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The Eastern State Penitentiary (ESP) is a former American prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [6] It is located in the Fairmount section of the city, and was operational from 1829 until 1971. The penitentiary refined the revolutionary system of separate incarceration , first pioneered at the Walnut Street Jail , which emphasized principles of ...
The Baleroy Mansion is a 32-room estate located in the historic and affluent Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States.It has obtained the title of "Most Haunted Home in America" [1] The name "Baleroy" was chosen by its owner George Meade Easby, [2] great-grandson of General George Meade (hero of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War).
Holmesburg Prison seen from the air. Holmesburg Prison, given the nickname "The Terrordome," [1] was a prison operated by the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Department of Prisons (PDP) from 1896 to 1995. The facility is located at 8215 Torresdale Avenue in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia. It was decommissioned in ...
Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia is widely known to be one of the most haunted places in America. The penitentiary was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world, home to ...
The Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is known for being one of the most haunted places in the U.S. and has appeared on a number of ghost-hunting TV shows. Visitors and ...
The whole prison becomes a haunted house that takes a little less than an hour to walk through (but you can enjoy a drink at the speakeasy in Al Capone’s old cell!). Rhode Island — Scary Acres ...
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.
A former U.S. prison that opened in 1829 and tried to reform criminals through isolation has been called 'one of the most haunted locations in the world.'