Our Saturday afternoon Ranger Bill
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning, May 23, 2026
Shawn, the Trapdoor Spider, chats with Uncle Bob Devine. Shawn isn't the first critter from Namibia to visit Nature Corner. A golden mole and a snake eagle have also talked with Bob recently. But our friend Shawn lives where it may rain only once in five years. Listen to this little fellow's story of life in the Namib Desert.
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Our Ranger Bill hair-raising adventure for late Saturday morning, May 23, 2026, is
RB113 Charlie's Nightmare
Friday's RANGER BILL for May 22, 2026 is:
RB009 Bim
RB226 The Dog that Didn't Forget
RB156 The No Good Dog
RB071 A Dog's worst Enemy
RB223 The Seeing Eye Dog.
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, May 23, 2026, is:
RB119 Mrs. Murphy's Chowder
Bill and the boys and Maggie Murphy take 50 boys from their church to camp for three weeks. Henry has some problems as lifeguard during swim times. Stumpy and Gray Wolf lead a snipe hunt. Bill deals with one boy's home sickness. But Maggie must deal with a filthy kitchen, feeding 50 hungry boys, and then a food thief. She threatens to leave if the thief isn't caught. Bill must find the guilty boy or lose the best cook west of the Mississippi! Find out what happens to Mrs. Murphy's famous chowder too!!!
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RANGER BILL for a Wednesday, May 20, 2026, is
RB007 Miracles aka Pray for a Miracle aka Miracle Mystery
Henry and Freddy go on a hike. Freddy is not a Christian. Freddy wrestles with faith and miracles. The boys need a miracle when Freddy falls into Half-Mile Gulley and breaks his leg. Flood waters from a broken dam threaten to drown both boys. It will take a miracle to save them.
Our exciting RANGER BILL tale for Tuesday afternoon, May 19, 2026, is:
RB006 The Fire Bug or, in Bill's own words, The Iron Fire Bugs
The railroad engines in Randolph Thompson's Red Valley Freight Line are threatening to burn up all the trees in Giant Pine National Park. Many of Thompson's engines are old coal-fired steam engines. Randolph pushes the engines hard so that they belch out volumes of smoke and sparks, setting the nearby dry forest ablaze.RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, May 16, 2026:
RB111 The Prehistoric Monster
The circus has arrived at Junction City. A full-grown bull rhino is its main attraction. This particular rhino doesn't like being in the circus. The huge beast breaks his chains and charges off into the forest. Bill and the boys are called in to find and shoot the marauder before he hurts anyone or does any serious damage. Can our rangers safely corner this prehistoric monster? Will Stumpy's pride endanger the hunt and possibly endanger lives too?
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Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning, May 16, 2026
Shawn the Whistling Swan comes to visit with Uncle Bob Devine this morning.
Shawn calls the Chesapeake Bay home most of the year, but he and his relatives fly near the Arctic Circle during the summer months to hatch and raise their young. That is a several thousand mile trip.
Whistling Swans are also called Tundra Swans (Wikipedia) and Bewick's Swans. let's let Shawn give you more details about whistling swans.
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, 5/16/26, is RB117:
The Measure of a Man
Tough guy Muscles and his two friends terrorize Knotty Pine and beat up Henry and the school principal. Judge White sentences the three troublemakers to some hard time - on the trail with Bill and the rangers to experience what real tough men are like. Bill lets the boys "escape" into the mountains to learn that they aren't so tough roughing it in the wilderness.
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RANGER BILL begins a new cycle of his adventures on May 12, 2026:
RB001 Twenty Fathoms Under the Sea
Bill and the boys go deep sea fishing with old salvage man Ben Benson. Ben's son died in a diving accident during a salvage job, and Ben has never forgiven himself for it. An old navy sub gets stuck on the bottom not far from Ben's ship. Navy rescue ships can't arrive in time to save the crew. Ben can help but won't. Will 20 sailors die needlessly in 20 fathoms of the sea?
