A Grim Tale of the Old Charleston Jail, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
It’s one thing to find a haunted house that’s a mere few decades old. But when you step foot inside a structure nearing two centuries on top of a burial ground, you’re practically daring the restless dead to say “hi.” Once home to both the justly and unjustly imprisoned during one of America’s darkest eras, the Old Charleston Jail hasn’t exactly had a reason to lighten up since its final cell door slammed shut. Even now, spectral residents make themselves known—whether it’s through clanging chains in the dead of night or soft whispers echoing down musty corridors. In this episode of The Grave Talks, we venture into these age-old walls to discover why the past hasn’t truly passed. Bring a strong flashlight and an even stronger stomach—you’ll need them. This is Part Two of our conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to part two of our interview about the old Charleston jail as we talk with Randy Johnson |
| 0:08.3 | about the many haunting experiences within those cell blocks. Randy, I want to ask, this is very |
| 0:16.3 | much an opinion-based question, but you being a ghost hunter out there, someone who's experienced quite a bit, |
| 0:22.8 | and has seen a technology that's available for ghost hunting evolved tremendously in the last 10 to 15 years. |
| 0:30.5 | Where do you see that technology, that level of communication being 20, 30 years from now, when someone would go into a place |
| 0:41.0 | like the old Charleston jail? What kind of interactions do you think will occur and what do you |
| 0:45.7 | think will be available for investigators at that time? To answer that question, let me just premise |
| 0:51.2 | it by saying, because it's going to affect my answer. What do I think it really is? What is going on? |
| 0:58.0 | And my personal element of paranormal contact has to do with distortions in the fabric of time and space. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm not completely convinced that do with distortions in the fabric of time and space. |
| 1:17.7 | I'm not completely convinced that it's simply an isolated thing. |
| 1:22.0 | I think it happens quite frequently, and people just don't aware of it or try to block it out. |
| 1:34.3 | But I do believe that when we encounter a spirit, say, the jail, it is quite possible that that spirit is locked in a previous time. In other words, that spirit is still in a body and existence in a dimension where it still appears real to itself. |
| 1:43.3 | And when we see it, it sees us in the same light. |
| 1:48.3 | We appear as a ghost to it. Now, that's just a theory. But what it does is it touches upon |
| 1:54.9 | what's going on here, what's the causation of all this. And I think that it does have something to do |
| 2:00.2 | with distortions |
| 2:01.7 | in the fabric of time and space. Edgar Allan Poe was on to this in the 1830s, and I think that the |
| 2:08.0 | instruments that are going to be most compelling to us, the ones that are going to lead us |
| 2:11.7 | to further discoveries, are going to be instruments that can somehow measure distortions in time or measure distortions in space. |
| 2:21.3 | And once we know, once we encounter those places, and sometimes there are places that have more about than other places. |
| 2:26.5 | And I think that's one of the reasons the jail is so active from a paranormal standpoint. |
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