Country:United states
Located in Moundsville West Virginia is the old West Virginia State
maximum security prison. Now this prison has a long and sometimes
violent history. Prisoners were murdered in their cells by other
inmates, during riots, and most notably, they were put to death in the
electric chair, "old sparky", who was built by an inmate from that
facility. The prison is closed now, but you can still tour it, and if
you are brave enough even spend the night there, of which I plan on
doing once I return stateside.
This story concerns the day light tour I took of the facility while I
was a corrections officer with the state of West Virginia. Once we had
received our initial briefing about the facility, we were allowed to
tour it on our own and pretty much go where ever we wanted, even places
the public isn't allowed. While touring the facility, I was in a section
of the prison known as the sugar shack, supposedly where some of the
worst offenders were housed. I was the only person in this section of
the prison at the time and while I was up on the third tier, inspecting
some of the old cells, when down below me the cell doors slammed shut.
Now, this wouldn't have come as much of a surprise to me if it
weren't for the fact that all the doors had closed at once which is what
they are supposed to do, but they are controlled by a lever from a
central location which I could see from my vantage point and no one was
there and the lever was still in the up position. Taking that as a cue, I
left that section of the prison and made my way down to the basement
and the location of the HOLE, this was a place they say drove some
inmates mad. While in the basement, I kept having the feeling of someone
following me and as I grew near to the hole, a feeling of dread and
despair almost overwhelmed me. I kept my senses, though, and started to
make my way deeper into the basement. I caught the glimpse of a figure,
just off in the shadows, moving from right to left that should have
brought them into the light, what little there was, but they never
appeared and I didn't see them go the other way.
Once again I took it as a cue to leave. I went from there up to the
medical and dental ward of the facility, no physical events took place
here, just a sense of foreboding over the area. This has all lead me to
believe that something is still behind the walls of this prison and that
they may never be able to leave. I am going to do an all night ghost
hunt of this facility and I plan on taking some video and audio
equipment and see if I can capture any thing on film or tape.
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