What happens
Raymond Burr stars as a Florida man who inherits a cryptic poem from his pirate ancestor Don Jose, leading him to dig for buried treasure on a remote Cape Cod island. He rents a cottage there, and a local police chief warns him about quicksand while mentioning a kidnapping on the Cape. The Suspense episode, broadcast on October 12, 1958, follows his nighttime digging, a discovery in the sand, and the arrival of strangers who threaten to take the chest from him.
Dog Body's Island, a sandspit near Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and nearby Key West, Florida
Characters: Raymond Burr
Listen for: The poem describing the treasure's location and the warnings about the curse of Don Jose
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.