or travelers are.

Making their way back home.

I'm the only road in Ohio.

Two such travelers are about to have the most harrowing experience of their lives.

No, it's getting heavier, skept I wish you'd slow down.

I hope we make it before dark.

Oh, I shouldn't want to get stranded than this.

Joe, we're skidding.

I can't control We're ding into that foot.

I'm doing all I can.

Our mystery drama A Holiday Visit was written especially for radio mystery Theater by Bob Juran and stars Lloyd Batista and Diana Kirkwood.

I'll do that shortly with that one.

What are your plans for the Christmas holidays?

Entertain friends or relatives, going home to visit parents?

Perhaps this is always get together time, a time when people go home, home to the families they've left behind as they've.

Made their own way in the world.

Joan Bartram made her way from a small town in Ohio to New York, where she worked for a while as a secretary and then married Skip Bartram, an oil company executive.

She hadn't been back to a home.

In Ohio in twelve years, so it was a particular thrill for Joan when Skip came home one night and said, how'd you like to go home for the holidays see your folks?

Oh, Skiff, I love it, but can we afford it?

Are the company's sending me to Toledo for a new training program right after the holidays, so the trip is on them.

We'll just leave a little early and be with your folks for Christmas.

Oh, what a surprise.

I'm going to call mother this minute.

You don't want to just drop in on them and make it.

A surprise and of them say away.

No, no, I want to give them something to look forward to.

Oh, well, maybe you're right.

Oh it's been twelve years since I've been home and you've never Hello, Hello, mother?

Oh how are you just fine?

Dear mother?

Mother?

Are you sitting down?

Hi?

Listen mother, get dad over to the phone.

I want him to hear my news.

Henry, come here, Joe, are you pregnant?

Oh?

No, mother, Oh, my dear your father's listen.

I'm coming home for Christmas.

Coming home, Yes, yes, Skip has to be in Toledo after the holidays, So we're leaving early in time to be with you for Christmas.

That's the best time, Aliday, June.

I think she's starting to cry, so I I have to hang up now.

I'll let you know when we'll arrive.

Okay, we'll be waiting.

When can we leave?

Well, I'd like to get away by Saturday.

We'll have to drive.

I'll lead the car in Toledo.

Let's see what we got to get to run in and Bill by the twenty third, The map shows the end of the interstate what do we do when we turn off?

Let's see we go north on eighty four.

It looks like, yes, it's north on eighty four to Hamilton, then forty two A to Blue Mountain, and we keep on that to Runianville.

I don't know.

It looks as though the interstate keeps on going.

We'll look there.

Yeah, according to the map, there's a proposed extension.

It's been finished since the map came out.

I guess what if.

We stayed on this, we'd go straight to Runionville.

It looks as though we'd say about about twenty miles too.

So we're in luck.

We'll stay on it.

It looks as though, well we may be.

It's your folks a lot sooner than we thought.

It's starting to snow, but we're going to have a white Christmas.

Well, I hope it doesn't get too thick before we hit your folk's place.

It's scarp.

How far have we come on this highway?

About forty miles?

Have you noticed anything strange?

You're thinking the same thing I am.

There hasn't been a sign or a turn off since we got on this road.

Yeah, I noticed that, and come to think of it, I don't remember seeing any cars passing us in either.

Direction doesn't seem natural.

Well, this road's going anywhere.

They're keeping it a secret.

I'm getting a little uneasy.

Maybe we have to turn back and take Root eighty four like we planned.

Boy, I hate to do that.

After we've come this far.

Now, this road's got to come out someplace.

I'll see.

We've got about an hour before dark.

Well, the snow is getting heavier.

I wish it'd slow down.

We make it before dark.

I don't want to get stranded in this.

We're skinny.

I can't control it.

I can do something, can't.

You put it in more tinsel on the tree area?

It's going to topple over.

I don't see how you can sit there so relaxed.

Why are you so nervous?

The children said they'd be here sometime today or tomorrow.

They should have been here by now, only because.

You'd think they should be.

If anything was wrong, they'd call.

You know that, You're right.

I'm just so.

Excited about having our jone home for Christmas.

I got relaxed.

Well, I think I'll take a stroll in the snow.

Need anything from downtown, No, dear, I've had everything.

In for days.

I don't wish they get here.

They will, Harriet.

They will, now you stop worrying.

Worrying isn't going to get them here any sooner.

Oh, oh my head, Jonah, jon are you all right?

Well?

What happened?

Oh?

Can't?

