Nasty People: Frontier Gentleman (November 2, 1958)

“Nasty People” is an episode of Frontier Gentleman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 2, 1958. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Traveling through Kansas in heavy rain, J.B. Kendall seeks shelter at a remote trading post run by the Grover family. A stranger warns him that dark and peculiar things happen at this house, and that people have gone missing here, but Kendall decides to stay the night anyway.

A remote trading post and store in Kansas, between Independence and Osage Mission, during a rainstorm

Characters: J.B. Kendall, Albert Grover, William Grover, Sally Grover, Mrs. Grover, A stranger

Listen for: The mysterious warnings about the Grover family and the strange atmosphere at their house; the cryptic questions about spirits and the dead; the odd behavior of Mrs. Grover and Sally

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.