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Joe The Ghost Guy: evening country and
Joe The Ghost Guy: with those stories and then we go print a more podcast i'm indeed you fi friendly neighborhood investigator show the ghost sky
Joe The Ghost Guy: I think everyone's gonna have a wonderful.
Joe The Ghost Guy: time with this up that I have in store.
Joe The Ghost Guy: So without any further ado. Let's get in. shall we
Joe The Ghost Guy: philadelphia Pennsylvania. A city. Built on revolution. A city. L -Town freedom.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And yet... In a month. the streets. stands a fortress. that was built. words. Exactly. Opposite. a 30 -foot stone wall.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Iron doors. All right. for the words. And. thousands of cells. designed to keep human beings.
Joe The Ghost Guy: completely alone. Yes. Yeah. Easter. State. Penitentiary.
Joe The Ghost Guy: when it was opened in 1829. It was unlike. any other prison. in the world has ever seen. its revolutionary system.
Joe The Ghost Guy: was built around isolation. Prisoner. or kept alone. in their cells. separated from one another.
Joe The Ghost Guy: in belief that solitude Good. forced down. income confront their crimes. And become. opinions.
Joe The Ghost Guy: but something. happen inside those balls.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Something in the history. cannot completely explain. Because. after more than a century of imprisonment. suffering.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Be on this. Violence. and death Some people. He can't see. saying that the prison Wasn't it?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Not really. They said something remained. Something. That walks. in the corridors. Something.
Joe The Ghost Guy: That was from... From the darkness. Something. that did not want visitors to leave.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The most terrifying question. Is this? What if? the halls of the Easter. state. In just.
Joe The Ghost Guy: imprison the living. What if they trapped? The Dead. Hmm.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Imagine. Stand before Eastern. Boom. at night. The city. is still alive. around you Cars pass.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Streetlights glow. People walk. the sidewalks. But behind those... enormous stone walls. There is another world.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A world. That is frozen in time. the prison It was the sign. seven original cell blocks Radiating from the central hub.
Joe The Ghost Guy: like spokes of a wagon wheel.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It's got the. architect Was the liberty you're intending
Joe The Ghost Guy: while the interior was Hmm. d to inspire religious reflection. Every prisoner.
Joe The Ghost Guy: How do you sell? Every cell. had a door. behind every door It was... isolation No casual comments. session.
Joe The Ghost Guy: no ordinary human contact. No freedom to simply walk away.
Joe The Ghost Guy: For some prisoners. I saw the two. lasted years. and others. their final memories. were created inside those walls.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The prison. eventually housed. Nearly. 85 000 people During its long history. Think about the that number.
Joe The Ghost Guy: 85 ,000 lines. 85 ,000 stories 85 ,000 people to enter through those gates.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Bye. They're not necessarily
Joe The Ghost Guy: Leave them. the same way. sound left alive. and some. They
Joe The Ghost Guy: There was something terrifying about the event. prison. It was simply... the darkness. It wasn't the broken windows.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It wasn't just... Rust Iron. It's silence. Because. Prisons. Hmm. once filled with human sounds.
Joe The Ghost Guy: footsteps. Hmm. Shout out. prayers. Crying. Men Outdoors.
Joe The Ghost Guy: opening it closely Bards Colin Orton. Prisoners Begging. And then... One day.
Joe The Ghost Guy: so Stop.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Eastern State.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Eastern State of Fish and Clones in 1970. after more than 140 years of operation. for years.
Joe The Ghost Guy: portions of the abandoned prison. stood empty. Hmm. Rightfully. nature began.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Christmas time.
Joe The Ghost Guy: to its protein.
Joe The Ghost Guy: walls. I am rusted. And the darkness fills its cells. but according to the stories.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Pulled by guards. The prisoners. to workers. visitors. Something else.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the voices The steps. The shadows. And the sensation.
Joe The Ghost Guy: that someone is standing there. watch
Joe The Ghost Guy: Eastern State. official historic site. Jesus. that it reports mysterious visions. and eerie experiences Eat that.
Joe The Ghost Guy: as far as the 1940s.
Joe The Ghost Guy: among these frequently reported phenomena. or shadowy figures. Strange voices. footsteps. and unexplained. sensations
Joe The Ghost Guy: So what? 12. It's the most... associated with mysterious voices. and laughter. Cell box. six was connected. with with reports of shadowy figures.
Joe The Ghost Guy: moving along the walls. And cell block. one. has some infamous reports. of ghostly voices.
Joe The Ghost Guy: But one story stands above many of the others. A story about a man. into One of those. cells. They played that something.
