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January 1, 1986, was the date of the most infamous riot in the history of the penitentiary. The West Virginia Penitentiary was undergoing many changes and problems, and security had become extremely thin in all areas. Since it was a "cons" prison, most of the locks on the cells had been picked and inmates roamed the halls freely.
West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, the scene of three deadly prison riots in 1973, 1979, and 1986, [148] is said to be haunted. [149] Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston is a previously abandoned psychiatric hospital that is purported to be haunted due to the many deaths of patients which occurred there. [150]
The hospital was auctioned by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources on August 29, 2007. Joe Jordan, an asbestos demolition contractor from Morgantown , was the high bidder and paid $1.5 million for the 242,000-square-foot (22,500 m 2 ) building.
The prison's fate was sealed in 1986 when the West Virginia State Supreme Court ruled that confinement to a 5-by-7-foot cell was considered cruel and unusual punishment.
Lovers of spooky cemeteries should head to West Virginia. ... Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia is widely known to be one of the most haunted places in America. The penitentiary was once ...
This prison in the evocatively named city of Moundsville opened in 1876 and housed West Virginia’s most diabolical criminals until 1995. It has a brutal history of executions and inmate violence.
Toggle The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits subsection. 1.1 Major articles. 1.2 Significant articles. ... West Virginia Penitentiary – History**; Haunting Activity**;
The Greenbrier Ghost is the name popularly given to the ghost of Elva Zona Heaster Shue, a young woman in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States, who was murdered in 1897. Initially judged a death by natural causes, the court later declared that the woman had been murdered by her husband, following testimony by the victim's mother ...