November 9, 2025 • 29 mins
The Mysterious Traveler was an anthology radio series that ran from 1943-1952. The program crossed over several genres, however, most episodes were mysteries - both natural and supernatural. Despite its long run, only 71 episodes were recovered. The Mysterious Traveler was written and directed by Robert Arthur and David Kogan. The series was also produced as a magazine and comic book.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Fan Crime.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents The Mysterious Traveler, written, produced,
and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Cogan, and
starring one of radio's foremost actors, James Stevens.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
In the Haunted Trailer.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
This is a Mysterious Traveler inviting you to join me
on another journey into the realm of the strange.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
And the terrifying.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will
thrill you a little and chill you a little. So
center back, get a good clip on your nerves, and
be comfortable if you can, as we take a little
cross country trip in the Haunted Trailer. Before we begin,
(01:19):
I have a question for you. Do you believe in ghosts? No,
that's good, then my story.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Won't bother you in the lens.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
So let me introduce Melvin McGraw, as nice a young
man as you'll ever meet in this world or the next.
Melvin is very unhappy. He has a story he wants
to get off his chest. All right, Melvin, tell us
all about it. Maybe it'll buck up your spirits.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Spirits. Don't mention that word to me when I could
tell you spirits.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
In fact, I'm going to. You are now listening to
a desperate man. And yet just two months ago, I
was sitting on top of the work I was heading
for California in my coupe pulling a brand new trailer.
In California, I had a girl waiting for me. Her
name was Louise, and.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
We were going to be married.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
We were going to take a two week's honeymoon trip
in the trailer, then settled down in a little vine
covered cottage.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But I haven't the heart to go into the tails.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Just say that.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
As I drove through the Catskills, I was happier than
a lark. I'd made a late start, so I drove
until well after dark. Then I found myself on an
empty stretch of road in the mountains with a bad
storm coming up. I didn't want to drive through a storm,
so when I came to a tiny, dark railroad station,
I pulled off the road beside it and made myself
(02:53):
comfortable in my own trailer. In no time at all,
I was asleep, but about mid a terrific clap of
thunder woke me up. I sat up, bumped my head
and blinked. The storm was raging outside, and the trailer
door had blown open.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It was banging back and forth.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I got up to close it, but before I reached it,
it shut itself firmly. I was about to get back
into my bunk when somewhere in the darkness, and voice spoke.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Ah, Now this is something.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Like It was an odd, unearthly sort of voice, and
at first I thought I had just imagined it.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Then it spoke again, Ah.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
How sun with fineitun and everything some fun it jumped.
They never had nothing like this when I was alive.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Then I realized what must have happened. I left the
radio on and I was hearing some late program. I
reached over to click it off, but it was already off. Puzzled,
I found the light switch and turned it. The trailer
was empty except for me. I was staring around in
perplexity when I heard it again, that strange voice.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh, the head chump and the easy chee. That's right now.
Can you see me? Can I see him?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I rubbed my eyes, then rubbed them again.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
There was something white and misty sitting in my easy chair,
something that grew more and more solid as I stared
at it, until I could see it quite plainly, like
looking at a disreputable old man carved out of a
chunk of London fog. It was the only thing it
could be, was That's.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Right, chum, I'm a ghost. My name is Spike Aickins,
pleased to meet you.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
What do you mean you're a ghost? There's no such
thing as a ghost?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Oh no, then listen to this. H Oh did.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
You have to hear a more ghostly groan than that?
Or maybe you'd like to hear a bad she screamed.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
You like a jump? Every ghost can do it.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
And now I'll give you another demonstration where we call
this one number three B the fatal warning.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Are you ready? You'll curl your head? Ah? You to me?
You are.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Stop stop?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Why ain't even pegunia? And I gonna hope aggr ghostly
tricks to try out? Well, it's here sinceide a chance
to use a single word? Hey, hey, what about some
invisible footsteps? And hey, you see I can do that
without even stirring from this chair. And and then there's
the hollow knock on the front door. Demonstrate that too,
(05:59):
and now the door creaks open.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Listen.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Hey see now, now just suppose you was alone in
a deserted house at night and you heard all the noises.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
What would you do? I'm asking you.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Jump, I'd run like ridiculous, Yeah, that you.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Would, anybody would. And now do you believe I'm a ghost? Oh?
Should I give you some more of my reports?
Speaker 7 (06:21):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
No, no, no, no, no, I'm not. I'm convinced you're
a ghost.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Well that's better now now now that we're ac queen
that you can call me Spike. That's my name, Spike
Kickens born March twenty eight, eighteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Died April fifteenth, nineteen thirty. Well done, now, good and
faithful saving.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Oh, I certainly wish I could wake up. This stream
I'm having.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Is ghastly, not ghastly, ghostly.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
And you're not asleep, hey, but speaking of sleep, And
it's after midnight, and this is the first time I've
been near a bed more than twenty years.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
What do you say we tell you that now?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I mean, you're suggesting you're going to sleep in my trailer?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Well why not? That's what the trailer is for, all
away from home.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
No, I won't stand for it. Now get out. Why
did you ever come in here in the first place?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well, why did you stop in my territory? Answer? Me
that jump.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Don't call me chump.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
My name is mel That. If my name was.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Melvin, I'd rather be called chump. Okay meuv, And you invited.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Me, I did no such thing. I deny it.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Why you stopped beside my railroad station?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
What do you mean you're a railroad station?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That old station outside?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
I haunted, haunted railroad station. I never heard of such
a thing.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
There's plenty you never heard of. But back in nineteen thirty,
I was a bump sea. I wrote the box cards.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Well, one night I was trying to get away from
a railroad both toughest railroad dick in the business name
of Dann bench Well, I slipped off the top of
a box car just as we was passing the station.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
See well, so I got a pointed.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Resident coast for seven pine stations, real louzy break has
been anybody in the station after that? For ten years?
