Stay Out Of Dutchman’s Woods by The CBS Radio Mystery Theater

Summary

Podcast Summary

Podcast: The Horror! (Old Time Radio)
Episode: Stay Out Of Dutchman’s Woods (CBS Radio Mystery Theater)
Release Date: February 7, 2026
Host: RelicRadio.com
Original Air Date of Drama: October 16, 1975
Main Theme:
A chilling journey into the mysterious and haunted Dutchman’s Woods, where vacationers Ronnie and Peg become trapped in a supernatural snare dating back centuries. Combining folklore, suspense, and ghostly allure, this classic CBS Radio Mystery Theater episode explores what lingers in cursed forests—and why some warnings should be heeded.

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Key Discussion Points and Story Breakdown

[01:56] Setting the Stage: The Invitation Into Mystery

• E.G. Marshall draws listeners into a deceptively idyllic woods setting, hinting that danger lurks beneath the forest’s beauty.
  • Quote: "There's a beautiful little glade deep in the forest... Doesn't sound very mysterious. Doesn't it frighten you? Well, stay with us. It will." (01:56)

[02:53] The Foreboding Warning

• At the Cliffside Inn, innkeepers Lou Griffin and Sarah express fear and superstition about Dutchman’s Woods when vacationers Ronnie and Peg arrive.
• Locals recount their unease about venturing into the woods, reinforcing a sense of impending doom.
  • Quote: "I aim to stay out of Dutchman's Woods." – Lou Griffin (03:39)
  • Quote: "I'd stay out of Dutchman's woods, see Ronald?" – Lou Griffin (10:52)

[07:32] Into the Woods: A Mismatch of Desires

• Ronnie, eager and adventurous, convinces the reluctant Peg to picnic in Dutchman’s Woods.
• The woods immediately unsettle Peg; Ronnie dismisses her concerns as mere nerves and insists on his orientation skills.

[12:16] Lost and Alone

• Their hiking quickly devolves into confusion and dread as they realize they are lost.
  • Quote: "Lost, I think would be the word." – Peg (14:28)
  • Ronnie tries to remain optimistic, insisting they’re “not in an African jungle,” but fear begins to set in.

[17:06] The Disappearance

• As the couple tries to retrace their steps, Ronnie and Peg are mysteriously separated in the woods.
• Each calls for the other, growing increasingly frantic.

[18:09] The Siren of the Woods

• Ronnie encounters Katrina, a mesmerizing and beautiful woman, who seems to embody both seduction and danger.
  • Quote: "I think you're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen." – Ronnie (18:26)
  • Katrina is eager to lure Ronnie to her home, offering hospitality and (veiled) temptations. She grows annoyed when he mentions Peg.
  • Quote: "Please stop talking about that woman. It's very rude... I won't have it." – Katrina (23:51)
  • Quote: "I've said I'd give you dinner and I've... even asked you to have my wine. I'm very angry with you, Ronnie." – Katrina (24:09)

[24:57] Peg’s Return and the Local Fear

• Peg, after finding the road and help, returns to the inn distraught. Sarah empathizes and prepares to help her search for Ronnie, despite local fears.
  • Quote: "Women don't. Peg found her way home all right, didn't she?... Men just ain't safe in Dutchman's woods." – Sarah (27:18)

[28:04] Katrina’s Castle: Allure and Entrapment

• Katrina leads Ronnie to a hidden castle in the woods, claimed to have been built by her late husband.
• She offers him wine with an “unusual” local ingredient, and Ronnie feels disoriented and sleepy.
  • Quote: "The thing that makes my wine so different is a special ingredient. I'm not sure you can find it anywhere at all, except right here in Dutchman's woods." – Katrina (30:26)

[31:05] Peg Learns the Legend

• Peg, with Sarah, searches for Ronnie. Sarah relates the myth of Katrina:
  • Dutchman Hans Groot built a castle for his young wife Katrina in the Maine woods.
  • Katrina was unfaithful; Hans killed her and her lover. Her ghost now lures men to their doom in Dutchman’s Woods.
  • Quote: "The way the story goes... Katrina still walks Dutchman Woods. And any man that comes her way is fair game." – Sarah (40:34)

[41:00+] Confronting the Supernatural

• Ronnie, weakened by Katrina's wine and influence, vacillates between her and his devotion to Peg.
  • Katrina’s insistence: "I don't enjoy another woman's company. I don't want women here. Can't you understand that?" (41:24)
• Peg and Sarah find the ruins of the castle; Peg is able to call Ronnie away from Katrina’s grasp.

[44:22] The Ghostly Showdown

• A supernatural confrontation occurs between Peg and Katrina:
  • Quote: "You're not going to take my husband away from me." – Peg (45:05)
  • Katrina, revealed as a ghost or witch, threatens destruction.
  • Peg bravely demands Katrina release Ronnie, challenging her powers.
  • The castle illusion collapses as Peg pulls Ronnie from Katrina’s thrall.

[47:34] Return to Reality

• Sarah and Peg rescue a dizzy, confused Ronnie from the ruins. The strange ordeal leaves them shaken but alive.
  • Quote: "We must have imagined the whole thing. I must have been lying there on the ground and in the ruins the whole time." – Ronnie (48:50)
• Sarah believes leaving her hex sign in the ruins may have finally appeased Katrina’s spirit.

[49:54] Epilogue and Thematic Reflection

• E.G. Marshall closes the episode, musing on the story's themes: is Katrina merely a ghost, or also a siren, a witch, or something else?
  • Quote: "Whether Katrina was a siren, a ghost, a witch, or all three, Ronnie was lucky to get out of that one alive." – E.G. Marshall (49:54)
• Ronnie is now skittish around forests for the rest of his days.

