{
  "title": "DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS?",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "“His first radio experience was in the year 1932 when he was called upon to act as emcee of the\nNBC Spotlight Revue when it was being broadcast from the Seattle Auto Show. He proved to be a\nradio natural. Voice and personality clicked at the very start… For a time he did news broadcasts\nover KOMO in Seattle and it was over this station that he launched the famous series of eerie\nprograms titled ‘Do You Believe in Ghosts?.’ The sponsors of this series transferred Burdick to\nSan Francisco where he continued the series for some time. He broadcast a total of 40 ghost\nstories during the run of this series.”\n[Oakland Tribune, November 14, 1937—“Yarn Spinner of the Kilocycles” by Jack Burroughs]\n“His acting career began when he was a student at the University of Washington. From leading\nroles in productions at the university he stepped into similar roles in stock. For several years after\nleaving college he played a wide variety of roles ranging from character parts to juvenile roles. For\na time he was stage manager and director of a stock company in Vancouver, B.C…\n“…The next step in his career…—his 11 years in newspaper work.\n“His first radio experience was in the year 1932 when he was called upon to act as emcee of the\nNBC Spotlight Revue when it was being broadcast from the Seattle Auto Show. He proved to be a\nradio natural. Voice and personality clicked at the very start. Ever since his radio debut he has\nbeen kept busy in airlane activities, both at the mike and as author.\n“For a time he did news broadcasts over KOMO in Seattle and it was over this station that he\nlaunched the famous series of eerie programs titled ‘Do You Believe in Ghosts?’ The sponsors of\nthis series transferred Burdick to San Francisco where he continued the series for some time. He\nbroadcast a total of 40 ghost stories during the run of this series.\n“…Here is the formidable list of his writings as it stood the Here is the formidable list 01 his\nwritings as it stood the early part of February, this year:\n“One hundred episodes in his current series of radio short stories.\nForty ghost stories.\nThirty-five radio news sketches.\nTwenty-six true stories of the sea.\nThe \"Dr. Kate\" serial drama, in which his wife, Cornelia Burdick, is starred.”\n[Puget Sound radio history book] “Burdick, one-time law student at the University of\nWashington, was an assistant city editor at the Seattle Times during radio’s formative years. Part\nof his job was reading news flashes over KJR. A talented writer, actor and raconteur, Burdick\nwound up with NBC, starring in his own show. As ‘night editor’ of a great city newspaper, he\nwould recount tight, well-plotted stories in which he played all the parts himself.”\nSeattle newspaperman Hal Burdick (1894-1978) put together this series of ghost stories shortly\nafter he became a staff member of KGO in San Francisco. He played all the male roles and was\nbilled as “the Ghost Adventurer,” with Verna Felton playing female roles and doubling as\nannouncer.\n[Variety—“Obituaries”—June 21, 1978] “Harold P. Burdick, 84… A veteran of World War I and a\ngraduate of the Univ. of Washington, Burdick worked in theatrical stock companies and was also\na critic and columnist for the Seattle Times.\n“As radio gained momentum in the early 1930s, Burdick moved to San Francisco and became\nthe ‘Night Editor’ on the NBC  coast network. He wrote and performed in this series for over 12\nyears. In 1937, he created a daytime serial, ‘Dr. Kate,’ in which he starred with his late wife\nCornelia.\n“During his years in San Francisco he was a prominent member of The Bohemian Club where he\nwrote and directed many of the club’s theatrical productions.\n“In 1952, Burdick moved to New York where he made a film series of his ‘Night Editor’ stories\nfor the Dumont Television Network.”