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In 1863, West Virginia seceded from Virginia at the height of the American Civil War. Consequently, the new state had a shortage of various public institutions, including prisons. From 1863 to 1866, Governor Arthur I. Boreman lobbied the West Virginia Legislature for a state penitentiary but was repeatedly denied. The Legislature at first ...
Last year more than 25,000 visitors stepped through the prison grounds, still owned by the state of West Virginia. "My favorite area is the psych ward. That is my favorite paranormal section ...
Tip of terror: Gettysburg isn't the only haunted location in Pennsylvania. Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia is widely known to be one of the most haunted places in America. The ...
West Virginia State Penitentiary. Moundsville, West Virginia The looming Gothic-style prison opened in 1876 and closed in 1995. During that time, there were 94 executions and 36 murders within its ...
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]
Villisca Ax Murder House: Villisca: Iowa: United States [4] Waverly Hills Sanatorium: Louisville: Kentucky: United States [17] West Virginia State Penitentiary: Moundsville: West Virginia: United States [9] Westminster Hall and Burying Ground: Baltimore: Maryland: United States [19] Wilson Hall: Athens: Ohio: United States [6]
The team investigates West Virginia State Penitentiary (also called Moundsville State Penitentiary) in Moundsville, West Virginia, said to be home to the ghost of a former inmate William "Red" Snyder and a private residence just outside Cleveland, Ohio, where the owner says she is being plagued by apparitions from a headstone under her porch.
Virginia: The Ferry Plantation House, Virginia Beach. There are a few dearly departed regulars who haunt this circa-1830s home. One spirit is a man who loves nothing more than to talk to the ...