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Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Ep.474 The Whistler: Death Comes At Midnight

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Whistler You're walking alone on the street at night, but then you hear another set of footsteps and a haunting tune being whistled by an unseen stranger. The unseen Whistler didn't kill anyone (that we know of), but he certainly loved watching murders take place, narrating them for us, and chuckling at the suffering of others instead of doing anything to stop it. He kept walking the streets every week for thirteen long years, whistling his ominous thirteen notes and telling us anot...

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to another episode of Nostalgia Mystery Radio.

0:21.8

I'm your host, Stevie K, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesterday.

0:26.8

For this episode, I bring you, The Whistler, episode titled, Death Comes at Midnight,

0:33.1

originally aired October 18, 1942, where a man has a frightful dream that he is destined to die in 48 hours.

0:42.8

So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this installed at Mystery Radio.

0:48.7

Thank you for listening. Wait a minute. Have you heard the strange tales of the whistler?

1:06.1

Oh, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, I'm the whistler.

1:25.5

No, no, no. I don't want to die.

1:30.5

Get away!

1:31.3

Get away!

1:32.3

John!

1:33.1

Wait!

1:33.5

What?

1:34.8

Oh, oh.

1:37.3

Where is he?

1:38.3

Where's who?

1:39.6

That man.

1:40.4

Oh, you've been having a nightmare, John.

1:42.5

Huh?

1:44.5

Oh, good heavens, Claire.

1:47.1

It was awful.

1:48.0

I dreamed that was a man in this room, and he stood right over me.

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