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Pivotal Quotes and Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• On the woods' danger:
  "I aim to stay out of Dutchman's Woods." – Lou Griffin (03:39)
• The seduction:
  "I think you're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen." – Ronnie to Katrina (18:26)
• Katrina's warning:
  "Please stop talking about that woman. It's very rude... I won't have it." – Katrina (23:51)
• The legend revealed:
  "The way the story goes... Katrina still walks Dutchman Woods. And any man that comes her way is fair game." – Sarah (40:34)
• Peg defies Katrina:
  "You're not going to take my husband away from me." – Peg (45:05)
• Aftermath and skepticism:
  "We must have imagined the whole thing. I must have been lying there on the ground and in the ruins the whole time." – Ronnie (48:50)
• Final judgment:
  "Whether Katrina was a siren, a ghost, a witch, or all three, Ronnie was lucky to get out of that one alive." – E.G. Marshall (49:54)

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• [01:56] E.G. Marshall’s haunting setup
• [10:52] The innkeepers’ warnings
• [14:28] Ronnie and Peg become lost
• [18:26] Ronnie meets Katrina
• [23:51] Katrina turns possessive
• [27:18] Sarah explains the woods’ gendered danger
• [30:26] Katrina’s enchanted wine
• [40:34] The legend of Katrina told
• [45:05+] Peg confronts Katrina; supernatural showdown
• [48:50] Escape and the house’s collapse
• [49:54] E.G. Marshall’s reflective sign-off

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The Episode’s Atmosphere & Tone

Throughout, the language is lushly descriptive, painting vivid, ominous images of misty woods, brooding ruins, and spectral women. Themes of folklore, jealousy, the supernatural, and the hubris of ignoring old warnings infuse every exchange. The interplay between the skeptical vacationers and the worried locals creates mounting dread that builds to a classic horror crescendo.

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In Summary

"Stay Out Of Dutchman’s Woods" is a quintessential old time radio horror story, rich in suspense, myth, and eerie atmosphere. Through its tale of Katrina the ghostly siren, and the vacationers who unwittingly trespass into her domain, the episode warns that the past—especially its restless spirits—might not stay buried.

Moral: Heed local legends. Some woods are better admired from a distance.

Transcript

[EG Marshall]

Oh, stories. We stories. And murder too.

[Peg Andrews]

Turn out your legs.

[EG Marshall]

Turn them out. Good evening. Come in, won't you? What's the matter? Surely you're not nervous. For example, car, I think restored. We are meant to call from out of the past. Stories strange and weird tales of mystery.

[Narrator/Announcer]

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[EG Marshall]

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[Relic Radio Host]

Welcome back to the horror old time radio horror stories since 2007@ Relicradio.com we're going to hear from the CBS Radio Mystery Theater this week with their episode from October 16, 1975 titled Stay out of Dutchman's Woods. This is episode 363 out of almost 1400 original stories that were produced from 1974 to 1982. The series was hosted by EG Marshall for all but its final year. You'll hear him in a minute right after a reminder. If you'd like to help support this and all of the relic radio shows, visit donate. Relicradio.com or click on the support link in the show notes. We've got some downloadable sets for certain donation amounts, though any amount is always appreciated and helpful. Now here's eg Marshall presenting stay out of dutchman's woods.

[EG Marshall]

The cbs radio mystery theater presents. Come in. Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall. I have the lunch all packed and I'm ready to take you on a picnic in the woods. There's a beautiful little glade deep in the forest. Birds singing, that wonderful clean aroma of fresh growth mixed with leaf mold and last year's pine needles. The cool touch of grass to your bare feet if you care to take your shoes off. Doesn't sound very mysterious. Doesn't it frighten you? Well, stay with us. It will.

[Peg Andrews]

Lou, I can't stand it thinking about them two nice young folks out there lost in the woods.

[EG Marshall]

I feel bad about it too, Sarah, but I don't know what I can do.

[Peg Andrews]

It's raining cats and dogs out there and it's turning downright cold. Now we got to do something.

[EG Marshall]

I called the sheriff over at bennebec.

[Peg Andrews]

Sheriff Larkin, do you think for one minute he's gonna go into them woods looking for Ronnie and peg or get somebody else to go?

[EG Marshall]

No, tell you the truth or don't fell, it'd have to be out of his mind to go in them woods night like this any other time for that matter.

[Peg Andrews]

Well, what are you going to do about it? You gonna just sit there, eh?

[EG Marshall]

Reckon that's about all there is to do. I aim to stay out of Dutchman's Woods. Our mystery drama, Stay out of Dutchman's woods was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Field and Farrington and stars Paul Hecht. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser. I'll be back shortly with act one. Isn't it nice to know you're free to see the things you want to.

[Peg Andrews]

See.

[EG Marshall]

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[Peg Andrews]

Ronnie, I love you dearly, for better or worse, like I told a man. But if you hit one more sour note, I'm going to get out of this car and walk the rest of the way.

[EG Marshall]

You know where your trouble is, Peg? You got a tin ear.

[Peg Andrews]

How far do you think we are from the inn?

[EG Marshall]

Can't be more than a few miles now. You tired?

[Peg Andrews]

Not really.

[EG Marshall]

I don't know.

[Peg Andrews]

We've been driving through this forest for miles. Sort of gives me the creeps. So dark and gloomy.

[EG Marshall]

The creeps? You're kidding. It's absolutely beautiful in a way.

[Peg Andrews]

It looks so. I don't know, brooding.

[EG Marshall]

Contrast, that's all. The sun's so bright where it gets through to the road, it makes the woods seem dark.

[Peg Andrews]

What are you doing?

[EG Marshall]

I just want to show you. Ten steps into the woods and you'll see there's nothing gloomy about it. It's just the contrast.

[Peg Andrews]

I don't want to go in there, Ronnie.

[EG Marshall]

Oh, well, okay. We can come back another day. Maybe tomorrow. It really is a beautiful forest. We could bring a picnic lunch.

[Peg Andrews]

Well, okay. Maybe it'll look better to me. Tom.

