If Christmas Creep is real, surely the creepiest season deserves some creep of its own, no? This week's Hagley Vault offers a spooky campfire tale from the Ohio Bell Telephone Company's Ohio Story television and radio series, issued as a Halloween episode in 1947. 

In its time, the Ohio Story was the longest running regional scripted program in the nation, and at least 1,309 radio and 175 television episodes were produced. This episode of the series focused on the haunted history of the Piatt family's Mac-O-Chee castle in West Liberty, Ohio.

This recording is part of Hagley Library's Culley family collection of Cinecraft Productions audiovisual materials (Accession 2018.201). Cinecraft Productions was founded in 1939 by Ray Culley (1904-1983) and Betty (Buehner) Culley (1914-2016) in Cleveland, Ohio. 

The Hagley Digital Archives are alive and growing again, and one of it's newest additions is a recently acquired publication in our collection of rare pamphlets.

This week marks the 100th anniversary of the world's first intercontinental radio transmission. On September 29, 1915, a U.S. naval radio station in Arlington, Virginia initiated a transmission to another naval radio station on Mare Island in San Francisco, California, which then relayed to Honolulu, Hawaii.

The demonstration was a joint public-private venture coordinated through defense contracts with the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (AT&T) and the Western Electric Co., using equipment installed at radio stations under Navy jurisdiction.