Ghosts Don't Die in Bed: Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator (September 7, 1954)

“Ghosts Don't Die in Bed” is an episode of Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 7, 1954. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Confidential investigator Barry Craig receives an urgent midnight call from his old acquaintance Mark Reed, who demands he travel immediately to the tower house outside Dorning. On the train, Craig encounters Ruth Adams, a terrified young woman fleeing an assassination attempt in the city, who reveals she is Mark Reed's niece and has also been summoned to the tower house. Both passengers arrive at the mysterious estate under strange circumstances, with the local cab driver ominously warning them to leave town immediately.

A train traveling at night to Dorning and the surrounding area, culminating at an old tower house outside the town.

Characters: Barry Craig, Mark Reed, Ruth Adams, The Conductor, The Cab Driver

Listen for: The developing mystery of why Mark Reed has urgently summoned both Craig and his niece Ruth to the tower house, and who is trying to kill Ruth.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.