Happier Dead by The Creaking Door

Strange Tales (Old Time Radio)

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Performing Arts, Bizarre, Horror, Stories, Classic, Weird, Radio, Strange, Odd, Time, Tales, Old, Arts, Vintage

4.6 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This week on Strange Tales, The Creaking Door brings us its episode from August 24, 1964, Happier Dead. Listen to more from The Creaking Door https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales829.mp3 Download StrangeTales829 | 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.
1:03.3	This is Strange Tales, weird stories from the Golden Age of Radio every Sunday at Relicradio.com.
1:09.8	Our story comes from the creaking door this week, the South African series that aired in the 1960s.
1:14.7	The surviving episodes are from the 1964 to 1965 run.
1:19.4	The story we'll hear today is from August 24th, 1964.
1:21.4	It's titled, Happy or Dead. Music The I have flown, I have sailed.
1:49.8	I have sailed.
1:51.7	I have moved about this world of ours.
1:54.6	And ever in search of the finest of its kind,
1:57.8	we bring you the tops in spine chillers.
2:05.2	The creaking door.
2:14.7	The manufacturers of State Express 3-5 Silticings cigarettes
2:23.4	Take pleasure in presenting
2:25.6	The Creaking Store.
2:46.2	The door. Good evening.
2:47.0	Good evening.
2:48.0	Friends of the creaking door.
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