Suspense and Horror – Retro Radio Podcast

Take a ride on a foggy night as a young woman runs out on her ailing husband to get a divorce. Mildred and her lover, Hillary speed through the night and run down a pedestrian. Is it a convenience, or a complication when the man turns out to be Mildred’s husband? A hasty plan to establish an alibi is concocted. Police believe that Mildred’s emotional state is grief over her dead husband, but witnessers are found who might identify her and Hillary as the man and woman in the hit and run case. To keep the web of lies from unravelling, blackmail enters the picture. Anger, outrage, and fear lead to a deadly situation. Will Hillary get away with murder once again? Another foggy night brings the suspense to a head. Everything is falling into place to the advantage of Hillary, but there’s still a twist ending that ensures that justice is done.

Alternate Title: Neanderthal. A banker and a diplomat disagree on their politics, but the trouble at hand seems to be in getting their broken down car to start. As they motor through the ancient woods and hills, they are in the region of where cavemen lived, neanderthals. What can be known with certainty what the cave men looked like? After their car crashes, and goes off a cliff, Jeffery, Kay, and Claude find themselves banged up, but alive. The warm, sunny day now feels cold and wintery. Can they have somehow been transported through time and space to a strange land? People are spotted who look oddly like… neanderthals. Kay is missing, but Jeffery is having trouble processing the sight of the campfire, and cave men he sees. Is their time travel something that can be reasond away? Is there any way to the world they left behind, or will they be stranded in the distant past? Will Jeffery be able to defeat the cave men using his superior intellect, or technology? Compare to Dark Fantasy – Curse of the Neanderthal. ep8, 420109 a slightly different story, but still features neanderthals.

Mark is a man who has found love, but no matter how he looks at it, it’s a decision he made too late. He doubts his wife’s asthema is for real, and the city boy is disgruntled over quiet life in the dusty desert. Secrets begin emerging, and has Mark been keeping secrets from his wife. An affair maybe? Two years of marriage end up in murder. Mark’s cute young bride belives the story that Emma ran off, and suggests a more permanent arrangement. What does Mark have to lose? Will her plan for the fake murder work? Commercial time. As is the custom in the Whistler radio program, a dark twist awaits that ensures the guilty party get what’s coming to them. Can Mark keep up his job of acting, and come into the money he stands to gain from the marriage? Guilt, nerves, a botched cover up, or will something else bring certain justice? There’s sure to be suspense as the answers unfold.

Most likely the wrong date, probably from 1949 instead. Lamonte Cranston and Margot Lane are on a scavenger hunt on a foggy, creepy night. A scream from a warehouse has them on the scene of a murder. A huge cat flees the scene, and after the police arrive Lamonte learns that this is the third murder at the warehouse this month. Is the warehouse haunted? Despite being guarded, no one knows how the murders have taken place. Lamonte plans on playing security guard, but doesn’t want Margot to join him. Will they be in danger when the cat comes back? Later, the Shadow claims to know how it was done, and implies he has a personal stake in the matter. Hang on for spooky events to unfold as the Shadow springs into action to rescue Margot, and trap the killer who is behind the crimes.

It’s an all female cast of stars that present tonights drama. The Nash Institution is a finishing school where the rumor mill has it that a young lady has killed herself. Life among the teachers and students settles into a cheery routine. Or is it that the teacher is just oblivious to the dramatic undercurrents that run among the students. Are the students playing on the trust of their teacher? Is there a power struggle as the faculty butt heads? It all adds layers to the drama of life in the charm school. The gals decide to hold a seance where more secrets are revealed. Has the added suspense caused one of the students to have a heart attack? The weight of tragedy on the teacher’s soul becomes even greater when she learns the student with the weak heart has died. Did someone poison the girl? The drama gets so deep you’ll need hip boots to wade through it all. Oh the drama, Oh the pathos, Oh the tragedy. There’s a mystery afoot. Just what is the evidence and motive? What proof is there? There’s ominous word from the supernatural to indicate the tragedy isn’t over yet. A shot rings out, the cops are called, the real killer has killed herself.

