“Temple of Vampires” — An ‘I Love a Mystery’ Horror Radio Serial | #RetroRadio

“Temple of Vampires” — An ‘I Love a Mystery’ Horror Radio Serial | #RetroRadio

Published: July 10, 2026

Duration: 4:20:43

Stranded in the Nicaraguan jungle beside an ancient temple, three adventurers and their companions discover its priests serve a horror that's all too real — man-sized vampire bats with an appetite for human blood.

"Temple of Vampires," an installment of Carlton E. Morse's I Love a Mystery (originally aired January 02-27, 1950), follows adventurers Jack, Doc, and Reggie as they fly toward Central America with heiress Sonny Richards and a mysterious stowaway boy named Hermie. Water-tainted gasoline forces their plane down on the shore of Lake Nicaragua, near an ancient jungle temple. Exploring it, they find a blood-drained Indian corpse an...