Lights Out - Old Time Radio Horror

Haunted Cell - Lights Out | 07/20/1946 (3)

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Duration:: 30m
Broadcast on:: 15 Sep 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

Light out everybody This is the witching It is the hour when dogs out and evil things are let loose on a sleeping world Oh Sit in the dark now and listen to lights out So you don't believe in ghosts, huh? Let me tell you something friend Guys that don't believe in ghosts the skies that ain't never seen nothing dead, right? Listen, I can tell you a ghost or a little make your hair curl My old say it'll make your hair curl Listen Last August I was there by a couple of carpers never mind that details It just so happened that they come up on me when I was sticking up a filling station and Well, they took me in It was a tough rap to beat Since they got me standing there flat foot had hold on a gun on one of the filling station guys and Well, that copper didn't light me anyway huh, oh yeah, sure Because I'd had to bump off a copper a week or two before and Wouldn't it be my luck to be picked up by this guy's partner? Well, they took me in and they decided to show me the goldfish You don't know what that is, huh? Well, I'll tell you You're a liar. Yeah, so what copper? You rat I Know you knocked off Ambrose Hogan, and you're gonna fry for it You got to prove it first Millie Pull the light over this way a little more John, okay, right in his eyes I'll prove it rap go ahead Hand me the hose John now, okay, don't you go Now what do you say I'm not gonna rack to know Yeah, you really like get to a mouthpiece mother you'll be walking a beat out in circle bill worthy of It won't make no difference to you punk where I'm walking a beat not when you're burned. Yeah Who's gonna burn me you knocked off Ambrose Hogan. I was an Omaha tonight. He got knocked off Listen Maxie Get this now Ambrose Hogan was a white guy When I seen him laying on a slab downstairs I Took a solemn oath. I'd get the rat that dudded if it took me if you want a higher I'll get you for this cover. I Don't think you're gonna get anything out of a miller. There's a smart copper miller. Yeah Listen, I got a way to get things out of smart guys like you Maxie Come on over here John What he's gonna do Listen my life shut up You I want a lawyer. You've got to let me have a lawyer you can't get away You want to sing Maxie or do you want to spend a few hours in the haunted cell upstairs so what Oh Another gag, huh? Thanks. Oh Listen, I bet you wait dollars. You change your mind baby. Get up. What do you don't get going? Go ahead John open the door. Okay What are you gonna do to me? You can't get away. No speeder Dempsey Maxie Come on this way What about him they find them last winter. Yeah, that's right Friend of yours. I know them. Well, that's just fine Maxie. Yes, sir. That'll be just dandy What's just gonna about skater Dempsey formula Skater killed a copper - so what it's bad business to kill Coppa's Max Already John already, huh, right this way Maxie my boy. What you look out. I'll tell you There's a cell at skater Dempsey was locked up in when he first came here He liked the cell Maxie He still likes it What do you mean? He'll probably be around to see you before the night's over. Oh Yeah Another one of your gags, huh? Well, you won't kid me copper this whole corridor Maxie. You're the only guy in it except skater Dempsey We'll see what a night here with him will do to you huh John? Yeah If you get scared Maxie just calm just yell Nobody will pay any attention to you nobody at all except maybe skater Dempsey Good night Max Hey listen now as it dreams you rat You can't scare me Miller. I know your gags. You can't scare me. Oh, we'll see about that ghosts Hey, I want a lawyer. Good night Maxie Hey You can't turn the lights out on me Well, turn the lights back on Miller. You can't leave me here in the dark Boy Why you flat plate? Come back. Yeah I'm scared Turn the lights on Miller for the lower bike. I'm scared of the dark Go on turn the lights on Miller, please No listen take me out of here. Not out the yellow Who are you don't you know me Maxie? I'm skater. Don't you you can't be it's a gag Listen copper. I'm no copper Max. I don't let's talk about things Where are you right here? Wait Where do I like a match? I want to see what you look like you'll be surprised man Oh, yes, there is Maxie. I'm right here beside you kid Yeah It was key to Dempsey. All right, I Recognize this voice right away When I let the mansion couldn't see nobody there. I guess I failed I Remember trying to yell Only my voice wouldn't work and when I come to I was laying on the cell floor For a minute. I couldn't figure out what happened and then it all come back to me You know how it is when you're really scared Or maybe you never been real scared, huh? Well, I'll tell you My mouth was so dry. I couldn't hardly breathe. Oh, and I could hear was my heart pumping away as loud as an old fliver engine It was too scared to say a word. I Just crawled up onto the pumpkin late So I scared you Oh shut up. I ain't gonna hurt you. I could pray you away. No, you couldn't Maxie. You couldn't pray me away What they got you in here for something off Nothing you knocked off that Hogan guy, didn't you? Well, it's too bad for you man. Yeah Yeah Are you still here sure You You a scared jumpsy. Yes. I am but some Scooter jumpsy was burned last winter. I don't report it. I've seen him set in the chair. That's right. Well, then