Features Peter Lorre. Peter plays Herman, a professer of biology who is digging in the basement to prepare his devils garden, a type of orchid garden. His wife is upset over the whole idea. She is a bit of a nag who pushes him along in her plans, and to get ready for their trip to America. The henpecked and slightly absent minded man has had enough. He flirts with a sales gal over some books he ordered on orchids. The man begins to undermine his wife’s plans to make their trip, and be back for Christmas. As he pursues his love interest on the side, he puts into motion events that cause his wife’s death. A few friends stop in for a last minute farewell. He has his own plan to kill his wife, and drop her in the hole in the basement. He makes the sea voyage, claiming his wife is too ill to leave the cabin. Once in New York, he meets his new love interest, they marry and travel as man and wife. Now with no plans to ever return, he enjoys his life and freedom to live on the spur of the moment. His freedom comes to an end as his dead wife’s tightly woven plans comes to haunt him. He gets a telegram, as though from the grave that proves that he will indeed be back home for Christmas.

A secretary at a financial investment firm isn’t content with earning money the honest way. With the help of a shady friend, they plan on making their own enhancements to the tune of a $45k profit for themselves. They’ve cooked up the books, and stashed away a pile of bonds, but a discrepancy of a penny is all it takes for her boss to want to go over the figures again. When she tries to get the bonds back from Yancey to cover her tracks, he suddenly thinks that she’s trying to cut him out of the deal. Millie has also managed to get on the wrong side of her boss, and bad luck begins to plague her every step. Will she be able to beat the clock and have the missing bonds back in time? Is Yancey leaving town on her, and taking the bonds with him? He promises to give them back, but only after she has been audited. In the heat of an argument Millie kills Yancey, but now she has to figure out where he hid the bonds, before someone rushes in to see what the shots were about and get caught with the smoking gun. A twist ending waits when detective Kelley listens to her tell the whole story. If you pay attention to the air date of this episode, you’ll guess what it is that could have bought Millie some time. All she had to do was wait for the bonds, and all would have been well.

Refusing to leave his house, the doctor can’t help his aging patient, played by Ernest Chapel, the way he would like. The wound received from the old, black powder gun stands to cause infections. Are there really ghosts in the house, or is Erneest just delirious? Noises are described. Beating on doors, hammering, a woman crying, finding a door, where there isn’t any door. Is the door locked? Does someone need help? What would happen if the ghost came out? More ghostly encounters reveal footsteps in the snow outside. then the nearly unintelligible voices become more real. What message do they have for Ernest? Is he just dreaming? The ghost comes every night. With the lure of the ghostly visitor,, can Ernest stay, or should he go? What would that mean for him, no matter how he decides?

If you frighten easily, turn off your radio now… or podcatcher, as the case may be. What’s wrong with the world today… money. Nobody ever has enough, and all they want is more of it. Tony is the best deep sea diver, and can’t believe his crew mate, Sven, would rather be back on the farm. A sweepstakes would be the answer to Tony’s problems, or let Sven quit and go back to the farm. It might also be the thing to drive a wedge into the friendship. A wedge in the form of a knife into his friend so Tony can swipe the winning ticket. Rolling in the dough, Tony parties with a different crowd of friends. Tony’s high spirits come crashing down when he gets home, and learns there could be a ghostly man pursuing him. Soon every cop in town is on the hunt for Tony after he guns one of them down in his paranoia. Is there any place to hide? The lure of diving for more treasure sends Tony back out to sea, but new troubles are in his future. Will he make a dangerous dive, in rough seas? Is any amount of cash worth the risk to his life?

In Boston, a man has a horrifying tale to tel. The man, a medical doctor, has a box that contains the head of another man. He goes to a tatoo salon to seek help. He is apparently a friend of the shop owner, and relates through flashback, his recent adventure. A talking bird lands on his open window sill. He has been overworked, and stressed, when a man introduces himself offering help. He’s the owner of the talking bird, but who is he? What’s the deal with that bird? He keeps saying the tag line to the radio show, Lights Out, “It’s later than you think.” OK, and Edgar Allen Poe. The odd visitor only adds mystery to the confused doctors life. People he refers to are soon dead. Is the stranger the murder? If you’ve listened close, you’ll have figured out that he is death. But, how could the doctor had beheaded him? Will it help keep doom from his own fate? That’s the bitg question that will be answered in the suspenseful, and horrifying conclusion.

