The Isle of Fear 10-30-1938

The particular recording I listened to is obviously damaged with a scratch that causes some skips.

The episode opens with an ad from Blue Coal.

Margo and Lamont are on some kind of plantation in Haiti. Lamont talks about hearing some drums during his drive up, and the drums were like those used in voodoo exercises.

A couple other guys are talking about some guy and his political enemies. A priest of voodoo enters the room. He asks where the blood sacrifices are.

Someplace else, and some guy demands a child that a couple has. Next is a priest referring to heathen gods. Guys enter the church and open fire. This had happened ten years earlier.

The plantation owner has a son who comes into the room (so we know he's bound to be taken as a sacrifice.) Lamont and the owner talk about voodoo.

Next we hear that the owner's son has been taken. Lamont and Margo are on horses next. Margo suggests that she act as bait to catch the kidnappers. They meet some woman. Then the voice of the Shadow is heard. She tries to knife Margo, but the Shadow gets her to drop the knife.

He's playing on her superstitions, and gets her to lead them to the men doing the sacrifice.

They get to the place. The woman offers Margo as a sacrifice. The leader of the group then speaks. Margo plays her part and says she's not afraid of the guy's voodoo gods. He tells Margo to call the voice.

The voice of the Shadow is then heard. The leader at times uses chants like a monk, and sometimes an arabic-sounding material. The Shadow says he'll prove his magic is stronger than the guy's magic. The Shadow breaks some crystal (the recording skips a lot), and he tells Margo to tell the people that they are not to use human sacrifice any more.

The mob slays the guy who was the leader, then they talk to Margo. She tells them that human sacrifice must be stopped, and the people must return to the churches of the one god.

Margo takes a sword and destroys something, but I can't make out what it is.

Later, on an airplane, Lamont and Margo talk. Education and Christian churches are doing all in their power against voodoo, so says Lamont.

Then there's a special guest, an assistant prosecutor. He congratulates Blue Coal for sponsoring the Shadow programs, and how law enforcement appreciates the Shadow programs.

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