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Lenore Grade Twilight
Twilight: A Timeline
'There are no coincidences. Everything is connected. When we understand the meanings behind those connections, we will understand it. We will understand it all.' - Inventor, chemist and possible OSS spy Lenore Grade Twilight, speaking at UCLA, just days before she vanishes over the waters of the Bermuda Triangle
January 29, 1845 -
Edgar Allan Poe publishes his most famous poem, 'The Raven,' about a haunted husband distraught over the loss of his dead wife. Poe's young wife dies soon afterward, and the poet himself dies shortly after that under mysterious circumstances. It becomes Ron Lee Twilight and Lenore Twilight's favorite poem. Throughout its history, the poem is plagued by tragedy, setback and whispers of a curse
1937 -
Ameilia Earhart vanishes forever over the Pacific
July 6, 1944 -
During Ron Lee Twilight's performance, a fire in the main tent of the Ringling Brothers' and Barnum and Bailey Circus results in a stampede that leaves 167 people dead and an additional 500 others injured in Hartford, Conn. Ron Lee had carried all his photo albums with him and tucked them away within prop pieces. All photos perished. To this day, there are no existing photos of Ron Lee Twilight. Coincidentally, there is only one remaining photo of Lenore
July 10, 1944 -
CBS-Radio premieres a new series, The Man Called X, starring Herbert Marshall. In it, an espionage agent takes dangerous cases in exotic locations
October 7, 1944 -
On the 95th anniversary of Poe's death, Ron Lee performs his signature straight jacket escape for the first time while reciting 'The Raven.' Lenore Grade is in the audience. She introduces herself after the show, and they fall instantly in love. From then on, Lenore calls Ron Lee 'Topper,' meaning a top-notch person
October 14, 1944 -
Rommel, Germany's 'Desert Fox,' commits suicide
January 25, 1945 -
A new Broadway play, 'The Tempest,' opens in New York City. The William Shakespeare play is about a conspiracy that sends a magician and a young girl lost after traveling across the seas. Ron Lee and Lenore plan to see this play as a wedding present to themselves after Lenore returns from her plane trip over the Bermuda Triangle
January 28, 1945 -
Ron Lee Twilight and Lenore marry in a secret ceremony at dawn. While exchanging vows, Ron Lee does a card trick for Lenore, and she keeps the card with her. That day, Lenore leaves on a cross-country flight to cross the Atlantic through the Bermuda Triangle to an unknown destination. That afternoon, Ron Lee performs his act in Hollywood
January 29, 1945 -
At twilight, Ron Lee receives a telegram from the OSS that Lenore is missing over the Bermuda Triangle and is declared dead.
After exhibiting dangerous and insane behavior, Ron Lee is immediately admitted into Haverghast Mental Institution and Asylum off the coast of California. While struggling against the guards, Ron kicks a door and the letters of a sign on the door fall to the ground. Guards give him injections of morphine and scopolamine to induce a state of semiconsciousness called 'twilight sleep.'
Through the drugs, Ron Lee is able to recall his act. Reciting Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven,' he escapes from his straight jacket that night and leaps into the Pacific Ocean not far from where Amelia Earhart, Lenore's hero, disappeared. Asylum director Dr. Abraham Marak watches and does not attempt to stop him. Years later from his death bed, Dr. Marak remembers that the popular radio show, The Shadow, was ending its broadcast. Following it was a popular song, 'I'm Losing My Mind Over You,' by Al Dexter. His body is never found
April 30, 1945 -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide along with his one-day bride Eva Braun in a bunker under the ruined Berlin Chancellery building
May 1, 1945 -
German Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels commits suicide along with his wife and their six children
May 23, 1945 -
Nazi concentration camp leader Heinrich Himmler commits suicide shortly after his arrest
June 7, 1945 -
NBC-Radio introduces 'The Adventures of Topper' as a summer replacement show, starring Roland Young as 'Topper,' who can see and hear ghosts
August 18, 1945 -
General Henry Arnold reveals that the US has developed secret weapons so terrible that there 'may not be any more wars.' Days after the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he apparently is referring to something other than atomic weapons
September 11, 1945 -
General Hideki Tojo, the former Japanese Premier during 1941's Pearl Harbor attack, attempts to kill himself
October 7, 1946 -
An anonymous source delivers government documents to reporters at The LA Times. These documents reveal details of General Henry Arnold's mysterious 'secret weapons.' In them, a government agent referred to only as 'The Woman Called X' discovered a serum that caused enemies to modify their behavior to suit the needs of the OSS, the forerunner to the CIA. Unlike sodium pentothal, the serum is injected into the body of the agent him or herself wishing to find the truth. The serum supposedly induces a 'hypnotic link' between agent and subject, where the the agent can discover the subject's secrets without either of them speaking. The serum also allows the agent to 'bend the will' of the subject to cause the subject to 'engage in self-destructive, even suicidal behavior.' The documents imply that the first test case was Rommel, Germany's 'Desert Fox.'
The documents immediately disappear
1992/1993 -
Production is almost completed on a new film, The Crow. The story is inspired by Poe's poem, 'The Raven.' Tragically, the film's lead, Brandon Lee, dies under mysterious circumstances on the set while filming. His father, Bruce Lee, also dies under mysterious circumstances on a film set 20 years earlier
October 7th, 2005 -
On the anniversary of Poe's death, a group of magicians known as The Fantastic Terrors attempts to perform a show of bizarre magic and mentalism. One member, Micah Cover, will end the show by reenacting Ron Lee Twilight's escape - escaping from a straight jacket while reciting Poe's 'The Raven.' The performance is a benefit for the Red Cross. However, the management of the venue attempts to stop Cover and the Fantastic Terrors. While they ultimately go through with the show, none of the performers are ever given a reason as to why the management wanted to stop them
April, 2006 -
Cover again reenacts Ron Lee Twilight's escape - this time for an AIDS benefit. While he performs, a stranger smashes every window of Cover's car. During this performance, Cover for the first time reveals to an audience that the poem may be cursed
May, 2006 -
After performing Ron Lee Twilight's escape again, Cover's straight jacket is stolen. It appears, weeks later in a 'Lost and Found,' with no explanation or name
August 25, 2006 -
Cover performs his 'Haunted House Calls: Twilight' act in its entirety for the first time at the Magic Castle in Hollywood |