Hey everyone Welcome back to most amazing top 10, Im your host Che Durena.
Prison is terrifying, you literally take the most dangerous people in the world and shove
them into a confined space together in hope to rehabilitate them but it really just makes
them more dangerous.
I hope I never end up in prison, Im far too pretty, it would be like bears on honey, I
would be done for.
Well whats the one thing that could be more scary than prison, well how about old abandoned
prisons that are packed with the ghosts of all the criminals who couldnt make it out
or were killed on death row.
It might just be worse and that why Im bringing you todays list of top 10 scary abandoned
prisons.
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list.
10 Moundsville penitentiary, west virginia
Take me home, country roads, to the place, I belong, west virginia, ok thats enough of
that.
I think me singing will haunt your dreams worse then any of the places we have on this
list.
Well first we have the Moundsville Penitentiary, This place was opened in 1879 and quickly
became one of the most violent prisons in america.
Thats basically being the heavyweight champion of violent prisons.
In the time that the prison was open there was 36 homicides and a ton of executions.
So you better believe that this place is packed full of ghosts that walk the halls.
One of the most famous ghosts wasnt even an inmate.
People have said theyve seen the ghost of the maintenance man who worked there.
He was brutally beaten to death by the inmates because he would inform the guards when the
prisoners were misbehaving.
Snitches get stitches baby, the game is the game.
The Moundsville Penitentiary is known as one of the most haunted places on earth.
So the moral of the story is dont snitch or your gonna end up a ghost hanging around a
bunch of people you snitched on.
9 Bodmin Jail
Now were going to shoot over to Cornwall england and check out the Bodmin jail.
I would have hated to go to jail back in the day.
Im sure it would have been easier to break out but the conditions would have been horrible.
Now at least they have purell.
The Bodmin jail is one of these old school hell holes and was built back in 1779 and
managed to stay open for 100 years.
Now it stands as a major hot spot for paranormal activity.
They got it all at the bodmin jail.
Weird voices, footsteps, loud bangs, soft touches on your bum followed by a wet kiss.
You know all the normal stuff that ghosts do all the time.
The most famous ghost that hangs out within the walls is spirit of Selian Wade.
She got locked up for drowning her kids, so its safe to say shes terrifying.
Its said that whenever mothers come to visit the jail Selina will harass them trying to
get the visiting mums to forgive her for her heinous crimes
8 Cripple Creek Jail
When the population of a town starts to sky rocket a few things will always happen.
Rent goes up and then you have to move into a place with 67 roommates.
Jobs disappear so you better behave at work unless you wanna start selling off you self
respect for money and of course the local amenities are usually not equipped to deal
with anything.
Thats what happened in Cripple Creek in the late 1800s when the gold rush hit.
People lust for striking it rich over night shot this town up from 1500 to 50000 in a
very short period of time.
This of course made crime shoot through the roof and then forced this small town to try
and find a way to manage all the prisoners.
This lead to many deaths at cripple creek jail, both on the side of inmates and guards.
Its actually said that one of the most famous ghost hanging around the jail today is that
of a female guard.
Its said she stays behind to keep the other ghost imprisoned, give this girl a promotion,
she has allegiance even in death.
7 Eastern State Penitentiary
This penitentiary in Philadelphia was opened for 42 years and had the reputation for being
one of the most brutal prisons of all time.
Inmates were treated worse than cattle.
They would be kept in near total isolation for 23 hours a day.
The rooms that they would keep them in had no windows so that means that no one was getting
any sunlight.
You gotta get that Vitamin D baby, staying away from the sun for so long its bad for
your health.
Well I mean so is going to jail.
Guards would also torture inmates in burtal ways.
One thing they would do is put inmates who had missbehaved into a place called the hole.
This was a dark pit in the ground with zero light and hardly any room to move.
While in the hole they would be given just enough food and water to survive and after
their time was up the guards would pull out their nearly lifeless bodies and throw them
back into a secluded cell.
Many inmates went mad or died from the isolation and ghosts have been spotted all over the
prison, especially in the rooms where these tortures would take place.
6 Arat county jail
Now were going down under to Australia, a country built by criminals must have had some
of the worst prisons of all time.
Imagine being so much of monster that you get locked up when your living among criminals.
You would have to be a baby eater that kicks puppies.
Well the Arat County Jail was a place were they would send these kinds of people.