And then tonight you come along and park. Well, naturally
I fired by something at some layout you got.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Hid well, why did you stay? If you disliked it?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So I was doomed never to leave punishment to see.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
You were doomed to stay here forever? Like I said,
why I'll show you, Spike, this is where you and
I part company. I know you think I was dreaming,
(08:31):
but I wasn't. I was sitting there in my trailer
talking to the ghost of a very disreputable looking hobo,
and I saw that I had to take drastic action.
Spike had said he was doomed to stay there forever,
but I wasn't. I hurried out of my trailer, climbed
into my coupe, started.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
The motor, and pulled away from there.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
I didn't stop until I had gone twenty miles and
left Spike Higgins ghost safely behind me.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Then I found a.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Spot off the road, stopped, and went back to my trailer.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Completely bushed. Oh boy, now for some sleep. I'm dead.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
I watch your language, Melvin. I'm dead, not you, Spike. Here,
I am loving in the other bunk.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
No, you can't be.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
You said you were doomed to stay forever. Back at
the railroad station, Well, I.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Said I was forbidden to leave. I didn't leave. You
waked me away in your trailer. So now the christis
broke and I can go any place that want.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Then, go any place. I don't care where, as long
as it's someplace.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Oh but I like her here, though I suppose he
could company plenty and seen me.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I'll tell you what I do. If looking at me
bothers you I much.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Then you won't be able to see me.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Merge with what merge with the other wind. It's a
long jump, and the volving long. He was gone.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Except for me. The trailer was empty. Then I knew
it had just been a dream.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
I took a stiff drink of Scotch and tumbled into
my bucket.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Next morning, the sun was shining.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I thought about Louise and cheered up. I made myself
a cup of coffee and started out happy as a
rock again. I stayed happy almost all day. Then, as
it was getting on towards evening, a cold clammy draft
chilled the back of my neck. And hello, Melvin, it's me,
(10:31):
you wrote, jump Spike. You're not my old charm and
where are you?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I can't see you?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Well, give me time, give me time. I've been merged
with the other way row night. I can't materialize against
the vast.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Russ dream, my protoclasm.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
How's that you, you transparent monstrosity.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I thought you were just a dream.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Oh if I got to convince you all over against. Okay,
I'll run through my repertory for you. The ghostly grown,
the giant scream, the scream of the band shee, the
hollow footsteps, it's the squeaking door.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Oh no, no, anything but that. I couldn't stand it again.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Well okay, then, oh but I left one out last night.
The mournful howl of a dog. You know in every
coast story there's always a dog howl in someplace. Well,
that ain't a real dog, it's just a standard ghost
sound effect.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
You like like this, sy.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, my nerves can't stand anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
No jump.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
You're gonna have to toughing up. You're gonna be hearing
a lot of them ghostly noises, and you just gotta
get used to him.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
What you mean?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
It gonna be seeing a lot of each other. I
am now the resident ghost of diseased trailer. Congratulations, Malvin,
you you own the first hearted trailer.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Oh, don't be ridiculous. Nobody ever heard of a hearted trailer.
Well they're gonna hear this one. You'll be famous all
over America. Well that's absurd. A hearted trailer. Why not
a hearted ferryboat?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
A hearted box car or a hearted pullman?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
What do you think there ain't? Why when there's a
hearted makes the crossing that one hundred and twenty fifth
street every storey night, and then there's a haunted box
car never gets where it's gone balla mine rides the
name of box car Bension. And and speaking of trains,
didn't you never hear the Phantom Express?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
The Phantom Express?
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Yeah, yeah, it's an all pullman card job and nobody
rides it. But hoposos been given a reward. See it
only travels by twilight, and it was a thousand miles
an hour, always traveler, never stopping. That that's heaven for us,
for restless appost Indeed, Yeah, so what's.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
So funny about a haunted trailer? Now? I ask you?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Well, as I got under way again, I was worried
the idea of taking Louise for a honeymoon in a
haunted trailer didn't appeal to me.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I didn't think it would appeal to.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Louise either, especially since Spike Higgins seemed to be a ghost,
completely lacking in all delicate sensibilities. But I didn't have
any idea what to do about it, not even the
ghost of an idea.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Presently, Spike oozed.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Himself back into the trailer, and I kept on driving
until almost nine o'clock. Then I turned into a little
motel and arranged the park overnight.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I had some supper at.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
A diner nearby, and then went back to my trailer,
hoping against hope that Spike.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Would be gone. But he wasn't.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
The trailer was full of cigar smoke and the smell
of whiskey.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
There was Spike.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Sprawled out on my bunk inhaling the smoke of a
cigar that burned in the ashtray, and from time to
time leaning over to slip at an open bottle of scotch.
