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Tall Bears by the Icebox Radio Theater

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Icebox Radio Theater, August 2006, revived May 2013
 
A supernatural thriller from the Minnesota-based radio theatre company.
 
In the 1950s there was evidently a vogue for building statues in American cities.  In one Minnesota town, close to the border of Ontario, the local authority built one of Smokey Bear; now it dominates the landscape.
 
This thriller (unfortunately uncredited to any specific writer) imagined a situation where the statue assumed a life of its own and went off into the forest - apparently to cause havoc.  At least, this is what the local burghers think, as they try to come to terms with what seems a supernatural event.  Initially, of course, they do not believe what has happened; it is only down to the persistence of a little girl, Heather (Rachel Adams) who refuses to listen to her father, the local law enforcement operative, and goes off in search of the statue.  The play has its own morality scheme - based around the idea of "curiosity killed the cat" - but eventually Heather's persistence is vindicated.
 
With its own sound-effects and some very convincing acting, Tall Bears is definitely worth a listen.