Strange Tales

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Relic Radio.com presents tales of the strange and bizarre, the weird and the wicked.

Stories not necessarily of the supernatural, but of the unnatural.

Join us now for Strange Tales,

featuring radio drama at its most mysterious and unusual.

Welcome back to Strange Tales.

We're going to hear from The Haunting Hour this week.

Series produced by NBC between 1945 and 1946, 52 episodes.

The story we're going to hear today is titled Destination Unknown. Opening and closing of this episode are missing, but the story is complete. Here's Destination Unknown.

Music For how often have you had a sudden impulse to speak to a stranger, to quit your jobs,

or to board a train destination unknown?

That's what Kirk Holland did, and because it could easily happen to you, let me tell you his story.

Kirk was a young, romantic sort of a chap, and he lived in a little town called Amesville.

He had a bookshop there, on the square. And like other people of a chap, and he lived in a little town called Ainsville. He had a bookshop there,

on the square. And like other people of the town, oftentimes Kirk stood in this small station and watched the 8.45 pull up to the shed. His life, with a quiet life, until that night.

It was raining, and Kirk stood under the train's head.

The steam engine puffed by, in the male car, a coat, and another, the train stopped.

Directly before him, framed in the misty window, was the face of a girl,

and there was a tors torture day Full of pain and sadness

Suddenly Kirk felt an unconquerable impulse

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