49: Eastern State Penitentiary
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary was ahead of it's time, and a model for prisons around the world. It was home to some infamous criminals, and provided the backdrop to more than a few iconic movies, music videos, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This prison broke all the rules. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Los Angeles. We tend to we favor LA a lot. We live here. We know this place |
| 0:29.4 | But you know it's not what it's all about.'s a whole world out there uh we're gonna go to |
| 0:35.2 | a little place called the east coast ooh what that's crazy what yeah |
| 0:40.8 | man and it's cold. It's cold. Well, not parking over there. |
| 0:45.0 | Parking is great. If you go to the Eastern State Penitentiary, parking's free if you're an inmate yeah so we're going to talk about |
| 0:55.8 | eastern state penitentiary in Philadelphia Pennsylvania I love it it's it is a now it is like, you know, a popular, it's a very popular tourist |
| 1:06.1 | destination, it is abandoned, I guess it's, you know, not in commission anymore. |
| 1:11.3 | Yeah. And I learned a lot about... |
| 1:14.3 | Until you went there. |
| 1:14.9 | And they were like, we're starting this up again. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah, bring it back. |
| 1:18.6 | Sir? |
| 1:19.9 | You have an iPhone and you're taking pictures. |
| 1:22.4 | So we're going to start this up again. |
| 1:25.2 | My brother lives in Philadelphia and I did some things like, you know, I like to go we'll see where like Rocky was filmed so |
| 1:35.3 | I've done that and you know took some pictures where it was like Rocky's his |
| 1:41.2 | apartment and I see a lot of people take pictures there you know it's a popular it's a popular |
| 1:46.6 | thing and there's like kind of like cute twin girls that took pictures there and then I go there |
| 1:51.3 | with my brother and he's like I think it's in a pretty rough part of town but me maybe it's |
| 1:55.1 | you know been kind of you know like a lot of things gentrified no no no |
| 2:00.6 | we my brother pulled over and parked He just ran over a bunch of |
| 2:03.9 | hypodermic needles. And there was people like in a van, maybe stealing it? |
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