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RANGER BILL for Thursday, May 14, 2026, is
RANGER BILL for to begin the work week, May 11, 2026 , is
RB213/214 The Spirits and the Spirit, parts 1and 2
Bill and Stumpy and a map maker go on vacation in South America to visit an old abandoned Portuguese fort hidden deep in the jungle along the Amazon River. The local residents are afraid to go to the fort for fear of the spirits of the dead Portuguese soldiers there. Legend says the soldiers were killed by natives who were made slaves to dig gold for the soldiers. Now the spirits of the soldiers guard their ill-gotten gold.
https://archive.org/details/ranger-bill-adventures/RB213-Spirits+and+the+Spirit+1.mp3
https://archive.org/details/ranger-bill-adventures/RB214-Spirits+and+the+Spirit+2.mp3
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 5/9/26
Uncle Bob Devine gets a little visit from Clarabel the catkin caterpillar. Catkins are the long, stringy bundles of tiny blossoms that grow on birch, oak and willow trees in the spring. Clarabel and other catkin caterpillars disguise themselves like those tree blossoms to hide from preditors. These caterpillars and other animals eat catkin blossoms for food, but the blossoms help Clarabel change to look more like the catkin blossoms. In summer, Clarabel will turn brown like the branches she lives on.
Now let Clarabel finish her delightful story of God's design for catkin caterpillars.
Our RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, May 9, 2026, is a strange, Old Testament style mystery:
RB109 The Man Who Lost God
Bill's rangers spot large campfires on the top of Razorback Ridge. Bill, Stumpy, and Gray Wolf go to investigate. They find what appear to be animal sacrifices like sacrifices in the Old Testament. No one is sure who is doing this and why. At the same time the wealthy Thompson family send out letters searching for their lost son. Bill has his hands full with two mysteries at once!
It appears as though RB108 The Wrong Valley and RB109 are both stories of men who have lost God, each in their own way.
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning , May 9, 2026:
RB116 The Deadly Laundry Basket
Bill gets a phone call from Sergeant Jim Donato of West Grove, IL. Jim's neighbor was bitten by a poisonous snake and is barely clinging to life. The snake was hiding in a laundry basket sitting in her garage. Bill thinks a rare plague of swamp rattlers has invaded the town. Bill and Henry fly to West Grove to try to deal with the threat. Then a child is bitten and the town begins to panic. What can the fellas do to protect West Grove from panic and this deadly menace? (A list of the RANGER BILL cast and crew is given at the end of this show.)
https://oldtime.radio/episode/ranger_bill-the_deadly_laundry_basket
Ranger Bill for Thursday and Friday afternoons (5/7/26 and 5/8/26) is
RB211 Muscle and Prayer (part 1)
Frenchy DeSalle fears no one and nothing. But the huge, strapping French Canadian logging foreman, has gone out of his mind with fear. Frenchy and his loggers find a cougar and a bear, both crushed to death. Frenchy knows these are the calling cards of the one man he fears, "The Bear." Who is this Bear? Why does Frenchy fear this man so? And what has happened to Frenchy's faith? Frenchy's boss calls for the one man who may be able to help Frenchy - Chief Ranger Bill Jefferson.
https://archive.org/details/ranger-bill-adventures/RB211Muscle+and+Prayer+1.mp3
RB212 Muscle and Prayer (part 2)
Frenchy DeSalle and Boris the Bear want to fight to the bitter end, so Bill jails both of them until they cool off. Boris finally cools down and agrees to leave town, and Frenchy returns to work. But both men still harbor much pain and anger. Frenchy prays for an end to their feud while Boris depends on whiskey for strength. How will the Lord answer Frenchy’s prayer?
https://archive.org/details/ranger-bill-adventures/RB212-Muscle+and+Prayer+2.mp3
RANGER BILL for Wednesday, 5/6/2026, should leave you guessing and scratching your head:
We begin our work week with a 2-part RANGER BILL adventure:
RB208/209 The (Haunted) Church at Bent Creek parts 1 and 2
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 5/2/26
Cliff the sea cucumber visits with Uncle Bob Devine this morning. Cliff is an animal, not a vegetable. Many sea cucumbers are long and sausage-shaped. Others are round and look like apples. They vary in size from 3 inches long to over a foot long. There are even a few that are only an eighth of an inch long. Over fifteen hundred kinds of sea cucumbers have been discovered.
