The Prepper Broadcasting Network - The Shadow 024 - The White God

Episode Date: April 14, 2026

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Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The shadow knows. On the shadow's latest exciting adventure, let me say this. I know that every one of you who owns a car is looking for a tire that will give you the greatest protection against skids and blowouts. And you'd like to get that tire. without paying a price premium, wouldn't you? Well, I'm going to tell you about a new kind of tire that will stop you quicker, safer

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Cranston is known to the underworld as the shadow. Never seen, only heard, as haunting to superstitious minds as a ghost, as inevitable, as a guilty conscience. The shadow's true identity is known only to his constant friend and aide Margo Lane. Today's story, the white god. Gentlemen, The Navy Department has today asked me to give ship owners this message. We have today abandoned our extensive air and sea efforts to trace the missing yacht owned by Rudolph Hoyt,

millionaire scientist, last reported in that region of the South Pacific, which has in recent months come to be known as the graveyard of the Pacific, because of more than 15 disappearances of ocean vessels in that area within the past two years. Admiral Champion, we ship owners beg you to continue your investigation to clear up this mystery of the South Pacific. All this publicity of missing ships, especially the publicity about the Hoyt has ruined our Pacific shipping. Why, we can't even sign up a crew to ship on our boat. I tell you, Admiral, this mystery must be cleared up.

Gentlemen, gentlemen, the Navy is just as anxious as you are to solve this mystery because of our naval operations in the Pacific, but we can't find a single explanation. May I make a suggestion, Admiral? What's that? Don't bother to try and see where I am, gentlemen. You can't see me. Well, who are you? I am the shadow.

The shadow. You're that invisible man who's always helping the police and always working against Crime? Quite right, sir. I do have the power of invisibility to conceal my being and my motions from assisting authorities in maintaining law and order

and peace. Can you help us solve this mystery of the graveyard of the Pacific? I think that possibly I can, gentlemen. Just a moment. You know something about it? I have a strong suspicion that the graveyard of the Pacific

is really the work of some individual. It's incredible! It isn't logical that a group of modern ships each one man by an expert crew equipped with the finest marine devices should disappear unless they were made to disappear.

And with a little help from you, Admiral, I think I can prove it. Well, what do you want of me? First, a fast cruiser to take me down to the South Pacific. Second, an airplane to cruise around among the islands. But you insist you must stay as the shadow? I'm sorry, sir, but my identity must remain unknown. Besides that, I feel that I will be of greater value to the venture. If our enemies cannot see me.

Very well, I think I can arrange it through Washington. How many will be in your party? A young woman named Margot Lane will be your visible passenger. I will be with her, but you will not see me. You will advise the crew of my invisible state. is the shadow and tell him to obey my voice, even though they cannot see me. Anyone else coming?

No, just Margot Lane and the shadow. I hope that he's successful. Certainly. We're all alone. Yes, it's safe you to become visible now as Lamont Cranston. Well, how do you like being an honored guest on a Navy cruiser? It's very exciting, Lamont. But how do you expect to find the graveyard of the Pacific?

No one knows where it is. Well, that's what I've got to find out. How? I'm not quite sure yet. Is there any way I can help? Yes, Margo. This cruiser will be. put in at one of the South Pacific islands tomorrow.

I'm going ashore. I'll maybe go on a day or two or a week, trying to get my information. I'd like you to stay close to the short wave set. The moment I have any information, I'll contact you. Please, as soon as you hear for me, do the thing I ask you to do at once. Stand by for orders. Beplane for immediate takeoff.

I'm leaving this island where I've been for the last few days and returning to ship at once. I believe I know what happened to the missing ships. You will board the seaplane with me as the shadow. The plane taking us? Taking us to an island on which there lives some on the native. Over all the ignorant natives, with elemental experiments in chief passes off as magic.

I don't know, Shadow. There it is again. Something's tugging at the plane. Tugging at the airplane? Yeah. The motors have gone crazy. I can hardly keep them going. Pilot, we're descending.

Yeah, we'll be... Yes, Margo. Yeah, I... I... I... I... I... They're afraid for a moment I couldn't make it. Well, I...

They all have deserted. Yes. It was like a magnet pulling us. What do you mean? I have an idea that this island... Because of rocks and minerals? No, a man-made magnet. Are you kidding us? No, I don't think so.

There's no natural magnet strong enough to attract ocean. See this hill in back of us? Yeah? Rises up like a sugar cone. I was noticing it from the air. There's a huge hole in the top of the hill. Orcano. Into a magnet.

