Undated Broadcasts Identified: Incredible But True (100% Completion & 3,300 Milestone)
We are thrilled to announce that with the completion of this update, the Master Undated Broadcast Resolution Pipeline has crossed another historic threshold — the 3,300-Broadcast Resolution Milestone (3,301 verified broadcasts) — while…
Undated Broadcasts Project — Incredible But True Reaches 100% Completion & 3,300 Milestone
We are thrilled to announce that with the completion of This update, the Master Undated Broadcast Resolution Pipeline has crossed another historic threshold — the 3,300-Broadcast Resolution Milestone (3,301 verified broadcasts) — while bringing the fifth major series in Stage 1, Incredible But True (91dddf1b-084c-4233-843a-8662d45bc899), to 100% full series resolution. All 160 broadcasts in the anthology now possess verified daily broadcast dates, standardized mystery taxonomy, and pure narrative synopses.
Airing between November 13 and November 24, 1950, over the Mutual network and syndicated stations nationwide, this concluding 10-episode cohort showcases narrator Ken Nordine at his most evocative:
- Ageless Travelers & Spectral Mariners (Episodes 151–155): Nordine recounts the poignant return of a soldier to a Devon cottage where elderly parents had died decades before, centuries of European passport logs matching an unaging traveler, and the unsettling pacing of heavy boots inside a sealed, dry ballast tank deep below an iron steamer's waterline.
- Desert Acoustics & Holiday Preventions (Episodes 156–160): Highlights include archaeological excavations in Syria capturing acoustic sunset liturgies resonating through ancient limestone, a locomotive engineer whose Thanksgiving Day psychic premonition halts a packed express train yards from an open drawbridge, and the concluding inquiry into the cold-immune eighteenth-century wanderer of Newbury.
With 3,301 broadcasts resolved, five full series now stand 100% restored (This I Believe, Cecil and Sally, The Planet Man, Ann of the Airlanes, and Incredible But True).
1. Broadcasts
| Episode / Title | Airdate | Credited Background & Role | Pure Narrative Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welcome Home to Yesterday | 1950-11-13 | Mystery / OTR (Ep. 151) | A wandering soldier returns to his childhood cottage in Devon, embraced by elderly parents who parish records prove had died forty years before. |
| The Ageless Traveler | 1950-11-14 | Mystery / OTR (Ep. 152) | European border guards compare century-old transit passports bearing identical signatures and photographs of an unaging traveler. |
| The Spectral Bilge Pacer | 1950-11-15 | Mystery / OTR (Ep. 153) | The captain of an iron-hulled steamer investigates heavy boots pacing inside a sealed ballast tank deep below the waterline. |
| The Stockholm Diplomatic Cable | 1950-11-16 | Mystery / OTR (Ep. 154) | A Swedish ambassador receives an urgent diplomatic cable with handwritten marginalia penned by an envoy deceased for a month. |
| The Premature Column | 1950-11-17 | Mystery / OTR (Ep. 155) | A Fleet Street journalist investigates how an obituary typeset by mistake predicted the exact bizarre accident that befell the subject hours later. |
| The Chanting Sands of Baal | 1950-11-20 | Mystery / OTR (Ep. 156) | Archaeologists excavating ruined temples in the Syrian desert record low-frequency acoustic vibrations chanting ancient liturgies at sunset. |
| The Coroner's Portrait | 1950-11-21 | Mystery / OTR (Ep. 157) | An artist commissioned to paint an imaginary portrait unwittingly recreates the exact facial features of the medical examiner summoned to his studio. |
| The Dragon of the Cedar Basin | 1950-11-22 | Mystery / OTR (Ep. 158) | Farmers in eastern Iowa provide notarized depositions detailing a serpentine subterranean creature rising from flooded sinkholes. |
| Thanksgiving Portent | 1950-11-23 | Mystery / OTR (Ep. 159) | On Thanksgiving Day, a train engineer heeds an overwhelming psychic vision of an open drawbridge, stopping the holiday express yards from disaster. |
| The Winter Enigma of Newbury | 1950-11-24 | Mystery / OTR (Ep. 160) | In this triumphant series finale, Ken Nordine concludes the anthology with the baffling eighteenth-century medical inquiry into the wild, cold-immune wanderer of Newbury forest. |