Eerieness in Philly:

My first time driving around in a big city, I think I did pretty darn good. We made it to the Mutter museum in the late morning to explore the world of medical oddities. The Mutter Museum is a museum inside of the Philadelphia College of Physicians that was originally created back in 1787 to serve as a learning tool for physicians. I must say, this was an extraordinarily strange experience, that I would highly suggest to anyone with a strong stomach. Immediately upon walking in, you are introduced to an array of vaginal tools (specula and the like) ranging in age from the 1700's to the 1900's. Continue ahead and you will see an astonishing collection of real human skulls from around the world with their years of death, country of origin and a little story behind each. The gigantic colon and the soap lady are certainly the biggest draws I think. The soap lady was an extraordinarily heavy woman who when buried with heat and elements actually decayed into a soapy nasty corpse. Her body is on full display in a transparent glass case.


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.













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