Moundsville Penitentiary: The Haunted Prison on the Hill

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.