The Trap: X Minus One (February 13, 1957)

“The Trap” is an episode of X Minus One, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 13, 1957. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Two hunters, Ed and Thurston, spend a rainy vacation at a cabin in the Adirondacks. They find a strange metal device left by the doorway, labeled a trap, and set it up in a clearing. It captures odd creatures, and the two men begin to plan a museum exhibit and a fame that could follow. Their excitement grows as the trap keeps working in unexpected ways.

A cabin in the Adirondacks, in the present day, on a rainy morning and the days after

Characters: Ed, Thurston

Listen for: The trap's instructions and its odd results, and the men's plans to present their discoveries to a museum

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.