Ep. 113 - Eastern State Penitentiary

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Eastern State Penitentiary was built to start a reformation when it came to America's penal system. Prison was making the move from a place of punishment to a place of reform. Eastern State became the most expensive building in America when it was built in the late 1800s and it was the most famous prison in the world. Al Capone even spent time here. Officers and inmates have reported haunting activity for decades at the prison and this activity seems to have only increased since the penitentiary was closed to inmates for good. The reputation of the prison makes it a perfect place for the haunted house attraction it becomes every Halloween. But the ghosts here are very real. Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of the Eastern State Penitentiary! The Moment in Oddity was suggested by listener Toby Hessenauer and features an underwater city in Japan and This Day in History is by Steven Pappas and features the first woman executed by electric chair.

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0:00.0	The History tells the story of the story of the world and of our lives. Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:26.0	Broadcasting from the center of Oddity and the supernatural in Central Florida,
0:39.0	it's The History Goes Bump Podcast.
0:54.6	Ghost Tours for the Theater of the Mind.
0:56.7	I am your host Diane, and this is Denise.
0:59.3	And on this episode, we're going to jail here in America. We're going to a penitentiary
1:04.8	that a lot of our listeners probably are very familiar with Denise. This has been
1:09.0	featured on every haunted program out there. It's considered to be one of the most haunted prisons, if not one of the most
1:15.8	haunted locations in America, and that is Eastern State Penitentiary. This was suggested by our
1:21.7	listener Stephen Fitzgerald, and we got a lot of research assistance from April Rogers Crick.
1:27.0	This was a place that was built to help reform prisoners, Denise,
1:31.0	but as we share the history, people are going to find out that it was a
1:34.2	prison that was a horrible place to be.
1:37.6	There wasn't much about reformation going on here.
1:40.4	There was a lot of torture going on, I think.
1:43.0	Before we get into that, I want to point to you at our website,
1:45.3	History GoesBump.com.
1:47.0	Denise, if people want to send us some feedback,
1:48.6	where can they do that?
1:49.7	They can do that at History GoesBump at gmail.
1:52.4	com. I want to draw your attention to
1:55.4	Mark Nixon who heads up shadows at the door our regular listeners would be
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