[EG Marshall]

Be right with you.

[Peg Andrews]

Oh, I love it, Ronnie. I just love really looks the way a Cliffside inn ought to look. Even nicer than Bill and Edna said.

[EG Marshall]

Isolated, that's for sure. Now, you'd be Mr. And Mrs. Andrews, wouldn't you? That's right. We have reservations. Good thing you made him, too. He might just have closed down. End a season for us.

[Peg Andrews]

Are we the only guests?

[EG Marshall]

Only ones. My name's Lou Griffin. I'm the proprietor. Sarah.

[Peg Andrews]

Come in. I was just putting up a fresh pot of coffee. Figured we'd be wanting some long trip and all. I thought I smelled coffee. Just what I need now. I hope you ain't disappointed in the place, Ms. Andrews. Disappointed? I adore it. It's even nicer than Bill and Edna told us. Bill and Edna White. They were up here earlier in the summer. White what? Oh, yes.

[EG Marshall]

There.

[Peg Andrews]

The couple with the two young boys, huh? Ken and Eddie. Yes.

[EG Marshall]

Never did see two young un's. Could be in so many different places at one time. I've been thinking some about seeing if I can't get hold of some hex Signs to keep young UN's out next season.

[Peg Andrews]

I noticed the hex signs outside and even in here.

[EG Marshall]

Yeah, Anything we got plenty of. It's hex signs. Are they just for decoration or do you really mean them to keep evil spirits away?

[Peg Andrews]

Oh, they're just for what you call color.

[EG Marshall]

And it don't hurt to be on the safe side.

[Peg Andrews]

What do you mean?

[EG Marshall]

Maybe there's evil spirits, maybe there ain't. Maybe they want to get in, maybe they don't. But I never heard of a hex sign doing any harm. Morning, Mr. Griffin. Morning, Sarah. You can put the eggs on now. Lou and Sarah what we like to be called. Friendlier that way. Okay. We're Peg and Ronnie.

[Peg Andrews]

I brought your coffee out. Eggs won't be ready for a minute or so. And brought you a cup, too, Lou.

[EG Marshall]

Fine, as long as these good folks don't mind me sitting down with them. Oh, no, no, please do.

[Peg Andrews]

I'll be right out with the rest. Already? But they.

[EG Marshall]

How are you folks planning to spend the day?

[Peg Andrews]

Well.

[EG Marshall]

Well, we had a discussion about that and I won.

[Peg Andrews]

He wants to take a hike into the woods.

[EG Marshall]

Dutchman's Woods? Oh, is that what they're called? I wouldn't go in there if I was you. You wouldn't? Folks get lost in there. Been a lot of that. Oh, we won't get lost. I have a very good sense of direction. But all the same, you take my advice. You stay out of Dutchman's woods, see Ronald? Oh, that's ridiculous. We can take care of ourselves. We're not going to get lost. Nobody aims to her course. Folks do it, though. I was going to ask you if Mrs. Griffin. Oh, Sarah would be willing to put up a picnic lunch for us. Oh, she'll fix you up something for lunch. No trouble about that. Only thing is, we'll be very careful. Well, I'll just go to talk to Sarah about the lunch then. Thanks, but if I was you, I'd stay out of Dutchman's Woods.

[Peg Andrews]

Ronnie, I'm hungry and I'm tired. Some kind of bug bit me on the arm and I want a sandwich and then I want to go home. This place gives me the creeps.

[EG Marshall]

I can't understand you, Peg. We've taken hikes in the woods before. You never acted like this.

[Peg Andrews]

I know. I don't really understand it either. There's just something about this place. Can't explain it any better than that.

[EG Marshall]

Hey. Hey, look up ahead. Hey, there's a clearing up there.

[Peg Andrews]

Sunlight. Oh, I didn't think I'D ever live to see it again.

[EG Marshall]

Oh, don't be a nut. Maybe it's a good place to stop for lunch. Come on. Hey, look. Hey, it's like a garden, isn't it?

[Peg Andrews]

It's pretty, all right. Especially after all that gloom.

[EG Marshall]

If we can spread the cloth Sarah gave us on that flat rock, eh? All the comforts of home.

[Peg Andrews]

And then after we eat, we go home right back the way we came.

[EG Marshall]

Except that. You're pointing in the wrong direction.

[Peg Andrews]

I am not. We just came right out between those two bushes.

[EG Marshall]

Between those two bushes. All I can say is it's a good thing you married a man who can find his way around, Ronnie.

[Peg Andrews]

I'm sure. I'm really just as sure as can be.

[EG Marshall]

Yeah, well, don't worry about a thing. They don't call me Ron the Pathfinder for nothing. Well, come on, let's eat.

[Peg Andrews]

Okay. But I could have sworn. Lou Griffin. Do you mean to sit there and tell me you let them two wander off into Dutchman's Woods?

[EG Marshall]

Wasn't a matter of letting them, sir. They'd set on it. They were. He was in here.

[Peg Andrews]

Oh, if I'd known where them two was fixing to go, I never would have put up that lunch for them.

[EG Marshall]

I tried to talk them out of it. She didn't much want to go in the first place, but he wouldn't budge an inch.

[Peg Andrews]

You could have told him the truth about that place and got nothing from.

[EG Marshall]

Her trouble but laughter. Telling a tale like that. No, sir. Comes to talk about Dutchman's Woods. I mind my own business.

[Peg Andrews]

Ronnie. Ronnie, will you stop and listen to your.

[EG Marshall]

Oh, all right, Ronnie.

[Peg Andrews]

The underbrush wasn't this thick before. It didn't come this way.

[EG Marshall]

Well, I have to admit I don't remember it being quite this overgrown before. But I know we're going in the right direction. I'm very sure of that now, Peg.

[Peg Andrews]

You're not sure at all, are you, Ronnie?