\n[Oregonian, September 3, 1933] “Harold P. Burdick, widely known Seattle newspaperman,\nfeature writer and actor, will make his debut over…the network in the first of a series of semi-\nweekly programs devoted to ghost stories tonight…\n“For his NBC engagement, which includes 15-minute broadcasts every Sunday night at 9 and\nevery Tuesday at 7:15 P. M., Burdick is writing original tales, some with a legendary background.\nHe presents a dramatic narrative, in which he interprets all the parts, many of them in character.”\n[The Billboard, September 9, 1933] “The Sussman & Wormser Company has signed with NBC to\nsponsor a series of programs entitled Do You Believe in Ghosts? Series will be conducted by\nHarold P. Burdick and will be presented once each week from 7:15 to 7:30, starting September 7.\nKFI, Los Angeles, KGW, Portland, KOMO, Seattle, and KGO, San Francisco, will release the\nfeature.”\n[Hollywood Citizen-News, October 12, 1933] “Mr. Burdick does not believe in ghosts even\nthough he relates stories about them. He says he has investigated haunted houses, dwellings in\nwhich murders have taken place and other mysterious spots but he has found invariably that the\nghost was a rat or something just as natural.”\n[Oakland Tribune, November 15, 1933] “Harold Burdick, whose sepulchral voice has almost\nscared the dialers into admitting that they do believe in ghosts, does not believe in ‘ghost writers,’\nthose unknowns who do the scribbling for celebrities unable to scribble for themselves. Harold\ndoes his own writing. He has been editorial writer, dramatic critic, music critic, columnist and\nSunday editor, and has contributed regularly to various national periodicals. He does not say\nwhether he has done any ‘ghost’ writing or not.”\nShortly after its run on KPO, Hal Burdick recorded his series for the MacGregor-Solie\ntranscription company.\n[San Francisco Examiner, July 23, 1934] “Hal Burdick has returned to the air!\n“The famed teller of ghost stories, who some time ago closed a highly successful series of\ndramatized narratives of supernatural happenings, is to be on KPO tonight, and each Monday,\nWednesday and Friday night thereafter, at 8:45 o’clock. In this new series Burdick will offer\nstories of adventure, love, mystery and crime.\n“‘Lucky Day,’ the first story, will find the raconteur weaving a yarn with a San Francisco setting.\nIt tells of a pickpocket who turns humanitarian, to his own advantage.”\n[The Billboard, August 4, 1934—“West Coast News”] “LOS ANGELES, July 28—…\n“Harold Burdick, former assistant city editor of The Seattle Times, has returned to NBC to\ncontinue his Do You Believe in Ghosts? stories over the NBC Coast Stations. Burdick presented\nthe series last year under an S & W food sponsorship and it is hoped the same account will again\nbecome interested in sponsoring the feature. Burdick recently completed a series of transcriptions\nplugging Del Monte salmon at the MacGregor and Sollie laboratories.”\n“SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 28—…\n“Hal Burdick, heard from San Francisco about six months ago in Do You Believe in Ghosts?\nseries under S. & W. sponsorship has returned to the air with a new series of adventure, love,\nmystery and crime tales. He’s heard over KPO Wednesday, Friday and Monday nights at 8:45.\nBurdick, actor and former Seattle newspaperman, is tabbed the one-man show of radio. He’s\ncalled upon to do as many as a dozen different voices in one program. Burdick, now a sustainer,\nhas just completed several transcriptions at the MacGregor and Sollie Labs. here for Del Monte\nsalmon.”\n[Milwaukee Sentinel, April 24, 1934—“Dial Twists”] “Here’s a program we really enjoyed in our\nrambling round the dial—‘True Stories of the Sea.’ Remember the Seth Parker yarns of a few\nweeks ago? Well, these are on the same order, but much more cleverly done… Last night the\ndramatization was that of the disappearance of Theodosia Burr…plenty of material in that story,\nand they did well by it…so well that the program’s on our ‘Must’ list from now on.”