THE BURNING BOUGH: A Mother Pulls Her Son's Fate Out Of The Fire | #RetroRadio

On a stormy night with the phone lines down and her baby barely breathing, Madeline Hunter drags a blazing log out of the fireplace without knowing why, and only afterward remembers the Greek myth she'd lectured on that very morning, in which a mother did the same thing to keep her son alive. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “The Burning Bough” (January 24, 1979) ***WD 00:48:00.567 = Jeff Regan, “The Guy From Gower Gulch” (November 13, 1948) ***WD 01:18:47.691 = The Key, “The Cellar” (1956) ****WD 01:45:34.182 = Lights Out, “Dream” (March 16, 1943) 02:14:59.018 = Macabre, “Crystalline Man” (January 01, 1962) ***WD 02:44:23.318 = Philip Marlowe, ‘Cloak of Kamehameha” (May 16, 1950) 03:14:50.811 = Let George Do It, “Ghost On Bliss Terrace” (August 16, 1948) ***WD 03:45:36.781 = The Black Mass, “Jolly Corner” (November 28, 1966) ***WD 04:25:55.017 = Michael Shayne, “Missing Body” (August 06, 1945) ***WD 04:56:57.079 = Beyond The Green Door, ‘Theodore Kane Buried Alive” (1966) 05:00:33.353 = 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. More episodes, additional podcasts, books, original music, in-depth paranormal and true-crime articles, and much more at https://weirddarkness.com.