And to make it worse, another fantasmal character, long and
thin and disreputable looking, occupied the other buck. They were
too thoroughly intoxicated.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Spirits all.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Sleep in the spiked What is the.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Meaning of this?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Oh? Oh, hello, Melvin and melfol and I want you
to meet an pall of my nitrol.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Not pleased to meet you, Melbourne, I shake hands my
head hand Spike.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I asked you a question, what is the meaning of this?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Why, Malcolm, we.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Just celebrated, That's all I ain't seen Nitro for pretty
nd twenty five years. So having little fun with just
a couple of eye spirits, you got it.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Very funny. Well, get this this Nitro ghost out of
here at once. This is my trailer, and I don't
want him here.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yeah, sure, sure, Melvin, it's your trailer only. I'm the
resident ghost. See, I got full rights to extend hospitality
to any other ghost full phantasm, spirit spoke boogey man,
wear a wolf, vampire or poldogeist.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I want look it up.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
The Spirit's Handbook, Section seven parrot grant fee. Besides Melvin,
there's a lot worse things than me that Spike could
have invited. You know, some of them wear wolves now blood.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
All right, all right, let's not talk about it.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Just thinking of such things makes me nervous. But you'll
have to stop singing. Suppose somebody heard you and came
to investigate.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Oh well, okay, And anyway, it's time to ten on
the radio.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
On the radio for what but to hear it?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Stupid? Let's see? Yeah, yeah, this sort of be the
right station.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
May I ask, nearly out of morbid curiosity, what program
our ghost would listen to?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Well, you don't have to ask. You'll hear it.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
This is a mysterious traveler inviting you to join me
on another journey into the realm of.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
The strange and the terrifying.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I hope you will enjoy the trip and it will
freeze you a little.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And cheat you a little.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
So settle back, get a good pap on your nerves,
and be comfortable.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
If you can.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Mysterious Traveler.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That's a pipper over program.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Oh no, no, hold on, what's the matter?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You don't like the mysterious Traveler? All us ghosts listen
to them?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Oh I like it all right, But you don't expect
me to listen to it with two ghosts right in
the same room.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
With me, do you?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Sometimes he even scares us. Okay, we'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Look Spike, yeah, mo, Well what'll you take to go
away and leave me alone?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Both of you?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Oh, melf melth And you don't understand I've took up
my abode in the sea trailer. I'm your ghost now
your family ghost?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Where thou ghost? I will ghost you get it back?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Then? Am I to understand you refuse to clear out at.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
The answer to that, Malven is absolutely.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
In that case, I'm going to ride a cabin for
the night. I couldn't possibly sleep in this trailer with
you two hunks of animated fog.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Suit yourself anyway, Me and Spike got some practice in
the dome. Okay, Spike, let's go fast. The mournful dog out.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
That night I slept in a rented cabin.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
The next morning, I drove on westward with my two
phantom passengers and tried to pretend they weren't there.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I almost got used to them.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I suppose a man.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Can get used to anything, even to having a permanent
cold chill running down his bankbote. When we passed through
Denver night, row Nelson dropped off, saying he wanted to
haunt up some old cows of his, leaving me with
Spike Higgins.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, movin.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
It's just you and me together now, just to door
of us. Uh, until you get married to this, then
there'll be the three of us.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
I don't think Louise as long as I like that,
Oh sure she will.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Anyway, I'm sticking around.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
I hate to think what Louise will say when I
tell her about it.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Hey, Hey, where are we going on our armymoo? The
three of the city.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I figured on driving up to Oregon to see the mountain.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Oh, that's good, that's good, just as long as we
get await from California.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
What have you got against California?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Oh? Just that Dan Basher lives there now, Dan Basher?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Yeah, you remember that tough railroad dicker was chasing me
when I fell off that frame.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh he's the toughest pull in the business.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
You're not afraid of him, now, are you now?
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Of course not, of course, or only the grape Fine says.
He's kind of six he and he might be entering
the spirit world at any time.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
Now.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
I wouldn't want to run into him again. If he did,
he's got a grudge against me. Hey, hey, you know
I just thought of something. What well, right at first,
Right at first, Louise probably.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Won't be able to see me, what to hear me see.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
On account of a family post. It's only visible to
the household.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You get me, Yes, But I don't understand.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
As soon as you're married, she'll be part of the
household and then she can see me. Until then, no, oh,
wake me up. As soon as it cut jump who.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Three days ago we reached Santa Monica.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I rented parking space in an auto camp and immediately
phoned Louise.
Speaker 9 (19:36):
Melvin, Darling, I'm so glad you're here. I've been worried
not hearing from you.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Oh I'll explain all about that. When can I come
and see you?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Well?
Speaker 9 (19:44):
I better come see you first, Melvin. See, my uncle
isn't well, and the doctor said he must have quiet.
I'll be there in an hour.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I hurried back to the trailer and tried to clean
it up.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Spike Kicken's ghosts lay on a bunk and watched me cynically.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Hey, take it easyun You're no good at Housewick get
at This place needs a woman's touch.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Now listen you. You've got a promise not to fight
in Louise.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I tought you move and she won't even know I'm here.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I certainly hope not. That would ruin everything. Here she
comes now, coming darning, Melvin, Louise. Oh here, let me
help you in. Oh thank you, Melvin. So this is
it the trailer you wrote me about, Darling. Look, here's
(20:35):
the stove and an ice box and a built in bar,
a bar. Oh no, Melvin, you know I disapprove of spirit.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I resent that be quiet.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Excuse me, Darling. I wasn't talking to you? Then? Who
are you talking to?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
It's hard to explain. Look, Louise, here's a writing desk
that falls into the wall and a regular easy chair.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Well it's very.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
Nice, Melvin, but all the same, we're not taking any
spirits along on our honeymoon.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Bar or no bar.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
To her.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I said to be quiet, Melvin.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
How can you talk.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
To me like that? I told you to shut up, Nelvin.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
I won't stay here and be insultant. You can telephone
me when you're ready to apologize.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
With that, Louise stormed out that evening. I had to
plead with her on the telephone for half an hour
before she would consent to let me drive out and
see her at her home.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Oh really, Melvin, you were very rude this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I'm sorry, darling, I'm over rada. I apologize.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
Well, you do look rather haggard, Melvin, and the way
your hair stands on and you really should do something
about it.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I wish I could, Louise, how soon can we get married?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Well?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
It depends on Uncle Dan's uncle Dan, Uncle Dan Basher,
my mother's brother.