Sea cucumbers serve a very needed function. They eat all of the plant and animal matter that settles to the ocean bottom. Bacteria eat what is left from the cucumbers' meals. That keeps the ocean bottom clean and safe from diseases.
Now let Cliff and Uncle Bob tell you more about sea cucumbers!
Our RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, 5/2/2026, is a classic:
RB107 Petticoat Rangers
Bill doesn't have enough men for all the work around the national forest. He and his rangers have to work 18 hours a day. Bill has a solution to the problem - women volunteers in the fire towers. The rangers refuse to allow women rangers. Will the rangers work themselves to death or will they give Bill's PETTICOAT RANGERS a chance? Can female rangers do a ranger's work if they get that chance? In my opinion, this is one of the funniest Ranger Bill stories ever! You get to hear some of Stumpy's funniest and most famous lines! And you get to see a little of what life was like back in the 1950's.
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RANGER BILL to begin this weekend, for May 2, 2026 :
RB115 - Three-Legged Deer
Two hunters can't find any deer. So, they decide to shoot little Jerry White's injured pet deer, Torpedo. One of the men even punches Jerry in the face! Jerry's parents ask Ranger Bill to find the men and bring them to justice. People in town are in a rage over the hunters' actions. The hunt is on for the hunters. Will Bill be able to find the men and bring justice and order back to the town of Three Forks?
(The folks who made Ranger Bill each week are credited at the end of this show.)
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Our Ranger Bill story for Tuesday, 2/28/2026, is:
RANGER BILL for Arpil 29, 2026, is:
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 4/25/26
Simon the Antelope Squirrel stops for a visit with Uncle Bob Devine.
Simon is from Sonoran Desert of Arizona. That desert covers a much larger area that just Arizona, but the portion that is in Arizona is milder and somewhat cooler than other sections. God has engineered Simon to live comfortably there in the desert. Let Simon share his tale of life under a cactus:
Our Ranger Bill adventure
for late Saturday morning, April 25, 2026, is RB105
The Giant Pines are falling over without any explanation. Bill and the boys must find out what is happening before the forest is lost. What is causing this? Is it insects, a new disease, poor soil. or what? Millions of dollars of beautiful, majestic pines are in danger. The forest service and lumber companies want answers, and Bill is at a loss to provide those answers.
RANGER BILL has his hands full for early Saturday morning, 4/25/2026, with:
RB114 The Hardhead
Colonel Anders must take a couple of months off for surgery. A man from Washington, George Benton, comes to Knotty Pine to fill in for the colonel. Mr. Benton is rude and expects ALL the rules to be followed to the letter without deviation or exception!!! Bill refuses to follow Mr. Benton's rule book. Benton suspends Bill, and the rangers revolt.
Our RANGER BILL for Thursday afternoon, 4/23/2026, is
RB200 Hunt's Place
Mr. Hunt won’t let Bill use any of his property for overnight camp outs with the Knotty Pine Boys Club. Soon Mr. Hunt has several problems with his house. He suspects that Bill’s boys club is responsible. Who is causing all the trouble at Hunt’s place and why?
RANGER BILL for
Tuesday afternoon, April 21, 2026: RB197
Bill Gets Lost in a Cavern aka Transistor Walkie-Talkies
Bill asks Henry and his boys group to test out the rangers’ new walkie-talkies. The boys’ test takes them deep into the forest where they discover wreckage from a recent plane crash. But the plane’s occupants are missing. The search is on for the missing pilot and passengers.
