Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark

A man wakes up convinced he murdered someone in his sleep, and the marks on his own body say the dream might not have been a dream at all.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Cool Killer Carl” (May 05, 1978) ***WD
00:46:18.874 = Mystery Playhouse, “Nightmare” (November 28, 1944)
01:15:15.928 = Price of Fear, “Remains To Be Seen” (September 01, 1973) ***WD
01:42:19.483 = Adventures of Ellery Queen, “Terrified Man” (January 15, 1948) ***WD (LQ)a
02:06:01.040 = Quiet Please, “The Smell of High Wines” (March 20, 1949) ***WD
02:35:22.653 = Radio City Playhouse, “Interval” (November 27, 1949) ***WD
03:03:46.860 = Half Hour To Kill, “Blackout Never Aired” (October 29, 1946) ***WD
03:32:04.765 = Sam Spade, “Adam Figg Caper” (October 05, 1947) ***WD
03:55:50.400 = The Sealed Book, “Stranger In The House” (May 06, 1945) ***WD
04:25:19.830 = The Shadow, “Bubbling Death” (December 05, 1943) ***WD
04:50:39.793 = Strange Adventure, “Title Unknown – Episode 69” (1945) ***WD
04:53:57.077 = Calling All Detectives, “Jerry Investigates a Mysterious Increase in Hospital Deaths” (July 06, 1948) ***WD (LQ)
05:01:43.438 = 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/WDRR0728

Six strangers board a night train crawling through the worst winter in years — a divorced businessman, a runaway couple, a wealthy man running out of time, and an elderly woman being shipped off by her own family — each quietly hoping this trip might be the one that changes everything, for better or worse.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Journey To Somewhere” (May 04, 1978) ***WD
00:44:26.457 = Molle Mystery Theater, “Killer Come Back To Me” (May 17, 1946)
01:13:35.047 = Mr. Keen, “The Leaping Dog” (April 13, 1944) ***WD
01:42:41.788 = Murder at Midnight, “The Man With The Black Beard” (May 08, 1950) ***WD
02:08:37.327 = The Black Museum, “The Tan Shoe” (January 15, 1952)
02:33:18.183 = Mysterious Traveler, “The Green Plague” (June 17, 1952)
03:00:29.228 = CBC Nightfall, “Hands Off” (July 25, 1980)
03:27:14.184 = Obsession, “Clinging Hate” (May 14, 1951) ***WD
03:49:55.235 = Origin of Superstition, “Kissing Under Mistletoe” (1935) ***WD
04:04:07.297 = Pat Novak For Hire, “Rory Malone” (March 20, 1949)
04:33:03.187 = Peril, “Lucky Lady” (1953) ***WD
04:58:54.597 = 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/WDRR0727

This isn’t one of my usual stories or episodes – but it is still terrifying (to me, at least). Over the weekend, a devastating cyberattack locked me out of my Google account, YouTube channels, Dropbox, and many of the tools I rely on to produce Weird Darkness. For several days, I genuinely didn’t know if the show would survive.In this special emergency update, I explain what happened, why new episodes suddenly stopped, what became of the YouTube channels, where things stand now, and why this has been one of the darkest weeks of my life—both professionally and personally.The good news? Weird Darkness is still here.Thank you for your patience, your encouragement, and your prayers. It means more than you know.Listen and subscribe at: https://WeirdDarkness.com

A young scholar’s visit to his reclusive uncle on a lonely Shetland island leads him into a nightmare of black rituals, impossible memories, and a mystery that defies time itself.

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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 Figure in the Moonlight” (May 02, 1978) ***WD
00:45:48.366 = Macabre, “The Avenger” (December 18, 1961) ***WD
01:14:37.183 = Philip Marlowe, “Vital Statistic” (March 14, 1950)
01:44:11.159 = Boson Blackie, Ghost of Flo Newton” (May 28, 1947)
02:09:18.137 = The Black Mass, “O Mirror Mirror” (February 12, 1964) ***WD
02:24:19.861 = Michael Shayne, “Judge Stanton Murdered” (June 04, 1945) ***WD
02:54:00.924 = Beyond Midnight, “Tangled Way” (ADU) ***WD (LQ)
03:19:56.143 = MindWebs, “Eurema’s Dam” (1975-1984) ***WD
03:49:08.226 = CBS Radio Workshop, “The Case of the White Kitten” (July 13, 1956) ***WD
04:18:13.876 = Mystery in the Air, “Queen of Spades” (September 1, 1947)
04:45:13.199 = Strange Adventure “The Imposter” (1945) ***WD
04:48:29.470 = Calling All Detectives, “The Ship Julia Louise” (July 05, 1948) ***WD (LQ)
04:56:29.725 = Incredible But True, “Dragon of Buren County” (1950-1951)
04:59:59.123 = 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/WDRR0726

