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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