need a name for an episode!!

[lorimae]

hey there !! i remember an episode that sticks out in my mind, but not the title... it had something to with shoes being made with human skin.. gruesome huh?? {hey i was an impressionable teen back then !!} but that particular episode grabbed me ... anyone know which one i am thinking of??? :?

[vgarci]

Lorimae,
I don't know the program you are speaking of but I've got a real life gruesome tale. One of Wyoming's first Governor's, John Osborne, had a pair of shoes made from a criminal's skin. The criminal, Big Nose George Parrot, was hanged for his crimes and some say it was a mob that strung him up. Dr. Osborne wore these human-skin shoes to his inauguration!!! The shoes can still be seen at the Carbon County museum in Rawlins, WY.

http://www.outwestnewspaper.com/bignose.html

[lorimae]

hey vince... wonder if the story may have come from that ??!! as an idea i mean... some of the best stories heard are usually based on some fact... any ways... i sure hope someone out there has an idea of the show i am thinking of ?? thanx for trying vince !! smile.gif lori

[vgarci]

Lori,
I was thinking the same thing. It just sounded too close to the story I knew so I had to mention it.

[Texas]

Lorimae, the episode you want is "A horror story", 781211, and is supposedly set in New Orleans around the turn of the century.

I heard the tail end of it after having returned from a trip to New Orleans right after my first year in college. It was amusing because I heard a fellow who was supposed to be a prominent person there talking in a Mississippi accent, when real life Orleanaux people (at least in that time) talked more with a Brooklyn accent like most of the RMT actors already had. :D

I also remember it because I "hooked" my brother-in-law (then a big, strapping, cowboy of a guy) into the RMT, and that episode apparently scared him a lot.

Listening to it in full for the first time earlier this year, it's now amusing to me because it's narrated by one of the RMT regulars, Robert Dryden, who appears as the ghost of one of the main characters. In a twist on "ghosts", this one on his "return" has developed a very effeminate manner of speaking.

[lorimae]

thanx a lot texas !!! i was really hoping somebody out there would know !! now i just have to see if i can find it in the list of shows charlie kindly sent me... one of the shows i'll be listening to on halloween !! :D lori