Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark

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By: Darren Marlar

Welcome to Retro Radio: Old Time Radio In The Dark! Here I bring you shows from the Golden Age of Radio in the darker genre. I’ll have classic radio of the macabre and horror, mysteries and crime, and even some dark science fiction. 5-hour marathons posted seven days per week with a variety of shows included each day!

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THE FAVOR OF WOMEN: Earth Has Fifteen Days Of Fuel Left | #RetroRadio
THE FAVOR OF WOMEN: Earth Has Fifteen Days Of Fuel Left | #RetroRadio episode artwork
Today at 12:59 AM

In the year 3978, Earth is fifteen days from running out of the fuel it runs on, and the only planet that can sell it more is ruled by a queen who stopped selling a year ago.

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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 Favor of Women” (November 17, 1978) ***WD
00:45:22.154 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Signal Man” (1968) ***WD
01:14...


No Thursday Night Runs At The Firehouse | #RetroRadio
No Thursday Night Runs At The Firehouse | #RetroRadio episode artwork
Yesterday at 4:16 AM

Arch Oboloer’s “Night”: Chicago firemen tell one of their own why their station hasn't made a Thursday-night run in twenty years, in Arch Oboler's play about a single night across America in June 1945.

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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 Conspiracy” (November 15, 1978) ***WD
00:46:25.640 = Arch Oboler’s Plays, “Night (Thursday Nights At The Firehouse)” (June 07, 1945)
01:15:55.462...


THE SOUND OF TERROR: Kidnapped For Answering The Wrong Phone | #RetroRadio
THE SOUND OF TERROR: Kidnapped For Answering The Wrong Phone | #RetroRadio episode artwork
Last Sunday at 12:08 AM

Left alone at a Ninth Avenue bus stop on the day a U.N. ambassador is kidnapped, a detective's girlfriend picks up a ringing pay phone and hears a stranger tell her the ransom is on its way to the pickup.

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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 Sound of Terror” (October 27, 1978) ***WD
00:46:38.792 = 2000 Plus, “Robot Killer”...


AUNT MAE: Death's Agent Comes Back At Three In The Morning | #RetroRadio
AUNT MAE: Death's Agent Comes Back At Three In The Morning | #RetroRadio episode artwork
Last Saturday at 1:39 AM

Oliver Carsons has spent three nights trying to stay awake in a locked, barred bedroom, and every night a tall man with a face like a skull comes in to tell him he'll pay for killing a girl named Sally.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Family Ties” (October 25, 1978) ***WD
00:47:00.989 = The Shadow, “Brief Fame Of John Cooper”...


THE LAZARUS SYNDROME: He Was Happier Being Dead | #RetroRadio
THE LAZARUS SYNDROME: He Was Happier Being Dead | #RetroRadio episode artwork
Last Friday at 10:34 PM

A 53-year-old computer executive lets his 29-year-old boss push a receptionist of 31 years out the door, then chases the company's youth craze onto the tennis court with a heart his doctor has already warned him about.

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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 Lazarus Syndrome” (October 23, 1978) ***WD
00:47:07.172 = Peril, “The Diary” (1953) ***WD
01:12:43.894 = Mystery Playhouse, “Breakdown” (June 12, 1945...


NEVER ANSWER AN ADVERTISEMENT: Wanted, A Doctor Who Knows Beetles | #RetroRadio
NEVER ANSWER AN ADVERTISEMENT: Wanted, A Doctor Who Knows Beetles | #RetroRadio episode artwork
Last Friday at 3:38 AM

A struggling young doctor answers a newspaper ad for a strong, steady-nerved beetle expert, and the lawyer who hires him at a hundred pounds a day won't tell him what the job is.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Never Answer An Advertisement” (October 18, 1978) ***WD
00:47:04.513 = Mr. Keen, “Yellow Talon Murder” (September 22, 1949)
01:16:44.287 = Murder At Midnight, “Death Across The B...


THE WINDS OF TIME: Her Headaches Led Back To Hitler's Bunker | #RetroRadio
THE WINDS OF TIME: Her Headaches Led Back To Hitler's Bunker | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/22/2026

A woman whose migraines have already cost her a husband and two children lets psychic healer Bryce Bond hypnotize her back through her past lives, and each life she lands in puts a man's death in her hands.

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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 Winds of Time” (October 16, 1978) ***WD
00:46:43.794 = Philip Marlowe, “High Collared Cape” (April 25...