\n[Pittsburgh Press, January 26, 1934—ad for Argo Finest Red Salmon] “Listen to ‘True Stories of\nthe Sea’—KDKA—7:45 P. M., Tuesday and Friday.”]\nBurdick achieved one of his biggest successes in broadcasting with the Night Editor series. San\nFrancisco Examiner, September 12, 1934: “In the role of the night editor of a metropolitan\nnewspaper, Hal Burdick, NBC’s popular story teller, will be featured in a new series of weekly\nprograms over KPO, beginning tonight at 8:45. Burdick, as in his previous broadcasts, will be the\nnarrator, and will continue to play all characters in his dramatic stories. However, for the first\ntime he will be assisted by members of the National Players in the opening sequence of his\nprograms in order to establish the atmosphere of the city room.”’",
  "origination": "KOMO and KJR, Seattle, Washington; KGO, San Francisco, California (NBC PACIFIC\nCOAST RED); MacGregor-Sollie, San Francisco, California (electrical transcriptions).",
  "duration": "December 20, 1932-May 9, 1933 (KOMO); May 16-June 6, 1933 (KJR); September 3-December\n7, 1933 (KGO—first series); July ??-????? ??, 1934 (KGO—second series).\n[OG-NOTE: The transcriptions were released in 1934 (first series) and 1935 (second series).]",
  "personnel": "Harold P. Burdick (scriptwriter, producer, narrator, voice of “The Ghost Adventurer”), Verna\nFelton (announcer—1933, KGO).\nCASTS: [KGO] Harold P. Burdick, Verna Felton.\nSPONSOR: Sussman and Wormser Company (S&W Food Products).",
  "extant_recordings": "",
  "chronology": "DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? (KOMO, SEATTLE)\n[Tuesday & Thursday—10:15-10:30 PM]\nDecember 20, 1932\nDecember 22, 1932\nDecember 27, 1932\nDecember 29, 1932\nApril 4, 1933\nApril 6, 1933\nApril 11, 1933\nApril 13, 1933\nApril 18, 1933\nApril 20, 1933\nApril 25, 1933\nApril 27, 1933\nMay 2, 1933\nMay 9, 1933\nDO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? (KJR, SEATTLE)\n[Tuesday—9:15-9:30 PM]\nMay 16, 1933\nMay 23, 1933\nMay 30, 1933\nDO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? (KGO, SAN FRANCISCO—NBC PACIFIC COAST\nRED)\n[Sunday—9:00-9:15 PM]\nSeptember 3, 1933\n“Golden Links”\n[SAN\nFRANCISCO\nCHRONICLE:\n“…Harold\nP.\nBurdick,\nSeattle\nnewspaperman and actor, will make his debut over KGO network\nbetween 9 and 9:15 tonight, in the first of a series of Sunday and\nThursday programs devoted to ghost stories…”]\n[“…The setting is a lighthouse on the Oregon coast and the plot includes a\nromance between the young light tender and the ‘Lady of the Light.’ The\nelderly caretaker tells the story to a man and a woman who are visitors at\na nearby summer resort…”]\nSEPTEMBER 5, 1933:\n[San Francisco Chronicle—by James Adam]\n“We couldn’t get a single thrill out of the first of Harold Burdick’s ghost stories,\nalthough an 11-year-old listening with us thought it was ‘good.’ However, he\ndidn’t like the woman announcer (Verna Felton of NBC’s dramatic staff), and\nwe can’t say we did either…”\n[Thursday—7:15-7:30 PM]\nSeptember 7, 1933\n“Into Tomorrow”\n[LOS ANGELES TIMES: “…Hold on tight! Here comes another ghost story\nover the air… Harold P. Burdick, former newspaper man, relates a story,\n‘Into Tomorrow,’ which combines present-day activities with the\nunrealities of ghosts. The purely fictional plot deals with a Representative\nwho is accused of fraudulent methods of letting contracts. When his\nnefarious practices are discovered he becomes haunted by a ghost—with\nthrilling and dramatic consequences…”]\n[“…The yarn is about a congressman who was so crooked his secretary\ngot scared and committed suicide, thus obligingly furnishing the ghost\nneeded for the program…”]\n[Sunday—9:00-9:15 PM]\nSeptember 10, 1933\n[Thursday—7:15-7:30 PM]\nSeptember 14, 1933\n[Sunday—9:00-9:15 PM]\nSeptember 17, 1933\n[Thursday—7:15-7:30 PM]\nSeptember 21, 1933\n[Sunday—9:00-9:15 PM]\nSeptember 24, 1933\n“Contact”\n[SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: “…A spot in northern Oregon on the\nairmail route between Pasco, Wash., and Salt Lake City