015: Condemned, Part Two - The Devil's Hour
Pleasing Terrors
Mike Brown
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🗓️ 24 February 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The time between three and four in the morning is said to be the hour when evil is at the height of it's power -- the time when the Devil ascends from Hell and ghosts haunt the land of the living. In part two of my experience of the Devil's hour inside Charleston's Old City Jail, I receive a message from Hell itself, and discover the truth about one of the jail's most famous prisoners -- Lavinia Fisher herself.
Episode Highlights:
- 3 AM inside the Old City Jail
- Torture chambers, the crane of pain, and the hangman's lair
- Lorraine Warren visits the Old City Jail
- Footsteps in an empty corridor
- A child behind bars
- Lavinia Fisher and Daniel Duncan: Old City Jail's famous residents
- An exploration to the third floor
- My conversation with Bruce Orr: The truth about Lavinia Fisher
Resources:
- Abode of Misery by David C. Scott, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010
- Six Miles to Charleston by Bruce Orr. The History Press, 2010
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| 0:00.0 | Some stories were never supposed to be told. |
| 0:09.0 | Stories that exist in the twilight between science and |
| 0:16.8 | the supernatural, between history and horror. Stories that speak of terrifying things. |
| 0:26.0 | Stories that you want to hear. |
| 0:28.0 | Stories that you need to hear. |
| 0:32.0 | Stories that will sink their teeth in and never let you go. My name is |
| 0:38.2 | Mike Brown and this is pleasing terrors. |
| 0:44.0 | Episode 15, condemned. |
| 0:48.0 | Part 2, The Devil's Hour |
| 0:51.0 | The Devil's Hour is the time between 3 and 4 a.m. when according to |
| 0:56.9 | superstition, witches, ghosts, and demons are supposed to be at the |
| 1:02.4 | height of their power and to be the most active. |
| 1:06.8 | I am alone inside the old city jail in Charleston South Carolina. |
| 1:12.3 | It is a massive three-story Gothic structure, a rectangular center |
| 1:17.5 | building with two towers at the front and a large octagon at the back. |
| 1:23.0 | For 137 years, this building was a home to violence and cruelty. |
| 1:30.0 | It has seen the deaths of over 10,000 people. |
| 1:34.0 | The red lights that illuminate the rooms and the corridors of this place |
| 1:38.0 | give the impression that the plaster-covered walls have been painted with blood. |
| 1:44.8 | This is one of the most haunted buildings in the United States. |
| 1:49.2 | I can hear the sound of doors opening on the floors above me. I can hear the sound of someone |
| 1:55.4 | talking but I can't understand what is being said. It is 3 a.m. and I am not alone. |
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