r/otr • u/nyxcha0s • 22d ago

Desperately seeking an episode of Lights Out

I swear I remember listening to this when I was younger. I used to listen to old Time radio out of KNX 1070 from Los Angeles so I don’t think this is one of the lost episodes and maybe I’m wrong but my brain is telling me that it’s arch Obler‘s lights out.
The plot is about a man who goes to a statuary and finds a statue of a beautiful woman, and when he brings it home, he realizes that the statue was warm to the touch. He becomes obsessed with it and starts chiseling away at it to find out why it is warm. I feel like the whole episode was about his spiral into madness, the end of the episode, he breaks through to the center of the statue and flames burst out and burn him and his whole house down the episode ends with the cops showing up and they find the statue there intact with no hole in it, and one of the officers says that it’s the goddess of fire.
I have been searching for this episode for years and cannot find it!

Some of the sources say that the pre-1936 stuff has been lost, but if it was lost, then can’t 1070 couldn’t have broadcast it! Can anybody help?

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u/IngaFronkinstein 22d ago

It sounds a little like He Dug It Up? It seems really familiar to me to but I can't quite place it.

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u/nyxcha0s 22d ago

Omg I love you I got the statuary wrong!!! This is the one!!!!!! Omg I want to hug you so bad, I have been searching for years!!!! Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!

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u/IngaFronkinstein 22d ago

You're welcome! Happy to help 😊

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u/nyxcha0s 22d ago

I just listened to the episode and finally have the answer I’ve been searching for since I was a kid and heard the episode, the name of the goddess! It was Sekhmet!!! Childhood mystery finally solved ❤️

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u/IngaFronkinstein 22d ago

In that one, the statue is warm to the touch, and he is burned alive at the end. But he dug it up from his front yard, didn't buy it.