[EG Marshall]

Well, maybe I am just a little disoriented.

[Peg Andrews]

Lost, I think would be the word.

[EG Marshall]

All right, I'm lost. You like it better that way. It's not as if we were lost in an African jungle or something. With wilderness for miles around. We're in a tame woods in Maine. There's no cause to panic.

[Peg Andrews]

I'm not panicking, Ronnie. I just. Let's go back, shall we? See if we can find the clearing where we had lunch.

[EG Marshall]

All right.

[Peg Andrews]

Ronnie. I think it's over this way. I'm sure we weren't coming from that direction before.

[EG Marshall]

All right, all right.

[Peg Andrews]

Oh, I've got to stop and catch my breath. Ronnie, we can't be far from the clearing, now, can we?

[EG Marshall]

I wouldn't think so. I believe we passed that. That rowan tree over there when we came this way before.

[Peg Andrews]

That's west, Ronnie. Right into the sun.

[EG Marshall]

Is it so?

[Peg Andrews]

Don't you think we ought to keep walking east? I mean, the road is east of here. We know that. It doesn't really matter where we come out on the road, does it? As long as we do come out.

[EG Marshall]

Oh. Okay. Well, you feel rested now?

[Peg Andrews]

Oh, enough. That you, Lou?

[EG Marshall]

It's me.

[Peg Andrews]

Oh. Did you see anything of them?

[EG Marshall]

Seen that car parked there alongside the woods? They're lost. All right.

[Peg Andrews]

Well, why didn't you keep on looking? Did you go into the woods?

[EG Marshall]

Oh, few steps here and there. Not very far in.

[Peg Andrews]

For land's sakes. How do you expect to find somebody that's lost in the woods if you don't go into the woods?

[EG Marshall]

Why, do you think you was aiming to get rid of me or something? Way you keep trying to run me off into them woods.

[Peg Andrews]

Them young folks is our responsibility, Lou. Ronnie, is it late enough to start getting dark?

[EG Marshall]

No, not yet. It's not quite five yet.

[Peg Andrews]

Why is it getting dark?

[EG Marshall]

Maybe it's going to rain, Peg.

[Peg Andrews]

Oh, Lord, that's all we need.

[EG Marshall]

The worst of it is, without the sun to guide us, we. We can't be sure we're still going east.

[Peg Andrews]

It's getting cold, too.

[EG Marshall]

Yeah.

[Peg Andrews]

Ronnie?

[EG Marshall]

Yeah?

[Peg Andrews]

I'm scared.

[EG Marshall]

Don't be frightened, Peggy. There's really no reason to. Me sure. We're lost, and it's going to be inconvenient as hell. If it starts raining, we're gonna get drenched and be damned uncomfortable. But there's nothing to be scared of.

[Peg Andrews]

I am scared.

[EG Marshall]

Always.

[Peg Andrews]

Take.

[EG Marshall]

Oh, now, come on, let's keep moving. Underbrushes thinned out some. At least I'm pretty sure we're still going east. You were right about that. We keep going on east. We can't miss the road, so we're really not in such bad shape as we. Hey. Hey, Peggy. There's a clearing up ahead. What do you want to bet it's ours? Peg. Peg, where are you? Peg?

[Peg Andrews]

Isn't that a clearing over there, Ronnie? Oh, it must be. It's lighter in there. Ronnie. Ronnie, don't play games with me. I'm scared enough already. Ronnie, Where. Where are you hiding? Ronnie?

[EG Marshall]

Peg. Answer me. Peg, answer me, will you?

[Peg Andrews]

Ronnie.

[EG Marshall]

Peg? Peg, is that you?

[Peg Andrews]

Over this way, Ronnie. That's Right, Ronnie, over this way. Yes, that's fine. Keep on just the way you're going there. Hello, Ronnie.

[EG Marshall]

You're. You. You aren't Peg.

[Peg Andrews]

Of course I'm not. But won't I do? Don't you think I'm as beautiful as she is?

[EG Marshall]

Well, I was. I was looking for.

[Peg Andrews]

Don't you, Ronnie?

[EG Marshall]

Well, I. I think you're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. Sirens abound in legend and folklore. And if I may say so without starting a controversy, they're not unheard of. Even in real life. Two men, no matter how virtuous, are completely siren proof. So if there's a siren operating deep in Amaine woods, it shouldn't surprise us too much. The question is, will she lead or try to lead Ronnie Andrews to his destruction? We'll investigate further when I return with Act 2.

[Peg Andrews]

When you say Bud, you've said a lot of things nobody else can say.

[EG Marshall]

A lot of things like a taste, a smoothness and a drinkability you'll find in no other beer at any price. Let's say this beer, Budweiser, is the king of beers.

[Peg Andrews]

When you say mud, you've said the word that means you like to do it all. When you say Bud, you say you care enough to only want the king of beers.

[EG Marshall]

Budweiser's always been the king of beers and always will be for one simple reason. It's quality. Taste. And that speaks for itself. Hear it talking.

[Peg Andrews]

When you say Budweiser, you've said it.

[EG Marshall]

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[EG Marshall]

On the first day of their stay at Lou Griffin's Cliffside Inn, Ronnie and Peg Andrews decided to take a picnic lunch and go exploring Dutchman's Woods. As Lou had warned them, this turned out to be a mistake. First they lost their way, and then they became mysteriously separated. In searching for Peg, Ronnie has come upon a strange and extraordinarily beautiful woman. In fact, almost his first words to her were, I think you're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen.

[Peg Andrews]

Thank you.

[EG Marshall]

And you must be as good as you are beautiful. So I'm sure you'll help me.

[Peg Andrews]

Of course.

[EG Marshall]

My wife and I. Peg. Peg. My wife and I, we. We lost our way in the woods earlier in the day. And we've been wandering around in circles, I guess, all afternoon.

[Peg Andrews]

People do get lost in Dutchman's Wood. Didn't anybody tell you?

