Unknown Broadcast Episodes

Ronald Adams leaves Brooklyn for California, but the same rain-soaked hitchhiker appears ahead of his car across hundreds of impossible miles. At first Ronald treats the figure as a coincidence. He sees the thin man on the Brooklyn Bridge, then again on the Pulaski Skyway, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and roads farther west—always carrying the same cheap overnight bag and silently asking for a ride. Gas-station attendants insist no hitchhiker could have reached those places, yet the stranger cont...

Clockmaker Sebastian Packer finds Cleopatra’s Clock—the 500-pound black-marble machine that crushed his father thirty years earlier. Built in Italy for a prince of the House of Savoy in 1598, the clock is carved with Egyptian imagery and designed to run on forty gold coins associated with Cleopatra and a royal poisoning. Sebastian has carried those blood-stained coins since boyhood, when his cousin Andrew used the clock’s hidden mechanism to make his father’s death look accidental. The coins a...

Country doctor Edmund Bickleigh stands trial for murdering his wife Julia after carefully turning her headaches into the cover for poison. To neighbors and patients, Edmund appears respectable, patient, and devoted. In private, he is suffocated by an unhappy marriage and consumed by his affair with Madeline Cranmere. When Julia refuses to release him, Edmund begins constructing a medical alibi: a compound that produces severe headaches, public concern for his wife’s symptoms, and morphine injec...

A Russian revolutionary plots to destroy Saint Basil’s Cathedral at New Year’s midnight mass with the tsar and imperial court inside. Boris recruits Olga Korolska, a servant in Prince Ogarev’s household, and uses her devotion to reach the jealous aristocrat. Ogarev wants revenge after his wife leaves him for the tsar; Boris wants one explosion to kill the ruler, his ministers, and the court. Their plan calls for sixty pounds of melanite hidden beside the cathedral’s pillars and wired to an apar...

“A Christmas Carol” leads five vintage Christmas radio dramas about haunted memory, desperate choices, wartime mystery, and unexpected redemption. E. G. Marshall performs Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” in the CBS Radio Mystery Theater version adapted by Ian Martin. Ebenezer Scrooge’s encounters with the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come remain the supernatural center of the collection. Greer Garson stars in the Suspense drama “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” while D...

Four vintage radio dramas summon an incubus in Scotland, revisit Paul Revere’s ride, unleash living darkness, and place Lucille Ball inside a murder plot. “Speak of the Devil” brings Mary Ellen and Michael to Aunt Jeannie’s home near Scotland’s Solway Firth. A séance and an experiment with the occult draw something ancient into the household, turning folklore about the incubus into intimate supernatural danger. Stephen Vincent Benét’s “A Tooth for Paul Revere” enters a strange wizard’s worksho...

Four vintage radio dramas explore a disputed death, a sea captain’s dangerous habits, a midnight killer, and an accused man’s missing fortune. “Cold Storage” brings a visitor to Westerley, an old Maryland estate shadowed by a wealthy woman’s apparent death, a contested inheritance, and fears that a body may not remain safely in its grave. The mystery turns family greed and medical uncertainty into Gothic suspense. In “Habit,” Captain Weatherfield’s absolute devotion to routine shapes every dec...

Four vintage radio dramas bring an occult curse, a future built on suppressed violence, a writer’s living monster, and a murder statement under pressure. M. R. James’s “Casting the Runes” follows a scholar marked by a slip of paper bearing forbidden symbols. The runes carry a deadline and a supernatural sentence, turning research and skepticism into a race to return the curse before it is fulfilled. “Resident Killer” imagines a future society determined to eliminate aggression, where Commander...

“The Voice That Wouldn’t Die” haunts a Scottish estate with a child’s cry; “The Fast One” turns superhuman speed into a fatal experiment. In “The Voice That Wouldn’t Die,” a father returns from India with his seventeen-year-old daughter, Rowena, to a remote ancestral property in Scotland. Stories surrounding her dead mother, ruined ground near the estate, and the persistent voice of a child draw the family into a mystery that seems rooted in the land and its history. “The Fast One” follows det...

