Leiningen Versus The Ants by Escape

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🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This week on Strange Tales, Escape brings us Leiningen Versus The Ants, its story from January 14, 1948. Listen to more from Escape https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales807.mp3 Download StrangeTales807 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support Strange Tales

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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.
1:02.1	Music Welcome back to Strange Tales. Thanks for joining me this Sunday.
1:04.0	We're going to hear from Escape this week.
1:11.9	A CBS series that debuted in 1947 and aired until 1954 produced 241 episodes.
1:16.2	Our story today is from January 14th, 1948.
1:19.3	It's titled Linenjin versus the Ants. The Ants. The
1:30.3	The You are isolated on a remote plantation in the crawling Amazon jungle,
1:54.5	and an immense army of ravenous ants is closing in on you,
1:58.7	swarming in to each who alive,
2:05.4	a deadly black army from which there is no escape.
2:26.3	Escape, produced and directed by William N. Robeson, and carefully contrived to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.
2:34.5	Tonight we escape to the Amazon jungle and to a creeping, crawling terror,
2:38.0	as Carl Stevenson told it in his gripping story,
2:42.0	Linogen versus the ants.
2:59.2	Music I first met Linenjin while performing my duty as district commissioner.
3:05.5	As my boat near his plantation landing, I saw him upon the riverbank, regarding me with mild interest.
3:11.5	A great hulk of a man with bristling gray hair, bulky nose and pale eyes.
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