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Terror Behind the Walls October 27, 2007E-mail this story E-mail this story
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It's hard to truly be scared in a haunted house. Fake blood, peeled grapes, a smoke machine--it's just too easy to see through. But this weekend there's a haunted house in Philadelphia that might break the mold. Eastern State Penitentiary, where solitary confinement was invented, closed in 1971 and is now a museum. And for six weekends a year, it turns into a haunted house overrun by possessed inmates and guards. Reporter Hillary Frank wondered what's more scary: the haunted house, or the prison's real history?