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Old Time Radio Mystery, Suspense, & Horror

OTR MSH 29 Murder Castle

Old Time Radio Mystery, Suspense, & Horror

Dakoda Black

Society & Culture

4.5676 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Here's a creepy play from Lights Out!

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0:00.0

Another journey into the realm of the strange and terrifying.

0:07.0

I hope you will enjoy the trip that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little.

0:14.0

So settle back. Get a good grip on your nerves.

0:20.0

Where are we going?

0:22.4

You'll find out when we get there.

0:28.3

All right, everybody.

0:30.2

Welcome back to the podcast.

0:32.9

So glad that you are here because I've got a great one for you guys today from the Lights

0:39.5

Out program and this one's called Murder Castle and it's actually based on the real life

0:50.0

serial killer of the late 1800s H.H. H.H. H. H. H. H. H.H. Holmes. H.H. Holmes would lure people to his home

1:01.8

slash motel in Chicago, and he would kill them and take their money and their stuff.

1:13.2

Many victims were said to have been killed in a mixed use building, which he owned, located about three miles west of the 1893

1:22.4

World's Fair Columbian Exposition. This was supposedly called the World's Fair Hotel and then later got dubbed the Murder Hotel and then that later got dubbed Murder Castle.

1:39.3

He killed at least nine and confessed to 27, but it's possible that he murdered up to 200 people.

1:49.5

H.H. Holmes was executed on May 7th of 1896 by way of hanging.

1:57.8

This was one bad guy right there.

2:07.2

So that gives you a little bit of background about where this play is coming from.

2:15.1

And this play stars Joseph Kearns and Mercedes MacCainbridge.

2:19.9

And I'll speak real briefly about Mercedes-McCambridge after the play today if you would like to know a little more about her. Apparently this play aired first in 1938

2:26.5

and then again in 1943. And I believe that this is the 1943 version.

2:35.1

So let's go ahead and get into it.

2:37.5

Sit back and enjoy from Lights Out.

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