Echoes from Old Lavaca County Jail | Grave Talks CLASSIC

The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural

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🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!

Step across the threshold of the Old Lavaca County Jail and the temperature plummets. Iron doors that haven’t budged in decades groan open by themselves; footsteps pace the cellblock even when your crew stands perfectly still. In this episode, paranormal investigators Lisa Franks and Debra Fawcett walk us through the shadows of this forgotten fortress, where murderers, moonshiners, and drifters once sweated out their last nights—and where many never truly left. Hear the hiss that skims across an empty infirmary, the phantom keys that still rattle on hooks, and the chilling recording Lisa captured of a prisoner begging, “Let me out.” From the legendary “hanging stairwell” to the solitary cell that cracks EVP gear, every corner breathes with unresolved anger.

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0:00.0	Today in the Grave Talks, the haunted old Lavaca County Jail.
0:05.0	What do you think of when you think abandoned jail?
0:19.0	Butterflies and daisies? Of course not. Very likely, your mind conjures up
0:24.3	images of dark and decrepit cells rusting away in the stale, vacant air that time forgot. Possibly
0:32.3	even unexplained sounds echoing down the lines of barred walls from the resonant spirits that still take refuge
0:40.8	behind the strong cinder block walls. If that's what you're thinking of, you may be thinking
0:46.2	of the haunted old Lavaca County Jail, a jail no longer holding the living. No, now it houses the souls of those who have long since
0:56.8	passed, but seem to have difficulty getting beyond the walls. This is the story of that jail.
1:04.7	It's told to us by Lisa Frank's endeavor of Posit today on the Great Talks.
1:10.2	When I was 11 years old, I was diagnosed with diabetes.
1:14.6	I was very sick at the time, and I was rushed over to the hospital from the doctor's office.
1:21.6	And it was pretty much from that point that I started having experiences.
1:28.3	I was in the hospital for about two weeks,
1:32.2	and during that time, I would always see
1:35.9	this older lady sitting down at the end of the hallway
1:38.9	looking out the window.
1:40.7	And I saw her for a couple days,
1:42.3	and she'd always turn and smile.
1:47.4	And I can picture her clear as day to this day, too.
1:51.9	And a couple days later, I didn't see her.
1:57.8	So I asked one of the nurses, you know, where's, where's that lady?
1:59.0	I always see her down the hallway.
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