The Mark Of Cain by Murder At Midnight

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4.6 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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It’s Murder At Midnight on this week’s Strange Tales. Here’s The Mark Of Cain, their story from September 6, 1946. Listen to more from Murder At Midnight https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales848.mp3 Download StrangeTales848 | 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.
1:13.9	Welcome back to Strange Tales. Thanks for joining me this Sunday. We travel back to September 6th, 1946 this week for a story from Murder at Midnight titled The Mark of Kane. Murder at Midnight was a syndicated series that aired over ABC, NBC, and mutual stations at one time or another. 52 episodes were produced. Here's the Mark of Cain.
1:50.0	Music Murder Man! Murder at midnight.
1:56.0	You lifted the knife above your head like this?
1:56.9	No, no.
1:59.1	And plunged it down to his heart like this.
2:00.5	No, no, no.
2:02.9	Not his heart, my heart.
2:04.9	It was I who died that night.
2:06.6	John Sturges!
2:14.0	Midnight.
2:16.9	The witching hour, when the night is darkest, our fears the strongest, and our strength at its lowest end.
2:24.7	Midnight, when the graves gave open, and death strikes.
2:30.6	How? You'll learn the answer in just a minute in The Mark of Cain.
2:48.8	And now, murder at midnight.
2:51.7	Tales of Mystery and Terror by Radio's Masters of the Macab.
2:56.3	Our story by AS Guinness is The Mark of Cain.
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