The Woman In The Green Dress: He Loved Her Seventy Years After Watching Her Die | #RetroRadio

About this episode

The episode explores the haunting story of a woman in a green dress who remains in an old man's house for seventy years.

For seventy years the woman in the green silk dress hung quietly in an old man's house — long enough, as it turned out, to learn how to step down off the wall. | #RetroRadio EP0639 Look for this podcast on YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and numerous other podcast apps. Get the full list of options here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Woman In The Green Dress” (September 09, 1977) 00:46:22.185 = The Haunting Hour, “Bird of Death” (March 31, 1945) 01:11:12.112 = Hermit’s Cave, “The Spirits of Vengeance” (March 16, 1947) 01:35:56.698 = Mystery is My Hobby, “Death Has a Hot Foot” (December 24, 1947) 02:00:49.021 = Sherlock Holmes, “The Coptic Compass” (December 07, 1946) 02:30:00.596 = The House of Mystery, “Haunters And Haunted” (June 13, 1945) ***WD 02:44:21.540 = Incredible But True, “Death Has a Will” (1950-1951) 02:48:07.969 = Inner Sanctum, “Black Seagull” (March 07, 1943) 03:17:50.145 = The Key, “Alexis” (1956) ***WD 03:44:01.024 = Lights Out, “Poltergeist Gravestone” (October 20, 1942)…

People in this episode

Host: Darren Marlar

Topics covered

• mystery
• drama
• haunting
• old time radio
• fiction

Keywords

• green dress
• haunting
• old man
• mystery theater
• radio drama

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Woman In The Green Dress, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, The Haunting Hour, Hermit’s Cave, Mystery is My Hobby, Sherlock Holmes, The House of Mystery, Incredible But True, Inner Sanctum, The Key

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