Old Time Radio: The Shadow - Thing In The Swamp
0Broadcast: January 18, 1942
The shadow was amateur criminologist Lamont Cranston. He had learned “the hypnotic power to cloud men’s minds so that they cannot see him”. The opening to the show, “Who knows … what evil … lllllurks … in the heart of men? … The Shadow knows! His “friend and companion, the lovely Margo Lane, is the only person who knows to whom the voice of the invisible Shadow belongs”. Together they confront the maddest assortment of lunatics, sadists, ghosts and werewolves ever heard on the air. In this episode:
This is a tale of greed and hate and a thing that was created by the belief of ten million radio listeners. For if the story had not been told the thing would never have risen out of the swamp to reach out with blood-red tentacles and thrice to commit murder...
At the end of the show you will hear an episode from real life from November 1939 proving that crime does not pay.