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Ghosts on Christmas Eve, murder under the mistletoe and a yeti in the snow: the Christmas-season episodes of 5 old-time radio suspense and horror series, 16 broadcasts from 1943 to 1961, in the order they first aired, with the air date, the story and where to hear each one.
Want a scary Christmas radio station instead of a list? Krampus Kristmas plays these and dozens more around the clock: The Shadow's The Stockings Were Hung, Lights Out's Lord Marley's Ghost, every radio A Christmas Carol and the 1951 Scrooge, The Weird Circle's Victorian ghost stories and The Witch's Tale, with Monster's Holiday, Santa Meets the Vampire and vintage Christmas commercials between them, hosted by Krampus himself. A limited run: free and live 24 hours a day through Christmas Eve, and Krampus Night is December 5.
Free, no sign-up, no app, and no modern ads: we promise none until Valentine's Day 2027. The only commercials you will hear are the sponsor spots that aired with the original broadcasts.
Every episode in the order it first aired, grouped by series. Play the ones with a Play button right here.
8 episodes · live around the clock
December 23, 1943 · 29 min
Professor Hubert Schumacher, a Swiss botanist, prepares to sail with his wife Hermione to America, where he is to lecture. Hermione manages every detail of their lives, and Hubert secretly digs a hole in the cellar to plant a devil's...
December 23, 1948 · 30 min
Wilfred Carpenter, a botany professor, and his domineering wife Hermione are preparing to sail to America. Hermione manages every detail of their lives, and Wilfred has long chafed under her control. Before leaving, he shaves his beard...
December 21, 1950 · 30 min
Paul Marlow, a bank teller, needs money to pay for a nurse for his wife Carol, who must stay in bed before the birth of their baby. Pressed by his bookie friend Eddie, Paul arranges to meet the criminal Rocky Perea, and the two plan to...
December 23, 1956 · 30 min
Professor Herbert Carpenter, a widower and botanist, marries Marian Markham, a bookshop clerk, after a chance encounter in her shop. Hermione, his domineering first wife, has spent twenty years managing his life and insists the couple...
December 21, 1958 · 25 min
Joe Watson, newly released from prison on Christmas, returns to the city wanting revenge on Charlie Jones, the man whose testimony sent him away. He learns from Charlie that Lucille, the woman Joe once loved, has since married Mike...
December 20, 1959 · 19 min
PFC Larry Connolly, a soldier in Korea, is ordered to drive a truck on Christmas night 1958 and picks up a hitchhiker in the snow. The stranger, Richard Dombrowski, is hatless and gloveless, and his explanations for his condition seem...
December 17, 1961 · 23 min
Chris DiAngelo, a small-time crook, hides from parole officer Brannigan in a Bowery mission on Christmas. There he meets Sir Benjamin, a chubby, invisible ghost with hair like cotton candy, who sends Chris on an errand: deliver gifts...
4 episodes · live around the clock
December 25, 1944 · 30 min
Michael Cobb, a former convict who has been working straight for six months at the J.C. Devers department store, is trying to rebuild his life for his wife Elaine on Christmas Eve. When ten thousand dollars goes missing from the store's...
December 26, 1948 · 30 min
Mary Winslow, working under the name Candy Porter as a singer at a seedy Panama City nightspot, is approached on Christmas night by Fontaine, an American who has tracked her down. She recalls the night a year earlier when she met...
December 23, 1951 · 30 min
Mary Winston, working under the name Candy Porter as a singing hostess at Pete's Cantina in Panama City, is approached by Fontaine, a private detective. Fontaine has come to find her, and Mary, tense and wary, decides to tell him her...
December 21, 1952 · 24 min
Michael Cobb, a former convict working as an employee at a department store, is dismissed on the day before Christmas after a series of cash thefts. Angry and certain no one will believe his innocence, Mike goes back to the store after...
1 episode · live around the clock
June 19, 1945 · 30 min
Eric Keating, a man who has lost his memory, returns home after a train accident and finds that no one believes he was ever married or that he exists. Confused and frightened, he discovers that his grave has been dug up and that he is...
2 episodes · live around the clock
1 episode · a free podcast
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Press Play on an episode card that shows it: the episode plays right here, in the player bar at the foot of the page. Open goes to the episode's own page with its air date and story; the rest play on their series' channel or podcast.
Between 1943 and 1961. Each card shows the date the broadcast first aired, and each series' episodes run in that order.
From the Old Time Radio Researchers' sets and other collectors' uploads on the Internet Archive. Our sources page lists them series by series, with thanks. We clean up the sound; the shows and their original sponsor spots are as they aired.
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