Good evening, this is Orson Wells.

Your producer of a special series of broadcast presented by the makers of Pabs Blue Ribbon,

the Mercury Summer Theater of the air. Ladies and gentlemen, the element of suspense is so vital to our story tonight that our sponsors the makers of

PAB's blue ribbon beer are emitting their usual commercial message during the

intermission between the acts so that our play will go uninterrupted from spooky

start to spooky finish. We have the mercury reckon that a story doesn't have to

appeal to the heart, it can also appeal to the spine. Sometimes you want your heart to be warm, sometimes you want your

spine to tingle. Well the tingling it's to be hope will be quite audible as you listen tonight to a classic

among radio thrillers. Its author is one of the most gifted of all the

writers who've ever worked for this medium. Lucille Fletcher who wrote the greatest

single radio script ever written.

Sorry, wrong number.

The title of this for a terrifying little tale of Grew,

for this evening,

is another spine tingler by name, the Hitchhiker. I am in an auto camp on route 66 just west of Gallup, New Mexico.

If I tell it, maybe it'll help me.

It'll keep me from going crazy.

I must tell this quickly.

I'm not crazy now.

I feel perfectly well.

Perfectly well.

Except that I'm running a slight temperature.

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