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How? Since when do dead men talk over the telephone?

5 seconds sound clip from the The Adventures of Superman - The Mystery of The Walking Dead classic radio series.

You can hear this line at 00:18:08 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Miss Lane and I left here last night at ten fifteen.

- At about ten twenty-five, she turned on the car radio. The voice she heard - she says - was Krishna's.

- And the words he spoke were the same words he screamed at her from his cell.

- But that's impossible. At ten twenty-five he was in his cell - either dead or alive.

- That's what puzzles me. She heard his voice again over the phone at eleven fifteen. And I heard it ten minutes later! But that could be explained

- How? Since when do dead men talk over the telephone?

- Well, assuming he wasn't dead - that he was in a - a cataleptic trance...

- Oh, no.

- If his body was claimed before eleven fifteen and he was brought out of the trance, he could have made those phone calls.

- The man died of a heart attack. Dr. Bronson has been the staff physician here for fifteen years and I assure you that when he pronounced him dead, he was dead.

- I'm sorry he's not on duty now so he could tell it to you himself.

- Oh, now don't misunderstand me. I'm not questioning it for a moment. It's just that...

[...]

The Adventures of Superman Sound Clip

The Adventures of SupermanQuotes with audio samples from the old-time radio series "The Adventures of Superman" that originally aired from 1940 to 1951

Actors: Bud Collyer (Clark Kent / Superman), Joan Alexander (Lois Lane)

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