Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark

A nightgown-clad stranger in a flying saucer repeats two nonsense words to everyone who'll listen—but only a lonely hospital cleaner can understand what he's really saying, and the warning is one no one wants to believe.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Identified Flying Objects” (March 17, 1978) ***WD
00:45:34.637 = Obsession, “Amnesia” (February 19, 1951) ***WD
01:08:44.909 = Origin of Superstition, “Throwing Salt” (1935)
01:23:20.108 = Pat Novak, “Fleet Lady” (March 06, 1949) ***WD
01:53:23.239 = Peril, “Killer” (1953) ***WD
02:16:39.256 = Mystery Playhouse, “Criminal At Large” (April 11, 1944) ***WD (LQ)
02:46:09.318 = Price of Fear, “Not Wanted On This Voyage” (1973-1983) ***WD
03:14:05.007 = Adventures of Ellery Queen, “Saga of Ruffy Rux” (November 27, 1947) (LQ)
03:42:57.592 = Quiet Please, “The Man Who Knew Everything” (March 06, 1949)
04:11:53.022 = Radio City Playhouse, “Problem Child” (November 13, 1949)
04:37:02.732 = Adventures In The Supernatural, “The Mysterious Carriage” (1932) ***WD
05:01:28.304 = Show Close

(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
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When a corporate jet is torn through a fold in space and time, its passengers find themselves offered a second chance a thousand years from home — if they're willing to leave everything behind.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Time Fold” (March 16, 1978)
00:45:45.739 = Beyond Midnight, “Signalman” (March 28, 1969)
01:14:36.277 = MindWebs, “Sword Game” (February 26, 1983)
01:37:43.928 = Mystery In The Air, “Beyond Good And Evil” (August 28, 1947) ***WD
02:06:30.486 = Molle Mystery Theater, “Murder Without Crime” (May 03, 1946)
02:35:54.321 = Mr. Keen, “Murder In The Air” (February 24, 1944) ***WD
03:04:51.982 = Murder at Midnight, “Murder Out of Mind” (September 15, 1947 – Never Aired)
03:31:07.980 = Black Museum, “The Spotted Bedsheet” (October 21, 1952)
03:57:04.381 = Mysterious Traveler, “Murder In 2952” (April 29, 1952)
04:27:01.192 = CBC Nightfall, “The Appetite of Mr Lucraft” (December 26, 1980)
04:58:34.157 = Show Close

(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0708

A locked-room death, a fragile heiress convinced her dead mother is beckoning her from the top of the marble stairs, and three witnesses who all swear they've seen the ghost as well.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Impossible Is True” (March 14, 1978)
00:46:17.985 = Jeff Regan, “Lady With The Golden Hair” (July 31, 1948) ***WD
01:15:49.025 = The Key, “Gentleman Companion” (1956)
01:40:02.178 = Lights Out, “The Author And The Thing” (September 28, 1943)
02:03:11.287 = Lux Radio Theater, “The Canterville Ghost” (June 18, 1945)
03:02:19.887 = Macabre, “House In The Garden” (December 04, 1961) ***WD
03:29:59.456 = Philip Marlowe, “Big Step” (February 28, 1950)
03:59:32.488 = Black Mass, “Squaw” (January 24, 1964) ***WD
04:29:14.551 = Michael Shayne, “Murder Trial of Jack Holmes” (May 21, 1945) ***WD
04:58:07.194 = Show Close

(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0707

In a world that has finally outlawed war, every boy must still report for combat at fifteen — and Tom is about to learn exactly what that means.

“The Invisible Enemy” by Arnold Castle, originally published in “Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy” October 1954


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A mild-mannered chemistry teacher weighing a lucrative job offer against the quiet life he loves finds his decision complicated when a woman claiming to be from the Pleiades strolls into his house and refuses to leave, insisting to move in.

“A Matter of Ethics” by Russ Winterbotham, originally published by Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, April 1955

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Originally aired: July 05, 2026

An old villager's tale about a beautiful, undead noblewoman feels like harmless folklore to two visiting American brothers — right up until the night one of them meets her.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Wheel of Life” (March 13, 1978) ***WD
00:46:42.838 = Crime And Peter Chambers, “Cemetery Attack” (April 20, 1954)
01:09:59.902 = Hall of Fantasy, “Marquis of Death” (June 22, 1953)
01:33:32.517 = Harry Lime, “Bohemian Star” (September 07, 1951)
01:57:55.866 = BBC Haunted Tales of the Supernatural, “Little Girl Lost” (June 21, 1980)
02:24:28.027 = The Haunting Hour, “Hands of Mr. Smith” (May 19, 1945) ***WD
02:49:17.057 = Hermit’s Cave, “Spirit Vengeance” (December 08, 1946) ***WD
03:13:37.434 = Mystery Is My Hobby, “Death of an Old Prospector” (1945-1950)
03:37:36.810 = Sherlock Holmes, “The Dying Detective” (February 03, 1947)
04:06:49.592 = Mystery House, “Composite Killer” (May 05, 1946) ***WD
04:31:37.992 = Incredible But True, “Death Notice” (1950-1951)
04:35:19.365 = Inner Sanctum, “Voice On Wire” (November 29, 1944) ***WD
05:04:58.539 = Show Close

