Strange Tales

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Relic Radio.com presents tales of the strange and bizarre, the weird and the wicked.

Stories not necessarily of the supernatural, but of the unnatural.

Join us now for Strange Tales, featuring radio drama at its most mysterious and unusual.

Music Welcome back to Strange Tales. Thanks for joining me once again.

We're going to hear from The Haunting Hour this week, series of 52 episodes that was first heard from March of 1945 through May of 1946 over NBC stations.

Our story today is titled, The Uptown Express. Music The No. No, stay where you are. Do not break the stillness of this moment.

For this is a time of mystery, a time when imagination is free and moves forward swiftly, silently.

This is the haunting hour.

The The Uptown Express The Uptown Express.

That night didn't begin any differently from any other night.

At least it doesn't seem to me that it did.

I left work the same as usual,

and I hurried because I was late and we were having supper early again

so my brother Sid could get to law school on time.

I walked down to Broadway and 42nd Street

and into the uptown subway, just the way I always did.

I got on, pushed my way in with a crowd.

It was an empty seat, and I took it.

A girl in front of me was hanging onto the strap.

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