[EG Marshall]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, well, you see, I wanted to come anyway. It was. I don't know, it was as if the woods drew me.

[Peg Andrews]

I understand.

[EG Marshall]

Yeah. And. And then somehow Peg and I got separated and, well, now I can't find her. Do you know the woods?

[Peg Andrews]

Well, I know every tree, every stone, every flower, every path. Oh, yes, I know Dutchman's Woods.

[EG Marshall]

Great, great. Now will you please help me find my wife?

[Peg Andrews]

My name's Katrina. Last names aren't important, are they? Will just be Ronnie and Katrina.

[EG Marshall]

Yeah. Well, I'm very glad to know you, Katrina. It wasn't far from here, the place where my wife and I got separated.

[Peg Andrews]

Ronnie and Katrina. Would you like to see my house?

[EG Marshall]

House? Oh, you mean you have a house in the middle of this jungle?

[Peg Andrews]

A very beautiful house, yes. Come, I'll show it to you.

[EG Marshall]

Oh, thanks very much. But maybe Peg and I could see it together after we found her. I. I just can't go wandering off with you while Peg's somewhere and probably looking for me right this minute.

[Peg Andrews]

You must be hungry. You can have dinner with me, Ronnie. And I'll give you some of my special.

[EG Marshall]

Aren't you listening to me? My wife is lost. I can't just leave her out there. I gotta find her.

[Peg Andrews]

Please stop talking about that woman. It's very rude of you talking to me about another woman. I won't have it.

[EG Marshall]

Look, I don't think you understand. My wife and I got separated somehow in the woods.

[Peg Andrews]

I'm not looking for her.

[EG Marshall]

Well, you can't mean that you would.

[Peg Andrews]

I've offered you my hospitality. I've said I'd give you dinner and I've. I'VE even asked you to have my wine. I'm very angry with you, Ronnie.

[EG Marshall]

Please, I'm begging you. Why won't you help me?

[Peg Andrews]

If you wish to come with me, perhaps I'll help you find your wife later on. You'll never find her without my help, I promise you that. Well, I must be going. You're making a very stupid mistake. But if you don't know any better.

[EG Marshall]

Katrina, wait.

[Peg Andrews]

Are you coming with me? Me? Oh, well.

[EG Marshall]

Oh, yes. All right, I'll come with you.

[Peg Andrews]

Ronnie. Ronnie, can't you hear me? I found the road, Ronnie. I found the car. I'm going back to the inn now for help. Try to find shelter from the rain. Ronnie. And don't. Don't. Lou. Lou, wake up.

[EG Marshall]

What the. Lou.

[Peg Andrews]

It's pretty near 11 o'. Clock. Them two ain't back yet.

[EG Marshall]

What do you. Oh, where? We knew they was lost.

[Peg Andrews]

It's still raining. Turned cold as winter. Just about them too, lost out there.

[EG Marshall]

Only thing, she ain't back yet. Didn't hardly expect him. What you think?

[Peg Andrews]

If you think I'm gonna let you go back to sleep again if you got another thing coming. Turn that lamp on, will you? I'm gonna get up, maybe put on a pot of fresh coffee. Does that sound good to you?

[EG Marshall]

Yeah. I expect a glass of Apple Jack would do me a lot more. Bored, Lou?

[Peg Andrews]

All you had to do was just tell them.

[EG Marshall]

Think he'd believe a tale like that set up in the city? Frightened my face, he would have.

[Peg Andrews]

Well, I wish you'd told him. Sarah. We don't even know if it's true.

[EG Marshall]

We know men get lost. That we do know. We don't know why they get lost. I couldn't tell that story. Story is gospel. Who. Who's that?

[Peg Andrews]

Who? Sarah. Oh, somebody help me. We're coming, Peg. No.

[EG Marshall]

Now.

[Peg Andrews]

Bawling about it ain't going to do no good. Whatever is, what happens? I can't find him. I can't find him anywhere. Somebody has to help.

[EG Marshall]

Yes, sir. Happens every time. Mighty near.

[Peg Andrews]

We were standing right there together, and then all of a sudden, he just wasn't there. He wasn't there. You better come back in the kitchen and have a nice cup of hot coffee. Pig. Oh, no. There's no time. We have to find Ronnie. Will you help me look for him? Somebody has to help me. Yes, I'll go with you. Would appreciate it.

[EG Marshall]

What if you get lost?

[Peg Andrews]

Women don't. Peg found a way home all right, didn't she? And I've been in them woods before he. I just can't understand it. You know, I thought at first he was hiding from me, playing some silly kind of game. And he was there, and then he wasn't. Two seconds later, I told him not.

[EG Marshall]

To go into them woods. You got to admit, I told him, men just ain't safe in Dutchman's woods.

[Peg Andrews]

See that big boulder just ahead, Ronnie?

[EG Marshall]

The one shaped sort of like a boat?

[Peg Andrews]

Yes. Just when you go around to the left of it, you can see the house. Take my hand.

[EG Marshall]

Oh, all right. Katrina.

[Peg Andrews]

Yes?

[EG Marshall]

We are going to look for Peg, aren't we? I mean afterwards. After I've seen your house and had some of this wine of yours.

[Peg Andrews]

You can be so tiresome.

[EG Marshall]

I'm sorry.

[Peg Andrews]

Just a minute now. There.

[EG Marshall]

I. I don't believe it.

[Peg Andrews]

I knew you'd be surprised. The others always have this.

[EG Marshall]

Others?

[Peg Andrews]

Well, you don't think you're the first guest I've ever had, do you? All I meant was nobody ever expects to find a house like this out in the middle of the woods.

[EG Marshall]

Gee, it isn't a house at all, is it? It's a castle.

[Peg Andrews]

It really is. A perfect replica of one. Anyway, my husband had it built exactly like a castle in. Oh, I don't remember. Somewhere in Holland.

