Today on the Grave Talks, part two of haunted cells, the ghosts of the old Amador County

courthouse in jail, conversation with Amy Davis of Gothic paranormal.

Now, how long then was it operational? Did it sit empty for a while?

It was operational until 2007, and then because it was not ADA accessible

and the 90s they had to build a jail up the road because they had over they just had too many

people in the capacity of the cells they had.

So they had to build a bigger jail.

And then they, I think at the time, they might have started working on the new courthouse. And then in 2007, when the new courthouse moved over, they moved the courtrooms.

They moved the records offices and the business offices and the DAs and all that up there.

So all that is now about, it's about a mile and a half away up court street. And so the building set empty from 2007 until

2023. They did sell it off to one owner and he just had it.

It was kind of like a, apparently he let some people go in and do paranormal

investigating and at some point for a year or two, there was a haunted house that ran out

of there for a couple of octobers.

But outside of that, it just kind of set empty as this giant

storage facility oh um yeah the current owners are um pat and jamie macklin who created restore amador

and they are wonderful wonderful people people. They're Jackson natives and they just want to

see this town of Jackson and Amador County have its historic sites preserved and saved.

And that's kind of the only reason they really bought the place is to to save it. The complex

comes with a huge parking area behind an old, I call it the carriage house because it looks more

like a carriage house, but apparently it was some sort of government offices. And then there is

what was the original library and became a

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