Is it Haunted? Let’s Go Inside Eastern State Penitentiary

Some say Eastern State Penitentiary is haunted. I don’t know if that’s true but it is haunting. Strong energy lingers and clings, calling for notice as you walk past empty, ruined cells. Block after block; these small, featureless rooms now hold only impressions of those who once dwelled there, locked in perpetual isolation. There’s a heaviness in those cell blocks; though hundreds walk through them daily, an eerie silence permeates everything. Like the people who used to be locked inside, we sense this is not a place for frolic or happy times. Inside those lonely little rooms, amid the rusting metal bed frames and crumbling plaster, there is desolation that threatens to overwhelm. I visited the penitentiary during my two-year road trip as a nomad, traveling in my van, hiking, seeing historic areas, and staying in short-term rentals and it’s a place that stays with me. Why Eastern State Penitentiary is Haunting Everything has energy and each person has an “energy” about them. Even the most skeptical can feel the positive or negative vibrations that individual humans or animals exude. Collectively, we create a shared energy when we assemble in a place or over a cause. It lingers when energy […]

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