Retribution by The Whistler

Strange Tales (Old Time Radio)

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🗓️ 6 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Strange Tales features the first episode from The Whistler this week. From May 16, 1942, here's his tale, Retribution. Listen to more from The Whistler https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales794.mp3 Download StrangeTales794 | 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.
0:52.8	This is Strange Tales. Weird stories from the Golden Age of Radio every Sunday at Relicradio.com.
1:00.0	Our story comes from The Whistler this week, a series that debuted May 16th, 1942 over CBS, aired until September 22nd of 1955.
1:10.1	There were also eight films in the 1940s
1:12.9	and a short-lived television series in 1954.
1:16.5	Our story today is the very first episode of The Radio Show.
1:20.3	From May 16th, 1942, here's Retribution.
1:24.0	Music Retribution Wait a minute.
1:40.6	Have you heard the whistler?
1:58.3	No. Have you heard the whistler? I'm the whistler.
2:03.0	No, no, no, don't come near me.
2:05.3	I didn't plan to kill you, no.
2:06.7	That was John Hendon.
2:08.4	He waited, waited for a chance to sell his soul to the devil.
2:13.2	Money is not enough, John.
2:15.4	Money is not enough.
2:17.2	We want you, John.
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