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It's the evening of October 30, 1938, in a small suburban house in New Jersey.

A middle-aged woman stands in her kitchen, cleaning up after dinner.

Her husband has disappeared into the next room to read the newspaper,

so the woman flicks on the bulky radio standing on the sideboard.

As she tunes from station to station, an urgent scratchy voice catches her ear.

The woman stops the dime.

The woman listens intently, the dirty dishes now forgotten.

She calls out to her husband in the next room, but he doesn't answer.

So she calls again, louder this time, as the radio broadcast continues.

New Jersey, hearing these words, the woman shouts again,

and her husband stomps grumpily into the room.

But before he can complain about the interruption,

his wife drags him over to the radio and tells him to just listen.

The shape is rising out of the pit, and they make out a small beam of light against a mirror.

But that is a gentle flame spring in a mirror that looks right at the imagine man.

It strikes him head on.

Without saying a word, the man takes hold of his wife's hand.

The couple stands around the radio, listening with deepening alarm

to the seemingly live broadcast.

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