Speaker 11 (22:08):
He's very ill.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
The doctor just gives him a few more days.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Your uncle is Dan Basher, who used to be a
railroad detective.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Why yes, and he's dying. I'm afraid so, Melvin.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
But you needn't look so pleased about it.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Oh sorry, Dodding. Look I must talk to him now.
Oh but the doctor said he can just for a
minute doing it's very important.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Well maybe just for a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Come this way. This is his daughter, uncle Dan. Yeah,
do you feel strong enough to talk?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
What about?
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Well it's Melvin, my fiance.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
He wants to meet you.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
Come in, Melvin.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Thank you, Louise. Look I must speak to your uncle
in private, but i'll explain.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Later that that.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
That's a good carol. Thank you, Louise, good work.
Speaker 10 (23:04):
I can never get rid of her.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
What do you want to.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Marry Louise for anyway?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I love her?
Speaker 10 (23:11):
The pretty poor excuse for getting married. He's like a
man of my sister, the reason I spent all my
life on the railroad.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Well that's what I want to talk about, sir. Do
you remember a certain Spike Higgins?
Speaker 10 (23:24):
Do I remember him?
Speaker 5 (23:26):
If I could never get my hands on him, you
know him, I know his ghost. He's hunting my trailer.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
He is huh, i'd certainly like to meet up with him.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Oh, I'd certainly like you to. He's outside now. My
trailer is part of the curve.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Well.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
In that case, I was figuring on postponing the event
for a few days, but for the privilege of meeting
up with Spike Higgins Ghost. Yes, lad go outside and wait.
I'll be out in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
In the Spirit, I made some excuse to Louise and
hurried out to the trailer.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Spike Higgins Ghost was lolling on my buck.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Oh soon, Melcoyn. What's maddening?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Oh nothing, Spike.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Nothing, You're erupted something? What is it?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Nothing, I tell you. Oh, relaxed, Spike, relax.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I got a funny feeling.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Oh someone's coming, Well do you mean someone?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Another spook?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
He's coming in the head Hello, Spike dead messy in
the spirit, Spike, I've been waiting with this meeting for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Oh no, Melton, you double grunt.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Every quick, miss Masher rightlet I rushed outside. Three blocks
away I saw a long freight train puffing away. Spike
Higgins Ghost was racing for it, with Dan Basher's Spirit
gaining on him for the first time.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
In a week. I felt happy again.
Speaker 11 (25:11):
Louise, nel Uncle Dan he's gone, Yes.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
I know he is.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
You know, well, what do you mean? I just saw
her running for that freight train? You saw Uncle Dan
running for a freight tree. I certainly did, wonderful fellow
your ac Are you mad?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Mad?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Not a bit? I am as happy as a lot.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
You must be out of your mind, your poor uncle Dan.
Speaker 10 (25:41):
Oh, Melvin, then you just said the laughing about it, laughing.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
But Louise, you don't understand. I understand all too well.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
You want to break I'm I.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Certainly do. I know. I don't know, Louise Darling. Oh,
just like the Dame always will you shut up? Isn't
there any way to get rid of you? Well, there's
certainly is.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Goodbye Heaven the girl forever, Louise, Oh, you've always cut me.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Well, that's my story. I'm a desperate man.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Louise sent me back my ring, and I'm stuck with
Spike Higgins ghost.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I should have known it. Out smart Dan Basher.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
He left Dan's spirit hunting the freight train for him
and came straight.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Back to me. Now I'll never get rid of it.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
I'm just a shadow of my former Salba, I can't
get a job. Oh look, do any of the radio
stations carrying my story need.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
A good sound effects man for mystery programs?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
With me and Spike Higgins Ghost working together, we can
guarantee authentic effects. Here.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Look, we'll give you a demonstration.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Mike.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Let's have the creaking door, now, the fatal.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Warning with me, your ma, Now.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
The dog howling in the cemetery.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
This is the Mysterious Traveler again, dear me, on an
odd story Meldren at the town.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Really, I don't know whether.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
To take it seriously or not. A hanted trainer.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
It would be just the thing for my summer vacation.
I do know a hanted telephone booth where.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
I make all my calls.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
No that I'm just joking.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
There are no such things as the Spike a questering
what all I teas ridiculous? If you see, Oh, you
have to get off here. I'm sorry, but I'm sure
you'll meet again. I take this same train every week
at this same time.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
You have just heard the Mysterious Traveler, and now you
can also enjoy other tents and dramatic stories of the
Mysterious Traveler. In the June issue of the Mysterious Traveler magazine.
In our cast were James Stevens, Larry Haynes, Mill Ziggert,
and Shirley Blank, with Maurice Tarplin starred in the title role.
Music is under the direction of Emerson Buckley and was
(28:48):
composed by Richard DuPage. This program came from New York.
The dramatized stories of crime and the events leading up
to the capture of the perpetrator are the order of
the day on True Detective Mysteries.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
These stories are based on actual police.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
File cases and have an air of authenticity seldom captured
by a crime program. So for the best in mystery listening,
make a date to tune in True Detective Mysteries every
Sunday over most of these stations.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
This program was transcribed especially for presentation to the West
Coast audience at this hour.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Listen again next week at this same time for a
Mysterious Traveler, and stay tuned now for let George do
It heard over most of these same stations.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
This is the mutual Don Lee broadcasting system.
