Hangman's Island: Inner Sanctum Mysteries (September 20, 1948)

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“Hangman's Island” is an episode of Inner Sanctum Mysteries, the old-time radio show, first broadcast September 20, 1948. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Fats and Regan, two drifters, fall out over a treasure map that a golden-haired woman gave Fats. After Regan kills Fats and takes the map and gold notes, he rents a boat to reach the island the map marks, which locals call Hangman's Island. There he finds a man hanging in a trap and meets a man claiming to be a Coast Guard lieutenant named Burnside, who warns him that the island is full of deadly traps. Regan decides to press on toward the cave marked on the map, despite the dangers around him.

Hangman's Island, a bleak marsh island off the Florida Keys, at night

Characters: Regan, Fats, Wilma, Burnside, Hinkley, Peterson

Listen for: The map and the mysterious golden-haired woman, and how Regan's search for treasure leads him toward the cave on the island.

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.