Strange Tales (Old Time Radio)
Sep 20, 2026 · 27 min · 12 segments
It’s The Haunting Hour on this week’s Strange Tales. We’ll hear their story, *The Skyscraper Mystery*. No specific broadcast date for this one, but the series first aired from March of 1945 to May of…
Greg BellHostNo, no, stay where you are.
Do not break the stillness of this moment, for this is a time of mystery, a time when imagination is free and moves forward swiftly, silently.
This is [dramatic music] The Haunting Hour.
[eerie music]
[dramatic music] It is lunch hour on a crowded downtown street of a great American city.
Come on, Sadie.
Let's go into this store.
I've simply gotta get a dress today.
Oh, gee, Hazel, I'd love to.
Honest, I'd love to, but I've been out of the office an hour now.
My boss will be awful mad if I don't get back.
Ah, come on, Sadie.
It'll only take me a minute.
I hear they got some wonderful buys.
Maybe you can pick up something yourself.
Well, I do need another dress.
I simply haven't a thing to wear.
I wa- Hazel!
What is it?
There's a man falling from that building.
Here he goes! [women screaming]
No, no, stay where you are.
Do not break the stillness of this moment, for this is a time of mystery, a time when imagination is free and moves forward swiftly, silently.
This is [dramatic music] The Haunting Hour.
[eerie music]
[dramatic music] It is lunch hour on a crowded downtown street of a great American city.
Come on, Sadie.
Let's go into this store.
I've simply gotta get a dress today.
Oh, gee, Hazel, I'd love to.
Honest, I'd love to, but I've been out of the office an hour now.
My boss will be awful mad if I don't get back.
Ah, come on, Sadie.
It'll only take me a minute.
I hear they got some wonderful buys.
Maybe you can pick up something yourself.
Well, I do need another dress.
I simply haven't a thing to wear.
I wa- Hazel!
What is it?
There's a man falling from that building.
Here he goes! [women screaming]
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