[EG Marshall]

Your husband?

[Peg Andrews]

You're so jumpy. He's been dead for years.

[EG Marshall]

I can't figure out how he missed seeing this place from the road when we drove in yesterday.

[Peg Andrews]

You feel like you're up to it? Back into them woods and all? Oh, yes. I think we ought to go right now. I mean, the longer we wait. I think maybe we better take this with us. Hex sign. What's it supposed to do? It's a strong one this year. It's meant to ward off witches and evil spirits and, well, just about anything else that walks the night. Well, like Lou says, it don't hurt to be on the safe side. Come, let's get out of here. Never find that man of yours standing around here telling old wives tales. Here you are, Ronnie. A glass of the most unusual wine you've ever tasted.

[EG Marshall]

Aren't you having any?

[Peg Andrews]

Oh, no, not just now. Well, don't sip it, Ronnie. Drink it right down.

[EG Marshall]

Huh? Doesn't really taste like wine after all.

[Peg Andrews]

You don't like my wine?

[EG Marshall]

No, no, no. I. I didn't mean that. It's just that. Oh. Oh, yeah. Now it does. Hey, it leaves a very pleasant aftertaste.

[Peg Andrews]

Exactly. You can have another glass when we go in for dinner, you know.

[EG Marshall]

Well. Well, what? I really ought to do is the thing that.

[Peg Andrews]

That makes my wine so different is a special ingredient. I'm not sure you can find it anywhere at all, except right here in Dutchman's woods. It grows wild like the grapes. All the ingredients I use to make the wine grow wild.

[EG Marshall]

I have to go out later and find Peg. Can't just leave Peg wandering around out there.

[Peg Andrews]

Of course not, but. Would you like to come inside now, Ronnie?

[EG Marshall]

Sure. Sure. Why not?

[Peg Andrews]

Can you point out where it was you stopped the car and went into the woods, babe? I'm not sure. It all sort of looks alike. Well, no matter. You mustn't think ill of Lou because he didn't want to come out and help you look for your husband pay. Well, it did seem ay. He knows I'm safe enough. It's only men that get lost in Dutchman's woods. But that doesn't make sense. It does if you know the story. Katrina's got no interest in women. Katrina? She's the cause of it all. If there's any truth in the tale they tell. When men get lost in. In there. In. In the wood, they don't just disappear, do they? I mean, they. They're found eventually, aren't they? Oh, they're found, all right. What's left of them. What do you mean? Well, now, I shouldn't have said that. But the truth is they're found dead. Now, it's going to be different with Ronnie Pig. And you got to believe that. Dead of what? Exposure, sometimes starvation. Whatever it is that kills people lost in the woods, though, if you ask me, there's a whole lot more to it than that. You like my house, Ronnie?

[EG Marshall]

Oh, yeah. It's extraordinary. Katrina, this is the most extraordinary house I ever saw.

[Peg Andrews]

At first, I didn't like it. Can you believe that? I thought it was too far away from everybody and everything. And I hated my husband for making me live in it.

[EG Marshall]

Oh, yeah? Your husband. He's dead, did you say?

[Peg Andrews]

Oh, yes. A long time ago.

[EG Marshall]

My wife is alive. She's lost in the woods, but she's alive.

[Peg Andrews]

Drink your wine, Ronnie.

[EG Marshall]

Oh, yeah. I'm so sleepy.

[Peg Andrews]

Wait until you see the banquet hall. Do you know, I could seat over a hundred people if I wanted to? But I like to entertain one at a time. Just one at a time.

[EG Marshall]

Three. Sicker. What is it? What is it? Three is. Oh, a crowd.

[Peg Andrews]

Exactly. We're going to like each other, aren't we, Ronnie? Are you sleepy, Ronnie? You know, you're quite handsome. I used to call my a witch. A long time ago, people believed in things more than oh yes, you're very handsome. I may keep you for quite a long time. Several weeks even. Oh yes, that would be nice.

[EG Marshall]

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[EG Marshall]

A beautiful woman named Katrina has lured Ronnie Andrews into her castle like stronghold and plied him with wine, which she herself describes as most unusual. Peg, Ronnie's wife, along with Sarah Griffin, had gone into Dutchman's woods looking for Ronnie. Peg still thinks of Ronnie as simply lost in the woods on a miserable rainy night. But Sarah obviously knows or suspects a lot more than she's telling.

[Peg Andrews]

Shine your flashlight round about, dig Well, I keep mine straight ahead so I can see where we're going. All right. Ronnie? Oh, I don't know. Is it'll do much good to keep on calling in for him. Sarah, what did you mean when you said somebody called Katrina was the cause of it all? That's a long story. That one don't seem like a very good time to go into it right now. I want to know. Well, yes, I guess you would. Sarah. Tell me. I guess I ought to. Yes. Now that I've gone this far. Keep on flashing your light around. Yes, I will. Well, it starts back a long while ago, not much after Revelation. The American Revolution. That's the one. Seems there was this man, Dutch trader, name of Hans Groot, and he fell head over teakettle in love with this young girl that was taisheing around New York society at the time. Her name was Katrina. Katrina. But that was around the time of the Revolution, you said. I just keep on shining your light around now. It must have been filthy rich, this Hans Groot. There was no spring chicken at that time, and yet Katrina agreed to marry him without so much as a maybe. And her hardly out of her teens yet. So they had a big fancy wedding and settled down in a house he'd.

[EG Marshall]

Bought in New York.