Joe The Ghost Guy: into it. In Him.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thanks for watching. work. This side cell block. one. The prison was old. Goodbye. Where is she?
Joe The Ghost Guy: and his job was to work on them. One day. Wow, dealing with an old rock. He examined something he couldn't explain.
Joe The Ghost Guy: that coin. to the account. In the name of God. Hmm. Suddenly he fell. and overwhelming. 4. Something seemed to grip him.
Joe The Ghost Guy: You reported something. unable to move. And then... him the terror Faces.
Joe The Ghost Guy: tormented faces. a period where there should have been Nothing but old stone walks.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The became one of the most famous. paranormal stories. associated. at the Eastern State.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Now imagine that. You're standing alone. in an abandoned prison. No one around you No footsteps.
Joe The Ghost Guy: no voices.
Joe The Ghost Guy: You turn around. on a You see a face. I painted. painted No. harm.
Joe The Ghost Guy: All right. I did. A face. a human face. staring directly at you.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It's gone. We look again. There's nothing. And you hear breathing. Now yours. yours Someone else is.
Joe The Ghost Guy: suddenly. The prison doesn't fill. empty anymore.
Joe The Ghost Guy: There's another legend.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Let's do that.
Joe The Ghost Guy: seemed high above in the prison. Take care. Standing slightly in one. One of those towers. The figure doesn't wave.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Doesn't speak. Doesn't move. It simply watches. Imagine seeing that silhouette. against the night sky.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A human sheep. standing where no living God should be. You stare. It stirs back. You look away.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And looks again.
Joe The Ghost Guy: it's gone Was it a trick of the light? a shallow maybe person or something left behind.
Joe The Ghost Guy: From the Greenguard stood watch over thousands of prisoners. No one could say. And that's what makes the story.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Right. Because sometimes... Most terrifying dose. Aren't the ones that Attack. you Yes, the ones.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It's simple. One.
Joe The Ghost Guy: There's a story.
Joe The Ghost Guy: about
Joe The Ghost Guy: one of the America's fault most. infamous criminals.
Joe The Ghost Guy: oh Scarface home.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The poem really was... in prison in Eastern State. in 1929 after being arrested in Philadelphia. We're carrying it with sealed.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Unlicensed revolvers. He received one year sentence. Spent roughly... seven months in eastern state.
Joe The Ghost Guy: is so became famous. newspaper Newspapers Report. describing them Yeah. for nature.
Joe The Ghost Guy: erodes. The artwork. artwork and the radio And the doctor, the legend, discerns. Something else.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A ghost. According to the story, Component began hearing something. A man named Jimmy. And nine.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The poem. Report of a screaming for Virginia. to be from alone.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Who's Jimmy? says the God. All right. A legend identifies him as James Clark. A mirror connected.
Joe The Ghost Guy: to the violent world surrounding us. Boom. and according to that a haunted story. Jimmy. was dead. But somehow...
Joe The Ghost Guy: We have followed poem. into prison.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Timber!
Joe The Ghost Guy: Imagine the person at night.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The guards have finished their rounds.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the corridors. Our thought. The prisoners. are locked away. and somewhere inside the building. opponents await.
Joe The Ghost Guy: At first perhaps see your footsteps. yeah
Joe The Ghost Guy: Yes. walk towards yourself.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Omniscience.
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Joe The Ghost Guy: Footsteps stop. sad at the end a voice.
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Joe The Ghost Guy: close closer closer they compose streams. Jimmy! Me, me.
Joe The Ghost Guy: See ya.
Joe The Ghost Guy: rushed towards the cell. Capone is terrified. But there's nobody there. Only the gangster. alone.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Or... Apparently. alone.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Stories later claim that the ghosts continue tormenting the poem. After his release. But there's this story of supernatural
Joe The Ghost Guy: and distorted. be telling of the poems. physical troubles. or something stranger. It is impossible to establish... but certainty.
Joe The Ghost Guy: What the legend. And today. The story remains. One of the most famous ghost tales. connected with the Eastern State Penitentiary.
Joe The Ghost Guy: now come Now we come to one of those most... Infamous and notorious areas. In the prison. Cell Block. well.
Joe The Ghost Guy: visitors. Investigators. are reported hearing voices. Whispers. Laughter.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Sounds that appear to have some empty. Sections of the cell block. Imagine. Walking through the corridor.
Joe The Ghost Guy: You hear something behind you. Eternity. There's nothing. We continue. Then.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Someone laughs. Repeat loud. Somewhere above you. You look towards the second floor. It's empty.