Can you straighten up?

My leg's gold?

Oh?

Here, here, let me see.

Let's try try twisting it a little bit this way.

Oh there, Oh there it's free.

How do you feel?

Oh?

They crashed into the boulders.

Will the car moves?

Oh?

Pray, thank Heaven?

Him back or off?

I better get out and take a look.

Oh that does it?

What's the matter?

Too flat tires?

Oh no, that had only one spare naturally.

Oh dear lord, what are we gonna do?

We're miles from anywhere.

Uh.

At least the snow is letting up a bit.

Oh, we can't just sit here on this This ghost rode?

Well, where will we walk?

Skid?

Look a light?

Yeah?

Oh about half a mile away, I'd say it.

It must be a town.

Hey, do you think you can make it on that leg?

Oh?

Yes, yes, I to hop on one foot to get out of here.

Well, we can phone your folks.

Them will be a little delayed.

We can probably get the carted in.

That looks like we'll have to stay till morning.

Oh maybe Dad can come pick us up.

We can't be far from Onionville.

We can pick up the car tomorrow or the next day.

Oh that's Christmas day.

Oh that's right.

Hey, what are we sitting here chatting for?

Come on, come on, let's move.

No quiet, no cars on the street at all.

This store must have set them all home.

I guess let's try that grocery store.

They're sure to have a phone.

I can tell us where to find a garage too.

At least we can get the car off the road for the night.

So still, hello anybody here?

It's so dim one fair.

Ball, pretty skimpy merchandise too.

Hello wow, oh police seems deserted.

Yeah.

I don't see any payphone or any phone for that matter.

Hello anybody here?

Oh well, we'll go someplace else, sir.

It's got to be a restaurant or a tavern in this town.

Hey, come on, Oh, I know this isn't Onionville.

I hope not.

Looks like a quiet little place, but awfully deserted.

Boy, they must pull aside.

Well.

Hit At five in the afternoon.

The sky's clear.

Look at those stars.

Wow, I haven't seen them that bright in a long time.

Yes, there don't seem to be many stories.

Mostly how.

I'm the main dragon.

Maybe we better go ask directions at that house.

There no sinse wandering around a strange town.

I guess we should.

I'm sure they'll let us use their phone.

I'll call dad collect Hey, listen, hear that singing.

Of course, it's.

A carol concert.

That's where everyone must be.

Why come on, let's.

See if we can find them.

I give up.

I don't know where that music is coming from.

We've covered so many strengths and nothing.

Yeah, no one, Oh okay, honey, you're shiver.

I'm scared.

Well, there's a hotel across the street there.

Let's go there and use the phone.

There's got to be one there.

This is ton there's no use wandering about anymore.

It's a ghost town in the middle of Ohio.

I wonder you know.

You might be right.

It could be one of those restorations, an antique village.

And if it is wonderful, then there's got to be somebody around, a caretaker or a watchman or someone.

Let's try the hotel.

I was wrong.

I guess the hotel is just as deserted as everything else.

And still no phone.

I wish I had that CB radio Paul off of me.

I always thought they were a nuisance, but I sure would have gotten us out of this mess.

Come on, come on, let's look around upstairs.

Every room's empty, stick as anywhere.

It's about what I expect from it.

What was that?

It sounded like something hitting the roof.

Skip, Let's go back to the car.

I'm too frightened to stay here.

This place is just too spooky there.

Come on, you don't believe in ghosts.

It's not ghosts I'm afraid of.

Here's another one.

W here's something sailed past the window and landed on the ground.

I'm going down and take a look around.

I'll come with you.

I'm not staying in here alone.

Can you see anything that yet?

There's nothing out here except a couple of green logs over there seem green logs?

Yeah, a moss covered looks like they've been laying there for years.

But skip, there's no snow.

On If they've been laying there for you years, it be covered with snow.

You think that's what hit the hotel?

How your logs.

This big don't just fall out of the sky.

Just take me back to the car.

No, honey, there's no sense getting panicky.

We're alone in this town or a here's been park or whatever it is, and at least their shelter.

We'll stay here for the night and we'll just try to get the civilization in the morning.

You want to stay here, we might be murdered in our sleep, as if I could.

Sleep, well, dear heart, there's nothing else we can do.

We're sleeping in a car is foolish when we're light Every light went out.

Well, that settles it.

We're not going anywhere now.

The whole town's out.

There's not a light anywhere.

Yeah, seems to be clouded over to see.

The stars are gone.