THE MAN IN BLACK: A Murder The Police Say Never Happened | #RetroRadio
THE MAN IN BLACK: A Murder The Police Say Never Happened | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/21/2026

A Washington legal secretary kneels on a Georgetown sidewalk with a dying stranger who names his killer only as the man in black, and by morning the police have no body, no blood, and no interest in anything she saw.

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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 Man In Black” (October 11, 1978) ***WD
00:46:04.265 = Sherlock Holmes, “Maltree Abbey”...


THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLE-STAR: Something Is Out There Calling Him | #RetroRadio
THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLE-STAR: Something Is Out There Calling Him | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/20/2026

Three months out of Dundee and anchored to unbroken Arctic ice, a whaling crew starts hearing something come aboard at night and go straight down into the captain's locked cabin.

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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 Captain of the Polestar” (October 06, 1978) ***WD
00:47:05.828 = Future Tense, “Cold Equation” (May 08, 1975) ***WD
01:10:30.076 = BBC Ghosts From The Past, “Mortmain” (A...


SHADOW OF LOVE: A Haunting Made Of Affection | #RetroRadio
SHADOW OF LOVE: A Haunting Made Of Affection | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/19/2026

A man who can't bear to be touched, let alone loved, comes home one night convinced that something in the house has grown fond of him.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Shadow of Love” (October 04, 1978) ***WD
00:47:11.996 = Dimension X, “Shanghaied” (January 12, 1950) ***WD
01:16:50.607 = The Eleventh Hour, “Engulf Cathedral” (ADU)
01:43:00.257 = Escape, “Maracas” (November 22, 1949) ***WD
02:11:45.075 = Murder By Experts...


THE FOREVER ALLEY: What Happens To A Bowling Alley After Midnight? | #RetroRadio
THE FOREVER ALLEY: What Happens To A Bowling Alley After Midnight? | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/18/2026

There's only one way out of the Forever Alley, a cop was parked in front of it all night, and the man inside still vanished.

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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 Forever Alley” (October 02, 1978) ***WD
00:47:30.644 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Screaming Skull” (April 01, 1968) ***WD
01:16:44.754 = The Clock, “Death Valley” (February 21, 1956)
01:42:13.284 = Creeps By Night, “Six Who Did Not Die”...


THE TRAP: A Free Sample Arrives At The Hunting Cabin Door | #RetroRadio
THE TRAP: A Free Sample Arrives At The Hunting Cabin Door | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/17/2026

Two men on a hunting vacation in the Adirondacks wake to find a small metal box sitting in their cabin doorway, a tag on top calling it a free promotional model of a brand-new kind of trap.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “A Thousand Year Old Story” (September 29, 1978) ***WD
00:45:44.446 = X-Minus-1, “The Trap” (February 13, 1957)
01:07:38.102 = Appointmen...


GRANDFATHER'S SEVERED HEAD: He Wants Another One Buried With Him | #RetroRadio
GRANDFATHER'S SEVERED HEAD: He Wants Another One Buried With Him | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/16/2026

A young engineer brings his pregnant wife home to the Philippine mountains, where his grandmother insists the only thing that will quiet his beheaded grandfather's ghost is the head of his wife's grandfather.

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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 Head Hunters” (September 27, 1978) ***WD
00:45:52.459 = The Saint, “Unhappy Homicide” (November 06, 1949) ***WD
01:09:54.844 = Theater 1030, “Trespassers Will Be Experimented...


THE CONVERSION FACTOR: A Truck Stop Waitress Holds The Missing Equation | #RetroRadio
THE CONVERSION FACTOR: A Truck Stop Waitress Holds The Missing Equation | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/15/2026

A physicist who has spent five years and twenty million dollars chasing one missing equation leaves his attaché case in a highway diner, where the seventeen-year-old at the cash register reads the twelve pages inside and understands every line.

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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 Conversion Factor” (September 22, 1978) ***WD
00:45:12.953 = Radio City Playhouse, “Reflection” (January 01, 1950) ***WD
01...


THE BEHEADING: An Actress Trusts A Surgeon To Take Her Head Off | #RetroRadio
THE BEHEADING: An Actress Trusts A Surgeon To Take Her Head Off | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/14/2026

A movie actress worn down by a lifetime of asthma puts her hand in a bald doctor's and agrees to let him remove her head, on his promise that a prettier one is on the way.

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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 Beheading” (September 20, 1978) ***WD
00:46:46.654 = CBC Nightfall, “Willoughby Obsession” (September 05, 1980)
01:14:40.820 = Nightmare, “The Leech” (April 07, 1954...


BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP: A Catskills Killer Dreams Of A Brother Of Light | #RetroRadio
BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP: A Catskills Killer Dreams Of A Brother Of Light | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/12/2026

A young intern at a state asylum wires a homemade telepathy set to the forehead of a dying, illiterate mountain man whose ravings describe palaces of fire he could never have read about.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “It’s Hard To Be Rich” (September 18, 1978) ***WD
00:46:47.126 = Beyond Midnight, “Short Circuit” (January 03, 1969) ***WD
01:12:15.812 = MindWebs, “Beyond The Wal...


SORRY, WRONG NUMBER: Leona Stevenson Overhears Her Own Murder | #RetroRadio
SORRY, WRONG NUMBER: Leona Stevenson Overhears Her Own Murder | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/11/2026

Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster, a bedridden heiress alone in a New York townhouse asks the operator to ring her husband's office, gets crossed into a stranger's call, and listens to two men schedule a killing for 11:15 that night.

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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 Secret of Crow’s Nest” (September 15, 1978) ***WD
00:46:32.237 = Lights Out, “Valse Trie...


TONIGHT, SEPT 11TH: The Entire Smiley Face Killers Audiobook Before Its Amazon Release in October!
TONIGHT, SEPT 11TH: The Entire Smiley Face Killers Audiobook Before Its Amazon Release in October! episode artwork
09/11/2026

On Friday, September 11th, three weeks before anyone could buy it, I played the entire audiobook of my new book live on Patreon, start to finish, with the chat open the whole time.  Something I only do for my Patreon members! https://weirddarkness.com/patreon 

Since 1997, young men have walked out of bars alone and turned up in rivers. Two retired New York detectives say it's a serial killer network, and that police have been calling murder an accident. The FBI says there's no evidence any of it is connected. THE CONCRETE SMILED gives that theory it...


THE BLACKNESS OF TERROR: The Moaning Behind The Music Room Wall | #RetroRadio
THE BLACKNESS OF TERROR: The Moaning Behind The Music Room Wall | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/11/2026

A stroke has left a wealthy recluse unable to speak or move, and every night after dark his eyes fix on something beside his bed that nobody else in the room can see.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “High Caquetta” (September 13, 1978) ***WD
00:46:40.532 = BBC Haunted Tales of the Supernatural, “The Inexperienced Ghost” (August 09, 1980)
01:12:37.532 = The Haunting H...


THE CONVICT: He Chose Mars Over Prison, Then Stole A Ship Home | #RetroRadio
THE CONVICT: He Chose Mars Over Prison, Then Stole A Ship Home | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/10/2026

A bank robber who chose permanent exile on Mars over fifteen years in a cell has spent a decade freezing in the mines, and a stolen spaceship is about to take him back to Earth.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Ignorant Armies” (September 08, 1978) ***WD
00:46:01.952 = Murder By Experts, “It’s Luck That Counts” (August 29, 1949) ***WD
01:15:3...


DEAD WRONG: The Reaper Took The Wrong Peter | #RetroRadio
DEAD WRONG: The Reaper Took The Wrong Peter | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/09/2026

A healthy, happy lawyer dozing on his porch after tennis is told he's dead, and the only man who can take his place has just decided he likes living and refuses to die.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Dead Wrong” (September 06, 1978) ***WD
00:46:53.341 = Crime Club, “Murder Makes a Mummy” (May 29, 1947) ***WD
01:16:17.616 = Crime Classics, “Incredible Trial of Laura D F...


DEVIL’s GOLD: A Coin That Always Comes Back Puts A Sailor On Trial For Murder | #RetroRadio
DEVIL’s GOLD: A Coin That Always Comes Back Puts A Sailor On Trial For Murder | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/08/2026

A merchant seaman on his first voyage walks out of a candlelit shop in Libya with a solid gold coin he can't pawn, sell, gamble away, or throw into the sea, and then a shipmate is found dead with the coin missing.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Devil’s Gold” (September 04, 1978) ***WD
00:47:43.536 = Barrie Craig, “Death And The Pu...


FLASH POINT: An Ironmaster, His Wife's Lover, And A Catwalk Over The Furnace | #RetroRadio
FLASH POINT: An Ironmaster, His Wife's Lover, And A Catwalk Over The Furnace | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/06/2026

A magazine writer who has spent a week seducing an ironmaster's wife in a Pennsylvania mill town accepts her husband's offer of a midnight tour of the blast furnaces, the night before she's due to run away with him.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Flash Point” (September 01, 1978) ***WD
00:44:58.073 = Two Thousand Plus, “Veteran Comes Home” (July 05, 1950) ***WD
01...