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RANGER BILL for Wednesday, 4/22/2026, is
RB199 Raging Rapids
Henry helps Pete Flory at a Christian camp canoe trip. Two of the boys, Ed and Paul, constantly get into trouble. The boys decide to sneak away and ride the rapids. They get trapped on the rocks in the middle of the river. The river is rising and getting swifter. They can't escape and no one can get to them. Can Bill and Stumpy save the boys before they drown?
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 4/18/26
Gifford the Goatfish stops by Nature Corner to visit with Uncle Bob Devine and with you.
Gifford and other goatfish live in the Mediterranean Sea. European countries such as Spain and Italy border the Mediterranean to the north.
Now listen to Gifford tell you about his life.
Ranger Bill for late Saturday morning, 4/18/2026,
is an action-packed adventure about speed boat racing
RB103 Water Hot Rods
There's trouble on Beaver Lake. A group of young men, including Henry, are racing their power boats on the lake. Most of them are racing safely, but the boys with the fastest boat are endangering everyone else using the lake. Folks want Bill to stop the speed boating. Bill comes up with a plan to stop the dangerous boating. Then the troublemakers find a way to foil Bill's plan. Who will win this battle of wits? Will Bill be able to protect innocent vacationers on Beaver Lake?
Our Ranger Bill hair-raising adventure for early Saturday morning, April 18,2026, is
RB113 Charlie's Nightmare
Our RANGER BILL tale for this Friday afternoon, 4/17/26, is about a young boy who must make some tough choices:
RB195 Hearing God to Help the Missionaries aka The Diamond Ring
Young Ronnie Quiller wants to help the missionaries Barth and Jeannie Ludlow. He finds a diamond ring lost in the street. He wants to sell the ring and give the money to the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXE1q9SeTzY
RANGER BILL for Thursday afternoon, April 16, 2026, is
RB194 Rattlesnake Sam aka 50 or 60 Snakes
Sam and Danny Smith hunt poisonous snakes for the Florida Reptile Institute. They take Henry’s friend Jack Harris on a snake hunt. Sam loses a bag of snakes, and Jack must protect a school of children from the deadly reptiles.
Our RANGER BILL adventure story for Monday afternoon, June 16, 2025, is:
RANGER BILL for this Tuesday, 4/14/2026, with:
RB192 Fire Bug aka The Fishermen and the Fire Bug
Several campfires are left unattended along the river. Rangers Bill and Ralph suspect two out-of-town fishermen are to blame. Mike Demory discovered a fire on the edge of his farm. He suspects that “Old” Buck Sawyer is a fire bug. Mike insists that Bill arrest Old Buck. Bill must find the fire bug before fire destroys the farms and woods.
I believe this is one of the last of the RANGER BILL episodes. Gray wolf and Henry are missing from this story. Also the opening is from the later half of Bill's adventures.
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Our Ranger Bill for Saturday afternoon
RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning 4/11/2026, is:
RB112 The Mad Bats
Bats invade the attic of the Phipps' home, and one even bites Edna Phipps. Bill and Stumpy go to evict the bats and discover the bats are sick with rabies! The boys get help fighting off the bats from some feathered friends. One of the Phipps' neighbors causes Bill even more trouble than those pesky bats.
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 4/11/26
Holly the Golden Mole visits with Uncle Bob Devine today. Namibia in southern Africa is home to Holly. She lives under the sands of the Namibian Desert. She "swims" through and under those sands almost like swimming through water. Many other small creatures live in those sands and are food for Holly.