Come on, come on, let's go back inside.

We'll be safe in there.

We'll curl up in the lobby furniture and try to sleep.

I won't shut and eye wondering who or what turned off those lights.

To paraphrase a popular joke, where were skipping Joan when the lights went out?

Not only in the dark, but in a strange Midwestern village, and just two days before Christmas, a time when they should have been enjoying the warmth of a friendly fireside, the pleasure of holiday decorations, the music of a Christmas carol, things that most of us are enjoying these days.

But for them, isolation in a cold and darkened hotel.

We'll learn what this curious town holes in store for them.

When I returned shortly with that, two, Joan and Skip Bartram faced the prospect of spending the night in a deserted hotel in a strange and darkened town, A town apparently without inhabitants.

Could it be a restoration of some guy, a sort of midwestern Williamsburg.

Under normal circumstances, it might be a lovely place to spend the Christmas holiday, But Skip and Joan are anxious to get to her parents' home and friendly family.

Wont they spent the.

Night in the sparsely furnished lobby of the hotel.

Now it's morning.

Wake up, it's daylight.

No oh, oh, my aching back.

Oh that's the hardest coach in the world.

I didn't sleep all night.

Come outside, I want to show you something.

Can't you bring it in here?

Oh?

Stop being silly.

There are footprints in the snow, and they're not ours.

Footprints.

Yeah, look out the side window there.

Yeah, yeah, they go around the back of the hotel.

Well that means somebody's around here.

Come on, they're small prints.

It must be a child or a woman.

They leap toward that barn.

It's funny.

I didn't hear or see anyone that was awake all night.

Oh, there aren't any prints leading away from the barn soever.

May them are still in there.

It's so quiet, not a sign of life anywhere.

Well, let's go in.

It's not like a private house.

Anybody here, but so.

Dark and dingy.

Skip, good, let's go back out.

I don't like this.

Well, somebody's got to be here.

I mean, the footsteps stopped at the door.

Then why won't they answer us?

Hey listen, Well that was somebody something the loft.

They're coming down the stairs there.

Oh good, good morning, ma'am.

We're looking for someone to help us.

Miss Where did you come from?

Well, we had an accident with our car last night.

We skid it into an embankment.

We found the whole town deserted, so we spent the night in the hotel.

Oh, how curious, did I haven't any bench in that hotel?

You know we slept, or rather stayed in the lobby.

I'm Skip barcher Man.

This is my wife John.

We were wondering he is to meet you.

I'm Missus mckinna.

We were wondering if this is some sort of restoration.

I mean there were lights on last night and we.

Heard Christmas cow.

Oh.

Yes he's in the music love.

What do you mean my restoration?

This is Taylor Town, but there's no one living here.

You're the only person we've seen since last night.

Yes, they've all gone each season, a few more left.

My husband went last year.

I'm the last one here.

You live here, all alone, all alone in a deserted town.

It's my home.

H Well, could you here's your phone?

Missus McInnis.

Joan wants to call her dad to pick us up, and well, I've got to get a tow truck for the car.

Oh me she meet.

There's no garazure tow truck, but there's a payphone at the railroad station.

We never headphones in any of the houses.

And just wait till I finish upstairs and I'll show you where it is.

I don't know if it works, though, I think it's just there for a bit I wonder what she meant by that?

Well, who knows.

I just feel better now that we've met another human being.

She seems friendly enough, but a little strange, don't you think?

Naturally lovely?

Alone in a dead town.

A ghost town.

I wonder how long she'll be, But we could find that railroad station ourselves.

Oh, let her be hospitable.

A few minutes won't matter.

Missus McGinnis, Missus McGinnis, are you almost finished?

That's strange?

Well, i'll see.

Has something happened to her?

Missus McGinnis.

Skip, what's the matter?

She's not here.

The loft's absolutely empty.

There's no way she could have gotten out of that barn.

There are no windows in that loft.

Well she did, Let me just imagine we saw and talked with her.

No, she was there, all right.

She just gave us the slips on them.

There's the railroad station.

Oh pray that that song works.

Well, I'm not counting on it, but well, it's worth a try.

It looks like one of Bell's first payphones.

Have you got a dime?

Yeah?

I think so?

Yeah?

Here you are?

Well here goes huh?

So far so good?

Oh?

I got a dial town at least something.

Works in this town.

But it's only ten after nine.

One of them's found to be home.

Oh, it's ringing.

They're probably looking out the windows wondering where we are.

Hello, here is somebody on this line.