WILL THE REAL AMY STAND UP: An Heiress, Two Poisoners, And An Imaginary Friend | #RetroRadio
WILL THE REAL AMY STAND UP: An Heiress, Two Poisoners, And An Imaginary Friend | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/06/2026

A young heiress starts getting stomach cramps after her kindly cousins move in with her, and the only one who warns her is the imaginary playmate she made up as a child.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Will The Real Amy Stand Up” (August 28, 1978) ***WD
00:46:34.060 = The Shadow, “Death To The Shadow” (March 12, 1944) ***WD
01:15:36.982 = Sleep No More, “...


TO MY DEAR SALADIN: The Cat In Great Aunt Hester's Will | #RetroRadio
TO MY DEAR SALADIN: The Cat In Great Aunt Hester's Will | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/05/2026

A cash-strapped couple inherits Great Aunt Hester's country manor on one sole condition: her cat, Saladin, lives out its days there in the style to which it's accustomed, and the new master of the house has no patience for a pampered pet.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Cross Fire” (August 21, 1978) ***WD
00:46:44.221 = Peril, “Sidewalk Empire” (1953) ***WD
01:10...


TERROR OUT OF SPACE: The Moon Answered Their Radio Signal | #RetroRadio
TERROR OUT OF SPACE: The Moon Answered Their Radio Signal | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/04/2026

Three Army scientists in a shack on the Jersey cliffs bounce the first radio signal off the moon, and a few nights later the generators start switching themselves on at midnight.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Our Own Jailer” (August 18, 1978) ***WD
00:46:05.646 = Molle Mystery Theater, “Radio Patrol” (November 29, 1946) ***WD
01:16:48.631 = Mr. Keen, “Murder And Star Of Death” (June...


RAPTURES OF THE DEEP: A Treasure Diver Follows a Woman To Atlantis | #RetroRadio
RAPTURES OF THE DEEP: A Treasure Diver Follows a Woman To Atlantis | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/03/2026

A Navy-trained scuba diver hired to hunt a Spanish treasure ship reaches the end of his guideline 175 feet down, sees something no one else on the crew can explain, and asks for more rope.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Raptures of the Deep” (August 16, 1978) ***WD
00:45:45.897 = Lux Radio Theater, “Smilin’ Through” (January 05, 1942)
01:44:11.425 = Philip Marlowe, “Anniversary Gift” (April 1...


SECOND CHANCE: One Night To Live It All Over Again | #RetroRadio
SECOND CHANCE: One Night To Live It All Over Again | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/02/2026

Hours from the electric chair for the murder of a nightclub singer, gangster Duke Malone rebuilds his whole life in his head — starting at fourteen in a pool hall, refusing the job that ruined him — and builds it all the way up to the night a floor show puts Jeannie Daniels back in front of him.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open


The Avenging Ghost of Kitty Morgan | #RetroRadio
The Avenging Ghost of Kitty Morgan | #RetroRadio episode artwork
09/01/2026

Kitty Morgan designed every room of the mansion her lover built in the Adirondacks, and when he ended it between them, she made him a promise about that house and then kept it. A century on, the place is worth millions, and nobody in the family will spend a night in it.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Th...


THE DEVIL’S BREW: A Rookie, A Beanball, And A Stranger With A Contract | #RetroRadio
THE DEVIL’S BREW: A Rookie, A Beanball, And A Stranger With A Contract | #RetroRadio episode artwork
08/30/2026

A rookie phenom hitting .392 takes a fastball to the head, and comes out of the coma carrying a stranger's offer he can't shake and a batting slump he can't break.

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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 Devil’s Brew” (August 02, 1978) ***WD
00:45:46.577 = The Clock, “Pretty Cousin Amy” (February 07, 1956)
01:09:45.192 = The Crime Club, “Murder On Margin” (May 22, 1947...


LOCKED OUT: Seven Years Late To His Own Christmas Party | #RetroRadio
LOCKED OUT: Seven Years Late To His Own Christmas Party | #RetroRadio episode artwork
08/29/2026

A gust of wind shuts John Greenwood out of his own Christmas Eve party, and the constable who finds him climbing back in through a broken window says the house has been empty and shut up for years.

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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 Vanishing Point” (July 31, 1978) ***WD
00:45:34.754 = BBC Radio 4 / Radio 7 Ghost Story, “The White Ca...


