Ep. 6 – The Shadow Over Innsmouth

The Lovecraft Investigations

BBC

Fiction, Drama

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

A foggy seafront town where something's coming from the water. An ancient cult, a stranger with a bandaged face and a body in a shallow grave. The story continues. True-life mystery podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher return and this time the story is Kennedy Fisher. A simple investigation into the disappearance of a young man from a mental health facility has taken them from Rhode Island to Iraq, to the Suffolk countryside – as they realised that everything uncovered in season one threaded through to season two. But towards the end of 'The Whisperer In Darkness', the investigation turned inward as Kennedy discovered a possible family connection to the uncovered conspiracy. And evidence forces Heawood to question Kennedy’s account of her time in Iraq. As Kennedy heads off to Innsmouth, to look into her apparently spooky ancestry, Heawood is going to Iraq to find an answer to the most disturbing of all questions; could Kennedy be a killer? Both make life-changing discoveries as the two investigations come together, just as the Coronavirus pandemic is sweeping the world. Episode Six: "Saint Germain" MATTHEW HEAWOOD ................Barnaby Kay KENNEDY FISHER...........................Jana Carpenter ELEANOR PECK...............................Nicola Walker PARKER...............................................Phoebe Fox WILMARTH ......................................Mark Bazeley SLIDE...................................................Ferdinand Kingsley SOUND....................................................David Thomas PRODUCTION COORDINATOR......Sarah Tombling PRODUCER............................................Karen Rose MUSIC....................................................Tim Elsenburg WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Julian Simpson A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:04.8	This podcast includes strong language.
0:07.0	The thing in front of me seemed human.
0:15.9	It was tall and thin and it seemed to be wearing some kind of ragged suit as if the fabric
0:21.5	had decayed and rotted away over time.
0:25.2	The eyes didn't seem to blink and they had a huge glassy quality.
0:30.6	Wet like the eyes of a big fish.
0:34.1	They sat on a hairless head above a nose that seemed to have receded back into the face,
0:39.8	leaving just a dark black hole.
0:42.1	And beneath that, the mouth looked as if it had been stretched sideways right across the
0:47.4	front of the skull.
0:50.0	But the lips were full and slack and wet and they seemed to be constantly in motion.
0:54.8	As if this thing were trying to speak but lacked the ability to produce sound.
1:01.2	Somehow my hand found the door handle behind me and I wrenched the door open and ran.
1:07.0	There were more of them in the corridors, looming shapes in the darkness, shuffling around
1:11.9	slowly like they were unused in moving on dry land.
1:16.1	I made it to the emergency stairs, my only thought to get out of the building.
1:21.2	It kept occurring to me that I might be dreaming, but I'd never had a nightmare this vivid
1:25.8	or physical and I was sure that the only thing my mind was responsible for right now was
1:30.8	questioning the reality of what was happening around me.
1:34.8	Unexplicably, in the lobby of the hotel, it was daytime.
1:39.6	The fog seemed to have lifted.
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