How’s it going YouTube?
I’m your host Landon Dowlatsingh and welcome back to another most amazing video.
If you guys love hearing about urban legends, you should definitely watch our urban legends
play list.
But I wouldn’t recommend watching these videos alone or at night…unless you want
to freak yourself out.
Today we are going to lock ourselves behind bars and hear about creepy urban legends from
prisons all over the world.
As if prisons weren’t scary enough…So let’s jump right into this list of the top
10 scary prison urban legends.
Haunting us in at number 10 we have Idaho’s scariest ghost.
Raymond Allen Snowden used to be referred to as Idaho’s Jack The Ripper because he
brutally slayed a woman while he was out on a date with her and he showed absolutely no
remorse.
He slashed her throat and then stabbed her skull severing her spinal cord.
If that wasn’t brutal enough, the corpse also had thirty stab wounds all over her body.
He even bragged about murdering her while he was locked up.
He was sentenced to death by hanging but when it came time for his execution, his neck didn’t
snap properly and he spent 15 minutes gasping for air before he finally died.
According to this urban legend, if you visit Idaho State Penitentiary, you can hear someone
gasping for air and strange things have occurred at this prison that no one is able to explain.
Seems like this prison needs some sage and holy water to clear this ghost.
Private prisons use third grade data to plan for prison beds and this makes it onto this
list in at number 9.
There is an urban legend that says the government uses third grade test scores to determine
future number of prison beds that will be needed.
So basically, they believe that there is a correlation with low test scores at this age
and the likelihood that they will go to prison.
This is actually an urban legend that has been circulating for a long time and a lot
of people think that it is true.
Well I’m here to clear the air, this is only an urban legend…they actually use fourth
grader test scores.
All jokes aside, I bet they use a similar strategy to actually predict how many people
will be sent to prison each year.
It’s actually scary to think about it so let’s move on.
Things get pretty intense in at number 8 with the legend of Lavinia Fisher.
According to this legend, she is known as America’s first female serial killer.
Lavinia and her husband ran a bed and breakfast just north of Charleston where a lot of travelers
would stop in to get some rest.
Little did they know that Lavinia would serve poisoned tea to her victims in order to rob
them of their possessions.
She would lure wealthy men into a room and serve them this poisoned tea.
She would suggest that they get some rest on a particular bed that had a trap door beneath
it.
When the victim would pass out, she pulled a lever causing their body to fall into a
pit below the house.
One night a man stopped at this bed and breakfast for some rest and he was invited to have some
tea.
He really didn’t like tea but he was too polite to refuse.
When Lavinia wasn’t looking, he dumped his tea in the plant next to him so she thought
he drank it.
He felt that she was acting strange so he decided to leave and go back to his room.
Lavinia thought that he drank the poisoned tea so when she went into his room to rob
him and drop his body into the pit, he was stunned to learn what her real motives were.
He was able to escape and report the whole thing.
The Fishers were executed in 1820 and according to the local legend her spirit haunts the
Charleston Jail where she was hanged.
Things get even more spooky in at number 7 with the Montana Territorial Prison.
This was a prison that was operational in the late 1800’s.
However, due to lack of funding and exceeding capacity, the prison quickly became overcrowded
and violent.
The prisoners were basically starving to death and were crammed into small spaces that they
began to show extreme violent behaviours.
A lot of the prisoners committed suicide and even killed each other.
Because the prison was so under funded, it remained in a dirty and rundown state for
over a century until a massive riot broke out where the prisoners took control for a
whole day in 1959.
The prison was shut down in 1976 but visitors claim that they have heard voices, footsteps
and scary sounds lurking through the abandoned halls.
Some people even say that they can feel ghosts touching them or they’ve been ghosts pushing
people.
Apparently, you can also feel a sense of impending doom and you feel like you are always going
to be attacked.
Well, if I ever plan a trip to Idaho I don’t think I will be taking a tour of this prison.
I think I would rather spend my time eating Idaho potatoes instead of being attacked by
scary prison ghosts but that’s just me.
Moving on to number 6 we are talking about Cripple Creek jail.
Wow, with a name like that no wonder this prison is haunted and has a creepy urban legend.
Seriously, who was in charge of naming this building.
This poorly named jail house was opened in 1901 and it was in operation for almost one
hundred years.
Only one prisoner was known to die within the jail walls after he fell from the second-floor
catwalk.
After his death, there have been strange paranormal actitvity that no one can explain.
People have heard heavy footsteps going up and down the wooden staircase, there is a
ghost child who can always be seen roaming the halls looking for her parents but the
scariest urban Legend is about the dead prisoner’s cell.
It is reported that if you walk past his cell you can feel a hand reach out and grab you.
Some people have even said that they felt their hair being pulled and then they felt
someone breathing heavily on their necks…
And now in at number 5 we have the Wyoming Territorial Prison.
