{"podcast":{"title":"Retro Radio: Old Time Radio in the Dark","slug":"retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269","podcast_index_feed_id":6785269,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5907415/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://weirddarkness.com/retroradio","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/619f577d320244612f9ba132d595c7a9.jpg","author":"Darren Marlar","episode_count":754,"summary":"Welcome to Retro Radio: Old Time Radio In The Dark! Here I bring you shows from the Golden Age of Radio in the darker genre. I’ll have classic radio of the macabre and horror, mysteries and crime, and even some dark science fiction. 5-hour marathons posted seven days per week with a variety of shows included each day!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T02:19:39.853160+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269"},"episode":{"title":"“Temple of Vampires” — An ‘I Love a Mystery’ Horror Radio Serial | #RetroRadio","slug":"temple-of-vampires-an-i-love-a-mystery-horror-radio-serial-retroradio","published_at":"2026-07-10T00:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269/temple-of-vampires-an-i-love-a-mystery-horror-radio-serial-retroradio","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269","url":"https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0711","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72899413/wdrr0711.mp3","summary":"Stranded in the Nicaraguan jungle beside an ancient temple, three adventurers and their companions discover its priests serve a horror that's all too real — man-sized vampire bats with an appetite for human blood. \"Temple of Vampires,\" an installment of Carlton E. Morse's I Love a Mystery (originally aired January 02-27, 1950), follows adventurers Jack, Doc, and Reggie as they fly toward Central America with heiress Sonny Richards and a mysterious stowaway boy named Hermie. Water-tainted gasoline forces their plane down on the shore of Lake Nicaragua, near an ancient jungle temple. Exploring it, they find a blood-drained Indian corpse and a pit of human bones, then encounter the temple's inhabitants — a beautiful priestess named Angelina and a priest named Manuel — who claim to be servants of \"sacred vampires,\" giant man-sized bats bred over generations for human sacrifice. Angelina fixates on carrying off Hermie for his pale skin, while Manuel abducts Sonny with designs of his own. Trapped by nightfall and a tropical storm, the comrades face a harrowing ordeal of rope-swings between dizzying high ledges, captures, and near-sacrifices as they fight to get everyone out of the temple alive. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = I Love a Mystery, “Temple of Vampires – Part 01” 00:18:09.039 = I Love a Mystery, “Temple of Vampires – Part 02” 00:30:24.993 = I Love a Mystery, “Temple of Vampires – Part 03” 00:42:29.450 = I Love a Mystery, “Temple of Vampires – Part 04” 00:54:51.162 = I Love a Mystery, “Temple of Vampires – Part…","meta_description":"Stranded in the Nicaraguan jungle beside an ancient temple, three adventurers and their companions discover its priests serve a horror that's all too real…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":15643,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269/episodes/temple-of-vampires-an-i-love-a-mystery-horror-radio-serial-retroradio/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/retro-radio-old-time-radio-in-the-dark-6785269/temple-of-vampires-an-i-love-a-mystery-horror-radio-serial-retroradio.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}