Oh Dad, Oh, I'd thank heaven I reached you.

Who is this?

It's Joan, Dad, Joan, I cannot be here.

Speak up, Dad, it's Joan.

We've had an accident with the car.

You have to pick us up.

Where are you?

Well, you'll have to talk louder.

A place called Taylor Town.

It's prought to be a ghost town.

Do you know where it is?

So we'll wait for you in front of the hotel.

How long will it take you?

Well, it shut and after die though, about one hour and.

We'll be here.

Oh.

I can't wait to see you, Dad, Dad, that the line's dead.

What's the matter?

You look concerned?

Dad sounded so funny.

I expected more of a reaction.

He was so matter of fact.

He didn't ask for the tails or anything.

Well, I'm sure he figured he'd find out the details when he picks us up.

Yes I suppose, Oh, dear, I have this strange feeling I know this village, well, not the village so much.

But the houses, the houses look so familiar.

Well, a lot of small Midwestern towns are the turn of the century.

Look, I guess.

So.

We used to go shopping in Fairmont and it was full of the same big houses we had in Runionville, you know, with porches around the whole front and little filigrees under the eaves like that.

Plays on the corner exactly, And look who's on the porch?

Thissus mckinnis and live there?

Wait did you come from?

I don't get many visitors anymore.

We wondered where you went?

Wait, I went, Hey, I've been here our morning, sweeping the snow.

You know he lost the porch before it freezes.

Wait, what brings you to Taylor Town?

Skip?

She doesn't remember us?

Missus McGinnis.

Sweem menu, you know my name?

Mercy?

Who are you?

Missus McInnis.

We met you at the barn this morning?

And you said the barn you see.

Oh, there's a nice one behind the hotel.

Won't you come in for some hot coffee?

Teach that you off?

Thanks, we'd like that you're coming along in.

Then I'll tell the thought.

If I don't know, well, what harm can I do.

Look, we've got at least an hour to wait for your dad.

We might as well spend it in a cozy kitchen.

I guess you're right.

Go out to the kitchen hop coffee in a minute with some fish scones I made my SEFs.

She keeps a neat house, so old fashioned.

It's love.

Yeah, pretty start.

Come in and shit down at the kitchen table.

I don't have much, as you can see, but there's always something to share.

You're planning on moving here?

You shay it, no, missus McInnes say, we told you we had an accident with our car.

Oh that's too bad.

But I just called my father.

He's coming to pick us up.

You call your father, yes, just now on the phone at the railroad station.

Call the mercy.

That is a miracle.

I didn't know that phone ever worked.

And we're happy to enjoy your hospitality while we're waiting.

We still can't understand why there's no one else in town.

You live here all alone, each my home.

It's not bad living alone.

I get by, and.

We thought it some sort of restoration.

I don't know what a restoration is.

A restoration is an old town or house that's been restored to look the way it did years ago.

Oh, this town's looked like this from the beginning, every since he came from Scotland.

The town came over from Scotland.

It's an exact duplicate of Tailor Town in Scotland.

The streets and the houses and all the furnishings came from Scotland.

Oh, Mercy, don't ask me how long ago then, you were born here?

I guess so, you guess so well.

I've never been anywhere else.

Oh, you're not eating the scones.

I guess we'd better get over to the hotel and wait for that.

Thank you so much for your hospitality, missus McGinnis.

Oh, i'll come alone.

I'd like to see imagine automobile.

I just get my showers.

It won't be a minute.

She shouldn't be living alone like this.

It's made her completely confused.

Oh I know, well, there's nothing we can do.

Though she kept offering us scumbs and the plate was empty.

She's living in the past.

I wish it'd hurry.

I don't want to, miss Dad.

Well, we've got lots of time.

If you said an hour, we've only been here a few minutes.

I wonder what's keeping missus McGinnis.

Look, why don't we just go on?

She'll follow us and she knows where the hotel is, Missus McGinnis.

You about ready, Missus McGinnis.

Oh, not again, I'll talk about the cheshire cat.

Come on, let's get out of here.

You want your eggs?

Scrambled off?

Five this morning?

Bill five is easier.

I do hope we have from the children soon.

Getting awfully nervous.

I thought that at least arrived last night, but not to call.

It's not like Joan.

Well, that's just me.

There's nothing wrong.

They got trouble.

We'd have been the first.

To know something's not right.

I just feel it.

Well, Steen after nine, If they're not here by no, maybe I'll call the poet.

Oh, I'll get it.

