The Whistler: Old Time Radio Mysteries

All Damage Covered (1-30-44)

Sponsored by Signal Oil. A nightclub singer is stuck with her bedridden husband—who also happens to be wildly jealous. She decides the only way out is to start a fire while he’s asleep and make it look like an accident. The music fill after the system cue has been cut.

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Death Demands a Payment (12-19-43)

A couple pulls over at a creepy house during a storm and runs into a weird old woman and her even weirder son. Turns out—they’ve actually been dead for ten years! It all builds up to a really solid twist ending. Fun fact: this story kicked off the very first episode of the series back on May 16, 1942, just under a different title.

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"Patients For The Doctor" (11-21-43)

A group of travelers caught in a snowstorm end up taking shelter at a creepy doctor’s house—where both he and his family are more than a little strange.

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"Mirage" (10-3-43)

Nothing’s meaner than a gun moll who just got dumped.

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"Blind Alley" (9-24-43)

A rich but pretty spineless young guy ends up killing someone in a drunk driving accident, and then his so-called “friend” tries to squeeze him for blackmail.

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