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Believe It Or Not (radio spot)

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and it's inscribed with the first words of the Christian hymn, T'a'e'om Lodemus, believe it or not. In a moment I'll tell you the macabre story of the silent groom. Dorothy Ford was berolled to the Reverend William Street, rector of the parish of South Poole, England.

Her fiancé died a few days before their wedding, at the urging of friends who said they'd been visited by the Reverend Spector, which complained his soul could not rest while his pledge to marry was unredeemed.

The coffin containing the rector's body was brought to the local church. There, in a public marriage ceremony, Dorothy Ford was married to her dead lover. Believe it or not. It's long hair, streams against the coral reef.

Her beautiful body is caressed by the tide. Suddenly, a decayed head...

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