A CARNIVAL OF CORPSES! The Shadow Uncovers a Traveling Carnival’s Horrifying Secret

Lamont Cranston (aka The Shadow) and Margot Lane visit a traveling carnival which has a wax-museum exhibit of historic death-scenes. While there, they discover a terrifying secret: the “statues” in the exhibit aren’t statues at all — they’re actually dead people substituted in for the displays. | #RetroRadio EP0537Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPECHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Tobin’s Palm” (January 12, 1977)00:47:00.611 = Max Haines Mystery, “Arthur Gusy” (mid 1940s)01:10:51.128 = Ripley’s Believe it Or Not, “Ye Old Sun Inn” (1930) ***WD01:11:51.228 = Sam Spade, “The Spanish Prisoner Caper” (March 09, 1951)01:40:20.851 = The Sealed Book, “Queen of Cats” (June 24, 1945)02:10:44.510 = The Shadow, “Carnival of Death” (November 10, 1940)02:34:36.266 = Sleep No More, “Thus I Refute Beelzy” and “The Bookshop” (March 06, 1957) ***WD03:04:01.421 = BBC Radio 4 Spinechillers, “Doppelganger” (January 01, 1977)03:29:05.856 = Strange Wills, “Singapore Liz” (November 02, 1946)03:59:38.670 = Strange, “Flying Dutchman” (1955) ***WD04:12:36.423 = Suspense, “Cabin B-13” (November 09, 1943) ***WD04:41:41.265 = Tales of the Frightened, “Mirror of Death” (November 27, 1957)04:46:36.256 = The Saint, “Shipboard Mystery” (March 11, 1951) ***WD05:14:25.104 = Show Close(ADU) = Air Date Unknown(LQ) = Low Quality***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing.Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music LibraryABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.= = = = =#ParanormalRadio #ScienceFiction #OldTimeRadio #OTR #OTRHorror #ClassicRadioShows #HorrorRadioShows #VintageRadioDramas #WeirdDarknessCUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0537