Lamont Cranston (aka The Shadow) and Margot Lane visit a traveling carnival which has a wax-museum exhibit of historic death-scenes. While there, they discover a terrifying secret: the “statues” in the exhibit aren’t statues at all — they’re actually dead people substituted in for the displays. | #RetroRadio EP0537

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Tobin’s Palm” (January 12, 1977)
00:47:00.611 = Max Haines Mystery, “Arthur Gusy” (mid 1940s)
01:10:51.128 = Ripley’s Believe it Or Not, “Ye Old Sun Inn” (1930) ***WD
01:11:51.228 = Sam Spade, “The Spanish Prisoner Caper” (March 09, 1951)
01:40:20.851 = The Sealed Book, “Queen of Cats” (June 24, 1945)
02:10:44.510 = The Shadow, “Carnival of Death” (November 10, 1940)
02:34:36.266 = Sleep No More, “Thus I Refute Beelzy” and “The Bookshop” (March 06, 1957) ***WD
03:04:01.421 = BBC Radio 4 Spinechillers, “Doppelganger” (January 01, 1977)
03:29:05.856 = Strange Wills, “Singapore Liz” (November 02, 1946)
03:59:38.670 = Strange, “Flying Dutchman” (1955) ***WD
04:12:36.423 = Suspense, “Cabin B-13” (November 09, 1943) ***WD
04:41:41.265 = Tales of the Frightened, “Mirror of Death” (November 27, 1957)
04:46:36.256 = The Saint, “Shipboard Mystery” (March 11, 1951) ***WD
05:14:25.104 = Show Close

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