Ghost Hunt (SUSP)

Smiley Smith, a radio personality; Dr. Reeves, a psychic investigator; and Jeff, a wire-haired terrier, resolve to spend the night in a haunted house where four people have commtted suicide – and record the results for rebroadcast.

This broadcast set the stage for the “found footage” movement in horror and it's a solid listen. It sounds more trite now than it should, because of all the shows that have imitated it since. The "real time" nature of it in which it is framed is great and the overall story is solid.

Suspense #346
Ghost Hunt
23 June 1949
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Sponsored by Auto-Lite. Ralph Edwards, Joseph Kearns, Paul Frees (announcer), Herbert Russell Wakefield (writer), Walter Newman (adaptor), Anton M. Leader (producer, director), Harlow Wilcox (commercial spokesman), William Johnstone (commercial spokesman), Lucien Moraweck (composer), Lud Gluskin (conductor).

Ralph Edwards