Holly's fur is the golden color for her 3-inch body. Listen to Holly tell you about life under the desert sands:
Our Ranger Bill exciting adventure for early Saturday morning , 4/11/2026, is
RB085 The Deep Country
RANGER BILL for Friday, 4/10/26, is:
Our Ranger Bill for Thursday, April 9, 2026, is:
RB189 Trestle Ice Jam
RANGER BILL for a Monday, April 6, 2026, is
RB186 Tongues of Fire
Frenchy DeSalle’s lumberjacks like to go to
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RB188 "Forest Fire" aka "Hot Fire and Sowing Seeds" is our
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 4/4/26
Uncle Bob Devine doesn't have his usual guest this morning. His guest is your finger and it is cut and bleeding. Finger is going to share with us all how the healing process works. So without further delay, let's let your finger tell us how healing proceeds:
Ranger Bill for late Saturday morning is quite an exciting adventure
RANGER BILL for early Saturday morning, April 4, 2026:
RB111 The Prehistoric Monster
The circus has arrived at Junction City. A full-grown bull rhino is its main attraction. This particular rhino doesn't like being in the circus. The huge beast breaks his chains and charges off into the forest. Bill and the boys are called in to find and shoot the marauder before he hurts anyone or does any serious damage. Can our rangers safely corner this prehistoric monster? Will Stumpy's pride endanger the hunt and possibly endanger lives too?
OTRR #157
RANGER BILL and Stumpy are on vacation this Wednesday, April 1, 2026 (no fooling):
RB183 - Mystery Island, Mystery Man
Bill and Stumpy take a long-needed vacation on a cruise ship. The ship makes an “unscheduled stop” at a “mystery island.” The stop gives passengers an opportunity to tour this “unexplored” island. But a real mystery develops when a reporter on the cruise winds up missing and a missing millionaire is found.
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Our RANGER BILL for Saturday afternoon, 3/28/26, is:
RB098 The Runaway Railroad
Henry hears stories of an antique steam train abandoned way up in the Shady Mountains. The engine belonged to the Three Rs - the Rimrock, Rawhide, and Ragweed railroad. Henry goes hiking in search of the valuable old train. Henry's tough walk is rewarded when he discovers an old engine in a shed. Two men find the train first and are determined to take the engine and sell it to a collector. They tie up Henry and fire up the train to steal it.
Will Bill discover the thieves, stop them, AND rescue Henry?
RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, March 28, 2026, is one knock-down, drag-out fight
RB110 The Battle at Jenkins Manor
It's been many years since Stumpy's wife died; and he has finally decided that he doesn't have the time or energy to take care of himself and his house. Bill convinces him that he needs a housekeeper. Bill nominates Maggie Murphy for the job.
Maggie is a strong woman. She needs to be strong, a widow with four boys to care for. She acts much like a drill sergeant, which doesn't set well with Stumpy.
Stumpy is so desperate for a better home life that he hires Maggie, Stumpy's worst fears about allowing Maggie in his house are quickly realized and the battle begins!
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 3/28/26
Uncle Bob Devine's Nature Corner for today chats with Auxin hormone, which makes plants sprout upward and their roots grow down.
I apologize, but I could not find the audio for this program. I did find a Wikipedia article on auxins:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxin
If this article is too technical, I would be happy to find other more basic articles on auxins.
https://www.powergrown.com/the-complete-guide-to-plant-auxins/
Our RANGER BILL story for early Saturday morning is about coveting and the sin that follows.
RB097 The Snow White Stallion, 3/28/2026
Henry falls in love with a magnificent wild white stallion that he and his friend Pyute see on the prairie. Henry finds a way to capture the horse and keep it in a hidden location. Bill tells him that capturing a wild horse will break its spirit and kill it. Now Henry must decide if keeping his special horse is worth the cost.
RANGER BILL for Friday, March 27, 2026, is
RB 180 Roving Wolves aka Wolf Attack
Gunter Neeves runs a rabbit farm outside Knotty Pine. He is losing those rabbits to a pack of hungry, roving wolves. He asks Bill and his men to deal with the wolves and stop the attacks on his rabbits. When Bill doesn’t get the desired results fast enough, Gunter decides to take matters into his own hands.
