
![]() Eerieness in Philly: ![]() After completing our visit to the Mutter museum, we ventured to Eastern State Penitentiary! What a magnificent complex this place really is, a historic relic. Built originally on a hill overlooking the city of Philadelphia, this astonishing complex fortress was meant to serve as a medieval-esque warning to the city people below. Originally this complex was built under the premise of not only penance but religious penance through solitude. Unlike other prison models like in New York State (sing-sing model prisons), the Eastern State model was based on 24 hour a day isolationism with the only entertainment afforded to prisoners coming in the form of the bible. Statesmen regularly visited the prison and touted it as a successful model, however many prisoners were driven mad behind these walls or died. The audio tour posed the question is Eastern State Pen haunted. Well the answer is if haunting does exist, this certainly should be a haunted site. I did actually get an orb picture in one of the cells that I took a photo in to observe the "God's Eye" window architecture that supplied the only light to prisoners in their cells during the 1700's and 1800's. ![]() We spent about a couple of hours venturing through Eastern State before tuckering out for the day. We got some other really neat pictures as well though that I thought I'd share. Even if Eastern State isn't haunted it is most certainly quite haunting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Crew Members in Attendance: |