The Haunted Charleston Dungeon, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
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🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 31 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. This is Part Two of our conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to part two of our interview with Randy Johnson about the Charleston Dungeon. |
| 0:06.4 | I mean, and you do, you listen all the time down in the sense of the change rattle. |
| 0:12.0 | And what is most likely to happen while you're down there is, you're more likely than |
| 0:18.2 | if you're going to have a car home on Santa, it's probably going to be with somebody from the pirate era. |
| 0:24.2 | They seem to inhabit and haught that place. It's like their castle. And so, you know, that's where we share all of our ghost stories about pirates and the Revolutionary War figures because that's where it all happened. A lot of |
| 0:40.0 | suffering down there. People being whipped to death. There's a room in the back of the dungeon |
| 0:47.0 | that goes deeper than the rest of the dungeon, so it actually goes below sea level. But it's kept |
| 0:53.2 | dry. They used to probably drain it by cops, you know, but now they have a sub-comp system. |
| 1:00.3 | And that's, it's a creepy room. |
| 1:02.9 | You can only see it through a barred window. |
| 1:05.0 | When you look down, you just know horrible things happen there. |
| 1:08.6 | And that's where they would shackle, they would swing people up, |
| 1:11.4 | not in shackles, take them out of their shackles, take them down into this horrible room. |
| 1:15.7 | And then they would stretch them out on this thing called the claim of pain. And when you |
| 1:20.8 | see one, you realize immediately, my God, that's evil. Yeah, you bet it's medieval. It was |
| 1:26.8 | bought right over here from |
| 1:28.0 | England and it's a system for holding people while you whip them you know you see |
| 1:33.1 | similar things when you watch movies about the British Empire and you watch them |
| 1:36.8 | on the British Navy and that you know the British Navy caught someone violating the |
| 1:41.7 | code they would drag them up and every, all sailors would |
| 1:46.0 | assemble on deck and they would stretch them out with ropes and ripped their shirt off |
| 1:50.6 | and then proceed to flog them with the counter nine tails. Well, guess what? That's what they |
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