The Mask Of Medusa by Mystery In The Air

Strange Tales (Old Time Radio)

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🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Strange Tales features a story from Mystery In The Air this week. From September 4, 1947, here’s their episode titled, The Mask Of Medusa. Listen to more from Mystery In The Air https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales840.mp3 Download StrangeTales840 | 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.
1:04.0	Music Welcome back to Strange Tales. Thanks for joining me once again. We're going to hear this week from Mystery in the Air, an NBC series of 13 episodes. It aired from July to September of 1947.
1:12.5	Hosted in starring Peter Lorry,
1:14.5	our story today is The Mask of Medusa.
1:17.0	This one aired September 4th, 1947.
1:19.9	Music Mystery in the air,
1:32.3	Mystery in the air, starring Peter Lorry, presented by Camel Cigarettes.
2:09.6	Now listen. Now, ladies and gentlemen, if you will inspect the 47 wax images you see before you,
2:15.5	I think you will admit that they are more lifelike, more startlingly real than any you have ever seen before.
2:22.2	But the greatest interest lies in the fact that each one of these figures is a fiendish, sadistic murderer.
2:23.9	But come, I begin at the end of the line and describe their horrible crime.
2:28.2	Yes, yes, there he goes, there he goes again, telling people all the bad things with it.
2:33.9	Oh, it's terrible.
2:35.4	Being nothing but figures in a wax museum.
2:38.4	People staring at us all day long, and not one of them.
2:42.2	Not one ever suspects that we are still alive.
2:46.5	A-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-m... Each week at this time, camel cigarettes bring you Peter Lorry in the excitement of the great stories of the strange and unusual, of dark and compelling
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