[Peg Andrews]

You think if we find Ronnie, you already. Stop worrying, honey. Well, anyway, they didn't exactly live happy ever after there in that house. Katrina wasn't wanton, only where the suits are wanton, pure and simple. Got so she would spend more of her time with the young blades around town than she was with her own husband. And it didn't take him long to get good and sick of it. I can't see what all this has to do with. Now, you asked me to tell you that. All right, I'm sorry. But he was still as stuck on Katrina as ever. So he got a hold of this great big wooded acreage up here in Maine. Well, mighty near all woods anyway, them days. And he built such a house. House on it as you wouldn't believe if you was to see it regular careful. It was right out there, middle of the woods, millions of miles from nowhere. And he brought Katrine up here and put her in that house. And that was that. Where he think it. Here, you mean, right here in this forest? Dutchman's woods, it's called. Hans Groot was the Dutchman. Trouble was, you see, the Dutchman himself couldn't spend his whole time in his castle. He still had his business affairs, New York, even some interest overseas. The same so he had to leave Katrina alone in that big old house now and again. And that Katrina, she must have been a resourceful one. She found her men all right. Was no stopping her. Even shut up in the house. The castle, she wasn't exactly shut up in it. Just didn't have no means of travel. She took to roaming around the woods. You see, there was plenty of poaching went on in them days. Lots of it. So Katrina had run across a poacher hunting on her husband's property, and she'd take him home with her and might as well have left her in New York for all the good it done. Hans Groot. Is the castle still standing? No. Not properly speaking, anyway. Hans Groot come home and caught the tree with one of them poachers, and he killed them both. Katrina along with the man. And you think the same Katrina? The way the story goes, if you're superstitious enough to believe it, Katrina still walks Dutchman Woods. And any man that comes her way is fair game.

[EG Marshall]

What in the neighbor. How did I get into a place like this? Oh, yeah, yeah. I remember.

[Peg Andrews]

You fell asleep.

[EG Marshall]

Ronnie, I'm sorry. I must have been more tired than I realized. I still feel sort of sluggish.

[Peg Andrews]

You were tired.

[EG Marshall]

Hey, look, we. We've got to get moving. We. We've got to find Peg. Peg?

[Peg Andrews]

Peg. Peg.

[EG Marshall]

Peg.

[Peg Andrews]

That's all I hear from. My name is Katrina, not Peg. I'm not accustomed to having my guests talk about other women.

[EG Marshall]

Well, we. We ought to go out and see if we can find Peg.

[Peg Andrews]

You'll only lose yourself again if you go out there.

[EG Marshall]

But you promised you'd help me.

[Peg Andrews]

I didn't promise at all. She'll find her way home. She's probably back at the inn right now, safe and sound. She's a woman. I don't enjoy another woman's company. I don't want women here. Can't you understand that?

[EG Marshall]

Are you saying that. That you cause people to get lost?

[Peg Andrews]

You aren't lost, Ronnie. You're here, right in this room with me. There's a clearing up ahead. I. Oh, I don't think it's the place where we had lunch, though. No, Peg. No, it's the ruins. The ruins? Yeah, the place the old castle used to stand. Ain't much left now but rock where the masonry fell down. Mostly overgrown with weeds and vines and the like. The old foundation's still there. You can't see it too well after dark, of course. And you think this is where. Yes. If there is a Katrina and if she's dragged your young man off somewhere, I'd say this is the most likely place. Ronnie. Now, want my opinion? It won't do a lick of good yelling for him. Let's just go hunt through the rubble.

[EG Marshall]

I feel funny, Katrina. Kind of fuzzy. Yeah. Oh, must be that wine of yours again.

[Peg Andrews]

It's partly the wine, I'm sure, but also partly just me. Oh, Ronnie, we're going to be very happy. Happier than you've ever been. I promise you that.

[EG Marshall]

Is it raining outside? I can't tell. It looked like.

[Peg Andrews]

You're not listening to me.

[EG Marshall]

Oh, yes, I am. You were talking about happiness.

[Peg Andrews]

You've never been happy, Ronnie. I mean, wildly happy. Happy with nothing to intrude. You've never been happy that way, have you, Ronnie?

[EG Marshall]

Well, you're. You're very beautiful.

[Peg Andrews]

It's all for you right now. Not forever. I don't promise that. But right now, you're my only reason for being beautiful.

[EG Marshall]

Very beautiful. What? What. What was that?

[Peg Andrews]

We'll belong to each other. I'll be completely yours.

[EG Marshall]

Listen, somebody called me.

[Peg Andrews]

I have a feeling. Sarah. I have this crazy feeling that he heard me.

[EG Marshall]

Nope.

[Peg Andrews]

Crazier than anything else. Maybe he did. Ronnie, can you hear. Sarah, look, he's turning into. It's not just an old hea. It's a castle. Sarah. Can you see it? Sarah? Sarah, where are you? Oh, no. She's. Dear lord, help me. Ronnie.

[EG Marshall]

It was Peg. It was Peg calling me.

[Peg Andrews]

Ronnie, get out of my house. You're not welcome here. You're an intruder. I don't allow intruders.

[EG Marshall]

Peg.

[Peg Andrews]

We're in here. Peg, can you hear me? I can. I can hear you, Ronnie.

[EG Marshall]

This way, Peg.

[Peg Andrews]

Come toward my voice. Stop talking to that woman. Don't come in near you. I forbid it. Oh, Ronnie. Oh, Ronnie. Looked everywhere. Sarah. Oh, I thought I'd never. I thought I'd never see you again. Run. Take your hands off that woman.

[EG Marshall]

Oh, Katrina. Her name's Katrina. She found me in the woods.

[Peg Andrews]

I. I think you'll find out soon enough who I am. You little fool. What are you doing here? I'm sitting here looking for my husband. Your husband doesn't want to see you. Get out. I'm not going to leave without him. He doesn't want to go with you. Do you, Ronnie? You don't want to leave with her. Tell her. You do want to come with me, don't you, Ron?

[EG Marshall]

All right.

[Peg Andrews]

Ronnie. Wouldn't like another glass of wine?

[EG Marshall]

I. I don't know. I don't.

[Peg Andrews]

Why has he Been. He doesn't drink.

