The Crack in the Wall
Description
Grieving for her dead daughter, Nora appears to be inconsolable until she senses the meaning of a crack in the wall of her cellar. Although her husband Paul and others have tried repeatedly to close the crack, the wet cement they use is mysteriously sucked further into the gap. Nora’s belief that the wall is left open for their dead daughter to communicate with them is confirmed when a dwarf who calls himself “a helper” offers to arrange a meeting with Ruth.
A house fire claims the life of the young daughter of the house. Her bereft parents move to a new apartment but cannot seem to repair a hole in their basement wall. Gradually, cries of a voice that seems startlingly like their daughter's begins to flow through the hole.
A fire kills a young girl in her family's home. Her heartbroken parents move to a different apartment, but they can't fix a hole in their basement wall. Soon, they start hearing cries coming through the hole that sound just like their dead daughter.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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