Life Sentence in the Afterlife: The Ghosts of Lake County Jail, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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🗓️ 5 October 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On Crown Point’s Main Street stands a charming red-brick mansion hiding a chilling secret—the Old Lake County Jail. Once home to just ten cells, it eventually crammed in 150 inmates by 1928. Among them was America’s most wanted gangster, John Dillinger, who famously escaped in 1934, leaving his captors humiliated—and some spirits behind.
Though Dillinger slipped away, many prisoners never left. Visitors report apparitions of inmates and guards, the clang of cell doors slamming shut, phantom footsteps on the metal stairs, and whispers in dark hallways long after closing hours. Locals say this historic jail still holds those who served a life sentence—and never stopped.
In this episode of The Grave Talks, we join Jacquie Thompson and Sandy Boyd to explore the haunted history of Old Lake County Jail. From the building’s violent past to modern-day paranormal encounters, we uncover why this site is believed to be one of Indiana’s most haunted places. This is Part Two of our conversation.
For more information on the jail, tours, and paranormal investigations, visit their website at oldsheriffshouse.org or their Facebook page at Old Lake County Jail.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on The Grave Talks, part two of our conversation about the old Lake County Jail and the spirits that have never left. |
| 0:08.8 | A conversation with Jackie Thompson and Sandy Boyd. |
| 0:16.9 | We've both had moments in there. |
| 0:21.8 | You know, stuff that I can't explain. |
| 0:24.7 | There's areas that we pause before we even walk into. |
| 0:29.8 | Sometimes we refuse to walk into that area at all. |
| 0:33.9 | You can feel it in your chest. |
| 0:36.5 | It's like sometimes you just get this, I don't know, at least for me, it's like a tightness in my chest. |
| 0:43.6 | And, you know, at the top of my stomach, just like a, oh, I don't like this. |
| 0:49.4 | This does not feel good and I don't want to go in. |
| 0:52.4 | Do you also think, too, it could be because you're women in certain parts of that prison, |
| 0:57.1 | you wouldn't have ever gone into. |
| 0:59.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.6 | Well, in federal on the third floor, you know, we had been told by a medium that she felt |
| 1:08.3 | there was a priest up there saying Latin prayers, didn't know if it was an |
| 1:13.3 | inmate or saying prayers to an inmate. |
| 1:16.1 | So I thought, you know, it just played Latin prayers on my phone one day and there. |
| 1:22.6 | And I ended up getting choked. |
| 1:25.3 | Like I could not swallow and I felt pressure around my throat to the point |
| 1:32.2 | where I, you know, shut off the phone and I left that area all together. And it, it took me a little |
| 1:38.1 | bit to go back up there again. That was so real. I'm impressed that you even did go back. And I can't explain it. Huh? I'm surprised that you even did go back and i can't explain it huh i'm surprised |
| 1:47.3 | that you even did go back that have been enough for me i know what i find interesting |
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