Strange Tales (Old Time Radio)
Aug 23, 2026 · 27 min · 12 segments
Murder At Midnight is featured on Strange Tales this week. We’ll hear their story titled, *Death Is No End*, from June 2, 1947…
Check.
May 31st next.
May 31st, deposits $9,840.74.
9842.74.
Withdrawals $6,302.16. Mitchell-
One moment, dear.
6302.16.
Check.
Uh, let's not stop, Phyllis.
It's almost midnight now.
We've still June to tally.
Let's plow right ahead, eh, hmm?
Yes.
June 1st deposits $15,972.38. [dramatic music] We stood there in the still, deserted bank, two middle-aged clerks checking other people's money.
Behind us loomed the wire cages, two of them with their doors flung open.
Mitchell and Phyllis Bagley, respectable employees.
Mitchell and Bagley, kind of animal, confined to their cages by day and let out at night.
Perhaps all women take stock when they reach 40.
Perhaps they all experience the thing I'm going through at this moment, a kind of clear, cold reality.
Mitchell must have sensed the sudden surge of bitter hate.
Phyllis, dear, what is it? One of your headaches?
Nothing, Mitchell.
Let's plow right ahead.
Oh, you just wait here.
When we leave the bank tomorrow evening and hop into our little car, two whole weeks in the Wisconsin woods alone together.
Check.
May 31st next.
May 31st, deposits $9,840.74.
9842.74.
Withdrawals $6,302.16. Mitchell-
One moment, dear.
6302.16.
Check.
Uh, let's not stop, Phyllis.
It's almost midnight now.
We've still June to tally.
Let's plow right ahead, eh, hmm?
Yes.
June 1st deposits $15,972.38. [dramatic music] We stood there in the still, deserted bank, two middle-aged clerks checking other people's money.
Behind us loomed the wire cages, two of them with their doors flung open.
Mitchell and Phyllis Bagley, respectable employees.
Mitchell and Bagley, kind of animal, confined to their cages by day and let out at night.
Perhaps all women take stock when they reach 40.
Perhaps they all experience the thing I'm going through at this moment, a kind of clear, cold reality.
Mitchell must have sensed the sudden surge of bitter hate.
Phyllis, dear, what is it? One of your headaches?
Nothing, Mitchell.
Let's plow right ahead.
Oh, you just wait here.
When we leave the bank tomorrow evening and hop into our little car, two whole weeks in the Wisconsin woods alone together.
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