you ain't scared of jumpsy Yes, I am I know Stop jitter and I ain't gonna hurt you but you're a ghost. Well, what if I am? I wish it'd go away Why should I? This is my cell after all skitter. Please stop canna Listen, let's talk. I haven't had nobody that thought poof for two months. Who'd you talk to then? George Brown you remember him. Yeah, hi Scott. Yeah, hey George Brown hung himself in a cell here. Yeah This Uh-huh Him and me set up and talked all night and he hung himself next day Hanging so far. Oh, he'd have got burned anyway. They had him for two jobs One knocking off an old lady for 70 bucks The other shooting that bank I down the spring. Yeah See him hang himself Scooter. No, I wasn't here at the time. Where was you? Oh, I was away Peter yeah What does it feel like to be All right. Yeah. Oh my god. What's the matter? Oh? What? What about hell and all that? You get used to why old lady used to make me go to Sunday school and they used to talk about hell there Fire and everything. There ain't no fire Hey, no It's Worse than that What? What's it like? You will find out If I get out of this rap, I'm I think I'll go straight. Yeah too late, man No, I hate I'll beat it. No you won't You got a croak sometime. Yeah, you'll croak on this rap. Oh, you know, I know There's one way you could get out of Some of the hell old man. Oh Bump yourself off. What do you mean? Well, if you wait for the law to punish you, that's one thing if you take the law in your own hands and Well kind of punish yourself It'll make a difference Is it? Pretty tough skier. What hell? Diane hurts awful the chair, I mean They go in feeling pretty cocky and sicker and you can take it and you're gonna be a tough guy and off and then What that skier? All of a sudden you find you can't take it. You don't want to yell and scream, but Skitter you ain't never had no pain and all your life makes Can begin to compare with the chair. Yeah You'll find that Do you really think I will skitter Why do you I wonder how it feels to bump yourself off George Brown said it was all right kind of made him feel better. He said he said Yeah, I seen him the day after oh, huh if I was you man, I think I'd do it. Yeah I'm not gonna put myself off. I won't do it. He's nothing copper ain't gonna make me. Who's that? Miller I Said you will know who was you talking to maxi? Skeeter Dempsey listen. Let me out of here. No kidding. Let me y'all put me anyplace. You want to put the symbol. Scared maxi Who was you talking to maxi? Skeeter Dempsey Listen really turn on the lights. Well, you're trying to mind willing just for a minute Doc's got you down now. No, please turn on the lights Why not would be darker still when I turn them off again What's the matter now There ain't anybody here. I'll try Was skitter in here with you kid. I thought I thought There ain't anybody here Oh Yes, there is max I wouldn't worry about I'm right here beside you and I'm gonna stay They kept me in that cell there for four weeks Every once in a while mill it coming and stand there in front of the door and laugh at me Gonna sign a compression maxi. He'd say Well, I wasn't gonna give him nothing But that place got me Just as soon as it was dark. I see you Skeeter Dempsey put step in common sit down with me. I Was awful scared at first Kind of hard to get used to practically living with a ghost But then I kind of get used to Was always telling me how I was gonna burn and How I'd be better off to hang myself like George Brown done. I guess I was very good not Well, I wouldn't have no lawyer see this it was keeping me in there without own anything about it So as they could hand me the rap when the time comes Or all the time come Someplace or other and they let dug up the evidence that I wouldn't give them and they had me And how they had me? So one morning few weeks later I'm sitting in the courtroom the jury's been out for 20 minutes Everybody rise They're down Gentlemen of the jury have you arrived in a verdict we have your honor when you passed the verdict to the bailot, please We the jury find the defendant max young guilty of murder in the first degree Mr. Foreman is this your verdict it is your honor the defendant will rise and get up maxi Max young have you anything to say before sentences passed on you really? No, you Realize that in a verdict of guilty of first degree murder the death penalty is mandatory Yeah Yeah, you're on very well, then It is the sentence of this court that you are to be taken from this place and between the 21st and the 30th December shocked to death by electricity and May God have mercy on your soul All right maxi come on this way Well max that's that yeah But you see I didn't say nothing it was me maxi. I said there's only one way out. No Oh Well So that was that There wasn't ready to send me down to the state prison where they broke off guys So they kept me in this year wing of the Connie jail where they had me and skated them. She's old cell. I Guess this guy. Well, I must have liked his pal Ambrose hoke and quite a lot the guy. I knocked off Huh Sure, I knocked him off what she was a kid in Iran Hey, I guess he must have thought a lot I am because He kept me in there where it was dark where I'd be scared to death all the time Really getting even But I kind of fool him. I Wasn't so scared of skier by this time. I Got so I said in the dark then To be waiting for them And we talked But everything in the world It was funny People out of history and funny places and stuff and a Lot of things Skitter told me he