The Haunted Charleston Dungeon, Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC
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🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
For centuries, the Charleston Dungeon was far more than just a prison. Pirates brushed shoulders with political enemies, and the unlucky or unruly were often forgotten behind these cold, fortified walls. Today, it stands as both a museum and a grim reminder of a darker era—an era where lawlessness was common and justice was often swift and brutal. But does the Dungeon’s storied past still resonate in its corridors? In this episode of The Grave Talks, we explore the murky history of Charleston’s most notorious holding pen and ask whether its restless spirits still face off with modern-day visitors brave enough to enter its depths.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, the Charleston Dungeon. |
| 0:14.1 | It's housed prisoners of war. It's been the final resting place to hearten criminals. |
| 0:19.5 | It has also been a place where political foes, for some, went to disappear. |
| 0:25.0 | The Charleston Dungeon has one of the most horrific and intriguing stories of any structure still standing in historic Charleston. |
| 0:33.2 | Today, the structure stands as a museum and a testament to a much darker time in our history. |
| 0:39.9 | A time when pirates came off the sea would frequent the town and its people. |
| 0:44.7 | A time when lawlessness was a way of life. |
| 0:47.5 | The big question is, do the spirits of that time still stand face to face with a living of those who visit the Charleston dungeon today. |
| 0:55.3 | Today we talk with paranormal investigator Randy Johnson about the Charleston dungeon. |
| 0:59.8 | The dungeon is probably building in the city and has the richest history of all, |
| 1:05.1 | because when the settlers arrived, sits, and we can imagine their faces being terrified because they arrived |
| 1:14.5 | here in this wilderness not knowing what they were facing. |
| 1:18.1 | The first instinct they had was to build a wall, and the wall ran down East Bay Street |
| 1:27.1 | in the old city, up to Trad, cut up Trad going west, and then cut up |
| 1:34.4 | Meeting Street going north, then cut back somewhere around the city market. And it encompassed a very |
| 1:40.6 | narrow little, you know, city pushed up against the river, the Cooper River. |
| 1:47.0 | And on that wall, literally on it, they built what they called a court of guard, which was a |
| 1:57.0 | constabulary or a guard station, where they kept several soldiers and underneath it. |
| 2:06.1 | On the very bottom level, they created a place to shackle people to hold them until they could either be whipped and released or hanged. |
| 2:19.6 | And that became known as Bedonjin. |
| 2:25.4 | And that's the main section underneath the exchange building. |
| 2:32.9 | And then later, in the 1770s, when the city was still part of the British Empire, |
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