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.

Music With another strange story from the Golden Age of Radio, this is Strange Tales.

Thanks for joining me this Sunday.

We're going to hear from NBC's short story this week, a series of 52 episodes, although only 41 of them, were actually aired between February of 1951 to May of 1952.

Our story today is based on one by Herman Melville.

That happens to be one of those unaired episodes.

It's titled The Bell Tower of Bonadona.

Here's NBC's short story.

Music Tower of Bonadona, here's NBC's short story. Here is the ruin of the famous bell tower built by the great Bonadona four centuries ago.

It doesn't look like much, does it?

A heap of rubble, shapeless, covered with earth and black moss.

If I hadn't told you it was once a bell tower, the pride of all Italy,

you would think it was only an ugly rubbish pile,

mercifully grown over by the jungle of time.

But dreams lie buried here and memories, and the ghosts of a man and his genius are said to haunt

the spot.

Some even say the spirit of Bonadana's bell still tolls high up in the silent night sky. Other scoffs, a bell cannot have a ghost,

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