Hello and welcome to another episode of nostalgic mystery radio.

I'm your host Stevie Kay, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesteryear.

For this episode, I bring you The Mysterious Traveler, episode titled New Year's Nightmare,

originally aired January 5, 1947, where a man goes on a year-end bender and wakes up a year later married to a strange woman.

So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.

Thank you for listening. Mutual presents the mysterious traveler.

This is the mysterious traveler.

This is the mysterious traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying.

I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will free you a little and chill you a little.

So settle back and get a good grip on your nerves.

If you can...

Where are we going?

Well, let us say for the moment,

we're taking a little trip into time and a story I call

New Year's nightmare.

I'm

a minute. As the old year entered its last minute, the crowds at the Club Tropicano were waiting expectantly for the clock to strike midnight.

At a ringside table, a lovely young woman angrily whispers to the man with her.

Chris, if you take another drink, I'll leave.

Oh, Judy, this is New Year's Eve.

It'll be 1947 in another minute.

Got to celebrate, don't I?

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