Fan Crime.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents The Mysterious Traveler, written, produced,
and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Cogan, and
starring one of radio's foremost actors, James Stevens.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
In the Haunted Trailer.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
This is a Mysterious Traveler inviting you to join me
on another journey into the realm of the strange.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
And the terrifying.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will
thrill you a little and chill you a little. So
center back, get a good clip on your nerves, and
be comfortable if you can, as we take a little
cross country trip in the Haunted Trailer. Before we begin,
(01:19):
I have a question for you. Do you believe in ghosts? No,
that's good, then my story.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Won't bother you in the lens.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
So let me introduce Melvin McGraw, as nice a young
man as you'll ever meet in this world or the next.
Melvin is very unhappy. He has a story he wants
to get off his chest. All right, Melvin, tell us
all about it. Maybe it'll buck up your spirits.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Spirits. Don't mention that word to me when I could
tell you spirits.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
In fact, I'm going to. You are now listening to
a desperate man. And yet just two months ago, I
was sitting on top of the work I was heading
for California in my coupe pulling a brand new trailer.
In California, I had a girl waiting for me. Her
name was Louise, and.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
We were going to be married.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
We were going to take a two week's honeymoon trip
in the trailer, then settled down in a little vine
covered cottage.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But I haven't the heart to go into the tails.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Just say that.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
As I drove through the Catskills, I was happier than
a lark. I'd made a late start, so I drove
until well after dark. Then I found myself on an
empty stretch of road in the mountains with a bad
storm coming up. I didn't want to drive through a storm,
so when I came to a tiny, dark railroad station,
I pulled off the road beside it and made myself
(02:53):
comfortable in my own trailer. In no time at all,
I was asleep, but about mid a terrific clap of
thunder woke me up. I sat up, bumped my head
and blinked. The storm was raging outside, and the trailer
door had blown open.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It was banging back and forth.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
I got up to close it, but before I reached it,
it shut itself firmly. I was about to get back
into my bunk when somewhere in the darkness, and voice spoke.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Ah, Now this is something.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Like It was an odd, unearthly sort of voice, and
at first I thought I had just imagined it.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Then it spoke again, Ah.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
How sun with fineitun and everything some fun it jumped.
They never had nothing like this when I was alive.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Then I realized what must have happened. I left the
radio on and I was hearing some late program. I
reached over to click it off, but it was already off. Puzzled,
I found the light switch and turned it. The trailer
was empty except for me. I was staring around in
perplexity when I heard it again, that strange voice.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Oh, the head chump and the easy chee. That's right now.
Can you see me? Can I see him?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I rubbed my eyes, then rubbed them again.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
There was something white and misty sitting in my easy chair,
something that grew more and more solid as I stared
at it, until I could see it quite plainly, like
looking at a disreputable old man carved out of a
chunk of London fog. It was the only thing it
could be, was That's.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Right, chum, I'm a ghost. My name is Spike Aickins,
pleased to meet you.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
What do you mean you're a ghost? There's no such
thing as a ghost?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Oh no, then listen to this. H Oh did.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
You have to hear a more ghostly groan than that?
Or maybe you'd like to hear a bad she screamed.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
You like a jump? Every ghost can do it.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
And now I'll give you another demonstration where we call
this one number three B the fatal warning.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Are you ready? You'll curl your head? Ah? You to me?
You are.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Stop stop?
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Why ain't even pegunia? And I gonna hope aggr ghostly
tricks to try out? Well, it's here sinceide a chance
to use a single word? Hey, hey, what about some
invisible footsteps? And hey, you see I can do that
without even stirring from this chair. And and then there's
the hollow knock on the front door. Demonstrate that too,
(05:59):
and now the door creaks open.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Listen.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Hey see now, now just suppose you was alone in
a deserted house at night and you heard all the noises.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
What would you do? I'm asking you.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Jump, I'd run like ridiculous, Yeah, that you.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Would, anybody would. And now do you believe I'm a ghost? Oh?
Should I give you some more of my reports?
Speaker 7 (06:21):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
No, no, no, no, no, I'm not. I'm convinced you're
a ghost.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Well that's better now now now that we're ac queen
that you can call me Spike. That's my name, Spike
Kickens born March twenty eight, eighteen eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Died April fifteenth, nineteen thirty. Well done, now, good and
faithful saving.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Oh, I certainly wish I could wake up. This stream
I'm having.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Is ghastly, not ghastly, ghostly.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
And you're not asleep, hey, but speaking of sleep, And
it's after midnight, and this is the first time I've
been near a bed more than twenty years.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
What do you say we tell you that now?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I mean, you're suggesting you're going to sleep in my trailer?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Well why not? That's what the trailer is for, all
away from home.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
No, I won't stand for it. Now get out. Why
did you ever come in here in the first place?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well, why did you stop in my territory? Answer? Me
that jump.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Don't call me chump.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
My name is mel That. If my name was.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Melvin, I'd rather be called chump. Okay meuv, And you invited.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Me, I did no such thing. I deny it.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Why you stopped beside my railroad station?
Speaker 3 (07:24):
What do you mean you're a railroad station?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
That old station outside?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
I haunted, haunted railroad station. I never heard of such
a thing.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
There's plenty you never heard of. But back in nineteen thirty,
I was a bump sea. I wrote the box cards.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Well, one night I was trying to get away from
a railroad both toughest railroad dick in the business name
of Dann bench Well, I slipped off the top of
a box car just as we was passing the station.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
See well, so I got a pointed.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Resident coast for seven pine stations, real louzy break has
been anybody in the station after that? For ten years?
