What happens
Medium Adelaide Winters and her assistant Robert McBane run a fraudulent seance business that preys on grieving families after the war. Adelaide targets Edward Porter, a wealthy businessman whose son, Corporal John Porter, was listed missing in action. She claims to bring the son's voice to him, and Porter grows dependent on her sessions. Adelaide moves into his large house and begins planning a future with him, while Robert grows increasingly alarmed. The episode is from the radio series Suspense, first broadcast on September 10, 1951, and stars Agnes Moorhead.
Post-World War II America, in a city where Adelaide runs her seance business and later in Edward Porter's large house.
Characters: Adelaide Winters, Robert McBane, Edward Porter, John Porter
Listen for: Adelaide's growing control over Edward Porter and Robert's warnings that the situation is turning dangerous.
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.