The Dead Man Walks: Box 13 (1948)

“The Dead Man Walks” is an episode of Box 13, the old-time radio show, first broadcast in 1948. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Dan Holliday receives a letter from Mrs. Sheila Corbett asking him to find her father, who disappeared the day after his parole release. When Dan investigates an address left by the missing man, he discovers a dead body in a pawn shop and is knocked unconscious. Upon waking, he finds himself in the countryside with no memory of how he got there, and the police are skeptical of his story.

A city neighborhood and surrounding countryside, including a pawn shop at 517 Slack Street.

Characters: Dan Holiday, Mrs. Sheila Corbett, Albert Winslow, Susie, Lieutenant Klingau, Sergeant

Listen for: The mysterious phone call to Albert Winslow, the cryptic note with an address and time, and the puzzling discovery of the dead body followed by Dan's unexplained unconsciousness and displacement.

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.