Unknown Broadcast Episodes

Unknown Broadcast celebrates the dark side of Christmas with five complete old-time radio stories filled with snowbound roads, fugitives, haunted gifts, buried secrets, and second sight. Warm lights and family reunions sit beside ghost towns, murder, deception, and supernatural inheritance in this holiday horror marathon. Inside this episode: • A Holiday Visit — Joan and Skip Bartram drive through an Ohio snowstorm on their way to a long-awaited family Christmas. An unmarked detour, a crash, and...

Unknown Broadcast gathers four classic old-time radio dramas built around fear: fear of betrayal, fear of madness, fear of accusation, and fear carefully used as a weapon. A lonely villa, a disturbing painting, a bank robbery, and a stranger who claims to control another person’s destiny become four very different traps. Inside this episode: • House of Fear — In this Whistler story, Paul Garson cannot accept Lana Wallace’s decision to marry the older Gregory Hellman. When Lana’s new marriage tur...

Unknown Broadcast presents four complete old-time radio murder mysteries in which memory, meticulous planning, forgotten promises, and professional pride become deadly traps. These stories move from stage illusion and cemetery visions to a blueprint for murder and a writer who discovers that killing may be the only business he truly understands. Inside this episode: • Memory of a Murder — Harry Jonas is haunted by a vision connected to a cemetery, a vanished man, and Constantine’s dangerous vaud...

Unknown Broadcast opens the vault for four classic old-time radio thrillers about lost places, dangerous discoveries, and people trapped by the choices they make. From a treasure hunt beneath the desert to a condemned man’s final journey, every story turns escape into another form of captivity. Inside this episode: • The Lost Ship — Harry and Viola flee into the desert, where a hermit’s tale of a Spanish galleon buried beneath the sand awakens Harry’s greed. Gold doubloons, a lost ship, and a ri...

Two classic radio dramas cross a time-bending New Hampshire bridge and follow a bloodstained rapier toward murder on Manhattan’s waterfront. This Unknown Broadcast pairs CBS Radio Mystery Theater’s “The Covered Bridge,” written by Ian Martin, with Inner Sanctum’s “The Edge of Death,” starring Larry Haines. A honeymoon slips into another century, then an antique weapon tied to Rasputin draws two friends into obsession, violence, and supernatural dread. In “The Covered Bridge,” a honeymoon journ...

Anne Winslow’s rainy-night taxi ride turns deadly when she discovers a man with a cut throat beside her—and the body disappears inside her home. After missing her train, Anne accepts a cab ride to her isolated house. A silent passenger slumped against her shoulder proves to be a corpse, but the driver refuses to explain how the dead man reached the back seat. Instead, he carries the body into Anne’s living room, leaves her alone with it during a storm, and drives away while the telephone lines ...

In this episode, I explore the intricate narrative of loyalty and moral conflict in "Thicker Than Water." The story centers on Nick Wedge, a defense attorney navigating the treacherous waters of a murder trial involving his client, Benny Bleeker. From a mugging gone tragically wrong to the intense courtroom battles that ensue, I dissect the dynamics of familial ties and the ethical dilemmas that shape Wedge’s journey. As witness testimonies unfold and evidence mounts, Wedge confronts his own bel...

Attorney Ned Murray wins Louis Rydell’s murder acquittal—then his client privately confesses and boasts that he may kill the next man who angers him. The admission leaves Ned trapped between justice and the law. Double jeopardy prevents another trial for the killing of grocery boy Yost, while attorney-client privilege threatens Ned’s career if he reveals what Rydell said. His boss, Harry Ostrow, demands silence; his fiancée, Karen, urges him not to sacrifice their future; and the district attor...

A serial killer’s death chamber opens seven Halloween radio nightmares about haunted voices, wax murderers, poisoned marriages, and revenge. “Murder Castle” follows Henry Stewart as he lures unattached women with job advertisements, demands a cash surety bond, and hides murder inside a carefully designed home. In “Mind Over Murder,” dry-goods merchant Sam Morrison ignores a violent crime near a bus station, only to have the number 4826 invade his conscience through license plates, a police badg...

A vanished mother, a walking skull, a cataleptic man mistaken for dead, and an executive’s buried identity anchor four classic radio mysteries. Escape’s “The Vanishing Lady,” based on Alexander Woollcott’s version of the legend, sends young Cynthia Winship and her ill mother into a crowded Paris hotel during the great exposition. A doctor dispatches Cynthia across the city for medicine; when she returns, the hotel register, room, staff, and every trace of Mrs. Winship have been changed. British...

Four vintage radio nightmares confront a deadly image, something unearthed from a grave, a fogbound murder, and a man tormented by voices. This Unknown Broadcast presents “Death Has Claws,” “We Dug It Up,” “Confession,” and “The Man Who Heard Voices.” The lineup draws on Inner Sanctum, Lights Out, Escape, and CBS Radio Mystery Theater for macabre suspense involving obsession, buried secrets, shell-shocked perception, and voices with lethal intentions. “Death Has Claws” opens with an image whos...

Four classic radio thrillers bring together a condemned prisoner, a family ghost, a rat-swarmed lighthouse, and a house no investigator can survive. This Unknown Broadcast includes Suspense’s “The Hangman Won’t Wait,” Inner Sanctum’s “Mark My Grave,” Escape’s Vincent Price classic “Three Skeleton Key,” and CBS Radio Mystery Theater’s “A Ghostly Game of Death.” Murder mystery, supernatural dread, and isolated survival make this an old-time-radio horror marathon. “The Hangman Won’t Wait” uses a ...

