The History and Hauntings of the Missouri State Penitentiary, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO
For nearly two centuries, Missouri State Penitentiary loomed over Jefferson City as one of the most feared prisons in America. Opened in 1836, the massive stone fortress housed generations of violent criminals, witnessed countless deaths, and became infamous for brutal conditions that eventually earned it the nickname “the bloodiest 47 acres in America.”
Riots, murders, executions, and decades of human suffering left a permanent mark on the prison’s history. Even after the penitentiary finally closed in 2004, many believe the darkness inside never truly disappeared.
Today, former guards, tour guides, paranormal investigators, and visitors report unsettling activity throughout the prison’s abandoned corridors. Shadow figures appear near empty cells. Voices echo through buildings long after everyone has left. Many who walk the prison grounds describe an overwhelming feeling that they are being watched by something they cannot see.
Ghost tour guide Jenny Switzer joins us to explore the terrifying history and lingering hauntings of Missouri State Penitentiary.
If you’d like more information about tours and investigations, or if you’d like to read up on some of its notorious prisoners and history, visit missouripentours.com
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| 0:00.0 | Today on The Grave Talks, part two of our conversation about the history and the |
| 0:05.6 | hauntings of the Missouri State Penitentiary. |
| 0:09.6 | Have you ever seen it? |
| 0:11.2 | Oh, yes. |
| 0:11.9 | I've seen the shadow. |
| 0:13.1 | I've shadow downstairs in death row. |
| 0:15.4 | Oh, yes, several times. |
| 0:17.2 | I have not seen the gentleman over in-housing unit four yet, but there's a lot of things that |
| 0:23.6 | they talk about that I've not seen. I'll tell you another one that almost everybody that has been |
| 0:29.3 | there, they all know about him, and he was an inmate there. He was a very well-known |
| 0:35.1 | inmate, and his name was Jack Carl, and they called him Fast Jack. |
| 0:40.9 | And that is because he used to work in our prison hospital because we also had a hospital on site. |
| 0:47.2 | He was in the radiology department. |
| 0:50.0 | And so his job all day long, he had a clipboard that had a list of names for guys that needed to come over and get an x-ray. |
| 0:59.1 | They'd been in a fight or what have you. |
| 1:01.0 | And so he literally just dipped down this hallway that connected the prison facility to the hospital facility all day long, getting inmate, taking him back and forth. |
| 1:13.9 | He has been seen multiple times over the years as well, and he most frequently is seen in the daytime. |
| 1:22.3 | I'm waiting to see Jack. He's probably number one on my bucket list to see in there, but I've not seen him yet. |
| 1:28.9 | Maybe one day. |
| 1:30.1 | I love that you have a paranormal bucket list. |
| 1:33.7 | Absolutely. |
| 1:37.1 | Do you find that like on the regular tours, do you have people kind of pull you aside and it's like, |
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