The Man Who Sold His Shadow To The Devil by Favorite Story

Strange Tales (Old Time Radio)

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🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This time on Strange Tales, Favorite Story brings us The Man Who Sold His Shadow To The Devil, its episode from November 19, 1946. Listen to more from Favorite Story https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales837.mp3 Download StrangeTales837 | 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. [...]

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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.
0:49.6	Welcome back to Strange Tales, weird stories from the golden age of Radio every Sunday at relicradio.com.
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1:06.3	You've made it possible for 19 years, thanks to those who have helped out.
1:10.4	Thanks for joining me this week for an episode from Favorite Story.
1:13.8	Series that aired over NBC stations from June of 1946 through 1949, 156 episodes.
1:22.0	Our story today is The Man Who Sold His Shadow to the Devil.
1:24.8	This one aired November 19th, 1946.
1:38.6	This is Ronald Coleman, inviting you to radio's most dramatic half-hour, favorite story. The There's one sure far way of spotting the devil.
2:33.5	In case you should have the misfortune of
2:36.0	running into him on a trolley car or in the bleachers at a ballgame, the devil has no shadow.
2:42.5	None. Stand him up beside a good hundred-wump bulb, and there won't be darkness on any side of
2:47.7	old Nick. Now, you can imagine that this shadowless condition causes the
2:51.9	devil a great deal of embarrassment, and you can also imagine that there would be almost nothing
2:55.9	old Satan wouldn't do in order to correct this sad omission. Which brings us to our favorite
3:02.8	story for this week, the strange and staggering account of the man who sold his shadow to the devil.
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