What happens
Inner Sanctum Mysteries presents The Bog-Oak Necklace, broadcast on April 10, 1945, and starring Miriam Hopkins. Two men digging near a lake in a small New England town uncover a skeleton and a bog-oak necklace. County attorney Andrew Warren is shaken when he sees the necklace, and it brings back memories of a past romance. Emily and her sister Daisy are caught in a rivalry over Andrew, and tensions between them grow sharp on a moonlit night in the old apple orchard.
A small New England town by a lake, with an old apple orchard near the river, in the 1940s.
Characters: Andrew Warren, Emily Bristow, Daisy, Jerry, Molly, Mr. Raymond, Mary Bennett
Listen for: Listen for the bog-oak necklace and the sound it makes, and for the quarrel between Emily and Daisy in the orchard.
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.