“The Lost Ship” sends two fugitives after a Spanish galleon buried in the desert; “State Executioner” follows a royal hangman haunted by the dead. In “The Lost Ship,” Harry and Viola flee the police across a hostile stretch of desert. A legend promises that an old Spanish ship lies stranded beneath the sand with treasure still aboard. Their search turns escape into obsession as thirst, greed, and the impossible outline of a vessel pull the pair farther from safety. “State Executioner” enters t...

“Carnival in Vienna” brings a deadly clown to the edge of the Iron Curtain; “Chicken Heart” unleashes an experiment that may consume the world. In “Carnival in Vienna,” American traveler John Allison enters a shadowy Austrian carnival where a roulette game promises uncanny knowledge of the future. The attraction becomes a trap involving a murderous clown, armed pursuers, and Russian soldiers beyond the border. What begins as Cold War intrigue turns into a desperate escape through a place where ...

“Something on His Mind” turns a Borneo love triangle into an insect nightmare, while “The Silver Shoe” follows a dead woman’s impossible double. In “Something on His Mind,” plantation partners George Tring and Clifford Macy are reunited when George returns to Borneo with his new bride, Rona. Clifford’s attraction to her and George’s growing jealousy transform an isolated homecoming into calculated revenge. The weapon is not a gun or knife but an earwig—and the possibility that the insect has ca...

A haunted railway signal, four shipwrecked men, two killers meeting the Devil, and a revenge letter drive this four-story radio anthology. “Hello Down There,” introduced in the broadcast by its familiar title “The Signal-Man,” descends into a lonely railway cutting where a signalman sees an apparition beside a tunnel mouth. Each warning—an arm across the face, a desperate cry to clear the way—seems to precede disaster, leaving his visitor to decide whether the danger is supernatural or tragical...

Four vintage radio nightmares—“Poltergeist,” “The Visit,” “Sleep Is for Children,” and “Three Skeleton Key”—fill this extended Unknown Broadcast. The lineup moves from violent hauntings and sleepless fear to George Toudouze’s famous lighthouse siege by ravenous rats, creating a substantial Halloween-season radio marathon. “Poltergeist” and “The Visit” bring violent or unwanted supernatural company into spaces that should feel safe. “Sleep Is for Children” turns exhaustion and the fear of closi...

A faceless woman in a walled hotel garden and a living killer inside a wax museum create two classic radio nightmares about forbidden faces. In Beyond Midnight’s “Let Me See Your Face,” Simon Crutchley withdraws from his friends after a trip leaves his black hair shock-white. At L’Hôtel d’Avignore, he repeatedly sees a veiled woman sitting alone in the rear garden. A chambermaid makes the sign of the cross, headwaiter Pierre urges him to move into a sunny front room, and every warning only deep...

A broke journalist spends the night among wax murderers before a second radio nightmare unleashes a dog-sized spider in the upper Amazon. Beyond Midnight’s “A Night in Murder’s Den” sends Raymond Hewson into Mariner’s Waxworks to earn money from an overnight newspaper feature. The cellar’s Chamber of Horrors contains effigies of infamous killers, but one figure is different: Dr. Bourdette, the missing Parisian throat-cutter whose hypnotic eyes and carefully held razor appear to follow Hewson wh...

A fugitive hides inside a Caribbean church while an assassin studies every worshipper; then “Execution” delivers supernatural wartime judgment. Escape’s “Violent Night,” written by Les Crutchfield, follows plantation owner Barry O’Grady when revolutionary leader Alicron seizes a Caribbean district and comes to settle an old score. Warned by Pepita, Barry flees through his coffee groves, takes Alicron’s daughter Maria hostage, and disguises them both before seeking sanctuary inside a village chu...