And then tonight you come along and park. Well, naturally
I fired by something at some layout you got.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Hid well, why did you stay? If you disliked it?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So I was doomed never to leave punishment to see.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
You were doomed to stay here forever? Like I said,
why I'll show you, Spike, this is where you and
I part company. I know you think I was dreaming,
(08:31):
but I wasn't. I was sitting there in my trailer
talking to the ghost of a very disreputable looking hobo,
and I saw that I had to take drastic action.
Spike had said he was doomed to stay there forever,
but I wasn't. I hurried out of my trailer, climbed
into my coupe, started.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
The motor, and pulled away from there.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
I didn't stop until I had gone twenty miles and
left Spike Higgins ghost safely behind me.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Then I found a.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Spot off the road, stopped, and went back to my trailer.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Completely bushed. Oh boy, now for some sleep. I'm dead.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
I watch your language, Melvin. I'm dead, not you, Spike. Here,
I am loving in the other bunk.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
No, you can't be.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
You said you were doomed to stay forever. Back at
the railroad station, Well, I.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
Said I was forbidden to leave. I didn't leave. You
waked me away in your trailer. So now the christis
broke and I can go any place that want.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Then, go any place. I don't care where, as long
as it's someplace.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Oh but I like her here, though I suppose he
could company plenty and seen me.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
I'll tell you what I do. If looking at me
bothers you I much.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Then you won't be able to see me.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Merge with what merge with the other wind. It's a
long jump, and the volving long. He was gone.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Except for me. The trailer was empty. Then I knew
it had just been a dream.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
I took a stiff drink of Scotch and tumbled into
my bucket.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Next morning, the sun was shining.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I thought about Louise and cheered up. I made myself
a cup of coffee and started out happy as a
rock again. I stayed happy almost all day. Then, as
it was getting on towards evening, a cold clammy draft
chilled the back of my neck. And hello, Melvin, it's me,
(10:31):
you wrote, jump Spike. You're not my old charm and
where are you?
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I can't see you?
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Well, give me time, give me time. I've been merged
with the other way row night. I can't materialize against
the vast.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Russ dream, my protoclasm.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
How's that you, you transparent monstrosity.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I thought you were just a dream.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Oh if I got to convince you all over against. Okay,
I'll run through my repertory for you. The ghostly grown,
the giant scream, the scream of the band shee, the
hollow footsteps, it's the squeaking door.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Oh no, no, anything but that. I couldn't stand it again.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
Well okay, then, oh but I left one out last night.
The mournful howl of a dog. You know in every
coast story there's always a dog howl in someplace. Well,
that ain't a real dog, it's just a standard ghost
sound effect.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
You like like this, sy.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, my nerves can't stand anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
No jump.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
You're gonna have to toughing up. You're gonna be hearing
a lot of them ghostly noises, and you just gotta
get used to him.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
What you mean?
Speaker 6 (11:35):
It gonna be seeing a lot of each other. I
am now the resident ghost of diseased trailer. Congratulations, Malvin,
you you own the first hearted trailer.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Oh, don't be ridiculous. Nobody ever heard of a hearted trailer.
Well they're gonna hear this one. You'll be famous all
over America. Well that's absurd. A hearted trailer. Why not
a hearted ferryboat?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
A hearted box car or a hearted pullman?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
What do you think there ain't? Why when there's a
hearted makes the crossing that one hundred and twenty fifth
street every storey night, and then there's a haunted box
car never gets where it's gone balla mine rides the
name of box car Bension. And and speaking of trains,
didn't you never hear the Phantom Express?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
The Phantom Express?
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Yeah, yeah, it's an all pullman card job and nobody
rides it. But hoposos been given a reward. See it
only travels by twilight, and it was a thousand miles
an hour, always traveler, never stopping. That that's heaven for us,
for restless appost Indeed, Yeah, so what's.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
So funny about a haunted trailer? Now? I ask you?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Well, as I got under way again, I was worried
the idea of taking Louise for a honeymoon in a
haunted trailer didn't appeal to me.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I didn't think it would appeal to.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Louise either, especially since Spike Higgins seemed to be a ghost,
completely lacking in all delicate sensibilities. But I didn't have
any idea what to do about it, not even the
ghost of an idea.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Presently, Spike oozed.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Himself back into the trailer, and I kept on driving
until almost nine o'clock. Then I turned into a little
motel and arranged the park overnight.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I had some supper at.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
A diner nearby, and then went back to my trailer,
hoping against hope that Spike.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Would be gone. But he wasn't.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
The trailer was full of cigar smoke and the smell
of whiskey.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
There was Spike.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Sprawled out on my bunk inhaling the smoke of a
cigar that burned in the ashtray, and from time to
time leaning over to slip at an open bottle of scotch.