What made this place especially terrible is that it was a prison for the criminally insane,
so their were all sorts of treatments performed on patients.
And by treatments I mean lobotomies without anesthesia along with shock treatment and
an array of other horrible things no human should have to endure.
Its said that you can still hear the screams of the people who were tortured there.
One of the most famous ghosts that lurk the halls is that of nurse cary.
A nurse who defends here ward and tries to stop people from coming in.
She still doesnt want the public to know about the terrible things they would do to patients.
Well the words out cary, everyone knows your a turd.
5 Tower of London
This is probably the most famous one on the list, The Tower of London is over 900 years
old and a major hot spot for tourists.
If youre a ghost this is the place to haunt, you get to scare thousands of people every
year and probably photo bomb everybody.
Imagine being THE ghost that everyone talks about at the tower of london, how glamorous.
It was originally made as a safe haven for the royal family but got converted into a
person after not that long.
Everything went down there, prisoners would be tortured, tried and executed all in the
big brick building.
So you can imagine there is some major bad mojo floating around.
The tower is constantly guarded by the royal guard and when new guards are stationed there
many of them have reported a crushing sensation in their chest.
Im guess the ghost want to see if your a punk weenie before they let you work there.
The most famous ghost is probably that of Queen amberlynn, one of the wives of king
henry the 8th.
She was beheaded at the london tower.
4 Ohio State Reformatory
For those of you who are movie buffs out there youre really going to like this one because
this is where they filmed shawshank redemption.
Yeah one of the greatest movies of all time.
And if you also like hostile encounters with ghosts, like being shoved or yelled at, then
there is no reason you shouldnt visit this place.
The place was built in Mansfield Ohio between the years of 1886 and 1910.
This place was a hoot and a holler when it went up and quickly got a reputation for having
some of the worst conditions at any prison.
Jolly Gee sign me up mister.
In fact, in 1990 the prison was shut down because the conditions were inhumane.
My god it sounds like a great vacation spot.
Now they just keep it open for ghost tours.
If you decide to go you should prepare yourself for everything from phones malfunctioning
to cold stops, to straight up being pushed.
You know what they say about those Ohio state ghosts, they are great hosts
3 Alcatraz
If you live in north america then this is probably the most famous prison to you.
I mean its one of the most legendary places in the world, some of the worst criminals
ever spent time there.
By spent time you know I mean were forced to stay there because of their horrible crimes.
Al Capone being probably the most famous criminal who was caged on the rock.
This place was so rough that murders, attacks and suicides were commonplace.
A murder going down at Alcatraz was like someone who leaves negative youtube comments owning
a girlfriend pillow, extreamly common.
Even before the prison was built the native americans would use the island as a place
to exile people and they believed dark spirits to live on the island.
There was even a case of an inmate saying he could see glowing red eyes in his cell
and started screaming.
In the morning he was found dead with strange marks on his neck.
2 Karosta Naval port Prison
Lets run over to a Soviet prison that was opened in the year 1900.
I wouldnt want to get thrown in a russain prison now man, imagine back then.
They probably didnt even have blankets, you had to keep yourself warm through mental toughness.
This place was built in Latvia and was used as a detention center for russian military
who broke some war laws.
I dont know what war laws are but you can tell me in the comments.
It stated on record that no one ever escaped this jail, and it was built out in the middle
of nowhere so if you ever did you would probably just freeze to death and get eaten by a bear.
Now you can go their and do something called extreme night, where they let you spend the
night in jail, a place that is haunted by dead war criminals, Thats a hard pass for
me.
Shepton mallet prison
We are going to top off this list with the shepton mallet prison in Somerset england.
Until the year 2013 this prison was the oldest operating prison in the world.
It was built in the year 1625, I didnt even know that was legal.
If I was there I would keep asking, is this up to code, even though I know the answer
is no.
It would be my little dad joke I tell until someone shanks me in the liver to shut me
up.
This place is so old that there are unmarked graves around the prison from prisoners who
died from smallpox.
Goddamn the pox got you while you were IN prison.
Thats a huge bummer.
The prison is famous for housing some of the most dangerous prisoners in england and its
also suuuuper haunted.
There was even a ghost attack, where a guard was assaulted by an invisible assailant and
burned.
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Until next time Ive been Che Durena and Im gonna be a good boy from now on so I can keep
watching cartoons and not become currency.