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🗓️ 26 February 2025
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A dog serves time in a Philadelphia prison in 1924.
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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. |
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2:34.0 | the Pennsylvania prison's violent and haunted history. |
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