Corpse Without a Conscience: Inner Sanctum Mysteries (June 20, 1949)

“Corpse Without a Conscience” is an episode of Inner Sanctum Mysteries, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 20, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Charles Ferguson lives in a large granite house beside a hillside cemetery, with his elderly aunt Mrs. Ferguson and the servant Horton. Mrs. Ferguson is terrified that Mario Bellini, a man who had dealt with the family, has returned from the dead on the first anniversary of his death. Charles dismisses her fears and opens Bellini's sealed tomb to prove the body is still inside. The episode is an Inner Sanctum Mystery, first broadcast on June 20, 1949, and the cast includes Carl Swenson as Charles and Everett Sloan as Bellini.

A large granite house bordering a hillside cemetery, on a stormy night, with a small mosque-shaped tomb on the hill

Characters: Charles Ferguson, Mrs. Ferguson, Horton, Mario Bellini

Listen for: Mrs. Ferguson insisting that Bellini has returned, and the opening of the sealed tomb

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.