Terror Behind the Walls
OCTOBER 27, 2007 Listen to 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?
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- Music Bridge:
- Leaf and Rock
- Artist: Arve Hendriksen
- CD: Strjon (Rune Grammofon)
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