And to make it worse, another fantasmal character, long and
thin and disreputable looking, occupied the other buck. They were
too thoroughly intoxicated.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Spirits all.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Sleep in the spiked What is the.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Meaning of this?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Oh? Oh, hello, Melvin and melfol and I want you
to meet an pall of my nitrol.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
Not pleased to meet you, Melbourne, I shake hands my
head hand Spike.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I asked you a question, what is the meaning of this?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Why, Malcolm, we.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Just celebrated, That's all I ain't seen Nitro for pretty
nd twenty five years. So having little fun with just
a couple of eye spirits, you got it.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Very funny. Well, get this this Nitro ghost out of
here at once. This is my trailer, and I don't
want him here.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yeah, sure, sure, Melvin, it's your trailer only. I'm the
resident ghost. See, I got full rights to extend hospitality
to any other ghost full phantasm, spirit spoke boogey man,
wear a wolf, vampire or poldogeist.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I want look it up.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
The Spirit's Handbook, Section seven parrot grant fee. Besides Melvin,
there's a lot worse things than me that Spike could
have invited. You know, some of them wear wolves now blood.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
All right, all right, let's not talk about it.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Just thinking of such things makes me nervous. But you'll
have to stop singing. Suppose somebody heard you and came
to investigate.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Oh well, okay, And anyway, it's time to ten on
the radio.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
On the radio for what but to hear it?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Stupid? Let's see? Yeah, yeah, this sort of be the
right station.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
May I ask, nearly out of morbid curiosity, what program
our ghost would listen to?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Well, you don't have to ask. You'll hear it.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
This is a mysterious traveler inviting you to join me
on another journey into the realm of.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
The strange and the terrifying.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I hope you will enjoy the trip and it will
freeze you a little.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And cheat you a little.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
So settle back, get a good pap on your nerves,
and be comfortable.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
If you can.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Mysterious Traveler.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
That's a pipper over program.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Oh no, no, hold on, what's the matter?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
You don't like the mysterious Traveler? All us ghosts listen
to them?
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Oh I like it all right, But you don't expect
me to listen to it with two ghosts right in
the same room.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
With me, do you?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Sometimes he even scares us. Okay, we'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Look Spike, yeah, mo, Well what'll you take to go
away and leave me alone?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Both of you?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Oh, melf melth And you don't understand I've took up
my abode in the sea trailer. I'm your ghost now
your family ghost?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Where thou ghost? I will ghost you get it back?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Then? Am I to understand you refuse to clear out at.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
The answer to that, Malven is absolutely.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
In that case, I'm going to ride a cabin for
the night. I couldn't possibly sleep in this trailer with
you two hunks of animated fog.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Suit yourself anyway, Me and Spike got some practice in
the dome. Okay, Spike, let's go fast. The mournful dog out.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
That night I slept in a rented cabin.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
The next morning, I drove on westward with my two
phantom passengers and tried to pretend they weren't there.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I almost got used to them.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
I suppose a man.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Can get used to anything, even to having a permanent
cold chill running down his bankbote. When we passed through
Denver night, row Nelson dropped off, saying he wanted to
haunt up some old cows of his, leaving me with
Spike Higgins.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Well, movin.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
It's just you and me together now, just to door
of us. Uh, until you get married to this, then
there'll be the three of us.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
I don't think Louise as long as I like that,
Oh sure she will.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Anyway, I'm sticking around.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
I hate to think what Louise will say when I
tell her about it.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Hey, Hey, where are we going on our armymoo? The
three of the city.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
I figured on driving up to Oregon to see the mountain.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Oh, that's good, that's good, just as long as we
get await from California.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
What have you got against California?
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Oh? Just that Dan Basher lives there now, Dan Basher?
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Yeah, you remember that tough railroad dicker was chasing me
when I fell off that frame.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Oh he's the toughest pull in the business.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
You're not afraid of him, now, are you now?
Speaker 6 (18:46):
Of course not, of course, or only the grape Fine says.
He's kind of six he and he might be entering
the spirit world at any time.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
Now.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
I wouldn't want to run into him again. If he did,
he's got a grudge against me. Hey, hey, you know
I just thought of something. What well, right at first,
Right at first, Louise probably.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Won't be able to see me, what to hear me see.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
On account of a family post. It's only visible to
the household.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
You get me, Yes, But I don't understand.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
As soon as you're married, she'll be part of the
household and then she can see me. Until then, no, oh,
wake me up. As soon as it cut jump who.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Three days ago we reached Santa Monica.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
I rented parking space in an auto camp and immediately
phoned Louise.
Speaker 9 (19:36):
Melvin, Darling, I'm so glad you're here. I've been worried
not hearing from you.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Oh I'll explain all about that. When can I come
and see you?
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Well?
Speaker 9 (19:44):
I better come see you first, Melvin. See, my uncle
isn't well, and the doctor said he must have quiet.
I'll be there in an hour.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
I hurried back to the trailer and tried to clean
it up.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Spike Kicken's ghosts lay on a bunk and watched me cynically.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Hey, take it easyun You're no good at Housewick get
at This place needs a woman's touch.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Now listen you. You've got a promise not to fight
in Louise.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I tought you move and she won't even know I'm here.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I certainly hope not. That would ruin everything. Here she
comes now, coming darning, Melvin, Louise. Oh here, let me
help you in. Oh thank you, Melvin. So this is
it the trailer you wrote me about, Darling. Look, here's
(20:35):
the stove and an ice box and a built in bar,
a bar. Oh no, Melvin, you know I disapprove of spirit.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I resent that be quiet.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Excuse me, Darling. I wasn't talking to you? Then? Who
are you talking to?
Speaker 5 (20:52):
It's hard to explain. Look, Louise, here's a writing desk
that falls into the wall and a regular easy chair.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Well it's very.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
Nice, Melvin, but all the same, we're not taking any
spirits along on our honeymoon.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Bar or no bar.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
To her.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I said to be quiet, Melvin.
Speaker 9 (21:10):
How can you talk.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
To me like that? I told you to shut up, Nelvin.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
I won't stay here and be insultant. You can telephone
me when you're ready to apologize.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
With that, Louise stormed out that evening. I had to
plead with her on the telephone for half an hour
before she would consent to let me drive out and
see her at her home.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
Oh really, Melvin, you were very rude this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
I'm sorry, darling, I'm over rada. I apologize.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
Well, you do look rather haggard, Melvin, and the way
your hair stands on and you really should do something
about it.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I wish I could, Louise, how soon can we get married?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Well?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
It depends on Uncle Dan's uncle Dan, Uncle Dan Basher,
my mother's brother.