A Broadway couple buys the vacant Connecticut house no agent in town will touch, covers the den wall with a floor-to-ceiling photograph of an African jungle, and begins to notice that the lion in the picture doesn't always hold the same pose.

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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 on Chimney Pot Lane” (April 28, 1978) ***WD
00:45:28.916 = The Haunting Hour, “Date In The Dark” (June 03, 1945) ***WD
01:10:28.151 = The Hermit’s Cave, “The House With a Past” (June 27, 1937)
01:34:32.198 = Mystery Is My Hobby, “Millionaire Threatened” (1945)
01:59:10.650 = Sherlock Holmes, “The Haunted Bagpipes” (February 17, 1947)
02:28:37.363 = Mystery House, “Bury Me Not” (May 26, 1946) ***WD
02:54:24.361 = Inner Sanctum, “Desert Death” (January 09, 1945)
03:23:44.926 = Jeff Regan, “The Diamond Quartet” (August 14, 1948)
03:52:43.766 = The Key, “Night Prowler” (1956)
04:16:47.055 = Lights Out, “Uninhabited” (December 22, 1937) ***WD (LQ)
04:45:34.772 = Strange Adventure, “The Five Tickets” (1945) ***WD
04:48:49.470 = Calling All Detectives, “A Man Admits To Murder” (June 15, 1948) ***WD (LQ)
04:56:47.879 = Incredible But True, “The Face of Death” (1950-1951)
05:00:28.938 = 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/WDRR0725

“Adventure of the Beauty Queen”: A woman wakes to a voice from a thousand years in the future, telling her a machine has searched all of history for beauty and found 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 Queen of Palmyra” (April 27, 1978) ***WD
00:45:45.877 = The Eleventh Hour, “Codeword Silver” (ADU)
01:11:24.672 = Escape, “The Fortune of Vargas” (September 21, 1949)
01:40:04.624 = Exploring Tomorrow, “Adventure of the Beauty Queen” (June 25, 1958) ***WD
01:59:42.274 = Dark Fantasy, “Rendezvous With Satan” (May 29, 1942)
02:28:27.595 = Fear on 4, “Fat Andy” (March 06, 1988)
02:57:32.941 = Theater Five, “Dark Appointment” (November 23, 1964) ***WD
03:18:08.219 = Adventures of Superman, “Mystery of the Walking Dead” (November 05, 1949)
03:47:56.562 = Hall of Fantasy, “The Judge’s House” (April 03, 1947) ***WD
04:14:35.484 = Harry Lime, “Rogues Holiday” (September 21, 1951)
04:39:24.955 = BBC Haunted Tales of the Supernatural, “The Family” (July 05, 1980) ***WD
05:07:30.568 = 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/WDRR0724

A lifelong friend's death leaves Jason Clark hearing that friend's voice picking winners at the track, an unbroken streak that draws the attention of the bookmakers he's bleeding dry — and when they demand his system at knifepoint, what proof can he offer?

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Bet With The Angels” (April 21, 1978) ***WD
00:46:18.058 = Chet Chetter, “Elmer And The Book of Absolute Truth” (1991)
01:16:14.133 = The Clock, “The Hitchhiker” (January 03, 1956) ***WD
01:40:44.592 = The Crime Club, “Grey Mist Murders” (April 10, 1947)
02:10:32.203 = Crime Classics, “The Terrible Deed of John White Webster” (July 13, 1953)
02:40:14.956 = Danger Dr Danfield, “Norman Miles” (September 08, 1946) ***WD
03:05:54.976 = Calling All Detectives, “Casebook of J. Browning” (June 14, 1948)
03:14:16.749 = The Devil and Mr. O, “Hungry One” (January 14, 1972)
03:42:57.931 = Diary of Fate, “Nelson Walker” (June 15, 1948) ***WD
04:10:44.961 = Dimension X, “Hello Tomorrow” (September 15, 1950) ***WD
04:39:05.898 = The Strange Dr. Weird, “Knife of Death” (February 20, 1945) ***WD (LQ)
04:51:32.354 = Strange Adventure, “The Island of Mystery” (1945) ***WD
04:54:56.292 = 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/WDRR0723

