The Witch of Donderberg Mountain: Nick Carter, Master Detective (April 22, 1945)

“The Witch of Donderberg Mountain” is an episode of Nick Carter, Master Detective, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 22, 1945. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Author Roger Winthrop rents an old house in the Catskills to research folklore and superstitions for his novel, but finds himself caught up in a sinister mystery when his servant Jacob dies a violent death. Winthrop believes the death was caused by a hex placed on Jacob by the last of the notorious Brocken family, an old maid named Hermina who is rumored to practice witchcraft on Donderberg Mountain.

Nick Carter's brownstone office in the city and the remote Brocken house in the Catskills near Donderberg Mountain

Characters: Nick Carter, Patsy Bowen, Roger Winthrop, Jacob, Hermina Brocken

Listen for: The mysterious death of the servant Jacob and the investigation into whether the local witch Hermina Brocken's hex was truly responsible or if there is a more earthly explanation for his violent end.

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.