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Post by mh on Jul 25, 2024 2:35:23 GMT -6
i'd swore i'd never done post steries of horror and abject terror again, but as i am again and again met with the peoples pleading thru clenched teeth and screaming epitaphs at me, i don't see no other choice! i hope they don't maid yall cry !
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Post by mh on Jul 25, 2024 2:39:16 GMT -6
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Post by Babu Baboon on Jul 27, 2024 9:27:17 GMT -6
If a guy in a white suit with a high voice offered to give me a ride I might be a little suspicious. That was certainly a strange and creepy story.
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Post by mh on Jul 29, 2024 2:33:41 GMT -6
yeah, i'd be suspicious too! but this was around 1957. a less scary world. and i think chrome dome could have easily passed a lie detector on this one. he was very straight forward, and saying, "how could this happen ... to ME?!" he seemed shook up. and doesn't seem like a guy who shakes up easy.
i wish he had said:
high voice: you're going to lose your hair!
high voice: you're going to play a detective on TV!
high voice: yer going to become famous for eating suckers!
now i've got chills.
i found a message board discussing it that said the baseball player was Harry Agganis. here's some stuff where they got some details wrong.
"Assuming Savalas, in the television segment, was (a) telling the truth and (b) fairly accurate in the details he seems certain about, I want to clarify some obvious inaccuracies in the version that Diabolik8 related at the beginning of this thread. (It looks like a number of other posters were aware of a more accurate version of the story but didn't directly address these details.
Savalas was not traveling from a friend's house on Long Island to New York City. He was coming home to his home on Long Island after dropping off a woman he had a date with. Presumably she lived somewhere in New York City, which could be in Staten Island, the Bronx, or Manhattan, but might also be in Brooklyn, or in Queens (where he ran out of gas) - both of which are actually on Long Island. If he was still living in his childhood home (he mentioned he spoke to his mother) Telly was living in Garden City, a little farther east in Nassau County.
It wasn't an all-night café, it was a White Castle. As mentioned by genex17, this was a popular early fast-food chain.
The driver identified himself as James Cullen, according to Savalas. Although Savalas doesn't specifically say so, many have come to the conclusion that Harry Agganis was the baseball player that Cullen said he knew - and who apparently died that day.
Savalas's wallet wasn't missing, but he was apparently short on cash and digging for change."
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