RANGER BILL for Wednesday, 3/25/26, deals with sincere prayer:
RB178 Honest Prayer
Bill thinks Henry may be lacking sincerity in his prayer life. He wants Henry to speak from his heart. Bill and Stumpy share the story of Al Ferguson who wanted to help others avoid empty, repetitious prayers. A storm at a church picnic and what followed helped Al make his point.
RANGER BILL for Tuesday afternoon, March 24, 2026, is a real thriller:
RB177 He Broke Through the Ice aka They Killed Ranger Bill
It’s well below zero in Knotty Pine, but Henry and Freddy decide to go ice fishing anyway. Bill and Stumpy drive out to see how the boys are doing. Some other boys are playing nearby. Bill drives down the frozen river to check on those boys. His car falls into the river, and he doesn’t come out!!! Henry is bitter, and Stumpy is perplexed. Have we come to the end of Ranger Bill and these stories?
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RANGER BILL for Saturday afternoon, 3/21/2026, is:
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 3/21/26
Elmer the Snake Eagle swoops in to share with Uncle Bob Devine today.
Elmer and his relatives live in the Namib Desert which stretches along the southwest coast of Africa in the country of Namibia. The desert is very hot and dry. Summertime temperatures rise to 125 degrees! Now let's let Elmer share what life is like for a snake eagle.
Our Ranger Bill for late Saturday morning, March 21, 2026, is
RB094 Rogue Elephant
RB011 is our RANGER BILL story for early Saturday morning, 3/21/2026,
"Death's Half Mile".
Our RANGER BILL adventure for Wednesday , 3/18/2026, is
RANGER BILL for Friday afternoon, March 20, 2026, is
RANGER BILL for late Saturday morning, 3/14/2026, is one of faith in the midst of pain and suffering
RB108 The Wrong Valley
Jacq McIntosh is Knotty Pine's blacksmith and one very powerful man. He is usually quite happy and full of joy. He likes to sing worship songs as he works. Trouble visits the McIntosh home suddenly one day with terrible force. His wife Annie is blinded in an explosion, and his son Ernie is badly injured in an auto accident. Jacq is angry with God and feels like Job. Can anything more go wrong for Jacq? Will anger and despair keep Josh in the terrible valley of depression? Can Bill do anything to bring Jacq out of that wrong valley?
Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning 3/14/26
Madge the North American Badger arrives for a chat with Uncle Bob Devine today.
Madge is a powerful digging machine. She needs the ability to dig well because she moves frequently and must dig a new home then. See all the ways God has gifted Madge to protect her every day.
Our Ranger Bill for early Saturday morning,
Bill and Lieutenant Larson of the US Aeronautical Survey Team find Old Man Margrave tied up and half dead in his cabin in Lost Canyon. Two thugs, Hawk and Banjo Eyes, did this to the old gentleman to get his treasure hidden up in the mountain cliffs. The key to finding the treasure is a notebook hidden in the cabin. So why does Bill want a football uniform, a pilot's helmet, 100 feet of rope, and 10 pounds of beef to find the treasure? How will Bill, Henry, and Lt. Larson keep the two crooks from stealing or destroying the treasure? What is this mysterious treasure anyway? You'll have to listen to find out.
RANGER BILL for Friday afternoon, March 13, 2026, with
RB175 Water Tank Rescue
Knotty Pine’s new water tower has just been built and is ready to fill with fresh water for all the thirsty townsfolk of Knotty Pine. Henry and his buddy Alec want a closer look at this new behemoth before it begins its work. Out of curiosity, the boys decide to climb to the top of the tower. Then curiosity gets them into some real trouble, and they don’t know how to get out! This little escapade turns into a matter of life and death!
This story is also known as "Smart Alec's Water Tank Inspection".