A magnet. Well, I'll be... It sounds like a big time going on the other side of that hill. Yes. This calls for a little expiration. Margo, you and the pilot wait here. Hey, Nick, I'm not going to miss the fireworks. I'm going with you, too.

All right, if you insist. We go around the other side of the island, come up through the woods, I saw in the plane. We don't want to stumble into any cannibals. Okay, let's go. Let's hope they don't try to make a banquet of us. Here, we can see them all right from here. Just look at those natives.

There must be several hundred of them. They're all painted up. Judging from those fires and that feast laid out on the ground, they must be having some ceremonial. Where did he come from? The white guard. He came right out of the top of the hill. You're right, Bongo.

Remember I told you that that hill was an extinct volcano. That means that inside of it, running down through it, there's a shaft through which the volcano used to erupt. He merely made his appearance by coming up through that shaft. Say, the native seemed to think he's a god by the way they're acting. Exactly. He's made them think that he has some magic power by which he comes up right through that hill. Look!

The carrying a white man. man up the hill to him. That white man is Rudolph Hoyt. Hey, look, they're setting burning torches to the guy's body. Hargo. What is it? Then they're going to sacrifice Hoyt. Sacrifice him?

Yes, a human sacrifice to the white guard. Boy, Colin, what are you doing here? Since being dismissed as your assistant from the university, Mr. Hoyt, I have become a guard. A god. A god. Yes, a white god here at the mouth of this volcano. Able to perform miracles of magic, even to pull great vessels and lighters from their causes the sea to my very feet.

You recognize that magic, Mr. Hoyt? Recognize it. Of course I recognize it. It's the whole new application of the principles of magnetism which you stole from me. Harsh words to speak to a god, Mr. Hoyt. You must be punished, Toler. Burn him. Apply the tortures to his body.

Oh, stop him, Colin. I'll stop this torture. The fact that you were sailing within range of my magnetic devices were sheer fate, sheer coincidence. But I am delighted to have the opportunity of receiving you and your colleagues. Oh, what have you done with my daughter? Were the others from the yacht? You will join them presently.

Oh, where are they? In the very bowels of this volcano, my friend. You mean you've thrown them down into the crater? Precisely. Oh, you see? I was not a tense violence, Mr. Hoyt. The natives resent having their guard abused. And now I kill two birds with one stone.

First, I remove you and become sole possessor of the secrets of my magnetic theory. I fear you mean. And secondly, I satisfy the first of my subjects for a sacrifice. Seize him! Oh, no, no! Colin off the back to the island! Throw him to the altar of the white god! Throw him down into the sacred arcaddle!

Ladies and gentlemen, how will the shadow defeat his enemy this time? In a few moments, we'll continue this exciting story. But meanwhile, motorists, remember that. this. The road you travel on may be perfectly safe when dry, but deadly enemies when wet. Yes, beware. Don't take chances, motorists, especially when you can now get a tire that will stop you quicker, safer on a wet pavement than you've ever stopped before. And that tire is the new Goodrich Silver Town with the Lifesaver Tread. The never-ending spiral bars of this lifesaver tread really go to work on a wet, slippery road like a whole battery of windshield wipers.

These bars sweep the water right and left. They force. force it out through the deep drainage grooves. This means your tire actually has a drier, safer road surface to grip. This means real protection against the hazard zone of motoring. Think of the added security for yourself and your family from this road drying tire. And then remember that Goodrich Silver Towns also offer you golden ply protection against high-speed blowouts. Is it any wonder that this new Silver Town is called the safest thing on wheels? Don't buy any tire until you've at least seen this new wheel. Goodrich Silver Town. Don't buy any tire until you've ridden on this new tire and discovered what it means to be saved by a Silver Town stop. You slip, you're done for it. No foothold on the side of this

crater. You think this is the way the White Guard came up out of this volcano on this ladder? I'm sure of it. If I can hear water below us, there must be some entrance from the sea into the bottom of the crater here. What he undoubtedly does is come into the crater from the sea, then climb the rope ladder to the top. The natives think it's some hocus pocus. The primitive mind is eager to believe anything that savors of the supernatural. Wait a moment. What is it? Wires. Look, there are dozens of them embedded in the rock. The whole crater must be wired. I wonder for what? This must be the way he generates the magnetic force into the hill through these wires. You see, I told you, this whole crater can be converted into a huge magnet. Yeah. I see the wires right here. Look out, don't touch them.