Retracing the steps of their honeymoon, John and his bride revisit a quaint old curio shop in Chinatown. A after 20 years it looks virtually unchanged. What should they pick up as a souvenir? A rose crystal bell seems to be the thing, and the warning of a ccurse it has on it only drives the sale. To prevent evil, the old shop owner had removed the clapper of the bell, so only a flat tone ever comes from it. Will the bride fix it up to make the bell ring properly? How bad can that little old evil curse be? As John returns to his practice as a brain surgeon, death seems to mysteriously be near when the bell rings. Does the bell really have the power to determine who is cured, or comes back from a near death situation? How will the evil in the bell be appeased, to stop its reign of the deadly curse?

Arnold is a man who is contemplating leaving his wife. He helps around the house, and responds to his talkative wife’s every request. Evelyn is more heartbroken over her broken dishes than paying attention to the needs of her husband. Evelyn is a nice person, but it’s a classic situation of a couple who has one person having their love tank filled, while the other is desperately empty. It’s enough to find Arnold planning a murder. Has the perfect crime been committed? Will Arnold be able to play it off as the distraught husband, and have a perfect alibi? The waiting game that Arnold has put himself through is a recipe for suspense. The clock ticks, the pressure grows, the emotional strain is pushed to the brink. Nerves frazzle, paranoia sets in. All Arnold has to do is keep his cool until the body is found. Has someone discovered Arnold’s murderous plan? Justice comes. Will Arnold tip his hand? Will a more explosive twist ending bring about a more satisfying end to our killer? Features Elliot Lewis as Arnold.

A story with no terror, but of a strange and wonderful day. At the time this show was produced, World War 2 was raging. It was probably becoming hard to imagine a day when it would all be over. A young couple spend the day together, The last thing they want to hear is news from the war as they visit the observation platform of a sky scraper. From their vantage point, distant from the city below it’s easy to imagine a world without all the grit and grime of life. The newlyweds make observations as they see the sights. Something strange seems to be brewing in the clouds as they talk about their future, and what it may hold. Time comes to descend back to street level, and reality. Suddenly they seem to be the only people in the world. Technology seems to be out of service. Unease sets in, and maybe a little worry. What does this mean? What is going on? With all the horrors of war, might this be one answer of how God might intervene?

Our gruesomely punny host presents a newspaper story. A story of a man, the doll of a dead girl, and the devil. How did such a scene come to be? The man, a reporter for the newspaper goes into flashback sequence to fill in the details. Ten days earlier, the reporter visited the morgue about a story of a young woman who was murdered, and was brought in still clutching a doll. The cops don’t think it’s a murder, but the editor lets the reporter investigate. Questions explode in the reporters head. If only the doll could talk. Suddenly, it does. Obsessed with the case, and on a long walk to clear his head, he meets the man who made the doll. Secrets are revealed, but are they secrets that should be left alone? What connection does this dollmaker and painter have with the girl, and with the devil? The reporter thinks the devil in question is more natural than supernatural, and has a trap to spring. . He uses himself for the bait, but has he bitten off more than he can chew? Well, that’s where the story began. The twist ending will reveal the answers, but I won’t.

Sam is a gangster who lays it on the line for a gal who is dating his brother. He wants her to leave him alone and break it off. Will Irene take his offer and train ticket, and leave town for work elsewhere? What does Joe have to say on the matter? Joe doesn’t want to cross his brother, and it takes a confrontation at gunpoint with Irene to begin to move him to run away with her. In writing a note to Sam to say that he’s leaving, his cowardice kicks in. An argument ensues, a gunshot is fired in the heat of the moment. An accident maybe? With the note conveniently also sounding like a suicide note, Irene sets the scene to point that way for the cops. Nerves get to Irene, especially when she has a house guest. How much did the woman learn? Was she really so sound asleep when Irene came and went on her murderous meeting with Joe? A phone call from Sam makes it clear that her handiwork was indeed enough to fool the cops, but not him. Sam’s death threats have Irene on the run, and she’s paranoid at the thought that someone is following her to do her in. Desperation sets in when her house guest has managed to find her, and is on the same train. Gunplay is unavoidable to keep secrets quiet. But will it really? The Whistler holds other plans for a more complete justice. Note: There’s a cameo from Jack Benny at the beginning as the Fiddler. It’s due to an episode where the Whistler appeared on his show a few days earlier.