Ghostbreakers International
<Transcript of a radio broadcast April 2nd, 1924 NBC Blue network Sunday 6:30 am>
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Brought to you by Lucky Strike. Lucky Strike means Fine Tobacco! And also brought to you by Gleam Dishwashing detergent. It's just won't be clean unless it's a Gleam Clean! And now, Rick Stanhope and his WOOOORLD OOOOOF THE UNUUUUSUALLLL!"
(RS) Thanks, Kip! Welcome, seekers of the strange! Pioneers of the Paranormal! My name is Rick Stanhope and for the next 30 minutes, we'll go on a journey of discovery in the uncharted World of the Unusual.
My first guest today is an eminent man in the field of Parapsychology and now a businessman in the exciting new field of paranormal investigations and disposals. Yes, I'm talking about the man behind Ghostbreakers international. Dr. Bartholomew Shaw.
(Shaw) Good Morning Listeners. Good Morning Rick.
(RS) Morning. Now Doc, I'm not a scientific man. I'm just an interested layman but I keep hearing these wild stories about you and your new enterprise. So I had to have you on the program and chat with you about it. What exactly are ghosts?
(Shaw) You mean besides a darn nuisance? (polite laughter) Ghosts are a natural phenomenon and with new technologies they can actually be controlled and possibly eradicated altogether. You see, when a person dies, they release a lot of psychic energy. Especially if they died an untimely or violent death. While the soul moves on to heaven, The psychic energy creates a sort of "Stain" on the area. Our process is to come in and clean it up...Much like Gleam Dishwashing Detergent.
(RS) Sure. So what you're saying is that you're not actually hurting Aunt Ethel, just an... echo of her?
(Shaw) Exactly! We in the business like to refer to them as "Engrams". In nearly every case we've encountered, The "Engram" is some mindless psychic pattern reenacting things from its former life with no sentience whatsoever. In other cases, we find that living persons who are around Engrams tend to excite them to irritability.
(RS) Could you give us an example Doctor?
(Shaw) Most of your documented cases of Poltergeist activity are over excited engrams. We've found that Engram's are very sensitive to sound in some ways. I don't know what the link between sonic energy and psychic energy is... But I've had great success driving out ghosts with Benny Baker and his Hot Jazz Orchestra on a high volume radio. (Audience laughter) But the real star of our research at Ghostbreakers International is due to some recent discoveries in Z-ray technologies.
(RS) For those of our listeners who have no Idea what Z-rays are, They are a form of psychic wavelength recently discovered accidentally by Doctor Hammersmith and codified by Professor Dixon. We've had him on the show. he was quite a character.
(Shaw) Dixon is a piker and an ass. He has no real idea of how Z-rays work at all. Why our Z-ray emitter is the most state of the art piece of technology extant, and he's decrying us as endangering the environment. Still, there isn't anything that gets rid of the Engrams with more speed or power.
(RS) So that led to your current line of work? Professional Ghostbreaking?
(Shaw) Absolutely Rick! We're opening offices all over the country as the need presents itself. Many people inherit old homes and spooky places and they need our services desperately for their piece of mind.
(RS) So, how can they get in touch with you Doc?
(Shaw) You can reach our New York office at Klondike5-3465. This week, we're having a special on moaners and chain rattlers.
(RS) Alright, Doc. So if you people have a problem with dead relatives that just won't move on to their just rewards, just give Doctor Shaw a call at Ghostbreakers International. After this commercial break, our next guest will be the amazing Zaffo who claims to be able to put cows to sleep using only the power of his mind.
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(Shaw) Good Morning Listeners. Good Morning Rick.
(RS) Morning. Now Doc, I'm not a scientific man. I'm just an interested layman but I keep hearing these wild stories about you and your new enterprise. So I had to have you on the program and chat with you about it. What exactly are ghosts?
(Shaw) You mean besides a darn nuisance? (polite laughter) Ghosts are a natural phenomenon and with new technologies they can actually be controlled and possibly eradicated altogether. You see, when a person dies, they release a lot of psychic energy. Especially if they died an untimely or violent death. While the soul moves on to heaven, The psychic energy creates a sort of "Stain" on the area. Our process is to come in and clean it up...Much like Gleam Dishwashing Detergent.
(RS) Sure. So what you're saying is that you're not actually hurting Aunt Ethel, just an... echo of her?
(Shaw) Exactly! We in the business like to refer to them as "Engrams". In nearly every case we've encountered, The "Engram" is some mindless psychic pattern reenacting things from its former life with no sentience whatsoever. In other cases, we find that living persons who are around Engrams tend to excite them to irritability.
(RS) Could you give us an example Doctor?
(Shaw) Most of your documented cases of Poltergeist activity are over excited engrams. We've found that Engram's are very sensitive to sound in some ways. I don't know what the link between sonic energy and psychic energy is... But I've had great success driving out ghosts with Benny Baker and his Hot Jazz Orchestra on a high volume radio. (Audience laughter) But the real star of our research at Ghostbreakers International is due to some recent discoveries in Z-ray technologies.
(RS) For those of our listeners who have no Idea what Z-rays are, They are a form of psychic wavelength recently discovered accidentally by Doctor Hammersmith and codified by Professor Dixon. We've had him on the show. he was quite a character.
(Shaw) Dixon is a piker and an ass. He has no real idea of how Z-rays work at all. Why our Z-ray emitter is the most state of the art piece of technology extant, and he's decrying us as endangering the environment. Still, there isn't anything that gets rid of the Engrams with more speed or power.
(RS) So that led to your current line of work? Professional Ghostbreaking?
