gentlemen i tell you now i swear the truth i saw the table rise the teacup flew from tempered glass i built the apparatus to alight in the presence of phantasmus filaments within detect a change in aero pressure barometric waves gentlemen in the name of science gentlemen i now can prove the unseen world is close it pushes through gentlemen the lights blew out gentlemen the curtains moved a world of light resides just past our view within the crooks of vacuum tubes a caged spirit lit aglow the room burst forth from the shattered tube it thinned my blood burnt me ravaged cruel gentlemen the lights do flicker gentlemen the air it cools who s with me here listening in this room gentlemen the world grows dark gentlemen the curtains moved who s with me here whispering in this room 