Joe The Ghost Guy: We call out.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Another voice answered. Now from above. Not from behind. directly beside you. oh
Joe The Ghost Guy: be freeze Cause you know. There's nobody there.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Eastern State is simple. me. Brightening. uh Right. because people claim they'd be haunted. That's right Because it's real.
Joe The Ghost Guy: history. This is already horrifying. So. Prisoners. Experience isolation.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Punishment. me Despair. Some died inside. Others suffer. Sight. Watch it clean. The prisons. own historical Materials.
Joe The Ghost Guy: now it's at the innumerous suffering that. heard behind these walls for more than 140 years And perhaps...
Joe The Ghost Guy: That is why. those stories. They're so powerful. because when you walk through Eastern State Penitentiary. Hmm.
Joe The Ghost Guy: all right Yeah. imaginary holiday. out. You're walking through a real place. What? 000. of human beings.
Joe The Ghost Guy: That's true. with some of the darkest moments.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It goes. may not be real.
Joe The Ghost Guy: but The suffering was. And sometimes... That's even more frightening.
Joe The Ghost Guy: yourself inside Eastern State. After sunset.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Yes. visitors have gone. Au revoir. the last of the visitors were gone. The gates were locked. city outside is The to quiet. by it.
Joe The Ghost Guy: You walk. really Cypher hub.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Your footsteps. Echo. Here. another set of footsteps Stop. Hey, stop.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A1. Let's start again. Silence. And then... One step. I hate you. He slowly turned.
Joe The Ghost Guy: There's nothing.
Joe The Ghost Guy: you continue towards So long. more. The air feels colder. See the old cells Stretching into darkness.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And so doors opened. We don't remember seeing it open. or You It's saved. There's nothing.
Joe The Ghost Guy: This is stone. four A small window. a rusted picture. You turn around. And there is the man.
Joe The Ghost Guy: standing at the end of the Or don't worry. motionless. watching It's still there. Take one step.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Towards the end. It is. here. You whisper.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Bye.
Joe The Ghost Guy: corridor seems longer than it did. or Peace. reached Sexual hub. Look. behind
Joe The Ghost Guy: there's nothing
Joe The Ghost Guy: you hear Sound of a prison door. Close the
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Joe The Ghost Guy: one out one after another. We're prisoners. prisoners
Joe The Ghost Guy: begin locked away for the night.
Joe The Ghost Guy: There is no prisoners anymore. the
Joe The Ghost Guy: Eastern State Penitentiary.
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Joe The Ghost Guy: Eastern State Penitentiary closes decades. go. The prisoners are gone. The cards are coming. The voices of daily prisons.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Bye. Boom. But the stories were remain. The shadowy figures.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Historia's Voices. Footsteps.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the faces regarding the tower. The Legend of Jimmy. Because this book... Supposedly. On to it. home.
Joe The Ghost Guy: He so himself. That's it. claim votes. stories. Paranormal events. is official. materials Leave the question open.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Is it haunted? No one knows. ten The Uncanny Peace.
Joe The Ghost Guy: What makes prison so terrifying? because someone tells you ain't no that ghosts are real. Become close to another to believe them.
Joe The Ghost Guy: But then... to walk through the state like Mr. to State. It's good. The tempter suddenly dropped. And your footsteps.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Amen. or the words. Or say someone. stand up beside you.
Joe The Ghost Guy: There's no way. to explain. Okay. Tell yourself it's the wind. You could tell yourself it's no... Building settling.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Or an echo. or imagination. Anything. Just anything except the possibility. That someone...
Joe The Ghost Guy: standing in the darkness. Someone. Who's been there waiting? Someone. Who's been waiting since the doors first?
Joe The Ghost Guy: It doesn't know. The prison shut down. Someone who still believes. The gods are coming. Someone. Still no.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and believes that... Please do. inside.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Someone who stills fears. and footsteps. footstep Someone who still watched. Wings. for the next score to open. And perhaps...
Joe The Ghost Guy: Someone's state. inside somewhere deep inside Eastern State Penitentiary. April still was spring. A voice been whispering for...
Joe The Ghost Guy: We're nearly...
Joe The Ghost Guy: the voice said been whispering nearly 200 years. Believe it. Don't leave me here. Don't leave me here.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Yeah. The final sound. Amen. and aerosol door slams.
Joe The Ghost Guy: This is just a picture.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Lost is said there. Freedom.
Joe The Ghost Guy: according to the legends. May you receive.
Joe The Ghost Guy: According to legend. They never lost their souls.
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