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Haunted Road

The Bloodiest 47 Acres in America

Haunted Road

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Missouri State Penitentiary was decommissioned in 2004, after nearly 170 years of brutal incarceration. But the stories of harsh punishments and austere living conditions still live on in the buildings today — in the people who come to visit the prison, and in the spirits who have stayed behind, replaying their years at what is sometimes called the “bloodiest 47 acres in America,” over and over into infinity. Special Guest: Diane Kitchell

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0:00.0

Yellowstone, television's number one show is back on Paramount Network.

0:03.6

I John Dutton, who solemnly swear to uphold the Constitution of the State of Montana,

0:08.4

against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

0:10.8

Featuring an all-star cast led by Academy Award winner Kevin Costner,

0:13.9

the invasion is over. They will fight you dirty.

0:16.0

Is there any other way?

0:17.2

As the Dutton family fights to protect their legacy, they'll learn power has a price.

0:21.1

Signed as a declaration of war.

0:23.2

We're already at war.

0:24.2

Yellowstone, new episodes Sundays at 8 p.m. Eastern exclusively on Paramount Network.

0:31.2

Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky.

0:37.2

Listener discretion is advised.

0:46.8

From the outside, this penitentiary looked like the model of capital punishment.

0:51.6

It's inmates-powered factories that made the prison a center of industry,

0:55.8

manufacturing goods that were shipped across the country,

0:58.7

in a system that penal experts hailed as a masterclass in efficiency and an example for other

1:04.3

prisons to follow. But on the inside, inmates told a different story.

1:08.6

One of severe punishments for infractions as minimal as playing cards in their cells,

1:13.2

or in some instances, for just speaking at all.

1:16.4

Prisoners were immersed in ice baths, to which nausea-inducing chemicals have been added

1:21.1

when they were suspected of faking illness. The beatings continued long after the prison

1:26.2

claimed to have phased out corporal punishment, but when it eventually did, the alternatives were

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