Inner Sanctum Halloween Month, day 25 of 31: "The Hitch-Hiking Corpse"

"The Hitch-Hiking Corpse" is an episode of Inner Sanctum which was originally broadcast on January 23, 1950. Strangely, the RadioGold Index refers to this as an 'adaptation' of Lucille Fletcher's play "The Hitchhiker" (best known as an episode of Suspense). The Index even lists Lucille Fletcher as the author but it's a pretty dubious connection: the two plays have nothing in common other than the presence of a hitchhiker.

In the Fletcher play, a man driving across country keeps seeing the same ghostly hitchhiker everywhere he goes. In this, "The Hitch-Hiking Corpse," a trucker picks up a hitch-hiking woman who claims to have supernatural powers and might be a murderer.

"The Hitch-Hiking Corpse" was hosted by Paul McGrath and featured Ken Lynch, Mercedes McCambridge and Everett Sloane. You can listen to this episode at archive.org by clicking here.