The Haunted Cell

Campfire Radio Theater

Haunted Air Audio

Drama, Fiction, Fiction:drama

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2012

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Skeeter Dempsey went to the electric chair for murder and now they say when the lights are out in the old county jail, he comes back to visit his favorite cell. Locked up all alone in the dark, who would know if their cell mate was just a new arrival... or a dead man? A re-creation of the LIGHTS OUT classic! Written by Wyllis Cooper Series produced and directed by John Ballentine Cast Rob McCue Blaine Hicklin John Ballentine Glenn Hascall Scott Spaulding Music by Tom Cusack and Kevin MacLeodRunning time 26:41

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0:00.0	Welcome, friend. Have a seat by the fire. Make yourself comfortable.
0:07.0	Leather cowhide straps bound him to the chair.
0:24.6	That chair that smelled of burnt meat.
0:28.6	Witnesses were seated before him, gathered like an opening night crowd, their faces cold,
0:34.6	devoid of compassion, humanity. Their voices hushed and hollow.
0:43.3	He now pitied those that came before him, and those that would follow, for this would not be quick.
0:51.3	2,000 volts were about to course through the body of Skeeter Dempsey for nearly a full minute.
0:57.0	Each moment, carving out its own tortured eternity. You're listening to Camp Fire Radio Theatre.
1:30.4	Tonight's audio play is from the classic Lights Outtale, written by Willis Cooper,
1:36.3	entitled appropriately The Haunted Cell.
1:48.0	So you don't believe in ghosts, huh? Well, let me tell you something.
1:50.0	Guys that don't believe in ghosts is guys that ain't never seen none.
1:55.0	Ain't that right.
1:57.0	I can tell you a ghost story that'll make your hair curl.
2:00.0	I'll say it'll make your hair curl.
2:02.4	Listen.
2:03.8	Last August, I was nabbed by a couple of coppers.
2:07.0	Never mind the details.
2:08.7	It just so happened, and they come up on me when I was sticking up a filling station.
2:13.0	They drug me in.
2:14.6	It was a tough rap to beat, since they got me standing there flat-footed, holding
2:18.6	a gun on one of the fillin station guys, and, well, the coppers didn't like me much anyway.
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