is the scene of the\nstory. The principal characters are a boy and a girl whose father had been\na boyhood chum of the plane’s pilot…”]\n[Thursday—9:15-9:30 PM]\nSeptember 28, 1933\n“Whip Lash”\n[SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: “…It concerns an Englishman who is sent\nto Algeria to examine mining properties. He hires a native guide, goes to\nhis home and there witnesses a meeting between the Algerian and a hill\nwoman he is believed to have killed years ago…”]\nOCTOBER 1, 1933:\n[Broadcasting]\n“Harold Burdick, formerly with the Seattle Times, has joined the San\nFrancisco staff of NBC as a writer. He also has charge of news broadcasts.”\n[Sunday—9:00-9:15 PM]\nOctober 1, 1933\n“Pirate’s Gold”\n[SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: “…The plot involves a woman in New\nYork, whose fiancé is serving a term in Sing Sing Prison. During a visit to\na beach summer resort in Maine she witnesses a strange scene on a\nmidsummer night, which causes her to determine to wait for her fiancé’s\nrelease…”]\n[Thursday—9:15-9:30 PM]\nOctober 5, 1933\n“Sprung by Dawn”\n[SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: “…a tale of an imprisoned gangster who\nfulfilled his threat to find release before daybreak, but in a strange and\nunexpected manner…”]\n[Sunday—9:00-9:15 PM]\nOctober 8, 1933\n[Thursday—9:15-9:30 PM]\nOctober 12, 1933\n“Leopard Cage”\n[SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: “…a circus story…”]\nOCTOBER 14, 1933:\n[New York Sun—“In the Studios With Peter Dixon”]\n“Another program, not heard in the East, caught our ear. Done by one man and\noriginating in the NBC studios in San Francisco, it is called ‘The Ghost\nAdventurer.’ Actually, the program makes your hair stand straight on end. And it\nis skillfully introduced. The announcer suggests you turn the lights low—but don’t\ndo it if you have a weak heart.”\n[Sunday—9:00-9:15 PM]\nOctober 15, 1933\n“Eyes of Jade”\n[SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: “…a strange story in which a Chinese jade\nbowl plays a leading part will be narrated in dramatic fashion by Harold\nP. Burdick, the ‘Ghost Adventurer’… The bowl is sent from China by the\npurchaser to his wife in San Francisco as a gift. A curious feeling that this\nbowl is not an ordinary one impels the man to describe it to a dealer in\nShanghai in an attempt to learn its history. While the dealer tells the\nstory, the wife who received the bowl becomes a victim of the mysterious\ninfluence exerted by it…”]\nOCTOBER 18, 1933:\n[Brooklyn Daily Eagle—“Radio Dial-Log” by Jo Ransom]\n“From Los Angeles comes the story of a radio station that tried to sell a ghost\nstory sketch to a potential sponsor.\n“‘To make the thing more realistic,’ says Variety, ‘lights were turned down.\nAudition lasted fifteen minutes and when the light went up the president of the\ncompany was found fast asleep, his head on a desk.\n“P. S.: There was no sale.”\n[OG-NOTE: I don’t know if this reference was specifically to the Burdick series, but it’s\nan amusing story nonetheless.]\n[Thursday—9:15-9:30 PM]\nOctober 19, 1933\n“To the Ages”\n[SAN FRANCISCO CALL-BULLETIN: “…a supernatural plea is made to a\ngovernor to save a youth from the gallows…”]\n[SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: “…The tale concerns a youth who is\nsentenced to be hanged, and the Governor who refuses a reprieve,\nbelieving that the boy’s trial has been fair and the verdict just…”]\n[Sunday—9:00-9:15 PM]\nOctober 22, 1933\n“Feud’s End”\n[SAN FRANCISCO CALL-BULLETIN: “…a weird story of a modern Romeo\nand Juliet in the Idaho mountains…”]\n[SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: “…This tale…concerns a romance between\ntwo young people whose families have been unfriendly for many\nyears…”]\n[Thursday—9:15-9:30 PM]\nOctober 26, 1933\n“October Afternoon”\n[SAN FRANCISCO CALL-BULLETIN: “…A football ghost story—in which\nsupernatural aid solves the problem of a young coach who sees his grid\nteam losing an important game…”]\n[Sunday—9:00-9:15 PM]\nOctober 29, 1933\n“Doctor’s Special”\n[SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: “…A weird tale of a frenzied train ride\nacross an unsafe bridge will be told by Harold P. Burdick, the Ghost\nAdventurer…”]\nOCTOBER 31, 1933:\n[San Francisco Chronicle—“Radio on Parade” by James Adam]\n“Harold P. Burdick, the Ghost Adventurer, will be presented in a special\nHalloween radio interview today by Rush Hughes (KGO, 3-3:15 p. m.)