550 - The Premature Burial
Old Time Radio Mystery, Suspense, & Horror
Dakoda Black
4.4 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Another journey into the realm of the strange and terrifying. |
| 0:07.2 | I hope you will enjoy the trip that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little. |
| 0:14.7 | So settle back. |
| 0:16.9 | Get a good grip on your nerves. |
| 0:20.2 | Where are we going? |
| 0:22.2 | You'll find out when we get there. |
| 0:28.9 | Well, greetings, folks. |
| 0:30.7 | Welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:33.1 | So glad that you are tuning in. |
| 0:36.3 | Your host here, as always, Dakota. |
| 0:39.2 | And today, I have a good play for you from the CBS Radio Mystery Theater. |
| 0:46.8 | This is their take on a classic from Edgar Allan Poe. |
| 0:54.0 | And that was his short story, |
| 0:57.1 | The Pre-Mature Burial. |
| 1:00.5 | The premature burial by Edgar Allan Poe was published in 1844. |
| 1:08.6 | This was back in a time where there was a pretty big concern about being buried alive. |
| 1:18.0 | Medical science simply was not what it is today. |
| 1:23.2 | And a lot of times when people thought that someone was dead, they really weren't. |
| 1:30.5 | And they could revive later. |
| 1:34.6 | It's really creepy to think about it, but that's the whole point of this story. |
| 1:39.7 | And so Edgar Allan Poe used that sort of fear as inspiration for this horror short story. |
| 1:48.2 | So we are going to hear CBS's rendition on this. |
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