This one is pretty creepy guys.
This prison is known to be a hotspot for paranormal and unexplained occurrences.
During its 80-year run, the prison housed some of the most violent and sadistic criminals
who have ever walked the planet.
One of them was a very young inmate named Andrew Pixley was a child serial killer and
cannibal who was executed in the 1960’s.
After it was closed, the prison became a huge tourist attraction because there are many
ghost urban legends that surround this prison.
Lots of people claim that they can hear Andrew’s creepy voice screaming about wanting to eat
human flesh and how he wants to mutilate your body.
Some other visitors also claim that they can feel cold spots and a spooky feeling that
something bad is going to happen.
The Russian Sleep experiment comes in at number 4.
Alright guys, prepare yourself because this urban legend is pretty graphic and brutal.
Let me take you back to the 1940s where Russian researchers wanted to conduct an experiment
to see what the effects were if you deprived yourself of sleep.
Due to ethical reasons, they didn’t want to pick any volunteers off the street so they
decided to force five prisons to participate in this experiment.
Yeah…that is so ethical (act sarcastic) The prisons were given an experimental gas
that would prevent them from sleeping.
Their conversations were recorded and monitored through video cameras and a two-way mirror.
For the first few days, everything was fine and the prisoners were behaving normally.
But on the fifth day, things got really bad.
The prisoners became paranoid and started whispering about each other in the microphones.
Eventually the prisoners were running around, screaming and almost breaking their vocal
cords.
On the 15th day, the experimenters decided to put in fresh air instead of the harmful
gas but that just made things even worse.
One prisoner died and the others severely mutilated their bodies.
They tore off their flesh, ripped out their abdomen and muscles.
When the researchers came to remove them from the room, the prisoners refused and they wanted
to be locked up forever.
Eventually all of the prisoners were shot and killed because they wanted to cover up
this highly unethical experiment.
Now, many people claim that this is only an urban legend and shouldn’t be taken seriously
but I think that this has a chance of being real.
I mean, there are so many experiments that humans have done in the past that would be
totally illegal today.
Shepton Mallet prison brings us to number 3.
This prison has had some pretty intense people locked up behind these walls.
People such as child killers, rapists and gangsters wrecked havoc here until they were
either executed or when the prison shut down.
There were a ton of murders and suicides that happened here and that is why this prison
is known to have a lot of angry and vengeful ghosts here.
This urban legend says that if you visit this old haunted prison, an old prison ghost will
follow you home and haunt you for the rest of your life.
Yeah, I don’t think I would be willing to take that risk.
Imagine if the child killer followed you home…no thanks.
I think this prison should be burned to the ground or at least have a priest bless this
prison.
Our next prison urban legend brings us to the Eastern State Penitentiary and this takes
us to number 2.
This prison was one of the most expensive buildings built in the US and it was going
to be used as a prototype to build 300 other prisoners.
The facility was operated by a corrupt company who opened up the prison doors to people who
wanted to lock themselves up in order to find God.
These people might have been under the impression that they are going to find God but they were
literally placed in hell.
They had to live in complete solitude and silence and if they broke any of the rules,
they would have to face severe punishments such as the Mad chair where they would be
strapped so tightly to a chair where it was impossible for them to move.
They would sit there for days without food and eventually they would go insane.
So apart from the prison being a nightmare, there is an urban legend about a Locksmith
who was doing some repairs on cell block #4.
He was hired to remove a very old lock from the cell door but as he was working he felt
a massive force overcome him where he was unable to move and he had an out of body experience.
He says that this lock is the gateway to someplace evil and anyone who dares remove it will experience
terrible things.
To this day, that lock remains there because people are absolutely terrified of the consequences.
The infamous Alcatraz Prison scares us in at number 1.
This is recognized as the most notorious prison in the entire world.
I actually visited this prison a few years ago, and you can definitely sense evil within
the walls of the prison.
Although this prison has a lot of paranormal activity and a ton of urban legends, I want
to talk about cell 14D.
This cell was used to brutally punish prisoners who got out of line.
The prisoners would be kept in this small cell with a toilet, sink, one light bulb and
a mattress that was only given to them at night.
There were several of these punishment cells but cell 14D had very active spirits.
People who visit this cell report a raw coldness and have claimed that at times they feel a
sudden evil force.
Prisoners locked in cell 14D screamed throughout the night and they have all said that they
saw a creature with glowing red eyes.
One prisoner who screamed that he was being killed by this demon ghost was found the next
morning strangled to death and he also had unexplainable marks all over his body.
The prison guards are claiming that this is only an urban legend but what if this is a
big cover up for the way that the prison guards mistreated the inmates.
Maybe a prison guard killed this prisoner and made up this entire urban legend.
Well there you guys have it