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This week on hometown go stories. The old Montana state prison was active for over 100 years and saw some of

the state's most violent criminals. Multiple riots, suicides, and murders at the prison have left its

mark on the town of Deer Lodge, Montana. The prison is no longer actively housing inmates, but many

believe it is one of the most active locations in the

state for paranormal activity and may be one of the most haunted prisons in the country.

This is hometown ghost stories, the old Montana state prison.

Hometown Ghost Stories contains serious and often distressing events and is not intended for all audiences viewer discretion is advised it was a cold soundless night and the dank prisoner hung stagnant in my cell as I lay awake.

It wasn't like the fresh air that I had been used to before my imprisonment, the air that

flowed freely through the brisk Montana valleys.

It was a different entity entirely.

It was dead air that seemed to emanate from the decaying stone walls like a disease.

Another sleepless night.

I asked myself what it was that gave me the looming sense of dread that plagued me each

night, but the question was rhetorical in nature.

As my mind began to wander, I contemplated the cruelty of my unfortunate existence, wrongly convicted and sentenced to

20 years in this house of sadness. Before my imprisonment, my experience was that each day,

time seemed to tick by faster than the last. But in here, the minutes felt like hours.

It's not merely a 20-year sentence if each day feels like a month.

So I'll resign myself to isolation, and the indifferent world outside these bars will move on

without me as I waste away in this rotten tomb of iron and stone. My thoughts were interrupted

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