Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark
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.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 285 minutes
- Episodes
- 517
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
“H.H. HOLMES: AMERICA’S JACK THE RIPPER” and more! #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness
IN THIS EPISODE: Witchcraft, torture, and a man selling his soul to Satan. Not exactly the kind of events you typically expect before a wedding. (The Devil’s Agent) *** Creativity is usually admired …
02:57:19 |
Sat 29 Jun 2024
“STIKINI, FLYING HEADS, SHAPESHIFTERS, AND MORE NATIVE AMERICAN LORE” #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness
IN THIS EPISODE: Native American people in Oklahoma tell of a vampire-like creature called a stikini, or “man owl”. (The Stikini Vampire) *** The Native American Iroquois are terrified of a flying de…
03:27:04 |
Fri 28 Jun 2024
“REDHEAD GIANTS, DARK WATCHERS, WENDIGO, AND MORE NATIVE AMERICAN LORE” #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness
IN THIS EPISODE: Did the Comanche Indians defeat a race of white, red-haired giants? (White Giants) *** The Illini people have had numerous encounters with a mysterious dragon-like creature that exis…
03:47:19 |
Thu 27 Jun 2024
“CALLING 555-TERROR” – True Tales of Terrifying Telephone Calls! #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness
We usually expect our horror stories to involve a haunted house or a fog-shrouded graveyard. But in modern times some of the most terrifying stories have begun with a simple phone call.
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03:21:39 |
Wed 26 Jun 2024
“HAUNTED CEMETERIES AND GRAVEYARDS” #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness
IN THIS EPISODE: If there’s one thing on Earth that we can all agree is most likely to be haunted, it’s a graveyard. Since the advent of civilization we’ve gathered our dead and placed them in burial…
03:59:26 |
Tue 25 Jun 2024
“GIANT BUGS, MANTIS MEN, AND THE SMURL FAMILY DEMON” and More Terrors! #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness
IN THIS EPISODE: Bugs. Spiders. All manner of creepy crawlies raise goosebumps for many. But even those who have no natural fear of insects might run in terror if they see one the size of a human bei…
05:30:53 |
Mon 24 Jun 2024
“THE BEAST OF BARNSTOM DRAIN” #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness
IN THIS EPISODE: In 2016, there was something of a folk panic in Yorkshire, northern England, following reported sightings of an eight-foot werewolf with a very human face. It’s known as the Beast o…
06:16:23 |
Sun 23 Jun 2024
“PERNICIOUS POLTERGEISTS AND MURDEROUS MANIFESTATIONS” and more! #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness
Full Episode Notes: https://weirddarkness.com/pernicious-poltergeists-and-murderous-manifestations/
IN THIS EPISODE: “Homicidal Poltergeists” *** “The Ghost of a Serial Killer Lurks Within This Abando…
IN THIS EPISODE: “Homicidal Poltergeists” *** “The Ghost of a Serial Killer Lurks Within This Abando…
07:31:38 |
Sat 22 Jun 2024
“GHASTLY AND GRIM GREMLINS” #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness
IN THIS EPISODE: Like an episode of the Twilight Zone, a Qantas flight had to make an emergency landing when a hole appeared seemingly out of nowhere, puncturing in the fuselage and causing the cabin…
05:49:53 |
Fri 21 Jun 2024
BONUS EPISODE: “THE SNARE” by Richard Rein Smith #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness
IN THIS EPISODE: A story originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine in January, 1956.
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00:30:14 |
Thu 20 Jun 2024
“INTERDIMENSIONAL SASQUATCH” #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness
IN THIS EPISODE: Haunted by a shadowy spirit creature which they say lives inside their home, a Gasparillo family is now seeing spiritual help to remove their unwanted guest. (Spirt Creature Tortures…
04:55:27 |
Thu 20 Jun 2024
Full “DRACULA” Audio Drama plus Vampire History and Lore! #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness
IN THIS EPISODE: Everyone knows about Dracula. Most everyone has seen at least one film starring the undead blood-sucker, or has read the novel by Bram Stoker. But only the real fans of Dracula know …
08:31:58 |
Tue 18 Jun 2024
“NO ONE BELIEVES MY PARANORMAL STORY” and more! #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness
IN THIS EPISODE: A creepy true story from Weirdo family member Courtney Rondeau. (It Was The Light That Woke Me) *** The Wendigo. It appears in numerous areas of pop culture, like the TV shows “Super…
05:29:49 |
Mon 17 Jun 2024
“MODERN MONSTERS, TYPHOID MARY, PERPLEXING PREGNANCIES” and more! #RetroRadio #WeirdDarkness
IN THIS EPISODE: On September 18, 1973, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter (later to become President Carter) filed a report with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena claiming he’d se…
05:13:09 |
Sun 16 Jun 2024
#RetroRadio “SCARY STORIES OF SEDUCTIVE SUCCUBI”, “THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT” and more! #WeirdDarkness
IN THIS EPISODE: You’ve crawled into bed ready for a good night’s sleep. You begin to nod off, but haven’t completely fallen asleep yet. That’s when you sense something in the room near your bed. Des…
05:51:40 |
Sat 15 Jun 2024
#RetroRadio “HAUNTED ASYLUMS” and more Creepy True Stories! #WeirdDarkness
IN THIS EPISODE: A man calling himself Roland T. Owen checked into room 1046 of the Hotel President in Kansas City, Missouri, on January 2, 1935. In just two days' time, he would be dead. But no one …
05:46:49 |
Fri 14 Jun 2024
#RetroRadio “THE MOST HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSES IN THE WORLD” #WeirdDarkness
IN THIS EPISODE: Accounts of haunted lighthouses have existed for hundreds of years. To many they are considered to be isolated and romantic. Some lighthouses are possibly haunted due to tragedies fr…
04:16:20 |
Wed 12 Jun 2024
#RetroRadio “Disconcerting Doppelganger Deeds” and More Terrifying True Horrors! #WeirdDarkness
IN THIS EPISODE: Violence, mayhem, even rape. Horrifying atrocities committed by the most evil of human beings – but in one case, in Culver City, California, it wasn’t a man who engaged in these obsc…
04:32:08 |
Tue 11 Jun 2024
#RetroRadio “Those Freaky Fresno Nightcrawlers” and Other Creepy True Tales #WeirdDarkness
IN THIS EPISODE: Sightings of strange, pale creatures are being reported in California – and now over two decades from the first sighting, we still don’t know what the Fresno Nightcrawlers truly are.…
03:29:14 |
Sun 09 Jun 2024
(BONUS EPISODE!) “NEW MURDERS FOR OLD” by Carter Dickson (A Favorite of Alfred Hitchcock!)
Not a regular episode of RetroRadio of course - but it's defintely a retro story!
“NEW MURDERS FOR OLD” by Carter Dickson (A Favorite of Alfred Hitchcock!) #WeirdDarkness #Darkives
IN THIS EPISODE: We …
“NEW MURDERS FOR OLD” by Carter Dickson (A Favorite of Alfred Hitchcock!) #WeirdDarkness #Darkives
IN THIS EPISODE: We …
00:44:34 |
Thu 06 Jun 2024
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