The Girl He Left Behind
Description
In the army just four months, Andy Nelson comes home on leave to give Janie Raymond, his girlfriend since their high school days, an engagement ring. Janie’s mother, however, objects, and Janie turns down Andy’s proposal, but, at his insistence, keeps the ring. On the way back to his base, Andy is killed in an auto accident. Soon, his ring starts turning on Janie’s finger, cutting it. She sees his specter in her room. She can’t eat or sleep, and her mother fears for her sanity.
An Army soldier comes home on leave, but his girlfriend breaks up with him because her mother makes her do it. After he dies in a car crash, his ghost comes back to haunt the girl.
A soldier on leave from the Army is rejected by his girlfriend under pressure from her mother. When he is killed in a car accident, his spectre returns to haunt the girl.
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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