Rosalind Wallace believes she has engineered the perfect murder, but an ugly gold butterfly pin awakens the twelfth juror’s buried memory. For seven years, wealthy Rosalind has controlled Edward Albritton through a secret affair. When he tries to return to his wife, she shoots him and coerces vulnerable employee Alfred Graham into confessing. Alfred’s fingerprints are on the weapon, his financial crimes supply a motive, and Rosalind’s testimony appears to guarantee a conviction. The plan is so ...

A horror writer working late on one final Lights Out script imagines a monster so intensely that the creature steps out of his mind and into the room. Arch Oboler places a version of himself at the center of “The Author and the Thing.” Exhausted by deadlines, ghosts, blood, and the demand for another terrifying broadcast, the writer sends his secretary Miss Goddard home and struggles alone with an unfinished play. A medieval text beside him warns that seven days and nights spent concentrating o...

Diver Trent Hall searches the Paraguay River for the Santa Rosa’s lost gold, where betrayal above water and piranhas below threaten every breath. Trent is working dangerous, low-paying dives in Argentina when Vincent Murdoch returns with an irresistible proposition. Fourteen years earlier, during war between Bolivia and Paraguay, the Santa Rosa vanished while carrying millions in gold toward Brazil. Murdoch claims that Maria Sandoval’s traumatized father is the only survivor and can guide them ...

Hollywood star Laura Lane’s premiere-night party becomes a cover-up when the husband everyone believes dead walks into her bedroom demanding his share. Laura has fought her way from an obscure past as Gloria Gordon to become the celebrated star of “Star-Crossed Love.” Her studio expects smiles, interviews, and perfect publicity at the lavish party following the film’s premiere. Behind the glamorous image is George, the brutal first husband thought to have died during a Newark holdup—and the sec...

After Sam Croft nearly strangles his wife Dora during a vicious argument, an impossible figure crashes into their fifth-floor Bronx apartment. Sam feels trapped between a domineering mother and a wife who mocks his work and resents the life they share. When their latest fight turns violent, a broken window announces the arrival of a silent, terrifying visitor. The figure blocks the door, watches the couple, and seems capable of crushing their throats—yet the superintendent’s daughter and the re...

A couple exploring an Appalachian back road is abducted so a dying mountain patriarch can pass his sins to an unwilling stranger. Teacher and folk-music researcher James Reed hopes the remote hills may preserve old ballads and customs. His younger wife Lucille is less enchanted by the isolation. After a local police officer advises them to continue toward town, armed brothers Luther and Jesse force the couple from their car and march them to a family cabin beside an open grave. The family’s an...

Stephen Loring searches Burma for a missing friend and follows temple bells into a jungle ruin ruled by a knife-wielding high priestess. Campbell’s last letter was posted from Mandalay, but local knowledge points Loring south toward Pugan and the ancient shrines his friend had been studying. Mung Ba, the devoted Burmese guide who worked for Campbell, arrives with a carefully repeated invitation to make the difficult river journey. The deeper Loring travels, the more warnings he hears about the ...

Fleeing New York after murdering his wife, John Thompson picks up a hitchhiker who looks exactly like the woman he killed. John crosses the George Washington Bridge in a blue coupe, planning to leave his old life behind and start over in the West. A young woman named Anne waits beside the New Jersey highway. She calls him Johnny, requests “Stardust” on the radio, and awakens a memory he is desperate to suppress. When a struggle at the wheel causes a crash, John believes he has killed her—only f...

A relentless heat wave and a public-beach feud push George Pettit past the breaking point after years of criticism from his wife Myra. Myra insists on renting a beach cottage, then tries to claim the public sand in front of it as private property. She orders George to post no-trespassing signs, arrange chairs as a barrier, and drive away a young couple who settle nearby. When they refuse to move, Myra uses an old phonograph record as sonic harassment; the visitors return with music of their own...

Claire Collins refuses to sleep because a recurring nightmare forces her to face the child she murdered—and this time she may not wake up. After six days of insomnia, Claire’s husband Charles sends her to a doctor. She admits that she fears one specific dream but will not explain why. Whenever exhaustion wins, Claire walks an endless street into a house where a boy asks, “Where’s my father?” She gives him a drink to silence him, then flees through a tunnel toward a black river while something f...

A condemned gangster promises to kill the friend who betrayed him within one month of his execution—and keeps the deadline from beyond the grave. Johnny Promo, known as Johnny Promise, dies in the electric chair for murdering Officer Cochran after a failed bank robbery. In court he swears that prosecution witness Sam Rogers will have no more than a month to live. Johnny has money, loyal associates, and a reputation for never breaking his word, so Sam hides on the ninth floor of a cheap hotel an...

A wartime cargo ship crossing the Pacific reaches the birth of an undersea volcano, where superheated water and volcanic debris surround the crew. The voyage begins as wartime transport across a vast ocean, but strange heat, discoloration, and violent movement in the sea warn that the danger is rising from below. The ship has entered a region where the ocean floor is rupturing. Steam rolls across the surface, pumice and ash threaten the vessel, and water hot enough to kill makes abandoning ship...