They Struck It Rich by The Mysterious Traveler

Strange Tales (Old Time Radio)

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🗓️ 18 May 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This week on Strange Tales, The Mysterious Traveler brings us his story from March 16, 1948, titled, They Struck It Rich. Listen to more from The Mysterious Traveler https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales800.mp3 Download StrangeTales800 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support Strange Tales Relic Radio is funded solely by listener donations. If you would like to help support it, visit Donate.RelicRadio.com for more information. Thank you.

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0:00.0	Strange Tales
0:02.0	RELES
0:03.0	Relicradio.
0:20.0	Relic Radio.com presents tales of the strange and bizarre, the weird and the wicked.
0:26.2	Stories not necessarily of the supernatural, but of the unnatural.
0:35.1	Join us now for Strange Tales, featuring radio drama at its most mysterious and unusual.
1:06.5	Music Welcome back to Strange Tales, Weird Stories from the Golden Age of Radio every Sunday at Relicradio.com.
1:12.3	Our story comes from The Mysterious Traveler This Week, series that debuted December 5th of 1943 and aired until September 16th of 1952, produced over 300 episodes for mutual stations.
1:20.6	Our story today is They Struck It Rich.
1:22.6	This one aired March 16th, 1948.
1:26.1	Music when aired March 16th, 1948. Mutual presents, the mysterious traveler.
1:59.4	The Mysterious Traveler.
2:14.1	This is the mysterious traveler, inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying.
2:18.6	I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little.
2:20.6	So settle back,
2:21.5	get a good grip on your nerves,
2:23.0	and be comfortable.
2:24.2	If you can,
2:25.7	as you hear the story I call...
2:27.3	They struck it rich.
2:33.8	... Our story tonight begins behind the high gray walls of a state penitentiary.
2:46.6	It is early Monday morning, and Dr. Richard Worth has just taken up his duties as a newly appointed staff psychiatrist at the prison.
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