Tuesday, October 18, 2022

OTR Halloween Day 18: The Mysterious Traveler

The Mysterious Traveler has come up on this blog many times - either the radio program or the comic book spin-off. This was one of the longest-running radio horror anthologies running from December 1943 to September 1952. However, the series was shuffled around the schedule which probably didn't help it find a following. Still, those fans who complain that Inner Sanctum Mysteries never committed to the supernatural can't issue that grievance against the Mysterious Traveler.

Here, for instance, we could take the December 29, 1946 episode "If You Believe." A scientist is working with some protoplasm but a senasationalist newspaper makes it sound as though he's a monster-maker. Unfortunately due to the power of belief, the imagined monster becomes real!

Believe it or not, you can hear "If You Believe" at the Internet Archive!

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