The Mysterious Traveler
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Sep 14, 2026
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
Robert A. Arthur and David Cogan wrote, directed, and produced this Mutual Broadcasting System presentation.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
From May 25th, 1947, it is episode 105 of The Mysterious Traveler, Mind over Murder.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
At High Cliff, a home overlooking the Atlantic, Ricardo, a mind reader bound for a Vaudeville tour, puts his abilities to the test with his wife Helen and Carl, the gardener.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
But Helen's involvement with Tom brings Ricardo's claimed power to dominate others into the household.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
The cast includes Jan Miner, Ian Martin, Maurice Tarplin, James Van Dyke, and Rod hendrickson.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
Tarplin also appears as the mysterious traveler.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
The program was heard on Mutual as a sustaining broadcast.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
And now, the original broadcast.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
A state penitentiary interview opens the account of Frankie Williams, a recently paroled New York sandhog, and the bank job that began with an underground map of Manhattan.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
From Mutual's The Mysterious Traveler comes episode 145, They Struck It Rich, first heard March 16th, 1948.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Frankie's old associate, Marty Davis, has a plan to approach the vault of the Hellgate Bank and Trust Company through an East River sewer line, a route requiring a rubber raft, excavation tools, and close knowledge of the city beneath its streets.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Maurice Tarplin is heard as the mysterious traveller, with Frank Thomas and Joe DeSantis in the cast.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Here is the original broadcast.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
MUSIC
Carl CarusoNARRATOR
Mutual presents The Mysterious Traveler.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
This is The Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying.
Derward KirbyADVERTISER
The Mysterious Traveler, written, produced, and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan, and presenting tonight, two of radio's foremost personalities, Everett Sloan and Kermit Murdoch in Survival of the Fittest.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
This is the Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
I hope you will enjoy the trip, and it will thrill you a little and chill you a little.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves, and be comfortable, if you can, as we hear a strange story of hate and intrigue.
25 MINS LATER
Everett SloanVOICE_ACTOR
I've got to be.
Everett SloanVOICE_ACTOR
This is
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
the mysterious traveler again.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
Did you enjoy our trip? What happened to Gordon DeWitt? Or should I say Skyler DeWitt? Well, the poor man was taken to a mental institution, and quite depressed he was, too.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Their work began with an effort to cure John's albinism, then moved into a startling new field when John developed a serum capable of making living tissue invisible.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Tonight's Mutual Broadcasting System presentation is The Mysterious Traveler, Episode 161, The Man Who Vanished.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
First heard July 6th, 1948.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Wendell Holmes and Roger DeKoven are featured in an original radio drama by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Now, back to the golden age of radio.
Carl CarusoNARRATOR
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents The Mysterious Traveler, written, produced, and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan, and starring tonight, two stars of stage and radio, Wendell Holmes and Roger DeKoven, in an original radio drama titled The Man Who Vanished.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
This is the Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little.
Michael HansenNARRATOR
The
Bob EmmerichNARRATOR
Mutual Broadcasting System presents The Mysterious Traveler.
Bob EmmerichNARRATOR
Written, produced, and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Coker.
Bob EmmerichNARRATOR
And featuring tonight, two of radio's most distinguished personalities, Santos Ortega and Richard Cougar in No Grave Can Hold Me.
Maurice ToplinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is the Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying.
Maurice ToplinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I hope you will enjoy the trip And it will thrill you a little and chill you a little as we travel tonight into the world of shadows from which no man may return.
Maurice ToplinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And we learn the story of one who does return.
27 MINS LATER
speaker_26VOICE_ACTOR
For good.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Near waters once used for atomic tests, the airmen searched the island for shelter and supplies, and now the original broadcast.
Bill TonkinNARRATOR
The Mutual Broadcasting System presents The Mysterious Traveler, written, produced, and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Cogan, and starring two of radio's foremost actors, Clifford Carpenter and Lawson Zerbe, in Strange New World.
Bill TonkinNARRATOR
Strange New World
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
This is the mysterious traveler inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrified.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves, and be comfortable, if you can, as we follow two young flyers on a routine flight which suddenly deviated from normal and brought them to a strange new world.
31 MINS LATER
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
But I'm sure we'll meet again.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
I take this same train every week at this same time.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Chris Arnold has entered a swift marriage with Rana Farouk, an Egyptian woman whose jealousy and devotion to cats soon trouble him.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
From Mutual on July 2, 1944, this is episode 31 of The Mysterious Traveler, The Queen of the Cats.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
As Chris seeks to free himself from Rana's possessive hold, the persistent presence of cats leads him to fear there may be more at work than an unhappy marriage.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Morris Tarplin is heard as the mysterious traveler, with Staats Cotsworth, Sarah Burton, and Sandra Gould.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
The script is by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan, and Jock McGregor directed.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Ladies and gentlemen, the curtain rises.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Here is the original broadcast.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
The Curtain Rises
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
[eerie music]
Carl CarusoNARRATOR
Mutual presents The Mysterious Traveler, written, produced, and directed by Bob Arthur and David Cogan.
Carl CarusoNARRATOR
[eerie music]
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
This is the Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and terrifying.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
I hope you will enjoy the trip, and it will thrill you a little and chill you a little.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves, and be comfortable, if you can.
28 MINS LATER
speaker_12VOICE_ACTOR
You frightened him to death.
speaker_12VOICE_ACTOR
[tense music]
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
But club owner Rick Thompson and press agent Jerry Fenton see possibilities beyond the nightclub floor, and private knowledge soon becomes valuable currency in the underworld.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
From the Mutual Broadcasting System, this is The Mysterious Traveler, episode 325, The Man Who Knew Everything, first heard October 9th, 1951.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Maurice Tarplin is your guide for a visit to the Crystal Club, where a stage attraction may prove to be something more.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Now, back to the golden age of radio.
28 MINS LATER
speaker_7VOICE_ACTOR
All the time I thought it was empty.
speaker_7VOICE_ACTOR
Jerry!
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
This is the mysterious traveler again.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
Poor Jerry.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Morris Tarplin, James Van Dyke, and Morton Lawrence appear in the cast of this Mutual Broadcasting System presentation.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
From March 9, 1947, it is The Mysterious Traveler, Episode 94, The Woman in Black, written, produced, and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Newspaper crime reporter Bill Storm is drawn to Theda, a woman who keeps appearing near stories of sudden death.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Following leads through a large city, Storm finds each encounter adding another thread to the mystery.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Mutual carried this as a sustaining broadcast.
Victor SterlingNARRATOR
Now, back to the golden age of radio.
Carl CarusoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Mutual presents the Mysterious Traveler.
Maurice TarplinNARRATOR
This is the Mysterious Traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying.
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