Hello, Hello, is it Joan?

There seems to be a voice that I can't make it out.

Joan.

Oh, it's a bad connection.

I don't know if it's Joan or now.

Dear Hello, Hello, Hello, it's.

Still use whoever it was left called back.

We just have to wait.

I'm terribly frightened.

I wasn't before, but now no, I really am.

There's something evil here.

I mean no, people accept that craziness is mckinnis.

It's your dad's on the way.

I wonder it's been two hours now, Well maybe he had trouble.

At least he knows where we are, doesn't he?

How do I know?

All are we doing?

And ask each other to me questions?

I'm cold, and I'm tired and I'm hungry.

Oh, we may just die here.

Don't you realize that we may just die?

Stop it?

Oh, I'm not.

I'm sorry, Han, I had to stop.

I'll get control of myself.

I'm sorry.

Well, we just have to wait.

Everyone seems to be waiting.

Joan and Skip are waiting.

In Taylor Town, expecting her father to pick him up any minute.

But Joan's father, as we now know, didn't get the call, and he and his wife are waiting to hear from John.

It looks as though Skip and Joan won't be with her books for Christmas after all, or at all, But we'll just have to wait to see how it turns out.

When I returned shortly with Acts three, from.

The way things look now, it's not going to be a very merry Christmas for skipping.

Joan Bartram apparently marooned in a strange little Ohio tom with only one inhabitant.

After encountering the elusis Missus mcinni's for a second time, Skip and Joan have gone to the hotel to.

Wait for Joan's father.

It's a cold December afternoon and it's been a long wait.

What time is it?

Ten after two?

I'm going to phone home again.

Maybe there's a reason Dad was delayed.

And after that, I'm going to call the state police.

I should have thought of it before.

We're in a real emergency here.

They'll tow us out.

Come on, but the host Dad comes after we've gone.

As missus mcginnon's to watch for.

Her, Missus McInnis, missus Houdini.

You mean I wouldn't trust her to give Dad a message.

Well, we're getting out of here as fast as we can, your father or the police, whichever comes first.

Okay, okay, here, try your folks again.

It's dead.

There's no dial tone.

Nothing makes sense in this place.

It's no use.

It says stay right where you are.

She's got a gun you that should be kicking off.

Missus McGinnis.

Why the gun?

Do you know my name?

Unlucky guess why are you pointing that gun at us.

I want you out of here now.

I do Chris changers, missus McGinnis.

You were so hospitable to us before.

Why are you before?

I've never seen you before in my life.

You'll get out of here, stop walking?

Where to do?

Wherever you come from?

I think allow straight year.

This is a nightmare.

You don't scare us.

Because I know in a couple of minutes you're going to disappear.

What are you talking about.

You've been popping up.

And vanishing all morning.

In a few minutes you'll just disappear poop.

So we are waiting right here.

Will come on Jones?

She means it, But where can we go back to the car?

She would really shoot her.

She couldn't be going.

We're not taking chances with that crazy old woman.

We'll plese out here and John won't.

Find you if you'll have to pass the car on the highway.

Nothing makes any sense here.

Ye look back, you are right, she's gone.

We'll be okay here some motor works.

I'll just turn on the here, come on, hoppy.

Oh there there's more damage than I thought.

The whole front ends caved in.

Where Christmas business turned out to be Oh.

Honey, won't get out of this.

Yeah, let me get the heater going.

We might as well get some holiday spirits if the radio still works.

Oh i'm so bush.

Oh you didn't sleep all night and I didn't get much myself when.

I wouldn't couch.

Who did come soon?

Yeah?

Yeah, we can't keep the mortar running holiday, So I hope missus mckinnis stuck to show up again.

Oh she wouldn't follow us up here, but locked.

The doors anywhere.

Hey, you are right in there.

Hey you too?

Huh?

Who's that?

What's there?

Are you too?

Okay?

Oh, it's just stay trooper.

We sell asleep, relay.

Are we glad to see you?

Anybody hurt?

No?

Oh no, we must have dozed off, dozed off and ran off the road.

The helicopter spotted your car and called it.

Oh thanks O Lord for that.

How'd you get on this road?

It's officially closed.

Well, there weren't any signs about that.

The connected within the state forty and we just stayed on it.

Had the bad luck to get in the bullets.

This extension isn't due to open until next summer.

Where are you heading?

Runion?

Jill?

My parents live there.

We're going home for the holidays.

You wouldn't have gotten there on this road.

It ends about one hundred yards up ahead.

