Eastern State Penitentiary Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Eastern State Penitentiary Philadelphia, Pennyslvania is one of the entries in 5 Most Haunted Places in America.

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Beyond the guard towers and castle-like walls of Eastern State lay dark, crumbling corridors steeped in a history of torture, murder, disease and madness.

Built in 1829 as the world's first penitentiary, the prison pioneered a system of solitary confinement that drove many inmates insane with almost no contact between inmates and the use of suffocating hoods to isolate prisoners when outside of their cells.

But the true horrors were the punishments handed out to inmates, which included a chair with straps so tight that its victims often required amputation, frozen water baths, and a gag device in which an inmate's hands were tied behind the back and strapped to an iron collar inserted in the mouth.

The prison which once housed Al Capone is now a museum, with the ghosts of former inmates said to still inhabit their cells.

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