Who Or What Haunts The Old Joliet Prison?

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

Society & Culture, Education, Public, Chicago, Arts, City, Radio, Curious, Investigation

4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The Old Joliet Prison has been around since the 1800s. Some visitors swear they’ve experienced the paranormal there. But do ghost stories detract from the specter of a truly dark history?

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0:43.0	Hi, I'm Erin Allen.
0:46.0	It's officially spooky season.
0:53.2	So we asked you, Curiosity listeners, if you have any questions about the unexplained and the mysterious around Chicago.
0:57.7	One listener wanted to know about the Old Joliet Prison.
1:00.4	It does have a dark history.
1:02.5	But is it haunted?
1:11.5	The Old Joliet Prison is this huge, sprawling campus about an hour drive from downtown Chicago.
1:17.3	And I'll talk to at least one person who definitely thinks there's some paranormal activity happening around here. On Cemetery Larry, a local ghost tour guide and cemetery historian, long-time curiosity listener.
1:23.7	Larry O'Royo has been a tour guide in Chicago for years, including a few tours of the Old Joliet Prison.
1:30.7	From Jump, the day of his first tour, a man in the group captured an unusual photograph.
1:36.7	In the prison yard, and there you just have this white outline of a woman in a dress just walking through the prison yard.
1:45.9	It has to be Maisie.
1:48.4	Maisie Allen was the warden's wife.
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