The Haunted Artist: Box 13

“The Haunted Artist” is an episode of Box 13, the old-time radio show. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Dan Holiday investigates artist Michael Davis's mysterious claim that his studio is haunted. Davis insists that a portion of his painting—a stone quarry—appears on his canvas each night despite his locked doors and windows, and he has no memory of painting it. Holiday sets a trap using ceiling wax to prove whether an intruder is entering the studio or something stranger is occurring.

Michael Davis's art studio in the city

Characters: Dan Holiday, Michael Davis, Susie, Betty Harper

Listen for: The mysterious phone call warning Holiday to stay away from Davis, and Holiday's clever plan to catch the phantom painter using ceiling wax and his signet ring

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.