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Ghost Town

In Death Valley's blazing heat, the abandoned mining town of Bone Dry Gulch sits empty and forgotten. Sarah Conway, a teacher taking time off, gets stuck with Des Pogue, a runaway criminal whose family comes from the infamous Death Pogue. As they travel together toward the ghost town, both must face their troubled histories while trying to tell what's real from what's not.

The relentless sun of Death Valley beats down upon Bone Dry Gulch, a ghostly remnant of a mining camp. Sarah Conway, a schoolteacher on vacation, finds herself tied to Des Pogue, a fugitive whose lineage traces back to the notorious Death Pogue. While the two drive toward the ghost town, they struggle with their haunted pasts and the blurred line between reality and illusion.

Des Pogue, who has escaped from a mental institution, sneaks into the back seat of schoolteacher Sara Conway’s car, then orders her at gun-point to drive him to Bone Dry Gulch, a ghost town in Death Valley where Pogue’s great-great-grandfather made a living 100 years ago as a hired killer. When they arrive, dazed from an auto accident, Sara finds herself a ghost in a bustling gold mining community and about to witness a killing by Pogue’s infamous ancestor.

CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.

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