Thought to have been recorded in spring or summer of 1949. The voice is believed to be Charnel Bells host Van Guarrault, though it's near impossible now to say for certain.

Black Pharaoh Cigarettes Advert (A) (1949)

Long thought only a ghostly rumor, the horror radio drama Charnel Bells never aired in its day. Recorded from 1949-51, the show's content and storytelling was deemed "too crazy by half" by then-influential critic Chester Keswick and "downright un-Christian" by legendary radio producer Jean Wooder.

Time has not been kind to these old ribbons of magnetic fear, but the painstakingly slow process of restoration will, hopefully, be worth the decades-long wait. Tonight, you are invited to experience a strange phantom, a whispered rumor from the haunted past.

Charnel Bells toll once more.

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Long thought only a ghostly rumor, the horror radio drama Charnel Bells never aired in its day. Recorded from 1949-51, the show's content and storytelling was deemed "too crazy by half" by then-influential critic Chester Keswick and "downright un-Christian" by legendary radio producer Jean Wooder. Time has not been kind to these old ribbons of magnetic fear, but the painstakingly slow process of restoration will, hopefully, be worth the decades-long wait. Tonight, you are invited to experience a strange phantom, a whispered rumor from the haunted past. Charnel Bells toll once more.

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