The Screaming Woman

And now tonight's presentation of Radios Outstanding Theatre of Thrills... ...Suspense. Tonight, the story of a little girl and the terror in a vacant lot. We call it... ...The Screaming Woman. So now starring Sherry Jackson, here is tonight's suspense play...

...The Screaming Woman. I'm Margaret Leary, and I got to tell you how it happened. It was Thanksgiving Day, and it was nice and sunshiny. Almost like summer except cooler. Mama was cooking the turkey and I was watching.

And Mama said to me, Oh good heavens I forgot, you Aunt Betty's made some cranberry relish for us, run over and get it Margaret, so her feelings on hurt, and hurry dear, this turkey's done to a turn.

So I ran to Aunt Betty's and on the way back I took a shortcut to Mr. Kelly's lot. It's a swell place to play Indians and cowboys, or explore, or hunting for treasure, because trucks dump all kinds of stuff there.

Loads of dirt and junk and even big things like old cars and big pipes and chunks of concrete. Well this day coming back from Aunt Betty's I saw that a lot of new junk and dirty been dumped there since Saturday They even covered up a swell big concrete pipe that as kids called our fort covered it clear up

Well, I was looking around to see where it used to be when all of a sudden The sound was coming up out of the ground a Woman was buried under the junk and dirt and glass and and she was screaming all wild and horrible for someone to dig her out I started to run I fell down and got up and ran some more