\n“Burdick, whose semiweekly program Do You Believe in Ghosts? is a\npopular NBC feature, is a well known writer of ghost thrillers which he narrates\nin dramatic fashion before the microphone.”\n[Thursday—9:15-9:30 PM]\nNovember 2, 1933\n“Night Rider”\n[SAN FRANCISCO CALL-BULLETIN: “…Hal Burdick’s thrilling ghost story\ntonight…is called ‘Night Rider,’ the story of a mystery stranger who saves\na young couple from mob violence…”]\n[Sunday—9:00-9:15 PM]\nNovember 5, 1933\n“Honeymoon’s End”\n[SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: “…This original Burdick story tells of a\nyoung man’s encounters with ghostly experiences in an old house to\nwhich he has gone for a vacation…”]\n[Thursday—9:15-9:30 PM]\nNovember 9, 1933\n“Reprieve”\n[SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: “…A story of the Armistice day on which\nthe body of the Unknown Soldier was brought home to Arlington\nCemetery, Washington, D.C…. Burdick’s original narrative tells how a\nnewspaper man found respite from the memory of a war experience that\nhad always haunted him…”]\n[Sunday—9:00-9:15 PM]\nNovember 12, 1933\n[Thursday—9:15-9:30 PM]\nNovember 16, 1933\n“The Old Lady of the Knitting Needles”\n[SAN FRANCISCO CALL-BULLETIN: “…how an aged couple are saved from\ndeath in a southern California flood by eerie intervention…”]\n[Sunday—9:00-9:15 PM]\nNovember 19, 1933\n“The Carriage Waits”\n[SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: “…Inspired by one of his own experiences,\na ghost story entitled ‘The Carriage Waits,’ will be told by Harold P.\nBurdick… Burdick’s narrative deals with an old banshee superstition, and\nthe scene is laid in Ireland…”]\n[SAN FRANCISCO CALL-BULLETIN: “…Hal Burdick’s tale…deals with the\nIrish banshee superstition that when the sound of carriage wheels is\nheard on gravel, death will follow soon…”]\n[Thursday—9:15-9:30 PM]\nNovember 23, 1933\n“Understudy”\n[SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: “…A thrilling ghost story with a London\ntheater stage as the setting… The tale is based upon a jinx which\nthreatens the theater and also anyone who attempts to play the title role\nin Rostand’s ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ in that particular house. A young actor\nbraves the ghostly danger with unexpected results…”]\n[SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER: “…A young actor defies a ghostly\npresence and the unexpected results of his courage will be dramatized…”]\n[Sunday—9:00-9:15 PM]\nNovember 26, 1933\n“Captain Jones”\n[SAN FRANCISCO CALL-BULLETIN: “…The Annapolis tradition that the\nghost of Captain John Paul Jones stalks at night in the academy chapel—\nand that it frustrated plans of enemy spies to steal secret plans during the\nWorld War—will be revealed in Hal Burdick’s ghost story…”]\n[SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: “…Based on a tradition which actually\nexists at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis… The captain of\nthe story is John Paul Jones, whose remains rest in the chapel at the\nacademy. It is said that his ghost sometimes paces back and forth on a\nstone wall nearby. Burdick’s tale deals with the attempt of two spies to\nobtain copies of secret plans in the possession of an officer at Annapolis\nduring the World war. How the spies are frustrated and the officer’s\nhonor saved bring the story to a climax…”]\nNOVEMBER 29, 1933:\n[San Francisco Chronicle]\n“Verna Felton of the NBC National Players, is the only woman NBC announcer\nin the West. Miss Felton signs on and off the air, the NBC Thursday and Saturday\nnight feature, ‘Do You Believe in Ghosts?’