The Mysterious Traveler
Originally broadcast on Mutual, 24 September 1944. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1943–1945
- Surviving broadcasts
- 89
- Genre
- horror
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “Weird_Circle_otr”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1945 · 21944 · 71943 · 3
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: Weird_Circle_otr
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
12 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1943
1944
1945
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1943, in original transmission order.
- 1. Fall of the House of Usher · 29 Aug 1943
- 2. What Was It · 10 Oct 1943
- 3. The Man Without a Country · 21 Nov 1943
- 01
Fall of the House of Usher
29 Aug 1943 · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
What Was It
10 Oct 1943 · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
The Man Without a Country
21 Nov 1943 · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Murders in the Rue Morgue
2 Jan 1944 · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
The Heart of Ethan Brand
13 Feb 1944 · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Wuthering Heights
26 Mar 1944 · 27 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
The Werewolf
7 May 1944 · 28 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
The Bell Tower
24 Sep 1944 · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
24 Sep 1944
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 24 Sep 1944.
The Pacific Story
Transferred from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Pacific_Story_Singles”, part of the Old Time Radio Researchers public-domain collections.
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1943–1945
Other series the network carried while Weird Circle was on the air.
Same seasons
horror on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Weird Circle
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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