The Bride Vanishes by Suspense

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4.6 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Our Strange Tale comes from Suspense this week. We'll hear The Bride Vanishes, first heard on December 1, 1942. Listen to more from Suspense https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales838.mp3 Download StrangeTales838 | 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.
1:13.5	Welcome to the Welcome back to Strange Tales. Thanks for joining me this week. We're going to hear from suspense this time. A series that debuted on June 17th of 1942, aired until September 30th of 1962. Produced over 900 original stories for CBS Radio.
1:17.3	The one we'll hear today is from December 1st, 1942.
1:19.5	It's titled, The Bride Vanishes. The Bride Vanishes.
1:49.1	The... The Suspense. Suspense.
1:49.2	I am. Suspense is compounded of mystery and intrigue and dangerous adventure.
2:16.4	Stories calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves.
2:21.1	Tonight, for instance, as we begin, you may want to ask yourself,
2:25.4	how could a young lady, a bride, walk out on a balcony alone and vanish?
2:31.5	Completely vanish.
2:34.4	We trust that while you are wondering how and why it was done,
2:38.9	we shall keep you in suspense.
2:47.1	For suspense, tonight CBS presents the bride Bride Banishes by John Dixon Carr.
3:10.7	Italy in springtime.
3:14.4	Italy, as we used to know it, before the jackal struck.
3:19.7	And the island of Capri, 20 miles out across the bay of Naples.
3:25.6	Blue water a dazzle under the sun, Behind through the bone-white beaches,
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