Speaker 11 (22:08):
He's very ill.
Speaker 9 (22:09):
The doctor just gives him a few more days.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Your uncle is Dan Basher, who used to be a
railroad detective.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Why yes, and he's dying. I'm afraid so, Melvin.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
But you needn't look so pleased about it.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Oh sorry, Dodding. Look I must talk to him now.
Oh but the doctor said he can just for a
minute doing it's very important.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
Well maybe just for a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Come this way. This is his daughter, uncle Dan. Yeah,
do you feel strong enough to talk?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
What about?
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Well it's Melvin, my fiance.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
He wants to meet you.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
Come in, Melvin.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Thank you, Louise. Look I must speak to your uncle
in private, but i'll explain.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Later that that.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
That's a good carol. Thank you, Louise, good work.
Speaker 10 (23:04):
I can never get rid of her.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
What do you want to.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Marry Louise for anyway?
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I love her?
Speaker 10 (23:11):
The pretty poor excuse for getting married. He's like a
man of my sister, the reason I spent all my
life on the railroad.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Well that's what I want to talk about, sir. Do
you remember a certain Spike Higgins?
Speaker 10 (23:24):
Do I remember him?
Speaker 5 (23:26):
If I could never get my hands on him, you
know him, I know his ghost. He's hunting my trailer.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
He is huh, i'd certainly like to meet up with him.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Oh, I'd certainly like you to. He's outside now. My
trailer is part of the curve.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Well.
Speaker 10 (23:40):
In that case, I was figuring on postponing the event
for a few days, but for the privilege of meeting
up with Spike Higgins Ghost. Yes, lad go outside and wait.
I'll be out in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
In the Spirit, I made some excuse to Louise and
hurried out to the trailer.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Spike Higgins Ghost was lolling on my buck.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Oh soon, Melcoyn. What's maddening?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Oh nothing, Spike.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Nothing, You're erupted something? What is it?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Nothing, I tell you. Oh, relaxed, Spike, relax.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I got a funny feeling.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Oh someone's coming, Well do you mean someone?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Another spook?
Speaker 6 (24:29):
He's coming in the head Hello, Spike dead messy in
the spirit, Spike, I've been waiting with this meeting for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Oh no, Melton, you double grunt.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Every quick, miss Masher rightlet I rushed outside. Three blocks
away I saw a long freight train puffing away. Spike
Higgins Ghost was racing for it, with Dan Basher's Spirit
gaining on him for the first time.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
In a week. I felt happy again.
Speaker 11 (25:11):
Louise, nel Uncle Dan he's gone, Yes.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
I know he is.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
You know, well, what do you mean? I just saw
her running for that freight train? You saw Uncle Dan
running for a freight tree. I certainly did, wonderful fellow
your ac Are you mad?
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Mad?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Not a bit? I am as happy as a lot.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
You must be out of your mind, your poor uncle Dan.
Speaker 10 (25:41):
Oh, Melvin, then you just said the laughing about it, laughing.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
But Louise, you don't understand. I understand all too well.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
You want to break I'm I.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Certainly do. I know. I don't know, Louise Darling. Oh,
just like the Dame always will you shut up? Isn't
there any way to get rid of you? Well, there's
certainly is.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Goodbye Heaven the girl forever, Louise, Oh, you've always cut me.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Well, that's my story. I'm a desperate man.
Speaker 5 (26:25):
Louise sent me back my ring, and I'm stuck with
Spike Higgins ghost.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I should have known it. Out smart Dan Basher.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
He left Dan's spirit hunting the freight train for him
and came straight.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Back to me. Now I'll never get rid of it.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
I'm just a shadow of my former Salba, I can't
get a job. Oh look, do any of the radio
stations carrying my story need.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
A good sound effects man for mystery programs?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
With me and Spike Higgins Ghost working together, we can
guarantee authentic effects. Here.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Look, we'll give you a demonstration.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Mike.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Let's have the creaking door, now, the fatal.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Warning with me, your ma, Now.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
The dog howling in the cemetery.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
This is the Mysterious Traveler again, dear me, on an
odd story Meldren at the town.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Really, I don't know whether.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
To take it seriously or not. A hanted trainer.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
It would be just the thing for my summer vacation.
I do know a hanted telephone booth where.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
I make all my calls.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
No that I'm just joking.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
There are no such things as the Spike a questering
what all I teas ridiculous? If you see, Oh, you
have to get off here. I'm sorry, but I'm sure
you'll meet again. I take this same train every week
at this same time.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
You have just heard the Mysterious Traveler, and now you
can also enjoy other tents and dramatic stories of the
Mysterious Traveler. In the June issue of the Mysterious Traveler magazine.
In our cast were James Stevens, Larry Haynes, Mill Ziggert,
and Shirley Blank, with Maurice Tarplin starred in the title role.
Music is under the direction of Emerson Buckley and was
(28:48):
composed by Richard DuPage. This program came from New York.
The dramatized stories of crime and the events leading up
to the capture of the perpetrator are the order of
the day on True Detective Mysteries.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
These stories are based on actual police.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
File cases and have an air of authenticity seldom captured
by a crime program. So for the best in mystery listening,
make a date to tune in True Detective Mysteries every
Sunday over most of these stations.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
This program was transcribed especially for presentation to the West
Coast audience at this hour.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Listen again next week at this same time for a
Mysterious Traveler, and stay tuned now for let George do
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