The Haunted Missouri State Penitentiary, Part One | Guest Jenny Switzer
The Grave Talks | Haunted, Paranormal & Supernatural
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🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Numerous injuries, deaths, and a significant riot in 1954 prompted Time Magazine to call the prison "the bloodiest 47 acres in America." Today, guides and visitors report lots of paranormal activity - apparitions, strange sounds, and creepy feelings permeate the historic hallways. Apparently, many prisoners and even guards never left.
This is Part One of our conversation about the history and the hauntings of the Missouri State Penitentiary with Ghost Tour Guide Jenny Switzer.
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| 0:30.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, a conversation about the history and the hauntings of the Missouri State Penitentiary. |
| 0:37.0 | The Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City has a long and dark history. |
| 0:50.0 | It operated as a prison for 168 years and was the oldest continually running prison west of the Mississippi until they closed its doors in 2004. |
| 1:02.0 | Numerous injuries and deaths and a significant inmate riot in 1954 prompted Time Magazine to dub the prison as the bloodiest 47 acres in America. |
| 1:17.0 | Today, guides and visitors report lots of paranormal activity, apparitions, strange sounds and creepy feelings permeate the historic hallways. |
| 1:28.0 | Apparently, many prisoners and even guards never left. |
| 1:36.0 | Today, a conversation about the history and the hauntings of the Missouri State Penitentiary with Ghost Tour Guide, Jenny Switzer. |
| 1:48.0 | Jenny, tell me what you do there at the Penitentiary. |
| 1:51.0 | I am on the night side of things. We do the two-hour guided ghost tours and then we also do ghost hunts and an overnight paranormal investigation. |
| 2:03.0 | If you see a picture of it, you just know that is a haunted building. |
| 2:08.0 | Yes, it is quite ominous. You know, I moved here when I was three, I pretty much lived here my entire life and I tell people all the time. |
| 2:19.0 | It was just part of our lives, you know, as kids. It was there, you knew it was there and you knew it was a maximum security penitentiary, but you really just didn't understand. |
| 2:32.0 | And what was going on inside, I say if there is anywhere that should be haunted, it is the Missouri State Penitentiary. |
| 2:42.0 | So construction began in 1834. I heard the first inmate was there by 1836. This penitentiary was in use for a very long time. |
| 2:57.0 | Yes, we were actually the longest continually operating penitentiary west of the Mississippi River. |
| 3:04.0 | We shut our doors September the 15th of 2004 and at that time we had operated there on that site for 168 years. |
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