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Strange as it Seems
63 episodes Aired 1935-1948
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1. The Author Who Ate His Book
   13mins Aired 1939
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2. The Man Who Ate a Fortune
   11mins Aired 1939
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3. The Man Who Sold the World
   12mins Aired 1939
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4. The Banquet of Ghosts
   12mins Aired 1939
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5. The Web Of Gold
   11mins Aired 1939
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6. How America Was Named
   11mins Aired 1939
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7. The World's Most Ingenious Salesman
   25mins Aired 1939
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8. The Raw Deal
   12mins Aired 1939
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9. Where Is Swanee River
   12mins Aired 1939
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10. Fort Blunder
    11mins Aired 1939
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11. The Diamond Dinner
    11mins Aired 1939
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12. The Elephant Who Ran A Zoo
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13. The Costliest Temple in the World
    11mins Aired 1939
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14. The Mysterious River
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15. The Self-Appointed Record Breaker
    12mins Aired 1939
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16. The Woman Who Tempted Fate
    15mins Aired 1939
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17. The World's Smartest Counterfeiter
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18. The World's Largest Diamond
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19. The Power of the Press
    15mins Aired 1939
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20. Rome Transplanted
    15mins Aired 1939
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21. Stories About the Oregon Trail
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22. The Peacemakers
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23. The Happy Accident
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24. London Pays Rent to the King
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25. Poe's Raven Actually a White Owl
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26. The Martyr To Etiquette
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27. The Devil Tracks Of Devonshire
    15mins Aired 1939
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28. The Man Who Financed the Revolution
    14mins Aired 1939
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29. The Key That Performed A Miracle
    15mins Aired 1939
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30. Horse Flies That Made History
    15mins Aired 1939
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31. The Old Fashioned Cure For Rabies
    15mins Aired 1939
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32. The Dog Came Back
    15mins Aired 1939
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33. The Human Horse
    15mins Aired 1939
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34. The Man Who Solved His Own Crime
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35. The Beard Tax
    15mins Aired 1939
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36. The World's Most Valuable Book
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37. The Baby Spy
    15mins Aired 1939
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38. Cinderella's Slipper
    15mins Aired 1939
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39. The Original Sherlock Holmes
    4mins Aired 1939
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40. The Mystery of the Barbados
    15mins Aired 1939
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41. The King Who Saw Ghosts
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42. The Man Fate Could Not Conquer
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43. The Man Who Had Green Hair
    15mins Aired 1939
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44. The Lost Art
    15mins Aired 1939
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45. For Whom Was Pennsylvania Named
    15mins Aired 1939
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46. Sarah Bernhardt's Coffin
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47. The King Who Could Not Die
    15mins Aired 1939
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48. The Bloodless Battle
    15mins Aired 1939
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49. The First American Dice Shooter
    15mins Aired 1939
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50. The Mark of the Hesperus
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51. The Woman Who Sold the Winds
    15mins Aired 1939
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52. The Smoker's Rebellion
    15mins Aired 1939
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53. The World's Most Expensive Cold Cure
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54. The Wolf Month
    15mins Aired 1939
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55. Owl Testifies At Trial
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56. The Man Who Fell Five Miles
    15mins Aired 1939
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57. Little Jack Horner Really Lived
    15mins Aired 1939
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58. The Neck Verse
    15mins Aired 1939
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59. The Statue of Irony
    15mins Aired 1939
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60. Hot Money
    15mins Aired 1939
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61. The Pirate's Revenge
    15mins Aired 1939
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62. Washington Crosses the Rhine
    15mins Aired 1939
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63. The Worthless Winner
    15mins Aired 1939
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Strange as it Seems was a radio program that offered listeners strange and unusual tales about fantastic people and events. Based on the daily syndicated newspaper cartoon panels created by John Hix, the show featured a blend of dramatized events, mini plays, and fanfare music, all designed to entertain and educate the audience about the marvels of the world. The program typically included 2 or 3 dramatic segments, followed by an Ex-Lax commercial and 2 or 3 strange stories. The show would then conclude with a preview of the next show's stories, another Ex-Lax commercial, a quirky fact, and a short musical ending. Live interviews with unusual personalities, such as the World's Fastest Talker, were also occasionally featured.

The radio show first aired on March 22, 1935, on the Columbia Don Lee Coast radio network and was initially broadcast three nights a week. Later changes in the schedule and format occurred until December 1938 when the show ceased airing. The program returned as a 30-minute network program on the CBS network from August 17, 1939, to December 26, 1940. The show had a final run in its original 15-minute format from November 10, 1946, to April 13, 1947. Throughout its years of broadcast, the program had several sponsors, such as Ex-Lax and Palmolive Shave Cream. Many of the original programs were recorded on 16-inch 33 RPM records, with at least 39 of these records, encompassing a total of 78 programs, known to exist.

Performers: Gayne Whitman, Cyril Armbrister, Felix Mills

Sources: archive.org, wikipedia.org, otrcat.com