Death Laughs Last by The Mysterious Traveler

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🗓️ 1 March 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This week on Strange Tales, The Mysterious Traveler arrives with a story from September 24, 1944, titled, Death Laughs Last. Listen to more from The Mysterious Traveler https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales841.mp3 Download StrangeTales841 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support Strange Tales Relic Radio is funded solely by listener donations. If you would like to help support it, visit Donate.RelicRadio.com for more information. Thank you.

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0:00.0	Strange Tales
0:02.0	RELES
0:03.0	Relicradio.
0:20.0	Relic Radio.com presents tales of the strange and bizarre, the weird and the wicked.
0:26.2	Stories not necessarily of the supernatural, but of the unnatural.
0:35.1	Join us now for Strange Tales, featuring radio drama at its most mysterious and unusual.
1:06.0	Music This is Strange Tales, Weird Stories from the Golden Age of Radio every Sunday at Relicradio.com.
1:08.9	We're going to hear from The Mysterious Traveler this week.
1:15.8	Series that debuted in December of 1943 over mutual stations and aired until September of 1952.
1:19.9	Our story today is from September 24th, 1944.
1:22.3	It's titled Death Laughs Last. Music Hey, Miss Dear
1:36.3	The President. The mysterious traveler.
1:49.7	This is the mysterious travel, inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying.
2:11.6	I hope you will enjoy the trip that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little.
2:18.2	So settle back, get a good grip on your nerve, and be comfortable if you can.
2:26.0	Where are we going?
2:28.3	Why, we're going to follow the adventures of a man who thought he could commit murder and escape punishment.
2:35.8	I call the story,
2:37.6	Death, laughs, laugh.
2:44.2	It was while I was practicing medicine in an eastern city
2:49.9	that Edward Harrison brought his wife Mary to me for an examination.
2:55.0	I could see at a glance that she was dangerously ill.
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