A radio for a toe and get you folks to your onion bill.

Now, when did you.

Throw off the road last night?

You've been here all night?

Well, no, we went into Taylor Town.

Taylor Town, yeah, right up the road.

But it's a ghost town except for a crazy old woman who lives there.

I better get you folks to a hospital first, just to check out, you know, possible concussion.

Well, no, no, no, we're all right.

My wife's uncle was twisted, but once we got out of the car, she was okay.

We do not need a hospital.

You say you spent the.

Night in a place called Taylortown, Tens.

There is no Taylor Town around here.

I've lived here all my life and there just isn't any place called Taylor Town right up the road.

Look for yourself.

We were there all night.

I'm sorry, man, and maybe you the look.

Oh there's nothing there.

There's no village at.

All, no man.

Road ends at that vacant field, not a town as far as you can see.

How are they, I say, well, no sign of concussion.

At all, no injuries except abrasions.

On the woman's ankle.

Oh well, what about that story about spending the night in a village called Taylor Town?

Hard to see?

Maybe they did.

They must have imagined.

They showed no signs of exposure.

They only think they were there through the night.

They made it on the road only a couple of hours.

The helicopters spotted them two hours ago.

They went to a village named Taylor Town.

They were hallucinating.

The hallucinations quite common in extreme circumstances.

Mirage is in the desert man anxiety can produce them.

They think they spent the night, like they said, in a village that isn't there.

They had an emotional experience.

Physically they're fine.

I see no reason to keep them here.

They're better off going home to the woman's parents.

Will they're here?

A police car driving up.

Glad to see you.

Oh my, it was just about to send the police start looking for you when you call from the hospital.

Oh, I'm going to send that stay troupe for a whopping Christmas gift.

I got his name and badge number.

Skiff is so good to see him.

All I'm save here.

Thank Hevin your boat fota, come on, he and everybody.

No, you standing here in the cool and what happened?

Dad?

We thought you were coming to pick us up in that place called tror Town.

Uh.

That's what puzzles me.

We never heard from you.

The phone ran earlier this morning with no one was there.

I know I had a bad connection, but I was sure I heard you say you'd need us.

You seem to know where we were.

You mentioned this table town.

There's no place like that around here.

Were exactly were you?

Oh?

I've never heard of it either, but we were there.

I know that you thought we were looney.

Oh.

I don't know what to say about all this.

Why don't you both just relax.

I've got a buffet already.

We'll have cocktails and you can tell us all about it that.

I'll get your suitcases up to the guest room.

Well, we have to leave all our gifts in the car, but they're tying it in tonight, so we'll have them in time for Christmas.

They don't matter, dear.

Having you here and safe is what's important.

Now.

You just relax and enjoy the tree while I get things ready.

You must be furnished.

Ah, it's so good to be home again, and at Christmas time everything's pretty.

Yeah.

Oh that's some tree.

I just love to.

Skip.

Look what under the tree?

Come closer?

So little village set out under the tree?

Corboy houses and look look at the hotel.

It's tailor hotel.

Mother and Dad got this set when I was a child.

I've forgotten that every house, every street is just the way it was, the railroad station, the little store, Missus mckinni's house.

John, Wait a minute, we weren't.

We couldn't have been there, That's what the trooper said.

What happened to us?

Hey, I'm getting the chills.

Look at those pine needles from the tree.

Those are the green logs that.

Hit the roof.

I wonder what Missus mckinnis.

Could she be?

Hi?

I think she disappeared for the last time.

Well what should we tell mother and dad?

I don't know.

I think we said enough.

I don't know what happened to us last night.

We better stop talking about it.

I guess you're right here.

The orders you can pour.

The wine will old toast everybody.

Oh, I see you admiring the village under the tree.

So we haven't set it up for years We used to put it up regularly when Joan was a child.

Lately we've just had a table tree ah.

But this year, with you both coming, we went all out, big tree everything.

Yes, yes, and it's lovely yea.

The detail in those houses is exquisite, isn't it.

Yes, yes, very very realistic.

It was imported from Scotland.

It's been in my family for years.

Well he is to a wonderful well holiday visits.

Merry Christmas everyone.

If there were an explanation for everything, where would the magic in life be?

I think we'd all lose interest of everything where it's cut and dried, neatly.

Packaged just right.

We need a bit of amazement now and then to soften the blow of reality.

Skip and Joan left reality for a brief period and it gave them something to.

Remember all their lives.

I'll be back shortly with a closing holiday thought.