Moundsville State Penitentiary
“Moundsville State Penitentiary is eerie during the day, but at night without electricity, in the company of ghost hunters, it’s downright scary,” reports Erica Peterson for West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
“Even in broad daylight, the Gothic building looms ominously behind its reinforced barbed-wire fence – The prison itself is old—parts of it date back to 1876—and it was used as a prison until 1995,” reports Peterson. “Ninety-four men were executed there, and others died at the hands of other prisoners – Jason Gerrard believes some of the inmates might still be hanging around.”
“What we do is we go around and invest paranormal activity claims,” Gerrard said. “We try to get down to the cause of the haunting.”
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