(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0706

A routine trip to claim an inheritance becomes a waking nightmare when a young couple discovers their own coffins waiting for them at a lonely, decaying estate.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Red Scarf” (March 07, 1978) ***WD
00:45:52.916 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “Dark Wings of Death” (February 06, 1945) ***WD
00:57:09.764 = The Eleventh Hour, “The Box” (ADU)
01:23:41.065 = Escape, “Snake Doctor” (August 18, 1949)
01:52:53.283 = Murder By Experts, “Dig Your Own Grave” (August 15, 1949)
02:22:47.621 = Exploring Tomorrow, “Stranger With Roses” (June 11, 1958)
02:40:30.113 = Dark Fantasy, “Funeral Arrangements Completed” (May 15, 1942)
03:04:28.637 = Fear on 4, “The Face” (February 21, 1988)
03:33:43.361 = Theater Five, “To Be Or No To Be, Maybe!” November 19, 1964) ***WD
03:53:12.113 = Future Tense, “Saucer of Loneliness” (May 30, 1974) ***WD
04:22:21.894 = BBC Ghosts From The Past, “A Warden For All Saints” (April 29, 1992)
05:05:59.571 = Show Close

(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0705

“The House And The Brain”: A skeptical scientist who swears the supernatural is nonsense spends one night in a house no tenant will stay in—and discovers a terror that follows him out the door.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The House And The Brain” (March 06, 1978) ***WD
00:46:38.363 = Chet Chetter, “The Fall And Rise of the Master Constipator” (1992)
01:16:02.363 = The Clock, “The Other Woman” (December 20, 1955) ***WD
01:42:32.020 = The Crime Club, “Silent Witnesses” (March 27, 1947) ***WD
02:11:44.891 = Crime Classics, “Checkered Life and Death of Colonel James Fisk” (June 29, 1953)
02:41:17.429 = Danger Dr. Danfield, “Ghost of Murdock’s Swamp” (February 09, 1947) ***WD
03:07:17.959 = CBC Deep Night, “Bonehouse” (August 12, 2005)
03:40:27.784 = Calling All Detectives, “Taxi Protection Racket” (April 15, 1947)
03:48:33.620 = The Devil and Mr. O, “The House is Haunted’ (August 16, 1952) ***WD
04:17:14.199 = Diary of Fate, “Philip Vale” (June 01, 1948) ***WD (LQ)
04:46:34.156 = Dimension X, “The Roads Must Roll” (September 09, 1950) ***WD
05:15:47.287 = Show Close

(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0704

“Crazy Town”: Two bomber pilots who rain death on defenseless villages crash behind the walls of a hidden asylum, where a soft-spoken madman insists they've finally come home to the only community where killers like them belong.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = The CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Assassin” (March 03, 1978) ***WD
00:46:37.892 = Strange Adventure, “The Wind Wagon” (1945) ***WD
00:49:51.994 = Arch Oboler’s Plays, “Crazy Town” (May 20, 1939) ***WD
01:17:18.050 = Barrie Craig, “Microfilm in the Fishtank” (October 24, 1951) ***WD
01:46:38.936 = BBC Radio 4/Radio7 GhostStory, “Lifeline” (2006) ***WD
02:15:47.965 = Night Beat, “Mr. And Mrs. Carothers” (October 26, 1951) ***WD
02:45:58.499 = Beyond The Green Door, “John Otis-Mr. Dunn, Disposer” (1966) ***WD
02:49:49.627 = The Black Book, “Vagabond Murder” (March 02, 1952) ***WD
03:04:18.025 = Blackstone, “Ghost That Trapped a Killer” (October 03, 1948) ***WD (LQ)
03:16:00.352 = Box 13, “The Better Man” (January 02, 1949)
03:43:04.360 = Calling All Cars, “York Gang Holdup” (December 13, 1933) ***WD
04:11:50.697 = Casey Crime Photographer, “Reunion” (June 03, 1946) ***WD
04:35:49.460 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Dream Woman” (May 01, 1968)
05:04:49.273 = Show Close

(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0703

A tough-talking builder tells his psychiatrist that a man he's never met keeps killing him in his dreams — and then she starts having the same dream.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “You Tell Me Your Dreams” (March 02, 1978)
00:46:35.785 = 2000 Plus, “Alone” (January 15, 1950)
01:17:02.267 = The Unexpected, “Handle With Care” (November 19, 1948)
01:29:00.817 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Toll Bridge” (1936) ***WD
01:43:27.147 = Dark Venture, “Coverup” (February 24, 1947)
02:13:12.987 = The Weird Circle, “Red Hand” (May 06, 1945)
02:40:35.083 = The Whistler, “Death Marks The Double Cross” (March 12, 1945)
03:04:49.517 = Strange Wills, “Emeralds Come High” (August 24, 1946) ***WD
03:34:32.610 = Witch’s Tale, “Rats In a Trap” (May 16, 1932)
03:57:52.622 = X Minus One, “Reluctant Heroes” (December 19, 1956)
04:26:25.428 = Zero Hour, “White Flame Burning Bright” (May 20, 1974) ***WD
04:43:23.629 = ABC Mystery Time, “Four Time Loser” (1957) ***WD
05:07:22.865 = Show Close

(ADU) = Air Date Unknown
(LQ) = Low Quality
***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.
CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0702