"You're about the hear the story of the man who was my friend. He died earlier this year in a cell at Wormwood Jail, in which he'd been an inmate for over twenty-eight years. He had originally been sentenced to death over the murder of a near relative, but this was later commuted to imprisonment for life. For a great many of the facts that you're about to hear, I can personally vouch, but of the supernatural parts, there isn't much that I can say..."