Top 5 Most HAUNTED PLACES In America
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Scary Mysteries
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🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Top 5 most haunted places in America. |
| 0:09.4 | Everything from mansions to penitentiaries, |
| 0:12.2 | there's no shortage of haunted sites in the United States. |
| 0:15.3 | But certain places easily stand out when ghosts are mentioned. |
| 0:19.3 | The five locations on this list are considered so sinister and malevolent anyone interested |
| 0:25.1 | in ghosts would love to visit them. |
| 0:27.7 | These are the top five most haunted places in America. Number five, Moundsville Penitentiary. |
| 0:40.0 | Located in Moundsville, West Virginia, the Penitentiary here first opened its doors to inmates in |
| 0:45.4 | 1866. |
| 0:47.7 | During the time, only a temporary wooden facility was in place as construction continued |
| 0:52.3 | until the main stone buildings were completed 10 years later. |
| 0:55.6 | By the time the stones were cemented in place, Moundsville became a revolutionary prison. |
| 1:01.6 | Not only did it have a gorgeous gothic style facade but it |
| 1:05.8 | boasted of quality cells and facilities. The first few years it functioned at |
| 1:10.9 | accommodations for 251 inmates. Soon other facilities were added |
| 1:15.8 | including a carpentry shop, paint and wagon shop, stonyard, bakery, |
| 1:20.6 | tailor and hospital. It was completely self-sufficient, but like everything does, over time the prison deteriorated. |
| 1:29.0 | It became crowded and by 1929 a single five by seven foot cell once used by a single |
| 1:36.4 | inmate squeezed together three grown men. |
| 1:39.8 | On October 8, 1929 the prison saw one of its many homicides. The inmate, |
| 1:45.0 | RD Wall, was attacked by three other prisoners using makeshift shives for being a |
| 1:50.0 | snitch. With the overcrowding, soon several riots and violence erupted on a regular basis. |
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