saw a lot of the guys we talked about Nero and Judas a scariot But why not? He was dead wasn't he and so was they who but I got a hurry up with my ghost story. Yeah, that's right What I was gonna say was I was sitting there one night the 23rd. It was Day before Christmas Eve sitting in the dark and Hello skitter hello, Max. How you feeling? Not so hot still thinking about the hot squat. Huh? What else do you expect me to think about? I? Wish they hurry up and get it over with. That's what I wish. It's tomorrow night What is they burned you? I'm Christmas Eve. Yep. I Honest Peter. How do you know? I found them. Oh God. Well, don't take it so hard I'll walk in with you when I take it to the chair. I'll stand right there alongside you. Will you scare? Will you honest sure? Won't do you much good though? Why? I can't keep it from hurting you Honest Peter Does it hurt a lot or is it all over with pretty quick? It seemed to me to last a hundred years. Oh I'm my sucker for pain skater. I sure I cut my finger once I put in your croak with the pain You ain't felt nothing yet. Yeah Yeah, she I remember too when I busted my leg my old lady set up all night holding my hand and Me brawling as so feel like a million busted legs Listen skater. What? Didn't you say George Brown told you didn't hurt much bumping yourself off. That's what he said. What I? Was one friend Well, I know what I'd do if I was in your place. Yeah, would you bump yourself off? Yeah I I don't think I got the cuts to it skitter. It ain't hard. You got a belt You could get it around your neck and climb up on the bunk and fasten the belt to the bars up above then all you got to do is jump on Yeah, you know if I'd help you out if you did what do you mean? Well, you know, I told you Kind of punishing yourself. See I know I can't I can't I can't I don't want to die. Well, it's all right with me. I was just telling it Believe me land. I know what I'm talking about Do you have a skater? Do you? Yeah? I wish I had that cut to do it. Oh, I don't care what you do, Maxie All you're gonna get burned tomorrow night anyway, and if you want to get out of the most awful pain you ever had Do you yourself a good turn at the same time? Well, I wonder what it feels like George Brown said it only heard for a minute They never had much guts that I remember Your camera's milling gonna tell you I get it. Yeah, you don't look very happy. You what? You see in the dark. Yeah Hello, Max. Hello, no, I thought made it turn on the lights. I don't care you get in use to the dark Yeah, I don't know. I'll turn them on anyway Well, Max, it's about the end of the string tomorrow, huh? Yeah Well, that makes you and me even listen Max I wanted to see you knocked off an account of Ambrose Hogan night Well, I ain't saw Miller You know yeah No hard feelings Miller It's your job being a copper and might be in a hood. Yeah Well, is there anything you want Maxie? No, I guess not You ain't got two folks No, I could get you a bottle of bourbon if you wanted. Nah Well, we gotta get ready to go down to the state prison in a little while they got there But I mean, that's where you got to go Do I have to go today? Yeah, I guess so Well Kind of hate to leave this place at that. Do you? Yeah Scared me quite a lot at first, but I guess it's taught me a lot Being here in the dark all along except for me man. Yeah Well Max Listen Try to take it standing up will you? You know not try Miller But it's gonna be awful tough. Yeah Well, look out I'll be back a little bit and we'll go Sure there ain't anything you want me to get Maxie. No All right, oh, I'm I'm sorry Max. Huh? It's okay, Miller. Forget it I told you Max. Yeah Well, I gotta be going So long, Maxie. You go ahead and skater. Yeah, I'll See you tomorrow night, but listen skater don't go away now. I have to and Just in case you decide to do what George Brown did There's an extra piece of rope under the matter. You won't have to use your belt So long Oh Well There you are That's your ghost story You believe in ghosts now You don't Or the order you see I took skaters advice I hung myself I've been dead six months All right, you can turn them on now You have just heard the third in the summer series of lights out Tonight's story featured Norman Gotchock is Maxie Stanley Shule is Skeeter Dempsey and Roy angle is Miller Boris Aplon was heard as the judge and Nathan Davis is Johnny The next Saturday night come nine o'clock. We've got a story cooked up for you that ought to give you a chill in the hottest weather Two master magicians both in the inner cult of Haitian voodoo ism Lock horns and a Titanic struggle which comes to a climax over the Chicago airport So you'd better make a mental note to be near your radio next Saturday evening Lights out is produced and directed by Albert Cruz This is All right, you can turn them on now You've just heard the third in the summer series of lights out Tonight's story featured Norman Gotchock is Maxie Stanley Shule is Skeeter Dempsey and Roy angle is Miller Boris Aplon was heard as the judge and Nathan Davis is Johnny Next Saturday night come nine o'clock. We've got a story cooked up for you that ought to give you a chill in the hottest weather Two master magicians both in the inner cult of Haitian voodoo ism Lock horns and the Titanic struggle which comes to a climax over the Chicago airport So you'd better make a mental note to be near your radio next Saturday evening Lights out is produced and directed by Albert Cruz This is NBC the National Broadcasting Company