Mysterious Traveler

Dramatic Anthology, stories of the strange and terrifying (1943 -52)

This is The Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the strange and terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little. So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves, and be comfortable--if you can!

Marice Tarplin, who played the title role, conveyed good-natured menace, the kind of mischievous malevolence imparted by The Whistler or Raymond of Inner Sanctum Mysteries. He narrated and commented from some omniscient perch inside the soul of his protagonist. He came to his listeners in the night, riding a phantom train. Perhaps the classic episode was Behind the Locked Door, the most requested and reun show over the years. A pair of archaeologists trapped by a landslide find inside the cave the remnants of an old wagon train, perhaps a hundred years old. When they are attacked by strange beings they must conclude that the descendants of those pioneers still live in this sightless world.