Lights Out, "Cat Wife," episode 85, April 6, 1938 (Excerpt) [title]
 
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Lights Out was billed as the ultimate in horror. Never had such sounds been heard on the air. Head rolled, bones were crushed, people fell from great heights and splattered wetly on pavement. Listeners agreed that is was the scariest show of its time. One of the reasons it was so effective is because of the sound effects. Lopped cabbages became severed head, and real cow ribs were broken with a pipe wrench to simulate breaking bones. This episode, one of the more famous ones, is the tale of a man whose wife turns into a human-sized cat.