The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society

This week marks our first visit to Rogue’s Gallery, featuring Dick Powell! In this episode, “The House of Fear,” detective Richard Rogue is hired to investigate Slip Crane’s theft of a diamond. But Roue’s efforts are immediately stymied by the family who own the diamond and who evidently have no interest in its recovery. Did one or more members of the family have a hand in the diamond’s disappearance? Is Slip Crane actually involved in the theft? Uhh…Eugor? Listen for yourself and find out!

This week we’re listening to “Blind Impulse” from The Whistler! The story features a man’s scheme to divorce his wife so that he can marry a woman set to inherit a fortune from her dying father. But things don’t go as planned and people prove to be very unpredictable! Will the former wife’s jealousy spoil the plan? Is the new wife as feckless and carefree as she seems? What outdated legal obscurities will we become obsessed with this time? Listen for yourself and find out!

It’s time once again to find out what evil lurks in the hearts of men with a visit to The Shadow! This episode, “Death Pulls the Strings,” features a puppeteer whose employs human-sized marionettes to perform remarkably life-like dances. During one of his performances, a woman identifies one of the puppets as her sister! Is this performance as morbid as it seems? What is the truth behind Goro and Rico? Who can answer all your questions about the Planet of the Apes television show? Listen for yourself and find out!

This week’s visit to the Listener Library brings us to “Island of the Lost,” an episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater recommended to us by our Patreon member Melanie! Thanks, Melanie! The story features a man suffering headaches, which may or may not be caused by his marriage to a much younger woman. When he surprises her during her tropical vacation, he begins to struggle to tell reality from illusion. Is he imagining her infidelity? Why did his eye doctor write a letter to the man’s wife? Who are the people in your neighborhood? Listen for yourself and find out!

We’re flipping through The Devil’s Scrapbook to learn the story of “The Conquest of David Rugg”! This episode features Sidney Trent, whose car stalls out after he gets lost driving in a storm. He is rescued by David Rugg, a man driving a horse-drawn carriage. Sidney accompanies Rugg back to his home, and before the night is over, madness and terror will reign. Will Rugg conquer or be conquered? Was this a mere nightmare or did these horrors really happen? Is college really that important? Listen for yourself and find out!