Old Radio Shows

The top 15 scary old radio shows. Turn the lights down low and listen to these audio horror dramas from the 1940s and 1950s. The stories are exciting and suspenseful and you will be surprised by how entertaining they are.

1. Escape – Three Skeleton Key

Three men are trapped in a lighthouse when it is attacked by a horde of ravenous man-eating rats. The squealing sound effects will have you squirming in fear.

2. Suspense – The House in Cypress Canyon

A mysterious manuscript found in an unfinished house tells the story of a young couple who move into a new house and hear strange noises coming from a locked closet.

3. Quiet Please – The Thing on the Fourble Board

A group of men drilling for oil accidentally drag up something horrifying from a mile underground.

4. Lights Out – The Dark

A strange fog that turns people inside-out. This is famous for having the most grotesque sound-effect ever. It was parodied in an episode of The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror. The original recording was lost, so this is a remake.

5. Suspense – The Hitchhiker

6. Molle Mystery Theater – The Creeper

There is a serial killer on the loose who strangles women with red hair and the entire city is living in fear.

7. Mysterious Traveller – Behind the Locked Door

8. Hall of Fantasy – The Shadow People

9. Lights Out – Chicken Heart

10. Suspense – Ghost Hunt

A radio host named Smiley Smith decided to do a live broadcast while spending the night in a haunted house.

11. Dark Fantasy – The Demon Tree

12. Hall of Fantasy – He Who Follows Me

A man and his wife tresspass in a mausoleum and find themselves pursued by ghostly footsteps and a strange man known only as The Death That Walks.

13. The Shadow – The Gibbering Thing

14. Inner Sanctum – Terror By Night

A woman is driving at night when she hears an announcement on the radio about a mad killer on the loose.