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Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark

Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark

Darren Marlar 780 Episodes Oct 14, 2026

Hosted by Darren Marlar, this podcast revives the eerie and suspenseful side of old-time radio. It features classic broadcasts from the darker genres, including horror, macabre mysteries, crime, and dark science fiction. New five-hour marathon episodes are released every day of the week, each with a varied lineup of vintage shows.

Episodes

THE FAMILIAR GHOST: The Footsteps That Followed Captain Barton Home | #RetroRadio
THE FAMILIAR GHOST: The Footsteps That Followed Captain Barton Home | #RetroRadio Oct 14, 2026 19274 A retired navy captain walks home through the Dublin fog on the night his proposal is accepted and hears footsteps behind him the whole way, though every time he turns around, the street is empty.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Familiar Ghost” (December 18, 1978) ***WD00:47:10.481 = Inner Sanctum, “The Girl A
A WARDEN FOR ALL SAINTS: The Black Figurine From The Dig In Syria | #RetroRadio
A WARDEN FOR ALL SAINTS: The Black Figurine From The Dig In Syria | #RetroRadio Oct 14, 2026 18130 A week after losing a bitter election to lead an ancient college, the archaeologist who wanted the job most raises a toast to the winner and hands him a small black figurine from a dig in Syria.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Search for Myra” (December 15, 1978) ***WD00:45:11.054 = BBC Ghosts From The Past, “
WARD SIX: The Only Man In Town Worth Talking To Was Locked Up | #RetroRadio
WARD SIX: The Only Man In Town Worth Talking To Was Locked Up | #RetroRadio Oct 10, 2026 18073 A small-town Russian doctor who's given up on his filthy hospital starts spending hours in the ward for the insane out back, talking philosophy with one of the patients.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All T
A HORROR STORY: The Diary Behind The Chimney Brick On Common Street | #RetroRadio
A HORROR STORY: The Diary Behind The Chimney Brick On Common Street | #RetroRadio Oct 9, 2026 18737 In 1829 New Orleans, a shoemaker whose slippers are the softest in town turns down the fabric a wealthy father brings in for his daughter's debut and insists on using his own material.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIM
THE EXPLODING HEART: A Father's Ghost And An Impossible Operation | #RetroRadio
THE EXPLODING HEART: A Father's Ghost And An Impossible Operation | #RetroRadio Oct 8, 2026 18212 In 1957, a young surgeon finds an aneurysm the size of a grapefruit on the chest X-rays of the man his sister is about to marry, and that night his dead father sits down across the fire to talk the case through.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.ti
THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN: The Psychic Detective Who Finds What He Steals | #RetroRadio
THE DEVIL'S BARGAIN: The Psychic Detective Who Finds What He Steals | #RetroRadio Oct 7, 2026 18207 Lord Carnavan's wife lends a visiting sheikh her carved Indian jewel box for one afternoon, and the morning after she wears her diamond necklace to Buckingham Palace, the necklace is gone from the locked box and her husband wants the psychic detective next door on the case.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. G
THE CASE OF THE BURNING SKULL: The Shadow Hunts A Glowing Skeleton
THE CASE OF THE BURNING SKULL: The Shadow Hunts A Glowing Skeleton Oct 5, 2026 18843 The Shadow: A young chemist tells Lamont Cranston he woke in the night to find a skull burning green and grinning at him in the dark, and by the next morning he's vanished from his own house.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS &a
CHANCE OF A GHOST: The Fake Medium And The Voice She Didn't Fake | #RetroRadio
CHANCE OF A GHOST: The Fake Medium And The Voice She Didn't Fake | #RetroRadio Oct 5, 2026 18022 Sonia Gale makes her living faking séances with rigged wires and trick voices, until a dead man's voice at her table tells a client where the money is hidden and Sonia swears she had nothing to do with it.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/
ALIEN PRESENCES: The Baby From The Burning Wreck In The Ravine | #RetroRadio
ALIEN PRESENCES: The Baby From The Burning Wreck In The Ravine | #RetroRadio Oct 4, 2026 18338 Leaving Antelope Crossings, Nebraska, for a family funeral in 1958, a childless couple watch something spin out of the sky and into a ravine, and the only thing they find alive down there is a crying baby boy.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny
NIGHT VISITOR: The Dead Daughter In The Guest Room At Amphipolis | #RetroRadio
NIGHT VISITOR: The Dead Daughter In The Guest Room At Amphipolis | #RetroRadio Oct 3, 2026 18197 Not long after a couple in ancient Macedonia buries their only daughter, their old servant looks in on a guest from the king's court and finds the girl asleep beside him.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All
THE LATE DEPARTURE: The Eleven O'Clock Train That Wouldn't Leave King's Cross | #RetroRadio
THE LATE DEPARTURE: The Eleven O'Clock Train That Wouldn't Leave King's Cross | #RetroRadio Oct 2, 2026 18695 A 43-year-old London workaholic with high blood pressure races to King's Cross for the eleven o'clock train home, and the train won't leave the station.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)
THE THING AT NOLAN: A Murder Trial With No Body | #RetroRadio
THE THING AT NOLAN: A Murder Trial With No Body | #RetroRadio Oct 1, 2026 18600 In the Missouri Ozarks of 1879, Charles May walks into the woods to dig a ditch on the morning his son swears he'll make him pay for a bloody nose, and he never walks back out.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS

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