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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

326: The Pet Prison

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A dog serves time in a Philadelphia prison in 1924.


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0:00.0

Ever wondered why people go on killing sprees?

0:05.0

Are you interested in exploring the paranormal?

0:07.0

Faffled by stories of previous lives.

0:10.0

Well so are we.

0:11.0

In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories of some truly confusing phenomena

0:17.0

and some horrific true crime cases.

0:19.0

Find us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok

0:22.5

and join us every Tuesday,

0:24.6

wherever you listen to your podcasts.

0:26.9

And be prepared to be totally and utterly,

0:29.7

perplexed. Welcome to Breakthroughs with FISA UK, the podcast where Pfizer invites experts from across the pharmaceutical industry to discuss the most pressing healthcare topics.

1:00.8

What is the biggest thing that saved the most lives in terms of public health ever? It is clean water. And the second thing is vaccination.

1:08.4

The science is really exciting because we're still learning about it

1:12.4

all the time. As you are tricking the body's immune system, listen and follow wherever you get

1:19.2

your podcast. Rough Justice. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Lebe. And this is Ghost Town.

1:53.0

It's 1924 and Eastern State penitentiary in Pennsylvania, and a dark figure walks the halls of the notorious prison compound.

1:59.8

The figure is said to be dangerous, a threat to the public, one that shows no remorse for his crimes.

2:04.6

And yet, people love him here, because he's kind,

2:12.5

warm, affectionate. In fact, he's a friendly black Labrador retriever. This is the story of Pepp the Prison Dog, a morale-boosting mascot of Eastern State, who, despite his fabricated notoriety, would go down in

2:21.1

history as a wholesome prison experiment, gone right. If you want to hear a decidedly different

2:27.9

story about Eastern State Penitentiary, you can listen to Ghost Town Episode 49, where we talk about

2:34.0

the Pennsylvania prison's violent and haunted history.

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