… The daughter of a well-known\ntheatrical family, Miss Felton made her debut with her mother, Clara Allen, noted\nactress, and great favorite in Canada. Verna has been on the stage since she was 5\nyears of age, and is remembered by stock and legitimate audiences from Coast to\nCoast.”\n[Thursday—9:15-9:30 PM]\nNovember 30, 1933\n“No Friend at Hope”\n[SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: “…Naturally, today’s culinary indulgences\nwould not be a success without evoking some kind of a ghost. Therefore,\nan unusually eerie tale will be released over KGO at 9:15 tonight…”]\n[SAN FRANCISCO CALL-BULLETIN: “…How a train wreck is prevented in a\nhowling blizzard will be the theme of Hal Burdick’s ghost story…”]\n[Sunday—9:00-9:15 PM]\nDecember 3, 1933\n[Thursday—9:15-9:30 PM]\nDecember 7, 1933\nHAL BURDICK, THE STORY TELLER (KPO, SAN FRANCISCO)\n[Monday—8:45-9:00 PM]\nSeptember 3, 1934\n“Thornton’s Signet”\n[SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: “…The story of a signet ring and its\ndisappearance, and how it was returned to a small boy under very\nmysterious circumstances will be related by Hal Burdick… ‘Thornton’s\nSignet’ is the title of the tale, which offers Burdick in the second ghost\nstory in his present series. England is the setting of the yarn…”]\nDO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS? (MACGREGOR-SOLIE DISC SERIES ON 6ML,\nPERTH)\n[Tuesday-Thursday—8:30-8:45 PM]\n[OG-NOTE: No information was available on the broadcast times and dates of the first four episodes.]\nJanuary 29, 1935\n“The Jade Bowl” [PROGRAM NO. 5]\nJanuary 31, 1935\n“The Silver Demon” [PROGRAM NO. 6]\nFebruary 5, 1935\n[PROGRAM NO. 7]\nFebruary 7, 1935\n“The Whispering Telephone” [PROGRAM NO. 8]\nFebruary 12, 1935\n“The Governor’s Decision” [PROGRAM NO. 9]\nFebruary 14, 1935\n“Phantom Carriage” [PROGRAM NO. 10]\n[WEST AUSTRALIAN: “…Cox Bros. (Aust.), Ltd., presents the tenth of a\nseries gripping ghost stories…”]\nFebruary 19, 1935\n“Tanya the Leopard” [PROGRAM NO. 11]\nFebruary 21, 1935\n“The Big Shot” [PROGRAM NO. 12]\nFebruary 26, 1935\n[PROGRAM NO. 13]\nFebruary 28, 1935\n[PROGRAM NO. 14]\nMarch  5, 1935\n“Fog Off Hateras” [PROGRAM NO. 15]\nMarch 7, 1935\n“The Love Call of the Bayou-Tash” [PROGRAM NO. 16]\nMarch 12, 1935\n“The Old Lady of the Knitting Needles” [PROGRAM NO. 17]\nMarch 14, 1935\n“The Unknown Soldier Story” [PROGRAM NO. 18]\nMarch 19, 1935\n“The Understudy” [PROGRAM NO. 19]\nMarch 21, 1935\n“The Ghost Train” [PROGRAM NO. 20]\nMarch 26, 1935\n“The Grey Dog of Queens” [PROGRAM NO. 21]\nMarch 28, 1935\n“Mary, Lady of Gloucester” [PROGRAM NO. 22]\nApril 2, 1935\n“The Crack Shot”\nApril 4, 1935\n“The Prosecuting Attorney”\nApril 9, 1935\n“The Jack of Diamonds”\nApril 11, 1935\n[PERTH SUNDAY TIMES: “…The final ghost story…”]\nNIGHT EDITOR (KPO, SAN FRANCISCO)\n[Sunday—9:00-9:15 PM]\nOctober 31, 1937\n“Do You Believe in Ghosts?”\n[SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: “…Hal Burdick temporarily drops his\n‘Night Editor’ idea to revive one of the ‘Do You Believe in Ghosts’…”]\n[OAKLAND TRIBUNE: “…Because tonight is Halloween, Hal Burdick has\nelected to chill his listening audience with a ghost story selected from his\nerstwhile series, ‘Do You Believe in Ghosts?,’ over the Pacific Coast NBC-\nKPO network… As the hum and buzz of a newspaper office could hardly\nbe an appropriate locale for a bang-up spook yarn, Burdick has invited\nhis young assistant, Bobby, played by Jack Moyles, to his home, where\nthe mood will be created in the warmth of a room with only the flickering\ndance of a hearth fire to stem the threatened advance of restless shadows\nlurking in far corners…”]",
  "sources": "“Ghost Tale Series To Start Tonight.” The Oregonian (September 3, 1933).\nPERIODICALS: The Oregonian [Portland], San Francisco Call-Bulletin, San Francisco Chronicle, San\nFrancisco Examiner",
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