[EG Marshall]

You don't know.

[Peg Andrews]

As you see, he doesn't want to talk to you. Why don't you leave? How can you stay where you're not wanted? I don't know who you are or what you are. Whether you're a ghost or a witch, or maybe both. I don't know, and I don't care much. You're not going to take my husband away from me. How very brave she is. And what if I tell you I am a ghost and I am a witch and I can destroy you both? What if I tell you that first I have to call you a liar because I've never believed in such things? And then, if it should turn out you're not a liar, I'd have to say, go ahead and destroy us. Both of us, though, not just one. Folks. A liar. Ronnie, tell her to get out of here.

[EG Marshall]

A Peg.

[Peg Andrews]

Well, Ronnie. Katrina, I can't. What kind of a spider creature are you? Tell her.

[EG Marshall]

Tega. I. I want to come with you. Yes, Peg. I. I want to leave here and go with you.

[Peg Andrews]

No. All right, you. You witch, ghost, harlot, whatever you are, stop us if you think you can.

[EG Marshall]

I think I'm all right. Now, Peg. I. I don't know what she did.

[Peg Andrews]

To me, but you stop this, both of you. Don't you know who I am? I'm Katrina, you idiot. I can bring this castle down in a heap on top of you. Don't you know that it's already down in a heap? I saw it. I'll show you. I'll show you. Here, under this table. The whole house. The whole house is coming down. I don't think you can turn us on.

[EG Marshall]

It's a real house.

[Peg Andrews]

12 years ago. Pig. Pig. Where'd you get to? Over here. Sarah. Papa, is that you? Okay, they're in the world, land snakes and all. Help me with him, will you? We've got to get him off his background. Bonnie.

[EG Marshall]

Is that you, Peg?

[Peg Andrews]

Bonnie, can you stand up?

[EG Marshall]

Well, I. I think so. Oh, I feel sort of dizzy. I don't understand what I.

[Peg Andrews]

Anyhow, we must have walked past this spot a half a dozen times. What happened? I'm not quite sure. He was all right. Just a minute ago, I was with him in the house. The castle. He was all right, except for the effects of the wine you seem to be wearing. Just hold on a minute. You know you ain't making no kind of sin.

[EG Marshall]

I'm so cold.

[Peg Andrews]

Look at the skin. Lorraine, stop. Thank goodness.

[EG Marshall]

This.

[Peg Andrews]

But we'd Better get him perfectly dry a minute ago. And then the house actually did just crumble around us the way she said it would. Only, of course, it wasn't real, or we'd both be. How did he get that wet? I hope you know what you're talking about. I sure don't.

[EG Marshall]

Oh, I feel stiff. I ache all over.

[Peg Andrews]

We got to get you home and into a nice, warm, dry bed before you catch your death. The house fell down all around us there, just the way she said it would. Only I didn't think it could hurt us because, well, you see, I knew the house had already fallen down.

[EG Marshall]

We must have imagined the whole thing. I must have been lying there on the ground and in the ruins the whole time.

[Peg Andrews]

All I know is we walked past there a half dozen times and you wasn't there. You just wasn't. Now, I don't see how we can say it was all imagination. It was real, all right. While it lasted, it was real. Here's the car now. Once we get you in there with the heater turned on, you'll feel a lot better, Ronnie.

[EG Marshall]

I feel a lot better already.

[Peg Andrews]

What in the world was that? That? That was your Katrina. I wouldn't be surprised.

[EG Marshall]

Katrina?

[Peg Andrews]

I left my hex sign back there in them ruins. Reckon if it works as well as the superstitious folks claim it works, we won't be having no more trouble with Katrina.

[EG Marshall]

A ghost. Katrina certainly was. Any woman who was killed by her jealous husband in the 18th century and shows up again in 1975 must be considered a ghost. But is it really fair to call her a siren and a witch? By Ronnie's admission, one thing is certain. Whether Katrina was a siren, a ghost, a witch, or all three, Ronnie was lucky to get out of that one alive. I'll be back in a few moments. In God we trust, america speaks.

[Peg Andrews]

Thoughts from Helen Keller. I have four things to learn in life. To think clearly without hurry or confusion. To love everybody sincerely. To act in everything with the highest motives. To trust in God unhesitatingly. I long to accomplish a great and noble task. But it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world has moved along not only by the mighty shelves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

[EG Marshall]

Presented by the Catholic Communications Foundation. Ronnie and Peg spent the remainder of their vacation in Maine. It's a beautiful state. Why shouldn't they? But they gave Dutchman's Woods a wide berth. To this day, when Ronnie Andrew sees more Than three trees forming a clump. He crosses to the other side of the road. So between now and our next, look into the nature of things. Stay away from all suspicious looking forests. We're saving you for another and quite different kind of jeopardy. Our cast included Paul Hecht, Jada Roland Santa Sotega, Joan Loring and Mary Jane Higbee. The entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown. And now a preview of our next tale. Oh, you're having a bit of trouble, Lyle, with the. With the climbing boys. The little one's new to it, chap. And got up a few fate wooden boxes buds, eh? Well, I've got a way to fix that.

[Peg Andrews]

William, what are you doing?

[EG Marshall]

I've. I've got a little bit of hay here. I was saving it to give to my horse.

[Peg Andrews]

You're not lighting it.

[EG Marshall]

Of course I am. Now let's add a little something. Let's see, what have we got? Here's a few pages in London tapestry. Oh, that's. That'll do the trick.

[Peg Andrews]

Stop it. Brute. You brute. Oh, don't move him.

[EG Marshall]

All right, if he doesn't want his feet burnt to a crisp. All right, move, boy. I'm with you.

[Peg Andrews]

I can't. Oh, my dear.

[EG Marshall]

Go to your room. Emily. Is he moving? Oh, he must be.

[Peg Andrews]

Oh, dear God, he's fine.

[EG Marshall]

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