Phantasmal Crime Ep. 50 - Death Row Ghosts

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Prisons are notorious for being haunted. They are places of such strong emotion, that isn't surprising. There are a couple of areas of jails that lend themselves more to haunting activity: solitary confinement and Death Row. Whether one supports the death penalty or not, there is no question that some people commit such heinous crimes that it is hard to imagine, that anything else could be justice other than the death penalty. There are several murderers who have met their final demise at the end of a rope, an electric chair or a needle. Is it possible that their spirits have remained on this side of the veil? Perhaps they are not welcome anywhere else.

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0:00.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:14.1	True crime can be strangely fascinating.
0:17.9	This true crime is odd, macab, and haunted. I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows. Welcome
0:25.6	to fantastical crime. Prisons are notorious for being haunted. They are places of such strong emotion. That isn't surprising. There are a couple of
0:41.3	areas of jails that lend themselves more to haunting activity, solitary confinement and death row.
0:48.8	Whether one supports the death penalty or not, there's no question that some people commit such heinous crimes,
0:55.9	that it is hard to imagine that anything else could be justice other than the death penalty.
1:01.7	There are several murderers who have met their final demise at the end of a rope, a bullet,
1:06.7	an electric chair, or a needle. Is it possible that their spirits have remained on this side of the veil?
1:12.9	Perhaps they are not welcome anywhere else.
1:17.9	The concept of an area in a jail specifically set aside for those doomed to face execution
1:23.4	is actually a fairly new one.
1:25.9	People have awaited death in prison-like settings for centuries,
1:29.9	but there wasn't always a quote-unquote death row. The term death row didn't become official
1:35.5	until the 20th century. However, codified death penalty laws go back to the Babylonian
1:41.4	kingdom of the 18th century BC.
1:47.2	Kamarabi was the king of Babylon at that time,
1:51.7	and he issued the laws that required the death penalty for 25 different crimes,
1:55.4	none of which was actually murder, if you can believe that.
2:01.3	But even before that, the ancient laws of China called for death as a punishment for crimes.
2:05.2	The Old Testament directed that death was the punishment for murder.
2:12.0	These provisions supporting a death penalty traveled through the centuries and cross countries and oceans.
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