A waterlogged model boat that keeps appearing wherever Professor Anders goes — dripping, shivering, impossible to be rid of — carries a name, a drowning, and a debt that refuses to stay buried.

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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 Avocado Jungle” (April 20, 1978) ***WD
00:46:14.846 = BBC Radio 4 / Radio 7, “The Boat Hook” (April 15, 1992)
01:30:17.027 = Night Beat, “Five Days Off For Christmas” (December 21, 1951) ***WD
01:58:08.526 = Beyond The Green Door, “Mr. Fritz-Hugh And Poisoned Knife Blade” (1966)
02:02:01.418 = Campbell Playhouse, “A Christmas Carol” (December 24, 1939) ***WD
03:00:24.073 = Box 13, “The Dowager And Dan Holiday” (November 16, 1949)
03:27:06.293 = Calling All Cars, “Cookie Vejar Killing” (December 27, 1933)
03:56:51.245 = Casey Crime Photographer, “Red Raincoat” (August 29, 1946)
04:26:26.709 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Ghost Town Hermit” (May 19, 1967) ***WD
04:57:04.004 = 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/WDRR0722

A Christmas Eve margin call sends a rich man's nephew scrambling for six thousand dollars he doesn't have, with a voice in his head whispering that theft and worse would be so easy.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Murder at Troyte’s Hill” (April 17, 1978) ***WD
00:45:26.180 = Weird Circle, “Markheim” (May 20, 1945)
01:13:15.849 = The Whistler, “Return of Innocent” (April 02, 1945)
01:42:35.169 = Strange Wills, “Margin For Love” (September 07, 1946)
02:12:13.142 = Witch’s Tale, “Suicide” (January 22, 1937) ***WD
02:35:32.097 = X-Minus-1, “The Moon Is Green” (January 02, 1957)
03:03:54.289 = Zero Hour, “Mind of the Beholder” (May 21, 1974) ***WD
03:21:09.669 = ABC Mystery Time, “My Adventure in Norfolk” (1957) ***WD (LQ)
03:45:10.191 = Strange Adventure, “The Friendly Ghost” (1945) ***WD
03:48:27.530 = Arch Obeler’s Plays, “Another World” (July 29, 1939) ***WD (LQ)
04:17:11.933 = Barrie Craig, “The Case of the Borrowed Knife” (November 07, 1951)
04:45:37.476 = 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/WDRR0721

A fortune-teller's crystal globe shows his clients a single vision of their own deaths — and one by one, they begin to make it come true.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Chapter of Errors” (April 14, 1978) ***WD
00:46:44.968 = The Shadow, “The Crystal Globe” (October 03, 1943) ***WD
01:15:25.364 = Sleep No More, “Escape of Mr. Trimm” (March 13, 1957) ***WD
01:44:07.395 = BBC SpineChillers, “Rituals” (1984)
02:10:33.653 = Strange, “The Ghost Train” (September 18, 1955)
02:24:07.878 = Suspense, “Sneak Preview” (March 23, 1944)
02:53:48.488 = Tales of the Frightened, “Voice From The Grave’ (1957)
02:58:36.645 = The Creaking Door, “Don’t Take My Blood” (January 05, 1965) ***WD
03:29:31.418 = The Saint, “The Saint Goes Underground” (December 17, 1947) ***WD
03:53:55.525 = Tales From The Tomb, “Spirits of the Dead” (1960s)
03:56:08.118 = 2000 Plus, “Rocket And Skull” (October 10, 1951) ***WD
04:24:16.114 = The Unexpected, “Twilight Meeting” (1948) ***WD
04:36:22.835 = Unsolved Mysteries, “Rue Morgue Mystery” (June 17, 1942) ***WD
04:51:16.528 = 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/WDRR0720