"The Scarlet Plague" • Sci-fi-Horror • Best Stories by ESCAPE! • [remastered] •

What makes this story scary? Because it's plausible! The story opens with isolated incedents of an unusual affliction which acts incredibly fast . . . Within an hour or two after you get this disease you're dead! Plus, you never really feel very sick . . . Just a little mild nausea with a slight a fever, then your body quickly turns red! In fact just before you die, you actually feel exceptionally good (euphoria) Scientists can't isolate it because they're dying just as fast - Plus, because of modern high-speed travel the disease is global in just a few days. Within a couple of weeks, you and one other person are the only ones left alive on the planet. Great story, featuring Parley Baer. (Parley Baer was the Depuity of Dodge City on radio's Gunsmoke, then he later became the fussy Mayor of Mayberry!)
↓notes below↓
•••• Airdate: April 8, 1954 ••••
✓✓✓√√√√√√√✓ This program came from a badly damaged surviving recording, but the sound is much improved over older uploads elsewhere.
• This program is Public Domain, like every upload I provide. • 2018-19-20 by Charlie Stuckey, your host and the proprietor of this channel. •

[@sierrasam316]

Heard this re-broadcast on KNX 1070’s drama hour in the late 80’s. Love these radio dramas! Thanks for posting

[@mzmantiz508]

Great story for enjoying in my bunker. You really were right in your previous comments.

[@SuspenseESCAPEremastered]

Yeah, this story a lot like what's going on. I'm pleased that you agree with me :-)

[@chrisparker5796]

Good one.👍

[@jwlundgren]

Listening in 2023. My SO has a supervirulent variation of Covid. just like the initial covid I had in 2020.

[@GodISGood103]

I feel as if i have been transported back to 2020, listening to the spread of C19 on the news... in a world that is forever changing 🙏🙏 30/04/2023 @ 21:38 UK oh no....what an ending, they should have stayed on the top floor...

[@BuckBenny]

Nice job on choosing so many great Sci Fi OTR presentations. I'm looking for any OTR episodes that relate to our current Covid19 issues. Could you suggest any besides this episode?

[@SuspenseESCAPEremastered]

+Buck Benny I recommend the 2-part episode "Earth Abides," another really good production from ESCAPE. Truly one of my favorites, it's in my sci-fi playlist. Thanks for listening to my uploads and thanks for posting your comments - Charlie

[@MartinSage]

Listen to Earth Abides

[@CaptZdq1]

The real pandemic is irrational fear, panic, n mass hysteria. People absolutely want to believe there's a Covid pandemic when they know very well there isn't n know that the measures are ineffective in any case, and absolutely want to believe that the governemnt and greedy multinationals n plutocratic totalitarians can do no wrong, so they won't listen to reason even when the facts are presented to them. With these totalitarian measures against Covid the gap between rich n poor grows larger, the plutocrats n multinationals are making huge profits from them n the vaccines, and famine has been doubled especially in Africa, n leftists are supporting the measures, since they're so liberal n humane n everything. 'Liberal left,' what a joke that is.

[@SuspenseESCAPEremastered]

@@CaptZdq1 I just now got your comment! I totally agree - Just LAST WEEK they wouldn't let me visit my wife in the hospital unless I wore a mask. I told them it's okay, I've been vaccinated. They threatened to call the police if I continued to walk in! I wanted to visit my wife, so I put it on. After they were out of sight I took it off!

[@nedludd7622]

@@SuspenseESCAPEremastered Even if you were vaccinated you could spread the virus. The vaccine just protects you. The mask is to protect others from you not to protect you from others.

[@MartinSage]

Sounds like a badly abridged version of the far better EARTH ABIDES.

[@AdamPONeal1167]

“Earth Abides” is a CLASSIC! John Dehner is one of the all-time best overall OTR & classic B&W TV/film actors

[@scottbennett777]

dumbest script, ever. they inspected every house? no, they just assumed they're the only 2 people left alive. so, so dumb.

[@SuspenseESCAPEremastered]

Since there was no one broadcasting on the air from anywhere, it's assumed everyone is dead.

[@chrisparker5796]

Scott Bennett let it go, walk away .

[@theycallmeken]

This one was a bit of a soggy sandwich