ghosts

Moundsville Penitentiary: The Haunted Prison on the Hill

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The West Virginia State Penitentiary in Moundsville, West Virginia

About 5 min readFor 119 years, the West Virginia State Penitentiary at Moundsville was one of the most violent prisons in America — 94 executions, 36 murders, and cells five feet by seven. It closed in 1995. The ghost hunters arrived almost immediately.

The Ghosts of Gettysburg: America’s Most Haunted Battlefield

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The Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania, site of the 1863 battle and decades of ghost reports

About 4 min readMore than 50,000 men fell at Gettysburg in three days in July 1863. For 160 years, visitors and rangers have reported phantom soldiers, voices in the dark, and cold spots on the hills — at Devil’s Den, Little Round Top, and the fields of Pickett’s Charge.