

Later that night as a thunderstorm approached, the five gathered around the recorder and listened to Professor Knowby's tale of discovering the book, before eventually the recording of the Kandarian Demon's resurrection spell began to play.Īfter the woods seemingly came to life and violated his sister Cheryl, Ash went back to the tape recorder and listened to Knowby's final recording, explaining that the book and its spells truly did unleash a malevolent spirit in the forest. Two members of this group, Ash Williams and his friend Scotty, discovered the tape recorder in the fruit cellar, along with a strange knife called the Kandarian Dagger, and the Ex-Mortis itself. Just a few days later, a group of five friends would journey to the cabin for a weekend trip, unaware of it's true ownership to the Knowby family. The group of five listen to the tape recorder in the cabin's living room ( The Evil Dead)
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After subduing his wife by locking her in the fruit cellar of their cabin, Knowby made a new recording detailing the series of events that transpired following the accidental unleashing of the Kandarian Demon. During one of these recording sessions, Knowby unleashed the Kandarian Demon upon his property, which turned his wife Henrietta into a Deadite.

It's unclear when Raymond Knowby acquired the tape recorder, but it was in his possession by the 1980s.įollowing his discovery of the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis in the ruins of Castle Kandar, Professor Knowby used the device to record his translations of passages found within the Book of The Dead. The tape recorder is a standard Panasonic Solid State RQ-706S, presumably made sometime in the late 1960s.
