Strange Tales (Old Time Radio)
Oct 4, 2026 · 31 min · 19 segments
Strange Tales features a story from the CBS Radio Workshop this week. We’ll hear their broadcast from March 9, 1956, titled, *Report On E.S.P: A Study In Clairvoyance, Telepathy, and Extra Sensory…
Greg BellHostExtrasensory perception, clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition.
These are the laboratory words.
But in everyday life, you and I are faced with a multitude of strange occurrences.
Item, a man is about to board a certain airliner.
Suddenly, on a hunch, he turns back to the ticket window and changes to another flight.
An hour later, the plane he would have been on crashes into a mountainside.
Item, a mother suddenly and unaccountably breaks into tears at the moment her son is killed a thousand miles away.
Reason unknown, unexplained.
Cross.
Square.
Today, modern scientists are delving deeper and deeper into these mysteries.
Star.
In the science laboratory of a great university, a girl sits at a table and draws cards from an automatic shuffling machine.
On the face of each card is one of five possible designs.
A star, a circle, a cross, a square, three wavy lines.
Without looking at the cards, the girl tries to identify the designs by mental impression, by clairvoyance.
At another table, a man watches dice tumble about in a revolving cage.
The man calls out a number.
Six.
The dice are cast.
The number is six.
At still another table, an experimenter stares at a photograph of a tree and tries to project the mental image of this tree to an artist at a drawing board in the next room.
These are only a few of the experiments by which modern science hopes to probe into these unexplained phenomena, to solve one of life's greatest riddles.
Extrasensory perception, clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition.
These are the laboratory words.
But in everyday life, you and I are faced with a multitude of strange occurrences.
Item, a man is about to board a certain airliner.
Suddenly, on a hunch, he turns back to the ticket window and changes to another flight.
An hour later, the plane he would have been on crashes into a mountainside.
Item, a mother suddenly and unaccountably breaks into tears at the moment her son is killed a thousand miles away.
Reason unknown, unexplained.
Cross.
Square.
Today, modern scientists are delving deeper and deeper into these mysteries.
Star.
In the science laboratory of a great university, a girl sits at a table and draws cards from an automatic shuffling machine.
On the face of each card is one of five possible designs.
A star, a circle, a cross, a square, three wavy lines.
Without looking at the cards, the girl tries to identify the designs by mental impression, by clairvoyance.
At another table, a man watches dice tumble about in a revolving cage.
The man calls out a number.
Six.
The dice are cast.
The number is six.
At still another table, an experimenter stares at a photograph of a tree and tries to project the mental image of this tree to an artist at a drawing board in the next room.
These are only a few of the experiments by which modern science hopes to probe into these unexplained phenomena, to solve one of life's greatest riddles.
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