The House And Brain | #RetroRadio
The House And Brain | #RetroRadio episode artwork
08/28/2026

A young London couple rent a room in a house that has stood unlivable for four hundred years, and the one woman who has ever managed to live there tells them the tenants who never left are already expecting them.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Double-Take” (July 28, 1978) ***WD
00:45:31.411 = The Weird Circle, “The House And Brain”...


A BODY WITH NO TICKET: Murder On The Manchester Express | #RetroRadio
A BODY WITH NO TICKET: Murder On The Manchester Express | #RetroRadio episode artwork
08/27/2026

A gentleman and a veiled lady took an empty first-class compartment on the Manchester Express out of London, and by the next station they'd vanished from the moving train, leaving behind a dead young man with no ticket, no labels in his clothing, and six American watches in his pockets.

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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...


The Locked Trunk: A Colonial Ghost Story from Henry James | #RetroRadio
The Locked Trunk: A Colonial Ghost Story from Henry James | #RetroRadio episode artwork
08/26/2026

In colonial Massachusetts, a dying woman made her husband lock her gowns and jewels in an attic trunk and swear that her sister would never open it – a promise Henry James turned into one of the coldest ghost stories he ever wrote.

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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 Locked Trunk” (July 21, 1978) ***WD
00:46:18.627 = Quiet Please, “Shadow Of...


FUTURE FEAR: Some Futures Are Better Left Unwatched | #RetroRadio
FUTURE FEAR: Some Futures Are Better Left Unwatched | #RetroRadio episode artwork
08/24/2026

An old television set starts picking up broadcasts from years that haven't happened yet, and what the couple watching sees convinces them that some futures are worth killing to prevent.

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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 Further You Go, The Less You Know” (July 20, 1978) ***WD
00:44:53.980 = CBC Nightfall, “Future Fear” (August 15, 1980) ***WD
01:09:30.588 = Nightmare, “Chance of a Ghost”...


The Maydew Sisters and the House in Brickett Bottom (Paxton’s House) | #RetroRadio
The Maydew Sisters and the House in Brickett Bottom (Paxton’s House) | #RetroRadio episode artwork
08/24/2026

Two sisters walking the Overbury downs at dusk spot a quaint red brick house at the bend of the road in Brickett Bottom, and only one of them can see it.

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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 Village of Fools” (July 13, 1978) ***WD
00:44:37.562 = Michael Shayne, “Body By The Piano” (June 25, 1945)
01:14:10.963 = Beyond Midnight, “Paxtons House” (November 08, 1...


The Green Light (Organ) | #RetroRadio
The Green Light (Organ) | #RetroRadio episode artwork
08/23/2026

Fifty dollars a month for a furnished mansion in the country seems like the bargain of a lifetime, right up until they hear organ music in the house where no organ can be found. 

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Guardian Angel” (July 11, 1978) ***WD
00:45:33.714 = Jeff Regan, “The House By The Sea” (September 04, 1948) ***WD
01:16:21.321 = The Key, “Robbe...


The Neighbor – The Man Who Doesn't Eat Or Sleep | #RetroRadio
The Neighbor – The Man Who Doesn't Eat Or Sleep | #RetroRadio episode artwork
08/23/2026

The man who bought the twenty-room house next door to the Powells keeps no car, no telephone, and every light in the place burning through the night, and a neighbor's dog that trots up his front walk drops dead on it without a mark.

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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Sound Advice” (July 10, 1978) ***WD
00:46:00.024 = Theater Five...


Last Train to Claybrough – The 4:15 Express | #RetroRadio
Last Train to Claybrough – The 4:15 Express | #RetroRadio episode artwork
08/21/2026

A man boards the 4:15 out of London in December of 1856, shares a locked compartment with a fellow passenger the whole way, and steps off to find that everyone insists he traveled alone.

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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 4:15 Express” (July 07, 1978) ***WD
00:44:56.311 = Danger Dr Danfield, “Harriet Miller” (September 29, 1946)
01:11:23.113 = The Devil and Mr. O, “Rocket From Manhatt...


THE GHOST GOES WEST: A Haunted Scottish Castle Shipped to Florida | #RetroRadio
THE GHOST GOES WEST: A Haunted Scottish Castle Shipped to Florida | #RetroRadio episode artwork
08/19/2026

Murdoch Glourie has walked the halls of his family's Scottish castle every midnight for two hundred years, and now an American grocery millionaire has bought the place and means to ship it – ghost included – to Florida.

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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 Good Times Express” (June 30, 1978) ***WD
00:43:19.189 = The Black Book, “My Favorite Corpse” (February 24, 1952) ***WD
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