(Shaw) Absolutely Rick! We're opening offices all over the country as the need presents itself. Many people inherit old homes and spooky places and they need our services desperately for their piece of mind.
(RS) So, how can they get in touch with you Doc?
(Shaw) You can reach our New York office at Klondike5-3465. This week, we're having a special on moaners and chain rattlers.
(RS) Alright, Doc. So if you people have a problem with dead relatives that just won't move on to their just rewards, just give Doctor Shaw a call at Ghostbreakers International. After this commercial break, our next guest will be the amazing Zaffo who claims to be able to put cows to sleep using only the power of his mind.
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History:
Dr. Shaw is in an eminent and opinionated (Read; arrogant self-centered ass.)member of the parapsychology community. His company is an effort to prove a number of his more outlandish theories correct and make a great deal of money off of the basic patents of his machinery. He's got a few right ideas but he's not as right as he thinks he is. He assumes that ghosts aren't actually sentient and he's dead wrong about that. (if you'll pardon the turn of phrase.)
Dr. Shaw is in an eminent and opinionated (Read; arrogant self-centered ass.)member of the parapsychology community. His company is an effort to prove a number of his more outlandish theories correct and make a great deal of money off of the basic patents of his machinery. He's got a few right ideas but he's not as right as he thinks he is. He assumes that ghosts aren't actually sentient and he's dead wrong about that. (if you'll pardon the turn of phrase.)
Agenda:
Most members of Ghostbreakers International are people interested in the paranormal and in furthering the science of the supernatural. Sadly, Dr. Shaw is a much better salesman than he is a scientist or a businessman. So while he manages to get a lot of press for the company, he also manages to just barely the keep enterprise afloat. Shaw spends more time doing radio interviews and carrying out public feuds in prints with other leading lights in the scientific community than he does in research. Members also are interested in studying "Psi" abilities that are becoming more prevalent in the world. Since the science of parapsychology is still in its infancy, much of these studies are scientifically shoddy and are virtually never under lab conditions. Charlatans abound.
Most members of Ghostbreakers International are people interested in the paranormal and in furthering the science of the supernatural. Sadly, Dr. Shaw is a much better salesman than he is a scientist or a businessman. So while he manages to get a lot of press for the company, he also manages to just barely the keep enterprise afloat. Shaw spends more time doing radio interviews and carrying out public feuds in prints with other leading lights in the scientific community than he does in research. Members also are interested in studying "Psi" abilities that are becoming more prevalent in the world. Since the science of parapsychology is still in its infancy, much of these studies are scientifically shoddy and are virtually never under lab conditions. Charlatans abound.
Resources:
Surprisingly few for such a well-advertised company. The company possesses a few gadgets, for experiments, a portable(barely) Z-ray emitter for serious cases, a tiny lab, a mid-sized library, and a kitchen which features a refrigerator that is developing a mold culture that can do simple calculus. When it comes to equipment in the field, many of the members of this organization are on their own. There has been a breakthrough with using Telluric sensitive optics but the cost of these Ghost-Goggles is still prohibitive.
Surprisingly few for such a well-advertised company. The company possesses a few gadgets, for experiments, a portable(barely) Z-ray emitter for serious cases, a tiny lab, a mid-sized library, and a kitchen which features a refrigerator that is developing a mold culture that can do simple calculus. When it comes to equipment in the field, many of the members of this organization are on their own. There has been a breakthrough with using Telluric sensitive optics but the cost of these Ghost-Goggles is still prohibitive.
Membership:
Super scientist and technicians are always welcome of course. Much of the actual ghost breaking work is done by daredevils and baseline humans of course. The Company also has a few mesmerists on the payroll who tend to specialize in investigations and research. Otherwise, the company is a popular roosting place for kooks and crackpots who managed to get themselves booted out of academia (and that's saying something.)
Super scientist and technicians are always welcome of course. Much of the actual ghost breaking work is done by daredevils and baseline humans of course. The Company also has a few mesmerists on the payroll who tend to specialize in investigations and research. Otherwise, the company is a popular roosting place for kooks and crackpots who managed to get themselves booted out of academia (and that's saying something.)
Alliances:
Good relations with both the White College and the Covenant. Who tend to look on Ghostbreakers as a sort of "poor cousin." While some resent this sort of treatment, others are happy for any kind of help.
Good relations with both the White College and the Covenant. Who tend to look on Ghostbreakers as a sort of "poor cousin." While some resent this sort of treatment, others are happy for any kind of help.
Enemies:
Ghostbreakers have made an enemy of Baron Saturday. He has yet to figure out what to do about this problem. He's approaching it cautiously. REG is looking to subvert the group from within if they can manage it and have already planted a spy or two.
Ghostbreakers have made an enemy of Baron Saturday. He has yet to figure out what to do about this problem. He's approaching it cautiously. REG is looking to subvert the group from within if they can manage it and have already planted a spy or two.
The Future:
The company finally goes bankrupt because of poor financial planning, trusting the wrong people, and a series of lawsuits from people claiming they were hoaxed (in order to get out of paying their bills) Dr. Shaw retires to live simply in Massachusetts as a tenured member of the Miskatonic University faculty. He writes a few potboiler novels and raises orchids while his mothballed equipment molders in his garage.
The company finally goes bankrupt because of poor financial planning, trusting the wrong people, and a series of lawsuits from people claiming they were hoaxed (in order to get out of paying their bills) Dr. Shaw retires to live simply in Massachusetts as a tenured member of the Miskatonic University faculty. He writes a few potboiler novels and raises orchids while his mothballed equipment molders in his garage.
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