This week on hometown ghost stories.

Shepton Mallet Prison is England's oldest working prison, now infamous for its dark history and ghostly tales.

It housed prisoners during wars, was a site for executions, and held notorious criminals like the Cray twins.

Today, its abandoned halls are said to be haunted.

Some claim that the spirits of executed prisoners roam these cells forever trapped in the echoes

of their past. This is hometown ghost stories, Shepton Mallet Prison, England.

hometown ghost stories contains serious and often distressing events and is not intended for all audiences viewer discretion is advised despondency in gloom permeated the air as if it steeped from the cold prison walls

dr wells couldn't stand being down

there for long periods of time, but her job demanded just that. She followed the prison guard

down the endless hallways, past the long line of cell doors. Her case was a man on trial

for a string of murders who was pleading not guilty, citing diminished responsibility

due to mental defect. She would have to interview him and give her expert testimony to the court.

The guard stopped at a door towards the end of the hall and unlocked it, pushing it open.

The hinges squealed as the swinging door revealed the room.

It was a large room with tall ceilings.

The windows were high up on the wall and were so dirty

that only a faint orange glow from outside made its way through the glass.

The windows were so high and out of reach that

was likely nobody ever cleaned them. All these details resulted in a poorly lit room, which

only added a more unnecessary discomfort to the fact that there was also an accused serial killer

sitting in that room.

He sat at the table, with his hands and his feet shackled, looking surprisingly harmless.

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