🎭 THE CHINAMAN BUTTON | Nightly Mystery | A Tale of Guilt That Refuses to Stay Buried

Описание: CBS Radio Mystery Theater

“Evil always turns up in this world. You can hide it, but you cannot lose it.” — G.K. Chesterton

🕯️ CHESTERTONIAN INTRODUCTION
There are objects which are not innocent.
They do not move, they do not speak, and yet they remember.

A button—small, ornamental, almost laughably insignificant—passes from hand to hand. It has no voice, no visible power, no mechanism by which it should trouble the conscience. And yet it does. For this is not merely a button. It is a witness.

In tonight’s CBS Radio Mystery Theater, we are reminded that injustice does not fade with time, and guilt does not dissolve simply because its owner wishes it gone. The past, like a well-trained ghost, waits patiently for its cue.

🎙️ EPISODE SYNOPSIS
In “The Chinaman Button,” a seemingly trivial curiosity—a carved button with an unsettling history—becomes the center of a chilling chain of events. As the object changes hands, its new owner begins to experience mounting misfortune, uncovering a buried crime rooted in cruelty, exploitation, and moral blindness.

What first appears to be superstition slowly reveals itself as poetic justice. The button serves as a silent ledger, keeping account of wrongs long denied and sins long rationalized. One by one, those who benefited from past injustice are forced to confront the terrible truth: nothing truly stolen stays hidden forever.

A classic CBS Radio Mystery Theater morality tale—dark, deliberate, and deeply unsettling.

🕰️ WHY THIS STORY ENDURES
A masterful example of moral horror, not dependent on monsters or magic
A meditation on guilt, memory, and historical injustice
Atmospheric storytelling where the terror lies not in what happens—but in what is deserved
A reminder that the smallest things often carry the greatest weight
This is mystery drama at its most literary and most unforgiving.

📻 ABOUT CHESTERTON RADIO
Chesterton Radio is a refuge for stories that respect the intelligence of the listener—where mystery, morality, and imagination meet in the dark. We preserve and present the finest Old-Time Radio and classic drama as it was meant to be heard: unhurried, thoughtful, and alive.

Subscribe for nightly mysteries, late-night noir, classic theatre, and stories that refuse to flatter modern forgetfulness.

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🕯️ CLOSING LINE
Some crimes shout.
Others wait quietly—stitched into history, fastened with a button, and patiently counting the years.

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