Laura's House: Let George Do It (July 25, 1949)

“Laura's House” is an episode of Let George Do It, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 25, 1949. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Private detective George Valentine is called to Laura's House, a remote estate, by one of three schoolteachers who share the property and hope to sell it. Upon arrival, Valentine discovers that Miss Terence, one of the teachers, has mysteriously died in a room decorated with a carousel—a gift built years ago by a man named Laura's husband for his crippled wife. The local caretaker darkly hints that others have died in the same room under mysterious circumstances.

Laura's House, a remote estate in the country built by a wealthy man for his crippled wife, where three former schoolteachers now live while attempting to sell the property.

Characters: George Valentine, Bonnie Burke, Miss Terence, Francine Milton, Fairbanks, the coroner

Listen for: References to the mysterious deaths that have occurred in the front corner room upstairs, the carousel that once belonged to Laura, and the growing sense of dread surrounding the estate's history.

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.