FROM THE AIRWAVES
Cornwall Cottage Said to Tidy Itself Overnight; Tenant Baffled by Spotless Kitchen
A vintage radio drama, newly rebroadcast, tells of a cheap rental whose unrefusable housekeeper leaves no trace of her work.
CORNWALL, ENGLAND — A woman who takes a cheap, secluded house in Cornwall finds herself with a housekeeper she is not permitted to turn away, according to a description published by the Weird Darkness podcast. The tale is presented as old-time radio drama, and nothing in the material suggests it is a record of real events.
The listing says the tenant cannot work out how a kitchen she left in ruins late at night is spotless by morning. The source offers no further account of the mystery, and the housekeeper's nature is left to the listener.
The story, titled "A Pair of Hands," appears as an episode of the series Haunted, Tales of the Supernatural, dated September 6, 1980, according to the chapter list. It begins at roughly two hours and nine minutes into the program and is marked as remastered by Weird Darkness to improve the sound.
It shares the bill with nine other broadcasts in a retro-radio marathon of nearly five hours. These include CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Hall of Fantasy, Sherlock Holmes and Inner Sanctum, all dating from between 1942 and 1980.
Listeners wishing to hear how the cottage keeps its floors so clean may find the program on Spreaker. The publisher cautions that audio quality in some episodes may not be pristine.