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🗓️ 20 December 2023
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Originally built in 1903 to treat patients suffering from Tuberculosis, Cresson Sanatorium later became a federal prison. It's dark past has now led it to be called America's most haunted hospital and prison.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky. |
0:07.0 | Listener discretion is advised. In my years of investigating defunct sanatoriums, mental health facilities, and jails, I've seen it all. |
0:22.0 | Full-bodied apparitions, shadow figures, door slamming, you name it. |
0:27.1 | Perhaps more alarming, I've heard whispers in my ear and in some cases I've been touched and grabbed by unseen forces. |
0:36.2 | Even as seasoned an investigator as I am, I know when I walk through the dilapidated doors or |
0:42.0 | squeaky gates of these old complexes, |
0:45.1 | something unexplainable will happen. And that knowledge and expectancy, to this day, |
0:51.5 | still sends a chill down my spine as I begin. But what happens when the |
0:56.4 | location wasn't just a sanatorium mental health facility or jail? What if at some point in its history it was all three? |
1:06.6 | Join me friends as we journey to Crescent Sanatorium in Lily, Pennsylvania. |
1:14.0 | I'm Amy Bruni, and welcome to Haunted Road. The Crescent Sanatorium in prison stands 2,000 feet above sea level, perched in the peaks of Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountain Range. The complex includes roughly the |
1:34.0 | complex includes roughly 20 buildings. |
1:36.0 | The picturesque three-story Tudor revival style administrative building |
1:41.0 | is made of brick and wood and has a peaked roof. The structure might remind visitors of a witch's cottage hidden in the forest. |
1:48.0 | Meanwhile, the surrounding buildings look more modern and utilitarian. If you step inside them, you'll find |
1:55.6 | crumbling rooms with chipped paint and in some cases old abandoned equipment. The |
2:01.4 | on-site power station is still filled with dated machinery. |
2:05.0 | Inside the administrative building, a wooden lobby welcomes visitors, |
2:10.0 | only for the doors to open to long abandoned prison cells. |
2:14.0 | Elsewhere in the complex, a sunny window-lined chapel sits locked behind a wrought-iron door with a cross-pattern. |
2:22.0 | Erie stone-lined underground tunnels connect the buildings. |
2:25.2 | These dark corridors feature bare concrete walls and flooring, exposed ducts and |
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