You're on the ladder, Margo. Hang on for your life. You two pilots. I can't hold on, Shadow. Something's pulling me off the ladder. Have you any metal on your door? Yes, my flying belt. Then take it off, quick.

I can't get it off. It's caught it. Damant, what happened to him? Oh, please come out of the invisible state. We're alone now. I want to see you. I'm right. That flying belt, the magnetism and the mountain attracted it.

It's dashed him against the walls of the hills. Oh. He is touching the wire, set the whole magnetizing mechanism going, Marco. We're inside a huge, monstrous magnet that'll pull everything metallic for miles around to destruction. Lamont, the vibrations are shaking me off. I can't hold on any longer. There's water down below. Dive into it, Marco.

Maybe we can find a way to swim out of here. Dive, Marco. All right, Lamont. Good. I'm following you. There must be a way to get out of here. Out to the sea. Better find it before the mountain crushes us to death too with its vibrations.

Yes, the Hoyt Guard must have turned off the power. Lucky for us, he did. Yes, it sounds like a woman. Look, Marco, there she is, hanging on that ledge at the side of the cabin. Let's swim over and get her. We must get her out of here. All right. I can manage this border all right.

I've got her. All right. Take it someplace where we can bring her to. Hear a story. You, Mr. Shadow. Hello. I cannot see you. Yes, I'm Rudolf Hoyt's daughter. I was supposed to be sacrificed like all the rest, but I landed on the water and it broke my fall. Tell me, my father. Do you know what weather is he? Father? Miss Hoyt, as long as that fiendish white god exists, that monstrous magnet to his command. Not a soul, not a ship, but miles around a sea. He must be destroyed.

And I need your help to do it. I'll do anything. Good. Wasn't your father engaged on some research with new applications of magnetism? Yes. Had he completed them, magnetism would have taken the place of motors and steam engines and things. I thought so. Did he have any enemies in the world?

Only one. A man named Lloyd Carlin, who used to be his assistant. Then the white guard is Lloyd Carlin. He knew about your father's work in magnetic phenomena. He tried to steal them. I remember that, Miss Hoyt. Are you willing to help me try and destroy this monster? Yes.

Anything. Good. Tonight then we'll show the white god and his natives. Magic? Tonight, Margo, you, Miss Hoyt and I shall perform the magical feat of reviving the dead. It's of glory. Mr. Shadow, they're almost at the top. Good.

Mr. Shadow, will you tell me why you? You wanted me to wear this bulletproof vest we found on the yacht? It's possible Carlin has a gun, dear. Oh. And remember, a wooden boat is waiting on the shore by the woods. Yes, Shadow. Good. I imagine Margo will be directing the searchlight from the yacht onto the top of the hill any moment now.

There it is now. See, the light shooting across the mouth of the shack? Yes. And we're ready for your return from the dead of the shaft onto the rim of the crater. All right. In that searchlight, walk down. to that ledge I'll be with you although you and the natives cannot see me yes mr. Shadow remember let me do the talking a masculine voice coming from a reincarnated woman should

prove quite a shock has them all afraid will the natives understand that kind of language here he comes now mr. Shadow what nonsense is this nonsense yes your voice miss boy I'm in no mood for joking you're hiding in the shadows and speaking for Elise Hoyt there. Who are you? Where are you? Stop me from destroying Elise Hoyt. Here, as I destroyed her father.

How much of a god... We'll all be shaken from the crater to our death. Then run for your life, Miss Hoyt. Run to the boat. Go through the woods. Oh, but he's already at the top of the crater. Run, run for your life. Big mechanism, shake you off...

You wanted to assist... Started the magnet working. Rudolf Hoyt would have revolutionized all industry with this invention. Of dynamos and turbines, iron threions. It was all the power of the magnet increases unless it is turned off. It will vibrate the...

Martino until he crumbles to pieces. Deal with the rest of them when the volcano crumbles? Evidently not, Miss Hoyt. But you were up there with Lloyd Carlin. I heard you talking to him as I ran for this boat. You heard my voice. Then that's the end of my father's invention, Shadow? Yes, Miss Hoyt.

With your father and Colin gone in the volcano. Listening to a dramatized version of one of the many copyrighted stories which appear in the Shadow magazine. The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. The name does not pay. The shadow knows. All the characters and all the places named are fictitious. Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.