The Power Of Evil by The CBS Radio Mystery Theater

Strange Tales (Old Time Radio)

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🗓️ 26 April 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This week's Strange Tales features The Power Of Evil, from The CBS Radio Mystery Theater. This story originally aired on December 22, 1978. Listen to more from The CBS Radio Mystery Theater https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales849.mp3 Download StrangeTales849 | 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 [...]

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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.
0:49.7	Welcome back to Strange Tales, where we feature a weird story from the Golden Age of Radio every Sunday.
0:55.7	You can find this and all of the Relic Radio podcasts at RelicRadio.com.
1:00.3	You can donate through that website as well if you'd like to help support this and all of those shows.
1:05.7	We're going to hear from the CBS Radio Mystery Theater this week, series that ran for eight years,
1:10.7	1974 to 1982, produced 1,300. Radio Mystery Theater this week. Series that ran for eight years,
1:13.2	1974 to 1982,
1:17.1	produced 1,399 original stories.
1:20.4	What we'll hear today is from December 22nd, 1978,
1:24.9	episode 934, titled The Power of Evil. The Power of Evil.
1:40.4	News Radio 78, WBBM, Chicago.
1:45.0	The CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents... Come in. Welcome. I'm E.G. Marshall. What is it about the weather or temperature that seems to control the mind? We stiffen and grow sluggish in winter, and in tropical heat, we almost lose our power of reasoning.
2:19.2	But is it only the heat that mesmerizes the minds of those in the mystery we're about to
2:24.3	unfold?
2:25.4	Has matter conquered mind?
2:27.5	The climate caused madness?
2:29.8	Or are we about to explore a power far worse?
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