Today on the grave talks a conversation about the old Idaho penitentiary in Boise, Idaho.

Penitentiaries in jails seem to be a likely place where you'll find

hauntings and paranormal activity. The old Idaho penitentiary is no exception. It was built in 1870 while Idaho was still a territory and it served as a prison for 101 years.

It's seen its Sheriff's scandals, escapes, riots, and executions.

It's believed that one of those prisoners who was executed, Raymond Snowden, is still there.

Staff and visitors have claimed to have heard voices, been physically touched, or experienced

a strange feeling on the property.

On this episode of the Grave Talks, a conversation about the history and the hauntings

of the Old Idaho Penitentiary with visitor services coordinator,

J.C. Brain.

You are the visitor services coordinator there?

So yeah, so I'm the Visitor Services Coordinator in full. We only have a small

team here, just a couple of full-time positions, an administrator and then an events and rentals

and rentals coordinator.

I work with our staff and volunteers, our front end visitor services, our gift shop,

all that good stuff as well as scheduling and training volunteers tour guides and staff members and so I have given a lot of tours

trained a lot of people on tours developed some of our exhibits and education programs, kind of done a little bit of everything out here.

So let's talk about the building itself. I was looking at pictures of it and I can't really wrap my brain around what exactly I'm looking at

because it kind of in places it looks like almost like a castle yeah and there's

multiple buildings so I'm going to let you describe what it is.

It is absolutely a castle. It is meant to look like a little bit of a fortress.

There is an administration building that has, you know, castle expires above it

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