Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark

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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23 episodes
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Yesterday · 5 hr 6 min
The Clock That Spoke of Murder | #RetroRadio
“The Speaking Clock”: In a Bond Street antique shop where a hundred clocks tick out of time and one of them speaks with a dead man's voice. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other...
Yesterday · 5 hr 8 min
INSECT: Trapped With The Monster! | #RetroRadio
A young scientist's growth-ray experiment leaves his terrified wife and a delivery boy trapped in a locked laboratory with a monstrous, six-foot creature they're certain will devour them — while the truth about what they're facing waits until the very...
Saturday · 4 hr 59 min
Arctic Encounter: The Silence At The Top Of The World | #RetroRadio
Two enemy fighter pilots—one American, one Soviet—crash side by side in the frozen Arctic, drained of all power by something that fell from the stars and is patiently waiting for them to freeze. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart...
Friday · 5 hr 5 min
Window to Oblivion: The Flight That Fell Through Time | #RetroRadio
A Marine pilot vanished over the Atlantic in 1945 with no wreckage, no body, and no explanation — and more than thirty years later, forty people would swear he was still alive. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon...
Thursday · 5 hr 1 min
The Marksman's Ring And The Nurse Who Turned Him Down | #RetroRadio
“The Girl He Left Behind”: A young nurse turns down her soldier sweetheart's marriage proposal but keeps the ring he insists she hold onto, and when word arrives that he was killed on the drive back to base, she discovers that the dead do not always...
Wednesday · 5 hr 11 min
The Clockwork Confession (Ninety-Three-Year-Old Man) | #RetroRadio
An aging millionaire’s fixation on a battered toy car draws his family into a tense mystery rooted in a tragedy from the past. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast...
Tuesday · 5 hr 2 min
The 10,000-Year Brain That Would Not Die (I Am Your Brother) | #RetroRadio
There is a story about a man who knew everything the world would ever know because he claimed to be born ten thousand years too soon — a man who could foresee every future but his own, and who spent his life searching for the one person alive who...
August 3 · 5 hr 1 min
The Ghost Who Judged Her Every Suitor: Edmund Orme | #RetroRadio
Every time David Delano tries to propose to the beautiful Charlotte Marsden, a figure in old-fashioned evening dress appears in the room — visible only to him and to Charlotte's mother — and neither of them will explain who he is or why he keeps...
August 2 · 5 hr 6 min
The Secret of Shen Si: The Widow of a Thousand Disasters | #RetroRadio
A young bride's uncanny knowledge of history's deadliest catastrophes convinces her husband she's hiding something — but the truth behind her secret is older than he could ever imagine. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio,...
July 30 · 5 hr 6 min
ROOM 418: The Wrong Room to Hide a Body In | #RetroRadio
A killer holes up in a snowbound hotel room with a dead woman in the closet — and finds he can't stop talking to her. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a...
July 30 · 5 hr
Death And Desire: A Tale of Fake Séances and Real Ghosts | #RetroRadio
A phony spiritualist who fakes contact with the dead to swindle grieving clients gets more than she bargained for when the voices calling back from Summerland might not be fake after all. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart...
July 28 · 5 hr 2 min
Nightmare: The Eight Doors | #RetroRadio
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. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other...
July 28 · 4 hr 59 min
Journey to Somewhere: A Train Full of Passengers Who Had Given Up on Life | #RetroRadio
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...
July 28 · 11 min
Emergency Update: Cyberattack Nearly Ended Weird Darkness
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...
July 27 · 5 hr
The Mystery of the Tangled Way | #RetroRadio
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. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon...
July 25 · 5 hr 1 min
The House On Chimney Pot Lane: The Jungle In The Den, The Lion In The Wall | #RetroRadio
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. Look...
July 24 · 5 hr 8 min
The Beauty Queen Who Woke Up in the Year 3000 | #RetroRadio
“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. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music,...
July 23 · 4 hr 55 min
Bet With The Angels: Lou Marvin Died, Then Started Picking Winners | #RetroRadio
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...
July 22 · 4 hr 57 min
The Anitra: The Waterlogged Boat That Haunted Professor Anders | #RetroRadio
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. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart...
July 21 · 4 hr 46 min
Markheim and the Voice Whispering Murder | #RetroRadio
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. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio,...