What happens
Franz Knacko, the caretaker of a cemetery, has a bitter past tied to his missing wife, Martha. When he meets a young visitor, Jane Carter, in his garden, he gives her roses, and her disappearance is soon reported in the news. Ethan Bronze, Martha's husband, visits Franz each year on April 27th, the anniversary of her disappearance. Ethan reveals that young women have been vanishing for years, and he asks Franz to bury a young woman named Helen Winters in an unused family tomb. Franz is deeply disturbed and haunted by a strange glowing branch in his garden. The story's Inner Sanctum broadcast aired on September 7, 1952.
A cemetery and the caretaker's house and garden in the countryside, in spring.
Characters: Franz Knacko, Jane Carter, Ethan Bronze, Helen Winters, Martha
Listen for: Franz's growing unease as he meets Ethan and sees the glowing branch in his garden.
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.