The mystery of the fog Phantom

Hiking in a desert region of the Rocky Mountains leads ??? a mountain whose summit is always covered with fog. When they suddenly a terrifying laughing and floating figure appears, the guys are apparently against the fabled fog Phantom. What lies behind this merely Spukerscheinung?
This episode reminds in design and development Aura immensely to the first effects of the comprehensive ??? - series. "Back to the rules" actually seems to be the motto that the ??? - author André Marx pursued this story, and so much had already been betrayed, it really works well to implement this credo.
The story is consistently quite exciting and will be provided with a well-tuned background story that fits the story and to Handlungsort. Although the eventual case resolution is not the huge bang, and something falls short of previously established expectations, the overall action has succeeded and gives a satisfactory result.
For the first time in the ??? - radio play history to resort to installing a different narrative level, and leaves some passages through diary entries by Bob reports. A nice idea that would not only fit on this story.
Despite the good overall impression of this radio drama still remains somewhat earlier behind the extremely high standards ??? - ??? phantom and - ghost stories (The Three Investigators - Episode 2: and the Ghost Lake, The Three Investigators - Episode 8: and the green spirit , The Three Investigators - Episode 11: and The Haunted Manor) back and thus the comparison is not quite withstand. This circumstance is not so much a lack of quality of this piece here to lead back, but rather to the level of early grandiose Urspungsfolgen.
Conclusion: Good ??? - series sequence that is well above the series average. Thus, very decent 4 stars are fully justified.